The reading of my historical drama “Shadows of Men” will be available for viewing on July 14th at 1pm CT!
You can check out the play by visiting the YouTube channel of Arts Fort Worth, the producing theater group.
“Shadows of Men” was performed by Altered Shakespeare of Dallas, TX and features the talents of Eduardo Vildasol, Shawn Gann, David Ware, Araceli Radillo, Danny Lovelle, Jalitza Delgado, and Alex Moffitt.
I’m thrilled to report that my exciting new drama “A Flower of the Field” has been chosen as a finalist in a new play festival sponsored by Tyler Civic Theatre Center in Tyler, TX!
My contemporary drama “Margo Asher Died Here” was previously featured in Tyler Civic Theatre Center’s 2020 new play festival, as well, where it received its first public reading in July, 2020.
Tyler Civic Theatre Center is a great local venue in Tyler, TX that has been serving the community for almost 100 years, starting as Tyler Little Theater in the 1920’s and expanding into Tyler Civic Theatre in the 1950’s, where the theater group opened the nation’s first building to be built specifically for in-the-round presentations.
Tyler Civic Theatre has been hosting its new play festival for 14 years, during which only a handful of plays are chosen as finalists and subsequently read before an audience, after which the “audience favorite” is chosen to be slated into the following year’s production season.
All of the finalists – including my play, “A Flower of the Field” – will be read before a live audience on Saturday, July 9th.
Additionally, Tyler Civic Theatre provided me with some readers’ critiques of the play, which I am pleased to share below.
Very creative piece. Written in a manner easy to visualize.
The eternal battle between good and evil would be easily recognizable to the audience.
Timely as it deals with the first “pandemic” in recorded history.
The writing is excellent. The story was highly engaging and not at all what I expected. Very well done piece.
Characters are very well written and archetypes are clearly defined.
Kept my attention and never deviated from the path. Was immediately interested in learning where the story would lead.
Many thanks to Tyler Civic Theatre Center for this honor!
It’s not often I have the pleasure of linking off to a recording of one of my plays for people out in cyberspace to watch and (hopefully) enjoy, but Arts Forth Worth has given me such an opportunity.
My historical drama “Shadows of Men” was a finalist in Arts Forth Worth’s new play festival and was given a staged reading by the Dallas-based group Altered Shakespeare back on March 29th.
Arts Forth Worth is uploading (or depending on when you read this, *has* uploaded) all 16 of the plays featured in their new play festival to their YouTube channel, where you can view the recordings at your leisure and enjoy the great writing talent of all playwrights involved.
You will be able to access a full recording of the reading of “Shadows of Men” around mid-July (will let you know when it’s posted!).
Meanwhile, here am I doing a quick spot for the piece that was used by Arts Fort Worth to encourage traffic to their YouTube channel.
Again, thank you to Arts Forth Worth (and Jason Levya) and Altered Shakespeare for their great rendering of my play!