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A Concert Reading of Short Works by Carlynn Trout

Hi all,

Carlynn Trout is one of our playwrights for our Short Women’s Plays Festival in April 2009. She’s having a concert reading by the Columbia Playmakers coming up.  Here’s the info.  I highly encourage you to go.  She is a local treasure and we feel very lucky to be working with her.

The Columbia Playmakers will present “A Concert Reading of Short Works by
Carlynn Trout” on Sunday, July 13, from 3-5 p.m. in the Friends Room of the
Daniel Boone Public Library. Readers are Addison Myers, Christine Marshall,
Michael Barnes, Rebecca Meisenbach, and Katie Hays. Music by Cora Trout.
Works include: Miles to Go, Attraction, Pake’s Palace, Ragnhild’s House, The
Persistent Peddler, Still Burning, Prelude to a Nap, and North Wind. This
will be a Reader’s Theater format and is free and open to the public.

Harmonies for a Home - Cabaret benefit for Columbia Second Chance

Harmonies for a Home - a musical cabaret benefit for Columbia Second Chance:
July 21, 2008
7 p.m.
The Cherry St. Artisan
111. S. 9th St.


Independent Actors Theatre presents Harmonies for a Home - a musical cabaret benefit performance to help raise money for Columbia Second Chance.

Admission is free and donations are accepted at the door.

Columbia Second Chance is a privately funded, all volunteer, animal rescue organization dedicated to “seeking first-class homes for second-hand pets.”

Auditions!!!!

Auditions for The Goat or Who is Sylvia?:
July 19, 2008
1-4 p.m.
McKee 04 on the MU Campus


Albee’s The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? is a tragicomedy that interrogates the deepest issues of social constraints on the expression of love.  The Goat is the winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play.

Roles:
2 Actors: late 30s - early 50s
1 Actress: late 30s - early 50s
1 Actor: late teens - early 20s

Rehearsals begin in August.
Performance dates: September 27, 28, 29, 2008
7:30 p.m. at Ragtag, 10 S. Hitt St

More information available at board@iatheatre.org

IAT-shirts available now!!!!

We have IAT-shirts available for your wearing pleasure! Show off your independence with some schwag. T-shirts are black cotton with our logo on the left front pockety area. Cost is $15/shirt and we have sizes small through XL.  If you’d like to order, email operations@iatheatre.org.  If you would like a size other than those listed, please email operations@iatheatre.org. 

Independent Activity - What are you up to?

I’m putting together a listing of all the theatrical events we Independents are involved in. I asked for updates from folks and through my own perusings came up with this list. 

If you’d like to be on it drop me a line at operations@iatheatre.org or facebook me with your info.

Andrew Keller has just finished a run of The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Hydeware Theatre, which came right off of a run of Assassins with New Line Theatre here in St. Louis. He will soon start rehearsals for The Odyssey with St. Louis Shakespeare. And then on to rehearsals for Metro Theatre on To Kill a Mockingbird in November. He’s auditioning like crazy and working on his thesis as a student of LIPA (Liverpool).

Katharine Sheptor (neé Baldwin) is Sarah Brown in CEC’s Guys and Dolls.

Colin Daly performed in Anna Lyse Erikson’s directing scene of Mother Courage and is performing in the Big Muddy Opera Company’s Shakin’ Not Stirred production of Cabaret VII: Crankin’ Up the Nasty (May 23 & 24, 8 p.m. @ Miss Sippy’s in Hannibal, MO) and will be performing in Guys and Dolls this summer.

Beth Hunter, Audra Sergel, Abby Rhodes, Kate Randerson, Matt Galbreath and Daddy Kitty and the TomKats are performing in Big Muddy Opera Company’s Shakin’ Not Stirred production of Cabaret VII (May 23 & 24 in Hannibal, MO) as well.

Ron Zank is off to Omaha for the summer to get his groove on with the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival.

Chelsea Deptula is part of the wardrobe crew for the Opera Theatre of St Louis for the summer!

SRT Independents:

Cabaret:

Sally Rebecca Schwartz Mette
Cliff Ross Taylor
Herr Schultz Brett Johnson
Fraulein Schneider Alexandra Milner
Fraulein Kost Sarah Phillips
Ernst Matt Davis
Emcee Ryan McNeil
Kit Kat Girl Anna Lyse Erikson
Kit Kat Girl Julie Robinson
Kit Kat Girl Kelsey Fletcher
Kit Kat Girl Zack Ruesler
Male Chorus Cole Headrick
Male Chorus Ben Freisen
Male Chorus Josh Bailey
Male Chorus Sheldon Price
Male Chorus Andrew Crawford

Sanders Family Christmas:

June Sanders Anna Lyse Erikson
Stanley Sanders Andrew Crawford
Denise Sanders Brittany Bass
Dennis Sanders Josh Bailey
Rev. Oglethorpe Frank Lasik

SRT Techies, Designers, & Management:

Phil Groeschel: Scenic Designer, Cabaret

Ross Wick: Associate Technical Director

Charles E Willis 3d: Box Office Manager, House Manager

Comedies in Concert:

LISTEN by Kathrine Varnes
Directed by David Crespy
Rehearses and performs on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

R. D. LAING……….. Michael Porter
CHRISTINE……….. Shawna Kelty
KIT……….. Tiffany Brink
JAMES……….. Alex Beal
NAN……….. Fraisa W. Logan
MARCELLO……….. Sheldon Price
STAGE DIRECTIONS……….. Becca Kravitz

HEIGH HO, SKELTER! by Ron Zank
Directed by David Crespy
Rehearses and performs on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
CLAYTON MOORE……….. Lucas Null
PENNY MOORE……….. Tiffany Brink
ARTHUR PERRY……….. Michael Porter
LYNETTE “SQUEAKY” FROMME……….. Shawna Kelty
CHARLES MANSON……….. Kelly Betz
STAGE DIRECTIONS……….. Brian Kirn

ONE BY ONE by Michael Kramer
Directed by David Crespy
Rehearses and performs on Tuesday, July 29, 2008

RON……….. Michael Porter
TIM……….. Lucas Null
BOB……….. Jason Christian
BILL……….. Alex Beal
PAUL……….. Sheldon Price
GWEN……….. Shawna Kelty
PAM……….. Becca Kravitz
JOY……….. Tiffany Brink
STAGE DIRECTIONS……….. Samantha Wildridge