We’re at the Boston Theatre Marathon

5.1.2013

Once again this year, Simple Machine will be participating in the Boston Theatre Marathon. In case you didn’t know, it’s a day-long event featuring 50 plays in 10 hours. They’re ten-minute plays, each produced by a different New England Theatre Company, with all proceeds going to benefit the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund.

This year, we’re proud to be presenting Lost in Thought, by Christopher Lockheardt, a story of a man coming to terms with lost love, and fighting his own memories and imagination to move on. Anna Waldron and Stephen Libby will both be appearing, and we’re thrilled to welcome Adrienne Boris as our director and Tim Hoover playing the part of Tom. Meron Langsner will be providing our fight choreography.

Check out the details below. We’ll be posting more news as it happens. Hope to see you there!

Boston Theatre Marathon XV
May 12, 2013
12PM – 10PM
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
Tickets are just $25
Come for the day, or watch hour by hour.

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The Artists of The Turn of the Screw

OGara1M. BEVIN O’GARA (Director) Local directing credits include Clybourne Park and Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage); You for Me For You, Love Person, and The Pain and the Itch (Company One); Matt and Ben (Central Square Theater); Two Wives in India and Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); 2.5 Minute Ride (Downstage @ New Rep); Othello and The Crucible (New Rep On Tour); Melancholy Play (Holland Productions); Bat Boy: The Musical (Metro Stage); Tattoo Girl,Painting You, and Artifacts (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop); and ANTI-KISS (3 Monkeys Theatrical Productions). She has also worked with New Repertory Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre of Dublin, and the Actors Centre of Australia. Ms. O’Gara is an Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company where she will be directing Melinda Lopez’s Becoming Cuba this spring. She has a BFA from Boston University in Theatre Studies.

headshotSTEPHEN LIBBY (Man) is thrilled to be appearing with Simple Machine, having directed our premiere production, rogerandtom, last year.  He has appeared locally playing Dylan Thomas in Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Boston Children’s Theatre’s production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Audiences may remember him as Guildenstern in Bad Habit Productions’ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, or as Rosencrantz in TheatreZone’s production. He has also appeared with Bad Habit as Rulon Stacey in The Laramie Project and as Milton and Don in All in the Timing. At TheatreZone, he has appeared as the Non-Believer in Anger Box, Dad / Elvis in Cooking with Elvis, Eisenring in The Firebugs, and Berenger in Rhinoceros. With the Publick Theatre, Stephen has appeared as Bunny in Misalliance, Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, and Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has also appeared locally with Wheelock Family Theatre, Exquisite Corps, Shakespeare Now!, Opera Boston, Makeshift Theatre Co., and on tour with Shakespeare & Company. Stephen has a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University.

Anna2ANNA WALDRON (Governess) is the co-found of Simple Machine, and appeared in our inaugural production, “rogerandtom”, last Spring.  Other performances in and around Boston include Tiffany in You For Me For You (Company One), Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Arts After Hours), Edith in Blithe Spirit (Lyric Stage), Alex in On the Verge (The Nora), Felicity in The Real Inspector Hound (The Publick Theatre), Nell/May in Caryl Churchill’s Fen (Whistler in the Dark), Ruth in Book of Days, Mabel/Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband, All in the Timing, The Laramie Project (Bad Habit Productions), LutherRhinoceros, The Firebugs, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Cooking with Elvis (Apollinaire Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Imaginary Beasts), Rock n’ Roll, As You Like It, and The Importance of Being Ernest (The Longwood Players).  Directing credits include Stop Kiss (Bad Habit Productions) and Alice in Wonderland (Make/Shift Theatre Co.)  This Spring Anna is directing Kiss Me Kate for The Longwood Players.  Thank you to my whole entire family, near and far, for supporting this endeavor, but most especially Stephen.

