THE PLAYWRIGHTS
Mark Cornell
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Alex Dremann
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Constance George
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Max Gill
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Devlin Giroux
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Steven Korbar
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Christopher Lockheardt
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June Rachelson-Ospa
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Andrew Rothkin
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Jonathan Wallace
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MARK CORNELL (playwright, The Greenhouse) has had short plays produced all over the world. They include Bad Thing, winner of the LW Thomas Award at Theatre Oxford last year; the multiple award-winning All the Answers, which has been produced 22 times since its premiere in 2009 in Pittsburgh; The Rental Company, which won the top honor at the Short+Sweet Festival in Brisbane, Australia, and later transferred to Sydney; and the recent Daddy at the Old Courthouse Theatre in Concord, NC. His play One Life, which, as a three-minute piece, won The ArtsCenter’s PlaySlam (in Carrboro, NC) in 2010, is published in Smith & Kraus’s Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2014. His full-length play At Birth was part of the Hormel New Works Festival this year at Phoenix Theatre. He has an MFA in playwriting from UCLA. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
ALEX DREMANN’S (playwright, Fang) full-lengths include Split Pea Pod (The Brick Playhouse), Postcoital Variations (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop), and The :nv:s:ble Play (Madlab Theatre, Theatre of NOTE). Evenings of his collected short plays include Bipolar by Thursday (Theatre Neo, Los Angeles), 13 Lemonade Ave. (Secret Room Theatre, Philadelphia), and B-Sides, Rarities and Unreleased Tracks (City Theatre, Wilmington, DE). He has had over 200 productions of his short plays performed in the USA, UK, Australia, India and New Zealand. Alex is the Producing Artistic Director of Secret Room Theatre in Philadelphia.
CONSTANCE GEORGE'S (playwright, A Troubled Heart) short plays have been seen in the 15-Minute Play Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, the Summer Shorties Festival and several Players Theatre Short Play Festivals. Directing includes A Girl's Guide to Chaos, Under Milkwood (Yorkville Rep), Gentleman and Scholar (Deptford Players), Danny and Rose (Algonquin Productions), Jane Takes It In (Downtown Urban Theatre Festival), as well as Relative Values and Outward Bound, with the Triangle Theatre.
MAXIMILLIAN GILL (playwright, Taste of Hell) received his Master’s in Creative Writing in California. He has been based in New York for the past ten years. His work in the field of international development is a strong influence on the global perspective in his writing. His work has been staged by a number of venues, including the InspiraTO Festival in Toronto, the Indie Boots Theatre Festival in Chicago, the Eastbound Summer Festival in Connecticut, Swivel Theatre’s Arab Women in Revolution Festival in London, and the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in Liverpool.
DEVLIN GIROUX (playwright, Call Upon) lives in Michigan, where he is at work on ever more horrors for page and stage. Previous work has been published in Night Terrors Magazine, Nine of Swords, and the ongoing horror anthology Demonic Visions. His plays have been seen at La Petite Morgue, Michigan State University, and the Renegade Theatre Festival.
STEVEN KORBAR (playwright, The Monster Seated Next to Me) has had full-length and one-act plays produced throughout the United States and Canada. Productions include I Understand Your Frustration at the Turtleshell Theatre NYC, Let Go at Future Ten in Pittsburgh, Hard at Elephant Stageworks in LA, Circles at Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha. His comedy What Are You Going to Be? was recently published as part of Smith and Kraus’ Best Short Plays of 2013.
CHRISTOPHER LOCKHEARDT (playwright, Not Funny) of Andover, MA, has had 24 of his short plays produced almost 150 times by over 60 different theaters in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Australia. His work has been included in eight short play anthologies, including three of Smith & Kraus’s Best Ten-Minute Plays of the Year collections.
JUNE RACHELSON-OSPA (playwright, Scrambled) is an award-winning writer of musicals, and a producer. She owns Bozomoon Productions with Daniel Neiden, creating and producing such shows as Welcome to Tourettaville (winner of Kennedy Center's Very Special Arts Playwright Discovery Award), True Colors of Weedle, S.W.A.K!, and Rapunzarella White, with cast recordings on CD Baby and Amazon.com. Upcoming: Bollywood and Vine, Stupid Wig, Imaginary Boy. Premiering March 2015 with the Hurrah Players in Norfolk Virginia. June invested in A Christmas Story the Musical (Lunt Fontaine and Madison Square Garden). She’s the former Academy Director of RLMTA. Producer Godspell at Circle in the Square. Recently June produced Grey Street the RockOperical at 13th Street Rep NYC. Also the Artistic Director of Identity Theater.
ANDREW ROTHKIN (playwright, The Change) is ecstatic to have so many wonderful artists aboard Things That Go Bump in the Night. Writing highlights include Bubby’s Shadow (Winner, Outstanding Production of a New Drama Play, MITF Awards, 2008); Meredith’s Ring (Winner, Outstanding Production of a Short Play, Planet Connections Festivity Awards, 2009) and Hamlet Bound & Unbound (Winner, Outstanding New Script for a Short Subject, MITF Awards, 2012). Andrew is currently in pre-production of adapting several of his short plays to film, starting with The Double Date and Love Bites, with an eye towards bringing his full-length screenplays and some of his plays to the screen, as well as the works of some friends and colleagues. Andrew is also an actor, director, and the artistic Director of White Rabbit Productions. See www.AndrewRothin.com for more information.
