Studio 33

10/16/2017

Today, we learned, there is not a date to accomadate this year's Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival. Harvey took a toll on everyone's lives and schedules. We will be using the plays we have already chosen, and producing them sometime in 2018. Please stay tuned!!

09/05/2017

Due to the recent devastation in Southeast Texas, the Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival will be postponed. The new date will be announced ASAP.

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08/18/2017

The following play has been selected for the 4th Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival.

Play: A Lumberjack, a Eu**ch and a Pope
Playwright: James Hutchison
Director: Adam Conrad

James Hutchison has written several comedies including; Death and the Psychiatrist – the story of how death made a friend; Perfect Match – a look at robotic companions in the future and What the Dickens! the story of the Pine Tree players’ disastrous production of A Christmas Carol. Most recently his play QUOTA, a short satire about political oppression, was produced by SkyBlue Theatre in London as part of the British theatre Challenge Act II. You can follow James on Twitter or visit his web site at www.jameshutchison.ca where you can download his plays and read his blog. James currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he writes plays, walks his dog Zeke and has never tried to keep up with the Kardashians.

08/06/2017

The following play has been chosen for The 4th Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival!

Play: "A Different Place"
Playwright: Penny Jackson
Director: Roxane Gray

Penny Jackson is a playwright, novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Selected plays include I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, SAFE, LOUISE IN CHARLESTOWN and BITTEN. Her play, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, was the theater review site Theater Is Easy’s Best Bet for Off Broadway Theater. I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT was also chosen as one of the best plays in an Off Broadway production theater by NYTHEATER.COM and was the best selling play in 2014 for Indie Theater Now.

SAFE, which won best new play at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in New York City and later produced at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe at the Space/North Bridge Theater. This fall there was a new production of SAFE at The Theater at The 14th Street Y.

BITTEN, a site-specific play for a pub, was the only American finalist for The Kenneth Branagh Award for Drama in The Windsor Fringe and was produced in Dublin in 2014.

Applause Theatre recently chose Jackson’s play BEFORE as one of the best American short plays in 2016. BEFORE won first prize in the gun control play competition sponsored by The University of Illinois-Urbana, and was featured in Necessary Exposure, an exhibit at Dixon Place Theater focusing on female playwrights.

Jackson’s novel, BECOMING THE BUTLERS, published by Bantam Books, was chosen as one of the best novels for young adults by The New York Public Library and was optioned for film by Warner Brothers.

Her short stories are published in literary magazines in The United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Her short story collection, L.A. CHILD, published by Untreed Reads, features the title story that won a Pushcart Prize for best story in a literary magazine.

Awards include The Elizabeth Janeway Prize for writing from Barnard College, a Mirrelieis Fellowship for writing from Stanford University and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, The League of Professional Theatre Women and The International Center of Women Playwrights.

www.pennybrandtjackcson.com

08/06/2017

The following play has been chosen for The 4th Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival!

Play: "A Monogamy of Swans"
Playwright: John Minigan
Director: Doug Underwood

John Minigan’s plays have been produced throughout the US and Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has developed new work with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, New Repertory Theater, the New American Playwrights Project and Actors’ Repertory Theatre of Vermont. He is a four-time winner of the Firehouse New Works Contest, a winner of the Nantucket Short Play Contest, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Contest, New York’s 8-Minute Madness Festival, the Nor’Eastern Playwriting Contest, Seoul Players Contest and the KNOCK International Short Play Competition.

When not writing, John teaches theater, writing and Shakespeare. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Please visit johnminigan.com.

johnminigan.com

08/06/2017

The following play has been chosen for The 4th Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival!

Play: "Calendar Girl"
Playwright: Ken Preuss
Director: Donny Avery

Ken Preuss is a Central Florida playwright and teacher. His 14 published one-acts for teens are performed in schools and competitions throughout the country. His short plays, including Binged There-Done That, Gift of the Matt-Guy, and Poetry, Prose, and Pirates have been produced in festivals across the United States and abroad. For more on his plays, please visit http://kenpreussplaywright.weebly.com

08/04/2017

Thank you to all of the playwrights who submitted plays to The Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival in October of 2016. If you received an email this week, your play is in the final selection round. If you did not receive an email, we appreciate your submission, and hope to see your work again!

08/04/2017

Thank you to all of the local playwrights who submitted their work to The Gary Garrison Playwrighting Festival this year! Your plays are being reviewed.

