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SPRING 2008 READING
SERIES
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SPECIAL EVENT!
**At the High Meadow School**
AN ODD SHORTS BOOK PARTY
Come celebrate our first book! Actors & Writers:
Odd Shorts,
published with Mohonk Mountain Stage Co., features ten
oddly
brilliant short plays by company members Katherine Burger,
Laura
Shaine Cunningham, Mary Gallagher, Sigrid Heath, Mikhail
Horowitz,
Adam LeFevre, Nicole Quinn, Nina Shengold, David Smilow,
and Mary
Louise Wilson. All donations and book sales will go to
rescue our
beloved Odd Fellows Theatre.
PARKING: On-site parking and handicapped access at High
Meadow
School, 3643 Route 209 (across from 213 West),
Stone Ridge Auditorium seats 250.
Saturday, April 26 at 8:00 pm
**AT THE ODD FELLOWS**
ONE NATION UNDER
IMPROVISATION
CREATED BY DENNY DILLON
Saturday Night Live alumna Dillon is back with her Improv
Nation
troupe of actors without borders. Join us for an unforgettable
evening of improvisational madness and magic.
Saturday, May 10 at 8:00 pm
**AT THE ODD FELLOWS**
THE HOUSE OF BLUE
LEAVES
BY JOHN GUARE
Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson directs Guare's
classic black
comedy about a Queens zookeeper who dreams of escaping
by writing hit
songs. Performed by special permission of Samuel French,
Inc.
Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 pm
...and another
SPECIAL EVENT!
**At the Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street
(btwn.7th&8th), NYC**
ODD SHORTS: Big Apple!
Join Actors & Writers and Mohonk Mountain Stage Company
for a reading
performance, book signing, and reception at the Drama
Book Shop in
the heart of New York's theatre district.
PARKING: You gotta be kidding!
Friday, June 6th at 8:00 pm
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All events are held at the ODD FELLOWS THEATRE,
Rt. 213, Olivebridge.
(directions below)
Doors open half an hour before curtain.
Theater seating is limited, so come early and pack a
flashlight for the
short walk from the Olivebridge firehouse parking lot.
Though admission is free, donations are always welcome.
Sorry, we cannot take reservations.
For more information, call (845) 657-9760 or email us
at info@actorsandwriters.com
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How to get to the ODD FELLOWS THEATRE:
From Rte. 209: Drive to the center of Stone Ridge and turn
at the sign onto 213 West. Stay on 213 for 7.9 miles.
The theatre is at the top of the hill on your right; the
fire-house parking lot is the next left, Mill Road.
From Rte. 28: Drive to Winchell's Corners and turn onto
Reservoir Rd. Cross the reservoir and make a left at the
T.
At the fork, stay right. This will become 28A. Follow 28A
around the detour, and turn left onto 213. *Stay on 213
for
just under a mile. The firehouse parking lot is the first
right (Mill Rd) after the Tongore Trading Post; the theatre
is just
up the hill on your left.
Alternately, take Rt. 28 west to 28A in Boiceville. Follow
28A to 213. Turn right onto 213, and follow the directions
from *above.
Theatre parking is minimal. Please help us save spaces
for senior and disabled patrons by parking at the firehouse
lot
(A two-minute walk. You might like to bring a flashlight.
It's dark out there.) Thanks very much! |
ACTORS & WRITERS MEMBER NEWS
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This just in from the world beyond Olivebridge:
DAVIS HALL just finished a successful run in Edward II
for the Red Bull Theater, and appeared on Guiding Light
and in the
pilot for The Agency, recently seen at the NYTV Festival...
DAVID SMILOW won the Best Actor award at the Ed Wood Festival
for his role in 4, appeared in the PBS film Benedict Arnold,
and has just been admitted to the HB Ensemble in NYC...
MARY LOUISE WILSON will appear in a concert version of
A Little Night Music with the Boston Pops in
June and at Tanglewood in July...
LORI WILNER is opening on Broadway in the musical A Catered
Affair, starring Harvey Fierstein...
RON NYSWANER produced and co-wrote the short film Predisposed,
directed by Philip Dorling and starring MELISSA LEO, whose
other recent films include Frozen River (winner of the Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance), Righteous Kill with Al Pacino &
Robert DeNiro, Mr. Woodcock, and Greta; she also appeared
in The Vagina Monologues at the Bearsville
Theatre...
