Mysterious Connections
Mysterious Connections, written by Peter Hardy and directed by Ellen McQueen, is a fantasy based around two women who grow close and eventually find themselves able to enter each other’s dreams.
Georgia Playwright
Essential Theatre Presents: a bunch of different ways i’d like to die
Two nights only! August 16 & 17, 2018 at 8pm
Written and performed by Tim McDonough, a bunch of different ways i’d like to die is an entertainment about death, a fantasy and meditation both comic and dead serious.
a bunch of different ways i’d like to die performs on the following dates:
Thursday August 16, 8pm
Friday august 17, 8pm
In the Press:
Atlanta Actor Writes Dead Serious Comedy About Mortality
Built to Float
The magical realist tale of two sisters, trying not to drown in the haunted legacy of their troubled family.
by Rachel Graf Evans directed by Peter Hardy
World Premiere opens Friday, July 27, 2018.
Built to Float press kit
This is the story of Tess, who quietly crusades to keep it together, working full time as a phlebotomist and caring for her ailing mother Marjorie, who likes to harp on Tess’s dormant dreams of becoming a doctor. Suddenly, her sister Roz shows back up from rehab, pledging high expectations and a clean slate.
Woke
By Avery Sharpe
Directed by Ellen McQueen
World Premiere opens Friday, August 3, 2018.
Woke follows two friends from different backgrounds who are trying to navigate the already rocky transition from high school to college. When a calamitous event captures national attention, they are forced to wrestle with their different understandings of social awareness. Through family, romance, and their own friendship, they painstakingly and comically explore what it truly means to be woke.
Cast: Derrick Robertson (Adrian), Paul Danner (Jesse), DeShon Green (Tanisha), Karina Simmons (Natasha), Kathleen Wattis (Martha),
Bare Essentials Play Reading Series
Working Title Playwrights and the Essential Theatre
are proud to present
the 2017 Bare Essentials Reading Series
All readings are free and open to the public.
Playwrights whose work is featured in a Festival Bare Essentials reading also receive a complimentary one-year membership to Working Title Playwrights.
Be sure to stay after for exciting conversation with the director, cast and playwright, moderated by WTP Managing Artistic Director Amber Bradshaw.
Wednesday, August 9th, 7:30pm at the West End Performing Arts Center
FALLING OFF THE EDGE
by Paul Donnelly
Directed by Carolyn Cook
A Mormon swimmer,
Essential Theatre presents: INDEPENDENT
Two nights only! August 17 and 18, 2017 at 8pm
Dan Triandiflou stars in a one-man performance as director John Cassavetes, the Godfather of American independent films. Written by Atlanta playwright John D. Babcock III. Directed by John Ammerman.
World Premiere: ANOTHER MOTHER
By G. M. Lupo
Directed by Peter Hardy
ANOTHER MOTHER press kit with photos
World premiere opens August 4, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, this play follows the journey of Genevieve as she pieces together the mysterious identities and relationships between her biological mother, her birth mother and the mother who raised her.
Meet the Playwright:
an interview with G.M. Lupo
Bare Essentials Play Reading Series
All readings in the Bare Essentials series are free and open to the public. Be sure to stay after for exciting conversation with the director, cast and playwright!
We’re happy to announce the three Bare Essentials Readings that will occur during the run of the 2016 Essential Theatre Play Festival. All readings will take place at the West End Performing Arts Center and will start at 7:30 p.m., followed by a discussion. Co-produced by Essential Theatre and Working Title Playwrights, all readings in the Bare Essentials series are free and open to the public. Playwrights whose work is featured in a Bare Essentials reading also receive a complimentary one-year membership to Working Title Playwrights.
When Things Are Lost
Click here for an interview with Derek Dixon
If someone you loved went missing, how far would you go to find them? A man goes on a dream quest to figure out what happened to his best friend, who seems to have disappeared. Derek Dixon’s WHEN THINGS ARE LOST is a funny and moving play about friendship, loss, understanding and forgiveness.
CAST: Kerwin Thompson, Alex Towers, Anthony Goolsby, Alex Van, Jill Perry, Barrett Doyle, Chelsea Steverson and Gina Rickicki
Advisory: Some adult themes and situations
Derek Dixon is a writer and actor who resides in Atlanta,
