Updates for January, 1989

 

Resumes sent to:

 

Theatre Exchange        

&at. for the new city 

Theatre Guild           

Theat. in the park (NY) 

Theat. in the park (NC) 

Theat. in the round     

Theatre Ludicrum      

Theatre of the arts     

Theat. of the blue rose 

Theat. of the edge      

Theatre Project         

Theatre Rapport         

Theatre Rising          

Theatre III group       

Theatre Three           

Theatre West            

New Stage

The New Theatre of Brooklyn

New York Theatre Workshop

Northlight Theatre

Oakland Ensemble Theatre

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

Oregon Shakesperean Festival

Organic Theater Company

Pittsburgh Public Theatre

Playmakers

Playmakers Repertory Theatre

Porthouse Theatre Festival

Portland Stage Company

Remains Theatre

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

Rites and Reason

River Arts Repertory

The Road Company

Roadside Theater

Round House Theatre

San Jose Repertory Company

South Coast Repertory

South Jersey Regional Theatre

Storefront Theatre

The Street Theatre

Studio Arena Theatre

Tacoma Actors Guild

Tennessee Repertory Theatre

The Theater at Monmouth

Theatre De La Jeune Lune

Theatre for a New Audience

Theatre Virgina

About Face Theatre Co.      

Actors Lab Arizona          

The Actors Space            

Alabama Shakespeare Fest.   

American Ensemble Co.       

American Folk Theatre       

Thea American Line

American Stage Co.

The Arts at St. Ann's

Atlantic Community College

At the Foot of the Mountain

The Barbara Barondess Theatre

Bingham/Nagy Prod

Boston Shakespeare Co.

Bristol Riverside

They Byrdcliffe Festival

The Cabaret Theatre

Caravan Theatre Co.

Centenary Stage Co.

Center Theatre

The Clarence Brown Co.

Contemporary Arts Center

Contemporary theatre

The Coterie

Country Dinner Playhouse

Coyote Radio

Crossroads Theatre Co.

CSC: Classic Stage Co.

The Cutting Edge

Delaware Theatre Co.

The Delray Beach Playhouse

Detroit Center for Perf.

Dinner Playhouse, Inc.

Dixie College Theatre

Dixon Place

Drama Committee Rep.

The Drama Group

Empire State Institute

Ensemble Theatre of Florida

Firelight Dinner Theatre

Florida Studio Theater

Folksbeine Theatre

The Formative Stage

Fountain Square Players

Fountainhead Theater Co.

The Gallery Players

Germinal Stage Denver

GNU Theatre

Grove Shakespeare Fest.

Harrisburg Comm. Theat.

Heartland Productions

Hedgerow Theatre

Huntington Theatre Co.

The Immediate Theatre

The Independence Theatre

Indiana Rep.

Intermountain Actors

IUPUI University

New-fangled Retrieval Form sent to:

 

**************************MIB********************************

 

American Stage Directions

Alburquerque Little Theatre

Apple Corps Theatre

*******FUCKER ALERT********FUCKER ALERT************** Arizona Theatre Co

Highlight Theatre

Evelyn Barron

Co-Lab Theatre

Rick Hobard

Kilgore College Theatre

Nantahala Players

Millbrook Playhouse

Pioneer Theatre Co

Trenton Theatre Guild

Lakewood Little Theatre

Theatre Exchange

Playhouse 51

Salt Lake Acting Co

Adelphian Players

Artists Unlimited

Brooklyn Theatre Ensemble

Brown Grand Theatre

Cabaret Theatre

 

I  LIKE  this  retrieval concept.  Gives me a  (false) sense  of

actually doing something.

 

 

************************PLAY RETURNS***********************

 

MELTING MAN

 

   David Gordon Prod. (London)        Nice Form

 

BLACK BLOOD

 

   Quartz Theatre                     Sent back with grammatical

                                       corrections

 

MIB

 

   Kilgore College                    Seriously doubt they read it

   George St. Playhouse               No unsolicited works

   Rick Hobard                        Nothing

   Chagrin Valley                     "Reevaluating play process"

   Chris Hart                         New address (see below)

   Richard Kagan                      "don't like idea"

 

MURDER

 

   Raft Theatre                       "Not a farce" whatever the

                                       FUCK that means

   Gene Feist                         No unsolicited scripts

 

STIGMATA

 

   Arthur Cantor                      Liked the idea

   Theatre for the New city           Nothing

   Theatre Three                      Nice. Gave a new address to send

   Western Carolina                   Liked, but Southern Baptists

                                       wouldn't

 

*************************PLAY SENDS*****************************

 

ARK

 

   Theatre de la Jeune Lune           Requested. Do we really want

                                       a production from a theatre

                                       that means, literally, "Theatre

                                       of the Young Moon" ???

