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Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Quarantine Players
38 episodes
5 days ago
The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet online once a week to read new plays in development. Please join us every week to hear great new work. Our video performances are available on QuartantinePlayers.org.
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The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet online once a week to read new plays in development. Please join us every week to hear great new work. Our video performances are available on QuartantinePlayers.org.
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Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Play Reading: Country Fried Murder by Judy Klass

Please take a second to support The Quarantine Players with a donation to help us keep putting on great new plays like this one:    https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/quarantine-players-a-virtual-theater-company/general_support 

A group of people gathers for a songwriters' retreat in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-2000s. Their "mentor" is an abrasive, charismatic country singer/songwriter named Kyle Samperson. He humiliates some for their songwriting, personally offends some and clashes about politics with others. By the time Kyle turns up dead in Act Two, everyone has a motive for killing him. Snowed in, without internet or phone, the other characters size each other up and wonder whodunit.  

Judy Klass, Playwright,  A. J. Campbell
Producer Katy Blake, Director
Clint Aphin as Brice, Laurie Canaan as Roberta, Lane Wright as Charlie, Jack E. Chambers as Kyle, Kathy Kerns as Martha, Sophia Sutton as Tiffany, Judy Jackson as Denise, Alyssa Borg as Li,  Robert Beard as Ed

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4 years ago
2 hours 6 minutes 4 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
This play has an Iguana for a Protagonist by Liz Dooley

This play has an Iguana for a Protagonist by Liz Dooley
In the aftermath of a massive miscommunication about biology, iguana Arthur comes to the conclusion that his best friend, a human named Mari, must be dying. He makes up his mind to take the most “noble” course of action—whether Mari likes it or not. Part madcap comedy, part menstrual health PSA.  


The play with an Iguana has a Sequel by Liz Dooley
Since the last… adventure, Arthur the iguana has done everything in his power to research human biology so he doesn’t make any more big mistakes. Armed with his newfound information, he sets out to protect Mari from a new threat: himself. But was she ever really in danger? And is she actually any safer now? Part madcap comedy, part menstrual health PSA—part two.  

Followed by a talkback with the cast and writer  
Directed by Monica Cross Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players  

Cast
Voice of Iguana:  Scott Sickles
The puppeteer is Clayton Bauldree
Elizabeth Rossen as Mari
Draper Harris as Jeff
Stage Direction:  Gayle Grimes  

About Liz Dooley
Liz Dooley is an asexual- and female-identifying theatre artist based in Atlanta. Her Young Adult Play, FIDGET AND TILDY, has been featured at Synchronicity Theatre through Working Title Playwright’s First Light Series, and her work (WHEREVER) has been featured at Actor’s Express as part of the One-Minute Play Festival. In addition, her short play THIS PLAY HAS AN IGUANA FOR A PROTAGONIST has been produced across the country, including through Quarantine Players and as part of Iowa State University’s Undergrad Director Showcase. She is an active member of Working Title Playwrights and a founding member of the Cultivators, an Atlanta-based new-work development organization for theatre and film. Liz graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014 with a dual major BA in Theatre Arts and Psychology. She studied as a playwriting apprentice at Horizon Theatre during the 2014-2015 season, under Addae Moon. https://newplayexchange.org/users/28626/liz-dooley

About the Quarantine Players  
Website   https://quarantineplayers.org/
Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/qplayers
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePl...
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/q_players
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantinep...
Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/

We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.  We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse.

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4 years ago
59 minutes 26 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
WHAT’S FOREVER FOR ANYWAY? A Play In Three Acts followed by a talk balk with the authors

To support the new play development work of the Quaratinte Players please give generously at:  https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/quarantine-players-a-virtual-theater-company/general_support

Also available on our youtube channel:  https://youtu.be/ft0GxqO2zOc

Two brothers competing for the love of the same woman never goes well. A wife’s betrayal has consequences. Treachery, however, benign sometimes ends in tragedy. And the truth… well who really knows what good can come of it?   Brandon is having an affair with Annie, Arthurs wife.  Arthur comes home from work one day to find his younger brother and wife alone again in the apartment. Has he always had his suspicions? Later that week, Arthur escorts his young wife to an on-stage production of his new work about a younger brother having an affair with the older brother’s wife…and someone gets murdered.  A play within a play, but who gets played?   

written by Tom David Barna & Christine Barna 

directed by Scott Olson

produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players  

Starring
Ricardo Padilla
Lisette Gabrielle
Tyler Brown  

About the Quarantine Players
Website   https://quarantineplayers.org/
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w
Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/qplayers
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/q_players
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers
Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/

We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.  We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse.

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4 years ago
2 hours 2 minutes 23 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
JUST GET OVER IT by Matthew Garlin, A delightful new RomCom (Play Reading)

This is the story of a couple that has broken up who gets caught at a resort during a storm and now has no choice but to face the ghosts of the past relationship.  Both come clean in a hilarious, high-stakes autopsy of their failed relationship.    