LIZ HAYES (Dialect Consultant) is a Boston-based actor, teaching artist and vocal coach. She has vocal and dialect/accent coached for many companies and institutions, including The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One, Underground Railway Theater, Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Whistler in the Dark, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Worcester State University and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Liz teaches Shakespeare at Walnut Hill and is a member of the Voice and Speech faculty at The Boston Conservatory.

EMILY WOODS HOGUE (Costume Designer) is delighted to return Simple Machine after coordinating costumes for last year’s rogerandtom! Upcoming costume design work includes Becky’s New Car at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston and Carrie the musical at SpeakEasy Stage. She will also be the assistant to the costume designer for The Whipping Man at New Repertory Theatre this winter. Ms. Woods Hogue graduated from Bennington College in Bennington, VT and holds a B.A. in both Costume Design and History. She resides in her ancestral homeland: Medford.

ELIZABETH RAMIREZ (Stage Manager) is excited to work with Simple Machine, they’ve been pretty rad. She studied English and Theater at Boston University. While there she was seen in Richard III, As You Like It, Love’s Labours’ Lost, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. She has also worked with Argos Productions and is currently the Artistic Director of The Calliope Project. Calliope credits include Unyfi (Director), Plaza Suite (Director), The Importance of Being Earnest (Director), Cyrano de Bergerac (Director), Hamlet (Polonius), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia). She enjoys napping and video games.

The Authors of The Turn of the Screw

HENRY JAMES (Author) was born in 1843 in New York City, but much of his youth was spent traveling in and around Europe. He briefly attended Harvard law school, but ultimately preferred literature to the law, publishing his first short story at the age of 21. James would go on to become a prolific writer of essays, short stories, letters and novels, and is known as one of the key figures of 19th century realism. His most famous works include: Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and he was a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. His novella, The Turn of the Screw, was originally published in 1898, and has been retold countless times on film and stage, even inspiring an opera. James never married, and in his own words was “hopelessly celibate.” In 1876 he moved to England, living first in London and then retiring to Rye in Sussex. James officially became a British citizen in 1915 after the outbreak of World War I. He was awarded the Order of Merit January 1, 1916. Sadly, his health was already failing and he died February 28, 1916. His ashes are interred in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JEFFREY HATCHER (Playwright) Broadway: Never Gonna Dance (book). Off-Broadway: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder by Poe, The Turn of the Screw, and The Spy at The Acting Company; Neddy at American Place; and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline. Other Plays/Theaters: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak’s Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, All the Way with LBJ, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children’s Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad. Film/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, and episodes of Columbo. Grants/Awards: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Barrymore Award Best New Play. He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.

Elizabeth Ramirez

Elizabeth is excited to work with Simple Machine, they’ve been pretty rad. She studied English and Theater at Boston University. While there she was seen in Richard IIIAs You Like ItLove’s Labours’ Lost, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. She has also worked with Argos Productions and is currently the Artistic Director of The Calliope Project. Calliope credits include Unyfi (Director), Plaza Suite (Director), The Importance of Being Earnest (Director), Cyrano de Bergerac (Director), Hamlet (Polonius), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia). She enjoys napping and video games.

Emily Woods Hogue

Emily is delighted to return Simple Machine after coordinating costumes for last year’s rogerandtom! Upcoming costume design work includes Becky’s New Car at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston and Carrie the musical at SpeakEasy Stage. She will also be the assistant to the costume designer for The Whipping Man at New Repertory Theatre this winter. Ms. Woods Hogue graduated from Bennington College in Bennington, VT and holds a B.A. in both Costume Design and History. She resides in her ancestral homeland: Medford.

Liz Hayes

Liz Hayes is a Boston-based actor, teaching artist and vocal coach. She has vocal and dialect/accent coached for many companies and institutions, including The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One, Underground Railway Theater, Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Whistler in the Dark, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Worcester State University and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Liz teaches Shakespeare at Walnut Hill and is a member of the Voice and Speech faculty at The Boston Conservatory.