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***Friday, June 20, 8 PM.
POMP and CIRCUMSTANCES by Roger Collins at "9th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays" produced by Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, hosted by Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY, June 6 -21, 2008. Tickets available from Actors Theatre's box office (502) 584-1205. Individual tickets are $10 (play readings), $5 (Juneteenth @ Apollo) and $15 (workshops). Discounted group sales are available, and discounted packages for individuals-just inquire. Festival Pass, $65; Jamboree Play Pass, $50; Weekend Play Pass, $18; Workshop Pass, Juneteenth @ Apollo Pass $30; Pass, $10.
***Congrats to Nancy Gall-Clayton... whose play Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday was selected for a reading April 26 during Kentucky Repertory Theatre's annual showcase of new plays by or about Kentuckians.
***Congrats to Sandi Kivkovich...her poetry is going to be published in the upcoming issue of The Storyteller (July/August/September 2008 issue). The Storyteller is an international writers magazine that goes to all 50 states, as well as 17 foreign countries.
***Congrats to Arnie Shayne...his Blue Chip Players produced the Cincinnati area premiere of Address Unknown, a riveting holocaust drama set in Munich and San Francisco, from the the best-selling novel by the late Katherine Kressman Taylor at the Monmouth Theatre, Newport, KY on June 4, 5, 6, 7, 2008. Arny Stoller and Arnie Shayne starred. See www.BlueChipPlayers.net for more info.
***Congrats to Phil Paradise...his drama Footprints of the Polar Bear received its Kentucky premiere June 4-7, 2008 at the Monmouth Theatre in Newport, KY produced by the Blue Chip Players. Arnie Shayne, winner of the 2008 Cincinnati Directors Competition, directed. Burt McCollom, Jeffrey K. Miller, Briana Hansen, and Stepehn Cox starred.
***Congrats to John Howland...two of his poems were recently accepted for publication in the journal Poetry East for Autumn of 2009.
***Congrats to Alan Jozwiak...his ten-minute play set on the Staten
Island Ferry was recently part of the Scenes from Staten Island ’08, at Sundog Theatre in Staten Island, New York.
***Congrats to Arnie Shayne...he is acting in a stage reading of the new play FLUTTERBIES by Frank Christopher, at the Producers Club in the Big Apple. Arnie plays a 110 year old grandfather
with a sharp mind, and a foul mouth.
***Congratulations to Arnie Shayne, Director, and Phil Paradise, playwright--their Footprints of the Polar Bear won the Grand Prize at this year's Cincinnati Directors Competition, March 16th. Footprints of the Polar Bear, written by Paradise, past CPI President, was produced by Blue Chip Players. The Cincinnati Directors Competition was presented by New Edgecliff Theatre.
***Congratulations to Denise Stoner-Barone...she recently sold her young adult novel, entitled House
of Wacks, to the Climbing Rose line of Wild Rose Press. Publication date TBA. Her penname is Denise Gwen.
***Congratulations to Cisco Montgomery's...His one-act Kin Under the Skin, a comedy about reparations for slavery, was performed recently at The Rudyard Kipling in Louisville.
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