Original Concept by Matthew Garlin & Samantha Davekos  
Writing Supervision by Rebecca Greene  

Director Monica Cross
Producer A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players  

CAST
David - Ricardo Padilla
Jessica - Tammy Peters
Melissa: David’s Wife - Elizabeth  Rossen
Malcolm: Jessica’s Husband - Bryan  Matthew
Stage directions - Zach Hanna  

Matthew Garlin Author
This is his first time working with Quarantine Players. His acting credit includes working with theaters: Quannapowitt Players in Reading, MA Theatre to Go in Melrose, MA New England School of Performing Arts The Bard Brigade in Saugus, MA Revolutionary Theatre in Danvers, MA Still Small theatre’s repertory company in Beverly, MA. His directing credits include Enchanted April for Theatre to Go Inc., Almost Maine and It’s a Wonderful Life for Theater Company of Saugus, Godspell for Sherwood Entertainment, Side by Side by Sondheim for Colonial Chorus Players, Twelfth Night for The Bard Brigade, and a short film Project Invisible. His playwright credits include Online Dating (one-act play) and Curtain Call (Full-length play) at Acting Out Company in Lawrence, How Do You Know (one-act play) at River’s Edge Arts Alliance, Woods (full-length play) at Theater@First, and A Christmas Gift (one-act play) & A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play (full-length adaptation) at Theater company of Saugus and Love in the Snow: Stories for Christmas at Walpole Footlighters. Author credits: Woods, Curtain Call, And the Oscar Goes To, and Just Get Over it (self-published) available also on Amazon.com in Kindle, Paperback, and Large Print. He currently hosts his own podcast Everything You Never Needed to Know about Movies, Music, and Theater and is the creator, writer, and plays “Jim Henry” of The Movie Critics: A Web series, you can find both on Anchor, Spotify, and every place else you get your podcasts.

About the Quarantine Players  
Website   https://quarantineplayers.org/
Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/qplayers
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/q_players
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers
Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/

We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.  We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse.

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4 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 20 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
The Politics of Fabulousness, PART 1 of 2 Written By Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender.

Directed by Lori Muhlstein   |   Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players|  Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey

Cast

Sara Lucchini as Kay
Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange
Michale L. Young as Eytan
Trevor Butler as Curtis

About Judy Klass

Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021.   Website: http://www.judy-klass.com   |   NPX:   https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass


About the Quarantine Players

website:   https://quarantineplayers.org/

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Podcast:    https://twitter.com/q_players

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers

Amazon Fire TV App:   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/


We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.

We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse.

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4 years ago
1 hour 17 minutes 58 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
The Politics of Fabulousness, PART 2 of 2 Written By Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Written By Judy Klass  Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass  A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender.

Directed by Lori Muhlstein

Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey

Cast

Sara Lucchini as Kay

Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange

Michale L. Young as Eytan

Trevor Butler as Curtis

Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device

Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App  Say so long to huddling around the computer.  If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w


About Judy Klass

Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021.   Website: http://www.judy-klass.com  NPX:   https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass


About the Quarantine Players

Website:   https://quarantineplayers.org/

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Podcast:    https://twitter.com/q_players

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers

We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.



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4 years ago
1 hour 22 minutes 54 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
TALK BACK: The Politics of Fabulousness by Judy Klass

Written By Judy Klass  Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass  A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender.

Directed by Lori Muhlstein

Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Cast

Sara Lucchini as Kay

Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange

Michale L. Young as Eytan

Trevor Butler as Curtis

Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device

Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App  Say so long to huddling around the computer.  If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w

About Judy Klass

Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021.   Website: http://www.judy-klass.com  NPX:   https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass

About the Quarantine Players

Website:   https://quarantineplayers.org/

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Podcast:    https://twitter.com/q_players

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers

We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.

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4 years ago
28 minutes 28 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Children of Combs and Watch Chains by Emily McClain by the Quarantine Players

A Virtual Play Reading

To find all our other performances go to QuarantinePlayers.org

A dark twist on the Gift of the Magi. Della and Jim Young desperately long to be parents. After years of failed fertility treatments and then finding out they are not eligible to be adoptive parents due to Della’s medical history, both embark on their own individual quests to achieve the goal they both believe will bring them the true fulfillment and the happiness they’ve been missing. Each keeps their plan secret from the other- but the hidden costs of their journeys eventually overwhelm their relationship. The consequences of their choices come to fruition and leave them longing for another, less treacherous path.