 

MIB

 

   Chris Hart                         Had to resend

   Dordt College

   Richard Horner Associates

   Jim Schultz Productions

   Toledo Repertory

   Sandcastle Rep.

 

MURDER

 

   Lone Wolf                          In honor of Matt

 

STIGMATA

 

   U of Nevada

   U of Oklahoma                      Oklahoma is ok

   Theatre Three                      All ready returned (see above)

   Theatre de La Jeune Lune           See ARK above

 

   For the record, I sent BLACK BLOOD to the Permian Playhouse on

12/5/87. Quite fucking whining about it, Mike.

 

   Well Matt, let me say that I'm not mad at you. It puzzles me why

I'm not, since it would have been real convenient for me to be against

you. Maybe because this meant so much, I realized I had to be serious

in this argument. I want you to know that one of the main things that

kept me from convincing Mike of something we may all regret is that

when I think of the group, I think of three. You must be that third

person, Matt, since I haven't heard from Andy for a long time. I

don't know, Matt, but you are a part.

   I do remember one thing, and I think it would be helpful if I told

it. I remember when we were wandering around the state fair one year,

round and round the midway. I think I asked you if you thought I should

be a writer. You said to the effect that you thought I would be making

a serious mistake if I decided not to write. For some reason that has

stuck with me all these years.

   Let me say that I think you would be making a serious mistake if

you decided not to be a writer. Mike and I have real belief in you.

Unfortunately, our belief cannot be fuel for your passion. You have

to believe in yourself. It's hard to decide when everyone expects

you to do things, but let me tell you that from experience I have

found that noone wants the best for you. Your parents may believe

they want the best for you, but they're not you. What they think is

best is only best for themselves. I've also found that it is impossible

to please  anyone but yourself. I wish it weren't so. I wish I could

please my relatives. I wish I could please Mike. I wish I could

please myself too. I really do. Life would be so much easier.

     You're the only one who can know what you want out of life. At

the end of mine, I envision hell as being regret; a place where those

who didn't try realize the chance they've missed. I'm not trying to

lay a guilt trip on you. That's exactly contrary to what I'm saying.

All I'm trying to say is search yourself. Ignore what I want, what

Mike wants, what everyone wants. Try to get in touch with your own

feelings, your own aspirations. Then figure out the shortest distance

to get there. Realistically. If it involves Mike and me, that's fine.

If it doesn't, that's fine too.

   Also, I know that your moving and new marriage has hit you hard.

I've never been married, but I have been where I've felt forced

into grown up situations while still feeling thirteen. Mike cannot

be sympathetic now, since he has to reserve all his strength for

himself. If I've been callous, however, let me say that I'm sorry.

I know you've needed support in these last few months, and maybe

I should have given more. I have the dubious honor of being able to

feel sorry for both you and Mike.

   Getting in touch with your feelings can be the most unpleasant

experience. I know, considering that Spock is my idol. Death can come

at any time, though, and you have to get what you want while you can.

   I find you real frustrating, Matt, because you are so different

from Mike and me. It's not that you are bad, and that we are good, or

right and wrong. But I do think that we are different. I wish I

knew you better, but when we talk on the phone, I feel we only

exchange the superficial cordialities. Again, it's nobody's fault.

We're just different.

   WAKE UP MIKE. I just wanted to say that I appreciate your oath

of fealty to our friendship. I know that I can be honest, and not lose

the friendship. I honestly cannot say that about anything else in my

life. You're close to this Matt, and not many people have been in this

position in my life, but again, you are an somewhat of an enigma

to me. Shit, one of these days we'll have to write a play about

our friendship. If we could be honest, I think it would be our greatest

work.

 

   You're both a couple of big fucking sucks.

 

   Update for February, 1989

 

Resumes sent to:

 

 

The Julian Theatre

Just Us Theatre Co.

La Mama Experimental

The Laughing Horse

The Lamb's Theatre

Light Opera of Manhatt.

Lion Theatre Co.

Manhattan Class Co.

Mark Keyloun Prod.

Market House

Milwaukee Chamber

Mountain View High

Nebraska Rep.

Neil's New Yorker

New Phoenix

The New Place

New Playwright's Theat.

New Voices

New York Stage

New York Theatre Stud.

Next Theat. Co.

Ohio Theatre

On Stage Prod.

The Open Eye

Pasadena Playhouse

Pennyrile Players

Perseverence Theatre

The Philadelphia The.

Ping and Chong

The Play Works Co.

Plymouth Playhouse

Polaris Rep.

Post Theatre Co.

Potomac Theatre Proj.

Prarie Players

Prather Prod.

RAPP Resident

Red Barn Theat.

Remains Theatre

Rendezvous Prod.

The Rep. The. of St. Louis

Rochester Civic

St. Bart's Playhouse

The Seattle Group

Seventh Sign

Sidewalks Theatre

Society Hill

Source Theatre Co.

