Coal Creek Community Theater presents
The 5th Annual Front Range Playwrights Showcase
Original Works by Linda Berry, Katherine Dubois & Carrie Printz
Directed by Jackie Tisinai, Lynn Fleming & Stephany Roscoe
This is where new Colorado theater begins—raw, unfinished, and full of possibility. Local playwrights bring brand-new work to the stage for the first time. Actors and directors workshop the scripts in real time. Audiences witness theater in progress and help shape what comes next. Stories being born, right here in front of you.
The Front Range Playwrights Showcase
Since 2007, Coal Creek Theater has supported Colorado playwrights through the Front Range Playwrights Showcase. Here, we provide opportunities to workshop, develop, and stage new work.
Plan B, Et Seq.
by Linda Berry
Directed by Jackie Tisinai
with Gary Grow-Willard & Ellen Ranson
An elderly couple - increasingly aware of growing deficiencies in strength, sight, hearing, and memory and increasingly unhappy about it - try several different ways of committing double suicide, but for various reasons related to those growing deficiencies they haven't managed to pull it of. Throughout, actors may emphasize their weaknesses and interdependence.
Volunteer Work
by Katherine Dubois
Directed by Lynn Fleming
with Alice Hinman, Mary K. Irving, Cathy Ode & Rosemary Solano
Gretchen has signed up to do volunteer work at the library. She's about to meet her first client for literacy tutoring, and she's nervous. Betty, the library's coordinator, reassures her. Ana has signed up to be tutored, but is getting cold feet. She's always pretended she could read: her friend Carmen is the only person who knows she can't. Carmen, along-time library volunteer, assures her everything will be fine, then goes to prepare for a book-discussion group she's going to lead at noon. Anna runs into her neighbor, Gretchen, and when she finds out Gretchen si ot be her tutor, panics and persuades Carmen to take the reading lesson for her. But if Carmen has a difficult time pretending he doesn't know how to read, Anna is in even more trouble when Betty mistakes her for the person leading the book-discussion group.
Pocket of Joy
by Carrie Printz
Directed by Stephany Roscoe
with Marian Bennet, Marlo Berberian, Jim Lewcyzk, Evan Marquez, Linda Marquez & Vonalda Utterback
Following a devastating accident that has rendered her immobile, 17 year old, Scarlett, struggles to recover at a rehabilitation center where she finds surprising sources of support.
The Playwrights
The Adjudicators
Showcase Photos