Directed by Jacob Daniel Sinclair

Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Stage Direction by Sara Lucchini

Cast

Hannah Reinert as DELLA YOUNG 

Corneilus Franklin as JIM YOUNG

Holly Souchack as POLLY AMANTE 

Debra Marlowe as ESTHER SALGADO

Erin Rae Li as TRICIA MCDONALD 

Robert Coe as JAMIE BULLARD 


About the Playwright

Emily McClain is a professional playwright and theatre educator. Emily is a proud member of Working Title Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild and currently serves as Board President for Gwinnett Classic Theatre. Her play SLAYING HOLOFERNES was co-winner of Essential Theatre’s New Play Festival and received a world premiere production in 2019. The Pumphouse Players held readings of MY BROTHER’S SECRET KEEPER and PARADISE, STAYED. She was a featured playwright with Elephant Room Productions for her play CHEEK BY JOWL. CHEEK BY JOWL was also featured as Essential Theatre’s Bare Essential Reading Series in October 2020. Her full length comedy JULIE’S PLACE was selected for the JOOKMS Spotlight Series in July 2020 and later went on to be a semi-finalist with the New American Voices with The Landing Theatre Company. Her tragedy TERMINUS ANDRONICUS was a finalist at the American Shakespeare Center Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries competition in 2019. Her Risk Theatre play CHILDREN OF COMBS AND WATCH CHAINS was named a finalist for the Risk Theatre International Competition in August 2020. Her short plays have been staged at many professional theaters across the country including Mississippi, California, Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, and numerous venues in Georgia. Her historical drama COPPER ANGEL will be presented by borderless productions as an audio drama in March 2021. She is published through ArtAge, Smiths Scripts, and Stage-Rights and more of her work may be found on New Play Exchange: 

https://newplayexchange.org/users/27781/emily-mcclain


About the Quarantine Players

https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
https://quarantineplayers.org/
https://twitter.com/q_players
https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers
We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.

We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse.

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4 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes 15 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Three Football Stories by Hank Kimmel and Asher Wyndham

3 Play Readings of 10 Minute plays by Asher Wyndham and Hank Kimmel

JANEY SMITH: A FOOTBALL FAN MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham

Nancy Kent Collie as Janey Smith

Janey Smith is a Vikings fan and she's ready for Super Bowl week. An entire week of sex in houses around Minneapolis. She wants to make sure she gets paid what she deserves--so she can provide for her baby.   Part of the second volume of SOME AMERICANS: SOME MONOLOGUES. 

THE REDEMPTION OF A FOOTBALL WIDOW by Hank Kimmel

Jon Roberts as  Evan Markman

Jesse Roberts as Eileen Markman

A woman threatens to kill herself during the 1991 Super Bowl, and her husband, a life-long New York Giants fan, is caught between divided loyalties.


HOPE FOR A JETS FAN by Hank Kimmel

Adam Ressa as Meco

Adam Frost-Venrick as Dan

The Quarantine Players is your source for new plays from exciting new playwrights.  Check out all of our performances on our Youtube channel on your computer or smart tv.  Please take a second to like the performance and subscribe to our channel for the latest updates.  

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Twitter:  https://twitter.com/q_players

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Hank Kimmel

New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/users/2311/hank-kimmel

Website:   http://www.hankkimmel.com

Hank Kimmel (also known as Henry W. Kimmel) is an Atlanta-based playwright who is a founding member and serves as board president for Working Title Playwrights, an Atlanta-based theatre company dedicated to the development of playwrights and new plays. Hank also serves as the board president for the Alliance for Jewish Theatre (www.alljewishtheatre.org). Hank has been a long-time member of the Dramatists Guild. Always aspiring to craft deeper and more meaningful work, Hank has written dozens of plays of various lengths, mostly addressing people's obsession with status and money, including his own. Hank also works as a dramaturg.  


Asher Wyndham

New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/users/3039/asher-wyndham

Website:   http://www.robotwriter.co

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/asherwyndham

Asher Wyndham (he/him/his) is an American/Canadian playwright. His plays have been produced and staged read all over the United States, also Canada, England, Costa Rica, Denmark, and Australia. Theatres that have developed his work include Theatre InspiraTO in Toronto; Movement Theatre Company in NYC; Wordsmyth Theater Company and Mildred's Umbrella in Houston. In 2010 he was awarded the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play and a fellowship to the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference from the Kennedy Center, and a mainstage reading and the Holland New Voices Award from the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha. He has been a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and a national finalist for the David Cohen Award from the Kennedy Center's ACTF. His short plays are published by Original Works Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Dramatic Publishing, and Applause. He studied playwriting under the late Lanford Wilson at the Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop at the University of Houston. He lives in Arizona.

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4 years ago
47 minutes 8 seconds

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To The Test by Written by Ricardo Soltero-Brown

TO THE TEST, A Virtual Play Reading

To Watch This Performance go to QuarantinePlayers.org

Cynthia, a public school teacher, faces a day of personal and professional trials, including a husband with a nightshift, a job evaluation, and her tween daughter's determination to switch schools.

Written by Ricardo Soltero-Brown

Directed by Billy Christopher Maupin

Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

CAST

DEAN KNIGHT ...........................Todd

HALIYA ROBERTS......................Cynthia 

JACQUELINE JONES ................Denise

MICHAEL GOODWIN ..................Fox

NANCY KENT COLLIE ...............Janie

PATRICIA ALLI ..........................Anne

CORRIE L. YARBROUGH ...........Stage Manager


About the Playwright

Ricardo Soltero-Brown is a playwright, actor, and director. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, where he staged THE JACKET. He won the Florida Playwrights Competition for JEALOUSY (Valencia College; Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, Jeremy Seghers). He was an apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company, where THE AMBASSADOR, OR: THE DISARMAMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS and NOTHING BUT CHEESE were performed. THE PRINCESS OF CASPIA had a staged reading at Dixon Place. SICK DAY was presented as a reading at the Dramatists Guild's Equality Festival (freeFall Theatre). His plays, including BELDAM & GAFFER (Pipsqueak Collective), GRIEF, and THE LAST PLAY (Jeremy Seghers), have been performed at various colleges, theatres, and festivals. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/7279/ricardo-soltero-brown

twitter @RSolteroBrown


About to the Quarantine Players

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https://quarantineplayers.org/

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https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers/


We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process and value our input. 