08/04/2017

Have you directed in the past, or have a desire to direct in the future? Please join us for a Directing Workshop next Sunday, August 13. We are honored to have Dr. Adonia D. Placette speaking.

07/21/2017

Beaumont Community Players and Studio 33 Theatre are once again teaming up to give you The 4th Annual Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival!

*********We are currently accepting plays ONLY from playwrights who currently live or have lived in Southeast Texas. ************

The playwriting festival will be held on Sunday, September 30th.

We are also looking for people interested in directing. Please email us and let us know if you are interested in directing.

Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival - 2017 Guidelines

1. All play submissions are due no later than July 28, 2017

2. Please send 2 files including your play. (The selection committee will read the versions without a byline.)
a. With byline
b. Without byline

3. You may submit only ONE 10 Minute Play.
a. Your play must have 5 or less speaking/non-speaking roles

4. This year's festival will have a theme. Please ensure your play aligns with the theme of the festival.

THEME: This is My Life

5. Your play must be in play format making it easy for the readers.
a. 12 point or greater font
b. Courier New, Times New Roman or Arial

6. Submit plays keeping in mind minimalist setting and lighting.

7. The play must be unpublished at the time of submission.

8. Submitting your play grants The Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival the right to produce your play in our annual festival. Studio 33 will have the right to photograph and/or video it for archival purposes.

9. Please include your play’s suggested rating based on language, nudity, violence, drug and alcohol use. We reserve the right to alter ratings.

10. Playwrights must be open to discussion with directors and potential re-writes. You MAY NOT direct your own show.

11. Submissions will be accepted by email and read by our readers.
a. Send 2 emails to: [email protected]
a. Subject: Name of Play - with Byline
b. Subject: Name of Play - without Byline

10/12/2016

Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival - 2016 Guidelines

1. All play submissions are due no later than October 21, 2016.

2. Please send 2 files including your play. (The selection committee will read the versions without a byline.)
a. With byline
b. Without byline

3. You may submit only ONE 10 Minute Play.
a. Your play must have 5 or less speaking/non-speaking roles

4. This year's festival will have a theme. Please ensure your play aligns with the theme of the festival.

THEME: This is My Life

5. Your play must be in play format making it easy for the readers.
a. 12 point or greater font
b. Courier New, Times New Roman or Arial

6. Submit plays keeping in mind minimalist setting and lighting.

7. The play must be unpublished at the time of submission.

8. Submitting your play grants The Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival the right to produce your play in our annual festival. Studio 33 will have the right to photograph and/or video it for archival purposes.

9. Please include your play’s suggested rating based on language, nudity, violence, drug and alcohol use. We reserve the right to alter ratings.

10. Playwrights must be open to discussion with directors and potential re-writes. You MAY NOT direct your own show.

11. Submissions will be accepted by email and read by our readers.
a. Send 2 emails to: [email protected]
a. Subject: Name of Play - with Byline
b. Subject: Name of Play - without Byline

10/12/2015

Studio 33 Theatre wants your feedback!!! Please take time to send an email, including your feedback on The 3rd Annual Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival, to [email protected]!

What did you like?

What could have been done differently?

What else would you like to see?

Other comments?

10/12/2015

This year's Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival was compelling, thought provoking and an all around wonderful experience. None of this could have happened without the tireless work of three woman. These ladies spent hours and hours of their time carefully reading and rating each play submitted to this year's festival. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. - Ashley Riley, Artistic Director

2015 Readers:

Dr. Adonia Placette, Former Head of Lamar University Theatre

Amber Lanning, MS in Theatre

Elizabeth Lea, MS in Theatre

10/09/2015

Come out at 7pm tomorrow, and Noon Saturday for a wonderful art festival!!

10/09/2015

http://www.artstudio.org/montage-of-the-arts/

Southeast Texas Arts Council festival set for Oct. 9-10 “What do you like about Beaumont?” a friend from a different part of the country asked me. I thought for a moment and said, “I like the arts ...

10/08/2015

Play: Glacial Decline
By: Donna Latham
Actress: Dana Howard

"Working on Glacial Decline has been quite an interesting experience. I've had to dig deep to find the emotional power that my character really needs. Even though it's a short piece, the writer really gives us, as actors, some difficult emotions to experience and portray. It's been a while since I've had the opportunity to perform a piece that is so emotional, that has the potential to really make people feel something.

I feel honored to have the opportunity to be a part of this festival. I heard about it last year, but I was unable to even attend, but I'm excited I was able to work it into my schedule this year. I hope to participate again next year!"