This past weekend, an excerpt from my play “A Flower of the Field” was read at The Shawnee Playhouse of Shawnee on Delaware, PA as part of their new works festival.
You can check out the 30-minute excerpt using the link below.
Many thanks to Shawnee Playhouse for this great recognition!
I’m thrilled to report that my drama “A Flower of the Field” is a finalist in a new play contest by the American Bard Theater Company!
American Bard Theater Company is based in New York that focuses on plays of dramatic, heightened language and of an artist-driven nature.
As they explain on their website:
“American Bard Theater Company approaches each play based on text analysis technique shared by the 14 individuals who studied Shakespeare together and wanted to create greater opportunities to perform. In our first few years, we presented various works by William Shakespeare in the “First Folio” text analysis style. Just like Shakespeare’s own troupe of actors, we maintain that “the play’s the thing” and root all our artistic choices back to the language in the script, with respect to the punctuation and word choice in order to guide our storytelling. By working through the lens of the playwright’s language and its structure to shape the actions on the stage, much as Shakespeare’s players did 400 years ago, we keep our rehearsals and performances targeted at creating the playwright’s unique world through cadence, intonations, and emotional energy evoked by the “music” of the script.”
Many, many thanks to American Bard for the great honor of being a finalist in their new play festival!
I’m very happy to showcase this wonderful song I co-created with the talented and very versatile composer René Grignon.
René and I have been chatting for a little bit and decided to work on a song together, with my writing the lyrics to a song he previously composed.
René is a Quebec composer, living in Longueuil, who has written and produced music for many well-known artists. These include Gilbert Montagné, Céline Dion, Mario Pelchat, Martine St-Clair, Jean Ravel, Luc Plamondon, Marcel Lefebvre, and Manuel Laroche, among others. He also composed and produced music for more than 500 TV episodes (songs, themes, scores) and was a member of the group ‘’Trans-X’’, writing many songs in the dance, Hi-NRG style.
Our song – entitled “The World Still Will Turn” – is sung here by the Italian singer Elena Ravelli.
Many thanks to René for the wonderful orchestration and mixing of the song.
You can find out more about René here!