We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights.  Each week we choose a new play to read for you.  We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process.  Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way.  We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them.  We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. 




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4 years ago
1 hour 24 minutes 21 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
The String by Michael R. McGuire

A gang of criminals under the leadership of Polyxena have gathered at her bar in the lead up to an impending heist. A stranger named Mikey drinks at the bar and arouses the suspicions of the crooks. Brooklyn, the brash, foul-mouthed, and increasingly erratic technical expert attempts to seduce Mikey to determine if he’s an undercover cop, or simply some schmuck in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The third gang member, who goes by the moniker Soccer Mom, arrives with a very young new girlfriend in tow. When Brooklyn takes Mikey off to a hotel room, Soccer Mom convinces Polyxena to replace Brooklyn in the criminal string due to Brooklyn’s reckless behavior and substance abuse. Her new partner, Katie, it turns out, is a criminal, too, with the same skill set as Brooklyn.


Written by Michael R. McGuire

Directed by Sophia Menconi

Produced by A. J. Campbell, The Quarantine Players


CAST


Brooklyn...............................................KeeKee Funches

Polyxena.........................................................Judy Lewis

Mikey..........................................Cameron Lee Conlan

Soccer Mom.................................................Lori Brooks

Katie.......................................................Mikayla Trimpey

Stage Direction..............................Adam Frost-Venrick


Find out more about the Quarantine Players at

QuarantinePlayers.org


We work with playwrights to develop great new plays.  

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About the Playwright:

Michael R. McGuire

McGuire’s play "It Comes From Beyond!" was produced in NYC in 2012 by Horse Trade Theater. His play "Persephone Rules!" is published by Brooklyn Publishers. He was awarded a 2005 CT Artist Fellowship for his play "The New Girl." His plays have been workshopped and produced at The Lark, Theater for the New City, Slant of Light Theater, Hygienic Theaterwerks, Valley Rep, and Heartland Theater as well as others.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/23698/michael-r-mcguire

See his books at https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&contributor=Michael+R.+McGuire&page=1&pageSize=10


About Quarantine Players

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https://quarantineplayers.org/

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https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers/channel/

Creating Theater from Scratch

When we started, there was no template for creating theater over the internet, which turned out to be perfect because we could remove all the obstacles that held us back.

At the time, we didn’t know what zoom was or how we could use it. Would people even know how to use it? How much would it cost? And what the heck is a virtual background?

We had so many questions, but we watched all of our productions canceled in those horrible first days of Spring 2020.

We didn’t have to create a “season” of plays; we could choose any plays we wanted to do. It gave us a kind of freedom to select the best work we can find without appeasing a particular audience. We choose the plays, cast the roles, then we find an audience.

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4 years ago
1 hour 22 minutes 13 seconds

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A Trump Christmas Carol by A. J. Campbell (explicit language)

Based loosely on the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, a classic tale of redemption, love, and forgiveness.  If that what you are looking for keep going.  Our story is about truth.  

It's December 24th, 2020 The President of the United States, Donald J Trump is alone wandering around the oval office.  His niece Mary Trump approaches him with a book deal as a way for him to tell the truth to the American people, score a huge payday (bigger than Obama's). Over the course of the evening, the President is visited by a Rabbi, Michael Cohen, and three Ghost Writers.  The Ghostwriters meet with Trump to see if he has found redemption and if they can, get the truth out of him.    

This play uses explicit language:  the F'bomb and references to sex.  

This is a work of fiction and fantasy.  We are pretty sure Trump would never tell the truth no matter how big the book deal.  

Directed by Doug Henderson 

Written by A. J. Campbell 

Performed by the Quarantine Players (QuarantinePlayers.org)  

Our Actors  Ethan McAtee......Donald Trump 

Jacqueline Jones .....The Publisher 

Scott Olson.....Bob Cratchet/First Ghost Writer/Fred Sr. 

