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

 

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!

 
Photo by Jennifer May

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.

LINKS to MEMBER SITES

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 

 

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 Davis Hall

From left: Davis Hall, Jason Downs and Joe White.

 

 
Sophia Raab Downs and Nicole Quinn

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