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CONTACT: Bridget Bean, Gorilla Theatre
February 6, 2008
(813) 765-1486
info@gorillatheatre.com
The Gorilla Theatre Play Reading Series presents: Sweet Storm
by Scott
Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m.
Bring your Valentine to enjoy this sweety of a script in a staged reading at the Gorilla Theatre before it receives its first full production in New York.
Admission is free, the bar will be open and serving champagne, and there will be a talkback with the writer, director and cast after the reading.
Director: James B Rayfield
Actors: Heather Atkinson and Chris Jackson
Thursday, February 14 at 8pm
Gorilla Theatre, 4419 N Hubert Ave, Tampa, FL 33614
Free admission, reservations not required
About the writer:
Scott Hudson is a resident of Gainesville, Florida and a company member of LAByrinth Theater Co. in New York, where his play Sweet Storm will receive its first production this June. The Gorilla Theatre is proud to present a reading of this play prior to its New York debut.
Scott says of LAByrinth Theater:
"It's a privileged and honored relationship. It is vital for an actor to be a part of a theater community in NYC. But to be a part of one that actually contributes right at the fringe on the new fabric of American Theater takes the responsibility of an artist and community to another level. LAByrinth had been around for 11 years when I was invited into the company in 2003. … It was like finding my long lost artist soul mates. That may sound cheesy but it really is the only way to describe the unfolding of our relationship. That's LAByrinth, heart and soul. We were a match and I am grateful for that ... We will produce my first written play Sweet Storm this summer at The Public Theater: our home in New York City. (That was a plug by the way.)"
About writing "Sweet Storm:
"John Patrick Shanley had a few words of wisdom in the development of my piece. He honed in that my characters were the idealist and the practicalist. I thought, really? I wasn't sure of what I was writing and so I took to heart the critique and began to define them in those characteristics and it started to roll.
... I wrote a good chunk of my play here (in Gainesville, FL). The play takes place in Florida and I am a native to this state. ...I guess I could say it's a matter of the heart. I believe part of my Identity as an artist is my nature to take risk. The higher the risk the greater the need for wisdom. I believe for the time being, Wisdom was calling me to Gainesville and so I took the risk."
CONTACT: Bridget Bean, Gorilla Theatre
February 6, 2008
(813) 765-1486
info@gorillatheatre.com
The Gorilla Theatre Play Reading Series presents: Sweet Storm
by Scott
Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m.
Bring your Valentine to enjoy this sweety of a script in a staged reading at the Gorilla Theatre before it receives its first full production in New York.
Admission is free, the bar will be open and serving champagne, and there will be a talkback with the writer, director and cast after the reading.
Director: James B Rayfield
Actors: Heather Atkinson and Chris Jackson
Thursday, February 14 at 8pm
Gorilla Theatre, 4419 N Hubert Ave, Tampa, FL 33614
Free admission, reservations not required
About the writer:
Scott Hudson is a resident of Gainesville, Florida and a company member of LAByrinth Theater Co. in New York, where his play Sweet Storm will receive its first production this June. The Gorilla Theatre is proud to present a reading of this play prior to its New York debut.
Scott says of LAByrinth Theater:
"It's a privileged and honored relationship. It is vital for an actor to be a part of a theater community in NYC. But to be a part of one that actually contributes right at the fringe on the new fabric of American Theater takes the responsibility of an artist and community to another level. LAByrinth had been around for 11 years when I was invited into the company in 2003. … It was like finding my long lost artist soul mates. That may sound cheesy but it really is the only way to describe the unfolding of our relationship. That's LAByrinth, heart and soul. We were a match and I am grateful for that ... We will produce my first written play Sweet Storm this summer at The Public Theater: our home in New York City. (That was a plug by the way.)"
About writing "Sweet Storm:
"John Patrick Shanley had a few words of wisdom in the development of my piece. He honed in that my characters were the idealist and the practicalist. I thought, really? I wasn't sure of what I was writing and so I took to heart the critique and began to define them in those characteristics and it started to roll.
... I wrote a good chunk of my play here (in Gainesville, FL). The play takes place in Florida and I am a native to this state. ...I guess I could say it's a matter of the heart. I believe part of my Identity as an artist is my nature to take risk. The higher the risk the greater the need for wisdom. I believe for the time being, Wisdom was calling me to Gainesville and so I took the risk."