Adam Ressa...Michael Cohen/Reporter 

Byron Allen....Rabbi/Second Ghost Writer 

Mikayla Trimpery....Third Ghost Writer/Reporter 

Kerri Peters.....Mary Trump  

Thank you to the Quarantine Players 

Adaptation of "Silent Night" sung by Kerri Peters, Lyrics by A. J. Campbell “Silent Night” music by Franz Xaver Gruber, lyrics by Joseph Mohr (1818) Song is in the Public Domain

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4 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 20 seconds

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"The Murder on the Links" Part 1 Written by Agatha Christie, Stage Adaptation by Arthur Gramm

Part 1 of 2
Adapted from the novel by the same name, written by Agatha Christie in 1923.
Christie's most famous detective, Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld, summoning him to France. When he arrives, Poirot and his companion Hastings find that they were too late to save M. Renauld, as he now lies dead, face down in a grave on the edge of the golf course he was building. Soon, the story circulates that he was taken in the middle of the night by masked foreigners after a "secret" But certain facts do not add up. Why is his overcoat too long? Who wrote the love letter found in his pocket? Why is the broken watch running two hours fast? The case is further complicated by the discovery of another body, which has apparently been stabbed in an impossible way. All the while, Poirot must participate in a tête-à-tête with a rival, Inspector Giraud, who sees the case completely differently and refuses to cooperate. Hastings, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a girl who refuses to give her name. This fantastic story, beautifully crafted by Agatha Christie, has been faithfully and cleverly adapted to the stage for the first time. Script freely available upon request.

Directed by Scott Olson
Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Cast

Hercule Poirot .....Ricardo Padilla

Hastings....Ian Mead Moore

Gerard.....Tyler Brown

Lucien Bexs......Cameron Lee Conlan

Madame Renault...Carol Frysinger

Jack/George....Adam Frost-Venerick

Madame DeBrue....Carole Preston

Marte....Arlyss Hayes

Stoner/Lawyer...Adam Ressa

Cinderella/Bella....Judy Lewis

Denise/Jeanne...Cait Sioebon Kiley

Francois.....Barry Alguire

Dr Durant/Arnold....D.Scott Grahm

Waiter/Hiram.....Gary Mason

Scott Olson  Director

A.J. Campbell Producer, Quarantine Players


Arthur Gramm

Arthur Gramm is a St. Louis based playwright, adapter, and improviser. His love of playwriting was discovered by accident when, after being brought in to consult on stage combat for a new adaption of The Call of the Wild, he was asked to rewrite the entire play. From then on, the previously unknown interest developed into a full-fledged passion. While working on his BA in theatre and communication, Arthur wrote a collection of one-act plays for a staged reading, including one work that experimented with nonlinear, randomized storytelling, ALL IN THE TIMING. He has also volunteered with the Intersect Arts Center teaching theatre and playwrighting to kids in downtown St. Louis. His 10-minute One-Act play, JOY, was a semi-finalist at The End of the Road New Play Festival in 2018. He has also written two legal mystery one-acts, both of which were produced locally in Nebraska. His greatest passion lies with works that have the ability to surprise both the audience and the author. He has written two full-length plays; AFTER THE FACT, an original work, and THE MURDER ON THE LINKS, adapted from the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. The latter was first performed by the Quarantine Players in 2020. He is currently working on his master’s degree.

New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/plays/420758/murder-links

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Arthur-Gramm-110409654197581

Twitter: @grammarthur


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4 years ago
1 hour 52 minutes 42 seconds

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SETTLEMENTS By Seth Rozin

When the resident theatre at a Jewish Community Center commissions a new play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a half-Jewish/half-Jordanian playwright, the Center finds itself pulled in several directions. The playwright was sent on a trip to Israel and came back with a story that only explored one side of the Westbank conflict.  The playwright's narrative, told to them by a Palestinian family.  Questioning the premise of the story and the balance of it becomes a point of conflict within the organization.  One of the Center’s major donors, the Center’s Board President, the theatre’s Artistic Director, and the playwright each fight for a different outcome, while the Center’s Executive Director tries to keep the institution from falling off its foundation. SETTLEMENTS examines conflicts inside the Jewish community, the radicalization of young people's thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how existing Jewish institutions are coping with these new realities.

To see a video of this production:  https://youtu.be/nnygZz3U3HE

Playbill: https://www.playbillder.com/show/vip/Quarantine_Players_A_Virtual_Theater_Company/2020/SETTLEMENTS_85144

Website:  QuarantinePlayers.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/q_players
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers/

Genre: drama, political
Subject Matter Keywords: Jewish, Israel-Palestine, Israel, theatre, Politics, artist, art
Age Appropriateness: ages 18 and up
Narrative Attributes: Centers Female Characters

Directed by Leslie Ross
Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Characters:

NOAH 44, (Timothy Lynch) Jewish; Artistic Director of the theatre

JUDITH 52, (Lori Muhlstein) Jewish, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center that houses the theatre

YASMIN 28, (Tarnim Bybee) half-Jewish/half-Jordanian, playwright

MARION 65, (Barrie Alguire) Jewish, President of the Board of the Jewish Community Center

CAESAR: 76, (D. Scott Graham) Jewish, a retired opthalmologist-turned-major-philanthropist