SOPHIA RAAB DOWNS' documentary film 21 Below won
accolade's at the IFP Market in NYC this past year, which
in turn got her a very prestigious distribution deal with
Cactus 3 and IndiePix . The film is currently in post-production.
She and writer/director NICOLE QUINN have screened Racing
Daylight at the Women's International Film Festival
in Miami, the Fairhope Film Festival and the Romance Film
Festival where they one grand prizes in all three respectively.
They have also screened for the "Made on a Mac"
series in SoHo; and at NYU, Pace University, Vassar College,
and Poughkeepsie Day School. As a result of all their hard
work, Racing Daylight will at last be distributed
by Vangaurd Cinema. Their next collaboration, Slap &
Tickle, will shoot locally in 2008...
NINA SHENGOLD's short plays have recently been produced
in Los Angeles, London; Heidelberg, Germany; Chennai, India,
and Darwin, Australia; No Shoulder is opening soon in Croatia...
LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM's Beautiful Bodies continues its
international career with hit productions in Estonia and
Argentina...
MIKHAIL HOROWITZ will perform with Gilles Malkine at the
Rosendale Theatre 6/28, and with pianist Justin Kolb and
cellist Abby Newton in Remembering Felix (words by Gail
Godwin, music by Robert Starer) at Bellayre Ski Center 7/25.
Mik's short play We Cannot Know the Mind of God was produced
by schools in Iowa, Washington, Maine, and New
York in 2007...
SHELLEY WYANT is teaching in the MFA program at the New
School and directing Lanford Wilson's The Rimers of Eldritch
at the TAPCO School in the South Bronx...
CAROL MORLEY is teaching at the Martha Graham School of
Dance in NYC...
DENNY DILLON was the featured artist at a new gallery in
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Her "Art Inside the Box"
was part of "New Mythology" at Pearl Arts Gallery
in Stone Ridge. She teaches improvisation for Rondout schools
and at Unison Arts...
SARAH CHODOFF is appearing in Eric Baldetti's untitled
senior thesis film at Bard...
SIGRID HEATH is performing a new version of her one-woman
show Wingbone (an A&W premiere) at the Northeast Theatre
in Scranton, Pennsylvania in April...
MARY GALLAGHER hopes to finish her enormous novel, Exquisite
in Mourning, by the end of this year. Recently her plays
have been produced in Williamsburg, Va; Edinburg, Texas;
Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Concord, Mass; Seattle, Toronto,
St. Louis and NYC.
See you at the Odds!
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Current
company members: Katherine Burger, Mark Chmiel, Sarah
Chodoff, Siri Crane, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Denny
Dillon, Jason Downs, Mary Gallagher, Jeff Garrett,
Davis Hall, Sigrid Heath, Mikhail Horowitz, Chris
Karczmar, Adam LeFevre, Melissa Leo, Brian MacReady,
Carol Morley, Ron Nyswaner, Kevin O’Rourke,
Nicole Quinn, Sophia Raab Downs, John Seidman, Nina
Shengold, David Smilow, Joe White, Lori Wilner, Mary
Louise Wilson and Shelley Wyant.
Honored
alumni include Greta Baker, Elizabeth Benedict, Bob
Berky, Gigi Buffington, John Finn, Kate & Tad
Ingram, Frank Juliano, Casey Kurtti, Joseph Leon,
Sherry Mandel and Sybil Rosen. |
Laura
Shaine Cunningham: www.laurashainecunningham.com
Nina
Shengold: www.ninashengold.com
Mikhail
Horowitz: CDs available at www.sundazed.com/artists/mhorowitz.html
Nicole
Quinn: www.racingdaylightthemovie.com,
www.nicomats.com
Denny Dillon: www.thedrawingroomonline.com
Jason Downs:
www.jasondowns.com
Jason Downs & Sophia
Raab Downs: www.watershedworks.com
Chris Karczmar: http://www.woodstockfilmcommission.com/resumes/karczmar.htm
Ron Nyswaner:
www.ronnyswaner.com
Kevin O'Rourke:
www.testtube.tv
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From left: Jason Downs, Katherine Berger,
David Smilow and Shelley Wyant. |
| Photos by Jennifer May |
Davis Hall |

Mik Horowitz, Sophia Raab Downs, Nicole Quinn and
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From left: Davis Hall, Jason Downs and Joe White. |

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Sophia Raab Downs and Nicole Quinn |
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2006
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