Modern Myths Podcast
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<p>12 Peers Theater continues our new play podcast featuring 6 new play readings. In an effort to make theatre more accessible and on demand, the 6 new plays will premiere online with episodes extending into May 2021.</p>
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January 24, 2021
Episode 24 - Modern Houses in the Lush Green Savannah that Lies in the Shadow of the Volcano by Paul Hufker
<p><b>Modern Houses in the Lush Green Savannah that Lies in the Shadow of the Volcano</b></p> <p>by Paul Hufker</p> <p>Directed by: Brett Sullivan Santry</p> <p><b>Featuring:</b></p> <p>Featuring: Cassidy Adkins, Ron Black, Larissa Jantonio, DeVaughn Robinson, and John Teresi</p> <p><b>Synopsis</b></p> <p>The edge of everything. Four western 20-somethings have come to this wild, unfettered place to “live life as it was meant to be lived.” They’d like to open a yoga studio for the women of the village. To help them. But there’s a chained elephant that desperately needs its own help, and are we sure the villagers are peaceful? Suddenly the earth is very dry, their money has run out, and their baby is missing. They are fored to hunt. Things here have quickly become dark and desperate.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Can man outrun himself?</p> <p><b>Paul Hufker Biography</b></p> <p>Paul has been an AEA actor, playwright and director in NYC for over 13 years. He is a proud graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA playwriting program, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.</p> <p>Most recently, Paul became a resident playwright with the 29th St. Writing Collective, in NYC.</p> <p>In the spring of 2020 (just before COVID) Paul had his play Birthday in the Bronx premiere at The Tank Theatre (NYC.)</p> <p>Paul also recently worked with fashion designer and political activist Carla Fernandez, writing her London fashion show/protest piece, which debuted in London in 2018.</p> <p>Also in 2018, Paul worked with world-renowned visual artist Pedro Reyes, writing his Noam Chomsky-Inspired puppet play Manufacturing Mischief, which premiered in NYC and internationally, and was directed by Meghan Finn.</p> <p>In the fall of 2017, Paul wrote the script for Pedro Reyes’ massive art installation in Brooklyn entitled Doomocracy, also directed by Meghan Finn.</p> <p>He is a 2018 Eugene O’Neill Prize Semi-Finalist, a 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference invited playwright, a 2015 and 2016 Himan Brown Award winner (through Brooklyn College), a 2016 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist, a 2016 American Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Playwriting Award finalist, a 2015 Jerome Fellowship finalist, a 2014 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, and a 2011 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist. His plays have been produced in NYC, throughout the US, and in Toronto, Canada, as well as at MIT, the Museo Jumex in Mexico City and the Serpentine Gallery in London. He is currently a full-time Teaching Instructor at Rutgers University, in their Writing Program, and a proud graduate of Webster University where he received his BFA in theatrical performance.</p> <p>Paul has upcoming projects with: The American Vicarious (workshop), The Bechdel Group (workshop), 12 Peers Theatre Company (podcast), the 29th St Playwrights’ Collective (reading) and Meghan Finn (short film), Artistic Director of The Tank, NYC.</p>
November 17, 2020
Episode 23 - Identities by Katherine Dubois
<p><b>Identities</b></p> <p>by Katherine Dubois</p> <p>Directed by: Brett Sullivan Santry</p> <p><b>Featuring:</b></p> <p>Harper York, Nick Benninger, Katie Crandol, John Feightner, Alyssa Herron, Stephanie Ramos, and Brett Sullivan Santry</p> <p><b>Synopsis</b></p> <p>The first day Atom Man arrives on earth, he finds himself in the middle of a bank robbery. Lucky thing he can vaporize atoms, or he might have been shot. Surprised and uncomfortable with his instant celebrity, he goes to Lisa, an actress, for help in establishing a secret identity. As mild-mannered Ralph, he gets a job as a bank teller.</p> <p>Lisa's husband, Richard, is a policeman. Lisa doesn't know it, but he's also married to Chris, a reporter for the local paper. Chris's twin sister Bonnie is involved with the bank robber, Jesse, who's now planning to rob the bank where Ralph works.</p> <p>Jesse doesn't know it, but he has a twin, too, separated at birth. Stephen works at the gas station across the street from the bank and is writing a novel. He wants to apply for a loan at the bank, so he can publish the novel himself. He's met the loan officer, Michelle, but doesn't know she has dissociative identity disorder.</p> <p>Chris finds out that Bonnie is involved with the bank robber and hatches a plan to trap him while protecting her sister. But she needs Atom Man's help, and she can't find him. Lisa knows that Ralph is really Atom Man, but she's promised to protect his secret. And somehow just about everyone manages to wind up at the bank right when Jesse plans to rob it.</p> <p><b>Katherine Dubois Biography</b></p> <p>Katherine Dubois has been writing plays for many years, during which time thirty-nine of her works have been presented to the public in ninety-seven readings and productions, in both professional and amateur venues in the United States and abroad.</p>
November 1, 2020
Episode 22 - 18 Victoria by Cody Daigle-Orians
<p><b>18 Victoria</b></p> <p>by Cody Daigle-Orians</p> <p>Directed by: Maggie Balsley</p> <p><b>Cast</b></p> <p>Ben: Michael Aulick</p> <p>Catherine: Alex Burdick</p> <p>Stephen: Jed Shook</p> <p><b>Synopsis</b></p> <p>In a trio of interlocking monologues, 18 VICTORIA tells the story of three siblings — Ben, Catherine and Stephen — who are struggling to piece together their broken family relationship in the wake of their father’s untimely death. But a larger crisis looms. 18 Victoria, an asteroid the size of a few city blocks, is on a trajectory to collide with Earth and will cause an extinction event on the scale of the one that killed the dinosaurs. As they share their stories of facing the last days of the human race, they also grapple with memories of their father, a troubled childhood, and their shared inability to connect as adults. In an apocalyptic present, it’s the wreckage of the past that endures.</p> <p><b>Cody Daigle-Orians Biography</b></p> <p>Cody Daigle-Orians is a Louisiana-born playwright, educator and arts programmer living in Hartford, Connecticut.</p> <p>He is the program and events specialist for the Westport Library in Westport, Connecticut. Cody’s work is focused on exploring the intersections of education, justice, storytelling and community building, with a particular interest in the expression of those intersections through arts-based library programming.</p> <p>In his writing life, his playwriting work has been produced and/or developed at the Astoria Performing Arts Center, New Jersery Repertory Theatre, The Actors Company Theatre (NYC), Manhattan Theatre Works, Acadiana Repertory Theatre (Lafayette, LA), The Growing Stage (Netcong, NJ), Gadfly Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), StageRIGHT (Seattle, WA) and the Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, NE).</p> <p>He’s also returned to his first writing love: horror stories. He’s working on a collection of short stories and a novel.</p>
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