Member Productions

FORKS OF IVY, a full-length drama, written and directed by Cass Erickson, will have a staged reading on January 30 and 31, 2009 at the Lowry Lab Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. The reading is sponsored by Lex-Ham Community Theater.

Set in a cove in the mountains of southern Appalachia, FORKS OF IVY is the story of an aging patriarch who questions his faith and life in the aftermath of the accidental death of his son. The subsequent dynamics of an unraveling family become intertwined with the arrival of a couple from New York. The play pays homage to contemporary life in southern Appalachia and explores the issues of loss, loneliness, domestic violence, transiency, belonging, spirituality, redemption, and reconciliation.

FORKS OF IVY was a finalist in the 2006 Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival (Columbia, South Carolina). Trustus Theatre literary manager Jon Tuttle found the play 'utterly Faulknerian . . . in the richness of its language and detail.'

The Theater Space Project, owners of the Lowry Lab Theater, provided the venue through a generous grant from Travelers Foundation. For more information, see www.theatrespaceproject.org.

The reading is free and will be followed by an author feedback session.

Copperheads and Common Women, a one-woman show by Sandra de Helen will be performed by the playwright as part of Fertile Ground New Works Festival in Portland, Oregon. She will be directed by Meg Chamberlain. Date: January 25, 2009. Time 12:30pm. Place: Portland Center Stage. Tickets may be reserved at www.pdxtix.com or purchased at the door for $5. This play brings to life a country woman and her eight year-old granddaughter in rural Missouri. 

Images of Mr. Lincoln will be produced in Louisville, KY (USA), at Bunbury Theatre, Henry Clay Bldg., 604 S. 3rd St., http:/www.bunburytheatre.org, Feb. 5-22. Evening shows are at 7:30 and matinees at 2:00. Nancy's play is one of four commissioned to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth and the theatre's 23rd anniversary during the Honest Abe 23-Minute Play Festival. The play takes place in photographer Mathew Brady's studio and introduces three women who influenced Lincoln, including the 11-year-old who suggested he grow a beard, Mary Todd who was urged not to marry him, and a former slave who became friends with the Lincoln family. Ticket prices $15-$20. Order by phone (502) 585-5306 or on the theatre website.

Winner of the Susan McIntyre Play Festival, Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud, a full length play by Kelly DuMar, will be produced by Yellow Taxi Productions, Nashua, NH Friday, Nov. 7 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 9, at 2:00 p.m..   In WEEKEND AT THE DREAMING CLOUD, an opened box of teenage love letters stirs ghosts from the past and possibilities for the future in this play about love and loss, teen death and recovery from addiction. Yellow Taxi Productions’ new venue is located at 5 Pine Street, Extension, Mill Annex #6, Suite 2B in Nashua. Panel discussions and workshops on playwriting will also occur throughout the weekend.  Tickets can be purchased at the door, $10 general admission.  For more info go to http://www.diarydoor.typepad.com/stagedoor 

City/Town/Country:      Columbus, OH, USA
Author:      Nancy Gall-Clayton
Venue:      OSU Hillel Fdn., 46 E. 16th Ave., Columbus
Venue Website:      http://www.osuhillel.org
Author email:      nancygallclayton@earthlink.net
Author Website:      http://www.nancygallclayton.net
Oct 27, 2008   7 pm  Tickets Phone No. 614-294-4979  Tickets Prices: Free
Description:      Reading during Beyond the Borscht Belt Festival: A Jewish Theatre Festival. On October 26, the play will be read at the Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Ave.