The Monday Night Group

A man, a woman, the full moon
and thousands of spawning fish…

Grunion Run
a one-act play by William Bivins
Directed by Christy Crowley

in Round 5 of PianoFight’s Shortlived 2.0 competition

Fri May 29, Sat May 30
Fri June 5, Sat June 6
8pm

Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission St, #250 (bt. 5th & 6th)
San Francisco

For tix: Brown Paper Tickets

Note: This is an audience voting competition, sort of a theatrical “Survivor.” The top four plays out of eight continue to the next round, until the championship weekend. The writer of the winning play gets an opportunity to write a full-act for a month-long run produced by PianoFight. So please come and VOTE!

For more info on the competition, visit Piano Flight.

8pm Fri June 6, and Sat June 7
A benefit for the East Bay Area Dance Center
Please email to make reservations

Gentleman of Leisure
A one-act play by William Bivins
Directed by Christy Crowley

An entry in PianoFight’s
ShortLived 2.0 competition
Apr. 3, 4, 10, 11
8pm
Off-Market Theatre
965 Mission St, #250 (bt. 5th & 6th)
San Francisco

For tickets: Get ‘em before they sell out!

Note:
This is an audience voting competition, sort of a theatrical “Survivor.” The first two weekends is Round One of six rounds. The top four plays out of eight continue to the next round, and so on, until the championship weekend. The writer of the winning play gets an opportunity to write a full-act for a month-long run produced by PianoFight. So please come and VOTE!  For more info on the competition, click here.

Jeff Carter’s Just Business has been selected for Theatre Three’s 12th Annual Festival of One Act Plays. Located in Port Jefferson, New York, Theatre Three has not yet announced the schedule of plays, but the Festival is expected to take place in March 2009.

Jeff Carter’s The World to Come has been selected for the Festival of Ten: An Evening of Ten Minute Plays.

The 6th biennel festival of ten-minute plays is presented by the Department of Theatre at SUNY Brockport.

Dates for the festival are February 27 – March 1 and March 5 – 7 in 2009.

Please visit SUNY Brockport’s website for more information.

La Honda, by Jeff Carter, is one of the two winners in Pacific Repertory Theatre’s Second Hyperion Playwrighting Competition. Congratulations, Jeff!

You are cordially invited to a staged reading of

PULP SCRIPTURE:
Seven Bible Stories They Didn’t Teach You in Sunday School
by William Bivins

A evening of one-act plays presented by St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church
(See above poster for details)

Sex! Violence! Perversion! Incest! Human Sacrifice! Eye-gouging!
Think you know the Old Testament?

Featuring:
Linda Ayres-Frederick*
Emily Jordan*
Dennis McIntyre
Dan Wilson

(*member, Actors Equity Assoc.)

November 3rd at 8pm.
St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, 2325 Union Street (@Steiner), San Francisco.
Program runs about an hour.
Reception following.

MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

Former Monday Nighter, J.D. Eames, has won the Lambda Players “Best Original Lesbian-Themed Play” competition. The prize boasts $1,000 to the playwright, and a production of her play, Do Geese See God.

J.D. says, “I’m particularly indebted to The Monday Night Group for their support, as they unfailingly listened to iteration upon iteration upon iteration of the ‘backwards’ play.”

Lambda Players’ production of Do Geese See God opens February 20, 2009 in Sacramento, CA.

Don’t miss it!

As we come back after our summer hiatus, we welcome two playwrights to the Monday Night Group: William Bivins and Hal Savage. It’s always inspiring to have an infusion of new energy!

Actors Susan Gwinn and Russ Davison have left us for Missouri.
Director Fred Hartman now resides in Palm Springs.
We wish them all the best, and miss them already.