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The winning submissions for playwrights came from George Holets, Dano Madden, Peter Moller, and Donna Stuccio. Directors will be Gina Giambattista Cesari, Sue Perigut, George Sapio and Mark Wenderlich. Actors are Ryan Addario, Rebecca Falter, Elizabeth (Lisa) Frank, Adam Holly, Dan Kiely, Max Lawrence, Emily Ranii, Camilla Schade, Tony Simione, Lauren Walsh Singerman, Marie Sirakos, and Janna Trudeaux. Production assistance will be provided by Jessica Carr, Katy Heine, Molly Hennighausen, and Jessamyn Perlus.
About Aoise Stratford: Aoise is an award-winning playwright who has been very involved in all areas of the theatre. Her first experience with this format of playwriting was through a program called Daytrippers, run by Rough Theatre Company in San Francisco. With them, she wrote, directed and acted in several 24-hour shows, including a sell-out season that won best of the San Francisco Fringe. The theatre company that she formed with Dawson Moore and Richard Bernier, called Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company, later produced a similar Overnighters program in Alaska and again in San Francisco. When Aoise moved to Ithaca, she met with the Kitchen Theatre and proposed this idea so that the local community could have a similar experience. Everyone at the Kitchen was enthusiastic about the idea, and the 48-Hour Marathon was born!
About the Winning Playwrights
George Holets has resided in Ithaca for twenty years. During that time he has shoehorned play writing around various other challenges: General Manager of the State Theatre, Deputy Director of AIDS WORK, Marketing Director of the Hangar Theatre. Prior to Ithaca, he co-founded the Playwrights Theatre of Washington, toiled away at the Smithsonian Institution, Divison of performing arts to bring the world the first two National Folklife Festivals,and wrote scripts for assorted theatre and video production companies. He is happy to have had three of his one acts, and a reading of his recently completed farce, Three Dykes, One of Whom Is a Man, presented at the Kitchen Theatre. He is currently marketing his farce, working on a new piece,Trust Those Creeps?, reworking an old piece, Boronga Kazi, and excitedly participating in the 48 Hour Marathon.
Dano Madden developed his new play, The Wealthy Life of Sam Tyler at the Stanford University Playwright’s Workshop in August of 2006. In the fall of 2005 he was nominated for the Primary Stages’ Bug N’ Bub playwriting award. Mr. Madden’s play, In the Sawtooths has received readings at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Northwest Playwright’s Alliance, the Midtown International Theatre Festival and Boise Contemporary Theater. Mr. Madden’s writing credits include: The Save (Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, N.J); Beautiful American Soldier; Ella; Billy’s Suitcase; Caravaggio Called (Rutgers University Theatre Company); Yo-yo (State Theater in Olympia, Washington); The Raccoon (Idaho Theatre for Youth 1998; Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2001); Forecast (Honorable Mention at the University of Idaho’s annual DNA one-page play festival); The New (Actors Theatre of Louisville 2000); The Soft Sand (1996 Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts); Drop (SAMUEL FRENCH, Inc). Drop was the winner of the 1997 Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival’s National Short-Play Award as well as the first Anchorage Press Theatre for Youth Award. In 1999/2000 Mr. Madden was a directing intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. His ATL directing credits include: Back Story (24th Humana Festival) and An Evening Crossword (ATL Ten-Minute Play Festival). He also appeared as a groom in Big Love (24th Humana Festival). Mr. Madden was the recipient of the 2001 Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship in playwriting. He received his BA in Theatre Arts from Boise State in 1997. He is currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Rutgers University.
Peter Moller is a professor at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication. He teaches courses in film and television production, directing and writing. Before coming to Syracuse University, he served as the Artistic director of the Cheltenham Arts Center in Philadelphia. Ha has worked in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles as a writer and director of children’s’ television programs. He is the co-author of Making Television Programs. Moller is a member of the Armony Square Playhuose playwright’s collective which has presented staged readings of two of his plays in the last year: Time Capsule and Script in Hand. He directed for Syracuse Redhouse Theater. In Jenuary 2005 he directed the premiere production of Romulus Linney’s Klonsky and Schwartz. In April of 2006 he directed Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third. Moller has acted in plays at Syracuse Stage, the Contemporary Theater of Syracuse and the Redhouse. He also performs for audio books. His most recent audio book was Full Cast Audio’s production of King Kong.
Donna Stuccio is a playwright and actress currently enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College in Vermont. She appeared as an actress in last year’s 48 Hour Playwriting Festival. Her full length plays, Blue Moon and The Job premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Her short plays, Nice Pants, First Love, The Bloodletting and Spamarama were selected by Armory Square Playhouse in Syracuse for script in hand readings. She has several new plays in development. A graduate of Syracuse University’s Drama Department, Donna’s career as an actress spans three decades and several central New York theater companies including Syracuse Stage, Rex Henriott, Salt City, and the Talent Company. She was most recently cast in Syracuse’s Redhouse Production of Life X 3 by Yazmina Reeza.. A former special education teacher and police officer for the city of Syracuse, Donna is now a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Onondaga Community College. She also teaches playwriting at Manlius Pebble Hill School.
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