JONATHAN WALLACE (playwright, UFO Weather) is pleased to be working again with his friend Andrew Rothkin. His credits include Pawnshop Accordions and Autumn in Andromeda in Fringenyc and Turtle Tattoo, The ShadowPier and Layla and Harley Together Again in the Midtown International Theater Festival. Wallace has resided with his playwright wife, Meri, since 1984 and pet box turtle, Berryman, since 1972.
ALEX DREMANN’S (playwright, Fang) full-lengths include Split Pea Pod (The Brick Playhouse), Postcoital Variations (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop), and The :nv:s:ble Play (Madlab Theatre, Theatre of NOTE). Evenings of his collected short plays include Bipolar by Thursday (Theatre Neo, Los Angeles), 13 Lemonade Ave. (Secret Room Theatre, Philadelphia), and B-Sides, Rarities and Unreleased Tracks (City Theatre, Wilmington, DE). He has had over 200 productions of his short plays performed in the USA, UK, Australia, India and New Zealand. Alex is the Producing Artistic Director of Secret Room Theatre in Philadelphia.
CONSTANCE GEORGE'S (playwright, A Troubled Heart) short plays have been seen in the 15-Minute Play Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, the Summer Shorties Festival and several Players Theatre Short Play Festivals. Directing includes A Girl's Guide to Chaos, Under Milkwood (Yorkville Rep), Gentleman and Scholar (Deptford Players), Danny and Rose (Algonquin Productions), Jane Takes It In (Downtown Urban Theatre Festival), as well as Relative Values and Outward Bound, with the Triangle Theatre.
MAXIMILLIAN GILL (playwright, Taste of Hell) received his Master’s in Creative Writing in California. He has been based in New York for the past ten years. His work in the field of international development is a strong influence on the global perspective in his writing. His work has been staged by a number of venues, including the InspiraTO Festival in Toronto, the Indie Boots Theatre Festival in Chicago, the Eastbound Summer Festival in Connecticut, Swivel Theatre’s Arab Women in Revolution Festival in London, and the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in Liverpool.
DEVLIN GIROUX (playwright, Call Upon) lives in Michigan, where he is at work on ever more horrors for page and stage. Previous work has been published in Night Terrors Magazine, Nine of Swords, and the ongoing horror anthology Demonic Visions. His plays have been seen at La Petite Morgue, Michigan State University, and the Renegade Theatre Festival.
STEVEN KORBAR (playwright, The Monster Seated Next to Me) has had full-length and one-act plays produced throughout the United States and Canada. Productions include I Understand Your Frustration at the Turtleshell Theatre NYC, Let Go at Future Ten in Pittsburgh, Hard at Elephant Stageworks in LA, Circles at Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha. His comedy What Are You Going to Be? was recently published as part of Smith and Kraus’ Best Short Plays of 2013.
CHRISTOPHER LOCKHEARDT (playwright, Not Funny) of Andover, MA, has had 24 of his short plays produced almost 150 times by over 60 different theaters in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Australia. His work has been included in eight short play anthologies, including three of Smith & Kraus’s Best Ten-Minute Plays of the Year collections.
JUNE RACHELSON-OSPA (playwright, Scrambled) is an award-winning writer of musicals, and a producer. She owns Bozomoon Productions with Daniel Neiden, creating and producing such shows as Welcome to Tourettaville (winner of Kennedy Center's Very Special Arts Playwright Discovery Award), True Colors of Weedle, S.W.A.K!, and Rapunzarella White, with cast recordings on CD Baby and Amazon.com. Upcoming: Bollywood and Vine, Stupid Wig, Imaginary Boy. Premiering March 2015 with the Hurrah Players in Norfolk Virginia. June invested in A Christmas Story the Musical (Lunt Fontaine and Madison Square Garden). She’s the former Academy Director of RLMTA. Producer Godspell at Circle in the Square. Recently June produced Grey Street the RockOperical at 13th Street Rep NYC. Also the Artistic Director of Identity Theater.
ANDREW ROTHKIN (playwright, The Change) is ecstatic to have so many wonderful artists aboard Things That Go Bump in the Night. Writing highlights include Bubby’s Shadow (Winner, Outstanding Production of a New Drama Play, MITF Awards, 2008); Meredith’s Ring (Winner, Outstanding Production of a Short Play, Planet Connections Festivity Awards, 2009) and Hamlet Bound & Unbound (Winner, Outstanding New Script for a Short Subject, MITF Awards, 2012). Andrew is currently in pre-production of adapting several of his short plays to film, starting with The Double Date and Love Bites, with an eye towards bringing his full-length screenplays and some of his plays to the screen, as well as the works of some friends and colleagues. Andrew is also an actor, director, and the artistic Director of White Rabbit Productions. See www.AndrewRothin.com for more information.
JONATHAN WALLACE (playwright, UFO Weather) is pleased to be working again with his friend Andrew Rothkin. His credits include Pawnshop Accordions and Autumn in Andromeda in Fringenyc and Turtle Tattoo, The ShadowPier and Layla and Harley Together Again in the Midtown International Theater Festival. Wallace has resided with his playwright wife, Meri, since 1984 and pet box turtle, Berryman, since 1972.