Seth Rozin

Seth is the author of numerous plays, including SETTLEMENTS, HUMAN RITES (produced at Phoenix Theatre, 2017; InterAct Theatre Company, 2018), THE THREE CHRISTS OF MANHATTAN (InterAct, 2015), TWO JEWS WALK INTO A WAR... (National New Play Network rolling world premieres at Florida Stage, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and New Jersey Rep, plus productions at Shadowlands Theater, Merrimack Rep, Unicorn Theatre, InterAct, Florida Studio Theatre, GEVA Theater, Barter Theater, Jewish Theatre of Grand Rapids and New Repertory Theatre; published by Playscripts.com), BLACK GOLD (NNPN rolling world premieres at InterAct, Phoenix Theatre, PROP Thr, Arts West Playhouse), REINVENTING EDEN (InterAct), MISSING LINK (InterAct, Civic Theatre of Schenectady), THE SPACE BETWEEN US (readings at Abington Theatre, Philadelphia Art Alliance) and MEN OF STONE (Theater Catalyst; published by Playscripts.com). He is also the composer, lyricist and book writer of A PASSING WIND a musical about history's greatest "fartiste" that premiered at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts' inaugural Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2011. Seth is the winner of two playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the 2006 Smith Prize (awarded by the National New Play Network), a 2002 Commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and two Barrymore Award nominations for Outstanding New Play.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/226/seth-rozin

Representation, Susan Gurman, susan@gurmanagency.com



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4 years ago
1 hour 44 minutes 38 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Jewish Stories By Hank Kimmel Performed by the Quarantine Players

4 Short Stories about Jewish life at Christmas

“Welcome to Our Holiday Show”  starring Kerri Peters.  A frazzled teacher emcee's the opening of their school's holiday show.  

“The Music Man’s Son Goes Yiddish” starring Shayne Gardner as Christine, Taifa Harris as Mayo, A.J. Campbell as the Rabbi

“THE DAY SANTA IGNORED US” Starring Gayle Grimes as Mother, Ethan McAtee as Santa Barry, Adam Ressa as Son. A mother and son are shopping for a Hanukkah gift for the dad when they are insulted by a department store Santa who has just recognized them.

“It’s Not Such A Wonderful Life” starring, Kenneth Boys as George, Gary Payne as Clarance, We return to the bridge where George and Clarance meet at the beginning point of A Wonderful life, to find a different sort of arrangement.  It's a story about life and sub-prime lending.  

“Thank You For Coming to Our Holiday Show” starring Kerri Peters, Our frazzled teacher returns after a devastatingly bad performance by the kids.

Hank Kimmel

Hank Kimmel (also known as Henry W. Kimmel) is an Atlanta-based playwright who is a founding member and serves as board president for Working Title Playwrights, an Atlanta-based theatre company dedicated to the development of playwrights and new plays. Hank also serves as the board president for the Alliance for Jewish Theatre (www.alljewishtheatre.org). Hank has been a long-time member of the Dramatists Guild. Always aspiring to craft deeper and more meaningful work, Hank has written dozens of plays of various lengths, mostly addressing people's obsession with status and money, including his own. Hank also works as a dramaturg.

New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/users/2311/hank-kimmel

Website: http://www.hankkimmel.com

About the Quarantine Players

Website:  QuarantinePlayers.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers/

When we started, there was no template for creating theater over the internet, which turned out to be perfect because we could remove all the obstacles that held us back.

At the time, we didn’t know what zoom was or how we could use it. Would people even know how to use it? How much would it cost? And what the heck is a virtual background?  We had so many questions, but we watched all of our productions canceled in those horrible first days of Spring 2020.

We didn’t have to create a “season” of plays; we could choose any plays we wanted to do. It gave us a kind of freedom. We choose the plays, cast the roles, then we find an audience. We can create theater for a specific audience, for example, 25 -30-year-old parents in Des Moines, Iowa. We can do that.

Join us every week for a new play.  






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4 years ago
41 minutes 50 seconds

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Happy Thanksgiving by Tim Boland

Performed by the Quarantine Players
Directed by Leslie Ross
Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

HAPPY THANKSGIVING is a full-length play set on Thanksgiving Day, 2016, two weeks after the highly divisive U.S. presidential election.

A Michigan-state (Blue state turned Red!) married couple, two conservative Republican parents, are holding their annual Thanksgiving dinner for their three adult children coming back to Jackson, Michigan (often branded as the birthplace of the Republican party): their first-born, a liberal firebrand Hillary-supporting daughter, along with their middle child, a gay Republican son, and the baby of the family, a Sandernista democratic socialist daughter.

Annual Thanksgiving family gatherings are normally fraught with enough anxiety for this diverse and politically-conscious family, but after the long and contentious presidential campaign of 2016, this post-election turkey get-together threatens to be a disaster in the making. One American family and their binds of marriage, parenthood, brother and sisterhood will all be tested as the family members are challenged to answer the ultimate question, which comes first, party, candidate, country or family?

ARTHUR HOLDEN - (D. Scott Graham)  Early 60's. Family patriarch. Old school traditionalist. Still, open-minded. Steely. With a soft side.

BEV HOLDEN -(Lori Balash Muhlstein) Early 60's. The real family boss. Simple but wise.Path-of-least resistance peacemaker personality. Hidden rebel.

DEBORAH HOLDEN GONZALEZ (Caty Nicholson)  Early to mid 30's. Daughter. Liberal firebrand, passionate to the point of neuroses. Glass half-empty.

