Coal Creek Theater of Louisville presents
The 9th Annual Front Range Playwrights Showcase
Original Works by Kelly McMahan, Jacqueline Garcia & Oliver Gerland
Directed by Vonalda Utterback, Ash VonScoyoc & Lynn Fleming
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.
Isme
by Kelley McMahan
Directed by Vonalda Utterback
with Bill Graham, Lisa Lowrey, Evan Marquez, Veronica Straight-Lingo, Vonalda Utterback & Erica Jo Young
Ismene has suffered numerous family tragedies that leave her adrift in her own life. She tries to make sense of her past by creating a theatrical production of her own personal journey.
Once Widowed, Twice Divorced
by Jacqueline Garcia
Directed by ASh VanScoyoc
with Beth Beckel Fitzjarrald, Lynn Fleming, Dan Schock,
Eileen, a feisty resident of an assisted living facility, receives a new cell phone from her family but doesn't know how to use it. One of the facility's orderlies, James, lends a hand. In the process the two end up discussing her long life as Eileen tries to use her new gift to achieve closure for a tragedy that occurred decades before.
Gus’s Very First Shift
by Oliver Gerland
Directed by Lynn Fleming
with Rachel Cohen-Birzer, Dave Dahl, Lynn Fleming, Kathleen Boyle Rausch, Ash VanScoyoc & Jim Whiteman
A grocery store manager tells her assistant how a new checkout employee, Gus, who is arriving for his first shift early that morning, wil help cut labor costs: Because he has a behavioral disorder, his hourly wage is government subsidized. Upon arriving, Gus is disappointed to learn that he won't be paid immediately, but works diligently to satisfy customers while obeying Corporate rules. Assisted by his disorder, Gus has personally enriching engagements with three customers, each a denizen of that strange time just before dawn.
The Playwrights
The Adjudicators
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