SlamJam!

Playwrights’ Slam and Music Jam

Friday, May 16, 2008

7:30pm

Alabama Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare Garden

Cash Bar

This fun-filled evening will feature musical performances and readings of 10 minute plays. If you would like to submit your 10-minute play for performance consideration, please e-mail swp@asf.net.

SWP is endowed by an anonymous donor and sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

and the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel.

Featured Ten-Minute Play Readings

Perfect Endings by Evelyn Jean Pine      

Evelyn Jean Pine is the recipient of the 2007 June Anne Baker Playwriting Award and Commission from Playground.  Her work has been produced in New York, NY, San Francisco,CA, Bethesda, MD, Charlottesville, VA, Kansas City, MO, Berkeley, CA, and Monte Rio, CA.  She is a lecturer in Performance Studies at San Francisco State University, where she is working on her MFA in Creative Writing, Playwriting.

The Prodigal Cow by Mark Harvey Levine        

The Kiss by Mark Harvey Levine  

Mark Harvey Levine has had over 300 productions of his plays throughout the world, from New York to Prague to Sydney to Casablanca. Cabfare For The Common Man, and C'est Levine, evenings of his short plays, have played in Los Angeles, Boston, Indianapolis and Georgia.  Aperitivos, another evening of his plays, played for two years in Brazil (in Portuguese!), culminating in a National Tour.  His plays have been published in Best Ten Minute Plays Anthologies for 2004 and 2005 and the upcoming 2007 and 2008 editions (Smith & Kraus) and Laugh Lines (Vintage Books).

Titus Andronicus as Presented by the Kindergarten Class of Woodside Elementary School by Mimi Jeffries            

Mimi Jeffries is a recent graduate of Yale University where she graduated with degrees in Anthropology and Theatre Studies.  She is an MFA Film Candidate at Columbia University Class of 2011.  She has worked in the theatre for over a dozen years and has had several shows workshopped in her home state of Michigan.  She currently studies improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.