ROBERT HOLDEN - (Matthew Marcus) Mid 30's. Son. Conservative. Republican. Gay.  Later 20's. Baby of the family. Bernie Sanders acolyte. Socially engaged. Still, a realist.

HECTOR GONZALEZ - (Ricardo Padillo.) Mid-30's. Latino. Husband to Deborah. Progressive liberal. Less fiery than his wife. Glass half-full.

MALIK HENDERSON - (Chaz Pando) Later 20's-Early 30's. Black. Husband to Sarah. Very well-read. An anarchist at heart. Passionate, playful, humble.

About the Quarantine Players

https://anchor.fm/qplayers
https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Quarantine Players are a group of directors, playwrights, actors, and technicians from all over the U.S. who have gathered to keep the ghost light on for you. We work to create weekly podcasts and video readings of new plays so you can get your theatre fix!  Till we are back in our seat with you, we will leave the ghostlight on.  


About The Playwright, Tim Boland
https://newplayexchange.org/users/3542/tim-boland

TIM BOLAND is an award-winning playwright, who has written for theatre, film and television. His original play, IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE, was selected as the national contest winner of the Acme Acting Company's Third Annual New Play Festival, where it received its World Premiere at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach. IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE received its West Coast premiere at The Road Theatre Company of Los Angeles. He subsequently adapted his play IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE for film for CBS Productions, which produced it, starring Scott Bakula, Amy Madigan and Richard Thomas. His one-act ACCEPTANCE SPEECH was part of an evening bill of one-acts called TAKE THREE, directed by Paul Lazarus, that played at the No Smoking Playhouse in NYC. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH was subsequently produced as part of a production of the author’s one-acts, NIGHT VOICES, staged in San Francisco at Shelton Studio Theatre.

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4 years ago
2 hours 47 minutes 53 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
The Washington Squares: A political game show parody by A. J. Campbell

The Washington Squares is a political game show parody where media, popular culture icons, and politicians lie or tell the truth.  Reminiscent of a popular game show, this version is anything but basic.

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Playwright:  A. J. Campbell
Directed by Doug Henderson
Performed by the Quarantine Players
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“We Will Survive”  Parody Lyrics by A.J Campbell & Judy Lewis, Performed by Cameron Lee Conlan

No Politicos were harmed during the making of this episode

OUR POLITICO “CELEBRITY” IMPERSONATORS

Announcer...........................................................Eric Verchot

Chris “Hardball” Matthews......................Tori Clay

Senator Mitch McConnell........................Doug Henderson

Rep. Nancy Pelosi..............................Judy Lewis

Vp Mike Pence..................................D. Scott Grahm

VP Joe Biden...................................Scott Olson

President Trump................................Ethan McAtee

Dr. Rachel Maddow..............................Sarah Mackenzie Baron

Randy Rainbow..................................Cameron Lee Conlan

Claudia Conway.................................Kitty Murphy

Rep. Katie Porter..............................Gayle Grimes

Joy Reid.......................................Keekee Funches

Stephen Miller.................................Adam Ressa

The White Board of Truth and the Dry Erase Marker of Destiny played themselves


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4 years ago
42 minutes 26 seconds

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Ditching Destiny on Halloween by Laura Lewis-Barr performed by the Quarantine Players

Video Performance Available:   facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

About the Play

Karen’s a klutz. After getting into another car accident (on Halloween), her insurance agent gives unusual advice: she should visit a famous astrologer to find out why she’s so accident-prone.  The hunky astrologer tries to convince Karen that they are meant to be together.  Should Karen believe him?  And what about her again off again booty call Nick?  Find out who Karen chooses, why her sister can't choose a paint color, and why it is a really bad idea to propose to someone on a baseball field.  Watch Ditching Destiny on Halloween by Laura Lewis Barr.

Script Available on New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/plays/12295/ditching-destiny-halloween-or-bride-cant-decide

Director:  A.J. Campbell

The Cast

Karen - Stacy McCargo
Laurie - Mikayal Trimpey
Richard - Spencer Dooley
Nick - Richardo Padilla
Ethan - Cameron Lee Conlan
Charles/Mark Doug Henderson
Stage Direction/Patti/Reporter/Becky/Attractive Fan - Barrie Alguire
Usher & Stage Direction- A.J. Campbell

About the Playwright

New Play Exchange:  https://newplayexchange.org/users/1430/laura-lewis-barr

Laura Lewis-Barr has been writing, directing, performing and teaching theatre for over 15 years. Laura’s play Chernobyl's Fire won the Playwrights First Award and was a finalist in the O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference Competition and Steppenwolf Theatre’s “First Look.” Marvelous Tales, was recently published by YouthPlays and The Vase is published with Heartland Plays. Her play, Cloistered Honey was recently made into a low budget film through Inspirare Productions. "Cloistered Honey" has been an official selection at the Red Dirt International Film Festival (nominated for Best Writing - Drama) and the Eugene International Film Festival (Awarded Best Screenplay – Feature.) It was recently picked up for distribution by The Bosko Group. Cloistered Honey (early draft) was seen as part of “The Next Big Thing Festival” in NY. Darwin’s Dilemma was seen in Circle Theatre’s New Play Fest. Darwin was also featured in the St. Tammany One-Act Competition and Steel Beam Theatre’s “New Play Series.” Recent productions of Laura’s work include: Chernobyl’s Fire; Addicted to Mars (Pittsburgh New Works Festival—“intriguing and carefully drawn…. Lewis-Barr’s writing drives the production.” Pittsburgh Post Gazette); Golden Chalices (LoveCreek Productions and The Riant Theatre in New York); Dove Killers (the side project in Chicago-- “riveting” Windy City Times). A dozen other plays, including Re-writing History thru a Fly’s Eye, The Vase, and The Dangers of Catnip have had readings and productions in Chicago and California. Laura’s Masters Degree in Drama is from San Francisco State University. Before her move to the country, (to work as Artistic Director/Theatre Professor at Sauk Valley College) Laura was a member of the Playwrights Collective and Chicago Dramatists.


About the Quarantine Players

Video:   facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Podcast: anchor.fm/qplayers (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Breaker, Spotify, google podcast and more.)

Quarantine Players are a group of directors, playwrights, actors, and technicians from all over the U.S. who have gathered to keep the ghost light on for you. We work to create weekly podcasts and video staged readings of NEW plays.  We work hard to put the spotlight on new playwrights and actors.  



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5 years ago
1 hour 54 minutes 44 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Thirty Deep by Jordan Morille

In the last days of Guns-N-Stuff taxidermy shop, Montgomery (owner and operator) is given a unique request: stuff, treat, and mount the dead son of customer Janice. The money's good, enough to keep the place afloat for a while longer, but is it worth it?    Twitter: @JordanMorille   https://newplayexchange.org/users/2631/jordan-morille

About the Quarantine Players  

The Players are a group of actors, playwrights, and directors who had their productions canceled due to the global pandemic. In our grief, we began once a week to read plays together.  Now after 6 months and 24 online productions, we have become a new play production nebula.  We work with emerging playwrights to develop their work.    https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Cast

Directed and Produced by A.J. Campbell

MONTGOMERY Gary Payne

WHISKY Tori Clay

JANICE Judy Lewis

COOKIE Barrie Alguire

STAGE DIRECTIONS Shayen Gardner


Jordan Morille

Jordan is a Texas-born/bred playwright and lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos. He was awarded the 2015 John Cauble National Award for Outstanding Short Play at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for Norma’s Rest, which later went on to become published in the Best American Short Plays 2014-2015 anthology. He was also a national finalist for the Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award for his play Jars. Previous accolades include: The 2014 Ken Ludwig Award for best body of work (including the plays: love, Norman, Thirty Deep, Jackalope, and Speedball), Second Place for the National Partners of American Theatre Award (love, Norman), and national finalist for the John Cauble Award (Speedball in 2014, and Thirty Deep in 2013). His ten minute play, Tiger Barb, was a semi-finalist in the 2018 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway short play festival. His novella, The Juneborn, is published in The Running Wild Press Novella Anthonlogy. Jordan is also the proud father of Josephine and Oliver Morille.


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5 years ago
1 hour 34 minutes 1 second

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
Spooky Saturday by Joshua Kahn performed by the Quarantine Players

A body-swapping psychological horror. A young, idealistic woman preparing to leave for college winds up trapped in the body of her bitter Grandfather. As they attempt to swap back, they learn some hard lessons about themselves, each other, and the young woman's hopelessly clueless Dad (the Grandfather's son).

Written by Joshua Kahn
Directed by Scott Olson
Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Cast

Ian Moore as the Narrator
Andrea is played by Sara Lucchini
Dad/Son is Ahmad Maaty
Grandpa/Husband is played by Scott Graham

About the Quarantine Players

https://anchor.fm/qplayers
https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers

Quarantine Players are a group of directors, playwrights, actors, and technicians from all over the U.S. who have gathered to keep the ghost light on for you. We work to create weekly podcasts and video readings of new plays so you can get your theatre fix!  Till we are back in our seat with you, we will leave the Ghostlight on.  

About the Playwright, Joshua Kahn

Joshua Kahn is a playwright and Grade-A goof currently based in San Diego, California. He was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles and acted in a couple of commercials before the age of 7. This ruined his ego. After a few years of forced hiatus, Joshua began acting in local theatres and ultimately enrolled in NYU Tisch as an undergraduate Drama student. He ended up graduating with a BFA in Film/Television Production because nothing makes sense anymore. He's interned and written and directed and now lives in San Diego, where he is the co-founder of Wildly Successful Theatre Co.  Otherwise, he does the crossword puzzle every night and records an 80-year old joke from his Grandpa's army-issued joke book every morning.


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5 years ago
3 hours 32 minutes 42 seconds

Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!
The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet online once a week to read new plays in development. Please join us every week to hear great new work. Our video performances are available on QuartantinePlayers.org.