Stagewrights

Stanley Hotel

The Story People

Synthaxis

Tale Spinners

Texas A & I

Theatre Americana

Theatre IV

Theatre in the works

Theatre Kent

Theatre Nouveau

Theatre Off Park

Theatre on the Square

Theater West Virginia

Third Step Theatre

Three Brothers

Trinity Square Ensemble

TWEED

UBU Rep. Theatre

Underground Railway

Upstairs Dinner

Vermont Theatre Co.

Washington U.

The Wayside Theater

West End Dinner

Woodstock Playhouse

Zimmer-Bess

Theatrevisions          

13th Street Rep.       

Touchstone Theatre      

Tour de Force           

Triangle Theatre        

Trumbell New Theatre    

21st Street             

24th st. Experiment     

U of Arkansas           

U of Houston            

U of Miami              

Theatre X

Trinity Repertory Theatre

Unicorn Theatre

Virginia Stage Company

The Walnut Street Theatre

Whole Theatre

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Wilma Theatre

Worcester Foothills Theatre Company

Yale Repertory Theatre

 

NEW RETRIEVAL FORMS SENT TO:

 

Ironbound Theatre

Little Oscar Theatre

Circle Repertory

Aspen Community Theatre

Company of Angels

Cabaret Theatre

Fort Smith Little Theatre

Artists Together Prod.

Lone Wolf Prod.

Rainbird Prod.

Check Please Prod.

Zoilus II Prod.

Zachary Scott Theatre

Victorian Theatre

Angel's Touch Prod.

Ryan Repertory

Mirror Rep

Theatreworks

Rep Theatre of Bucks County

Process Studio

Ensemble Theatre Co. at Marin

Main Street Theatre

Lake Charles Little Theatre

Intermountain Actors Ensemble

Invisible Theatre

Zephyr Theatre

Vortex Theater

TRG

Stage Three

Mitchell Maxwell, etc. etc.

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Highlight theatre

Co-Lab

Nicholas Benton

Apple Corps

Evelyn Barron

American Theatre of Actors

Theatre Exchange

The Empty Space

Los Angeles Designers'

M & M productions, Los Angeles

 

PLAY RETURNS FROM:

 

STIGMATA

   American Place Theatre Liked, "has passion"

   Capital Rep    Dialogue doesn't work

   New Dramatists   MIKE THIS IS YOURS. KEEP

     YOUR GOD DAMNED SUBMISSIONS

     OFF MY BACK. THANK YOU. OUT.

MIB

   Artists Unlimited  MIA

   Brown Grand    Liked, wants more women's roles

   Richard Horner   Moved

   Ensemble Theat. of Santa Barb. Whipped on back like wet shit on a

     potter's wheel

 

MURDER

   Little Oscar Theatre Nothing

   Company of Angels  MIA

   Niggli, Western Carolina Liked, wants more traditional

 

PLAY SUBMISSIONS TO:

 

ARK

   Dobama Theatre

   Arvada Center

   South High

   Louisville one act

   Ironbound

 

CRAWLSPACE

   Arvada Center

   South High

   Ironbound

 

MELTING MAN

   South High

   Ironbound

 

BLACK BLOOD

   South High

   Ironbound

 

FALL OF STONES

   Ironbound

   South High

 

MIB

   Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barabara

   South High

   Nexus Theatre Canada

   Bond Street

   Gloucester Stage Co.

 

MURDER

   45th St. Theatre

   South High

   Germinal Stage Denver

   Bristol Riverside

 

STIGMATA

   Angel's Touch

   Pegasus Theatre Dallas

   Cordel Productions

   Angel's Touch

   Ensemble Theatre Cincinatti

   Ferndale Rep

   Hip Pocket

   Theatre of Comedy

   Pegasus Theatre

   Cordel Productions

   Actors Theatre of Louisville

   Ironbound

 

I have 35 submissions this month. If this doesn't scare you Matt, I

don't know what will. In one month, Mike and I have taken up the

slack of losing your submissions even in your best month. I know

you are probably sick to death of hearing of the inequities of the

group, but I didn't get the feeling from talking to you that your

attitude has changed at all. Plus the fact that I've had to hold my

tongue for the last month for fear of destroying this "cooperative."

This group will be equal, otherwise I want no part in it. You are

planning to make your triumphal return with a summer play project.

When I talk to you on the phone, the first thing you do is threaten

to steal an idea I found (the bomb shelter idea) for this project.

You just don't get it, do you? What kind of equality is this? To

tell you the truth, I'm afraid to tell you ideas. I wrest control

and recognition from you because I'm afraid if I give you any slack,

you'll simply claim it all to be your own. I don't have this fear

with Mike. There's no point in building a house together and then

claiming a brick to be your own.

 

I don't know what it is, Matt. I really don't. I can feel congenial

and loving towards you for a month, then a single phone call or

letter can completely overturn this. Why is our relationship this

way? I know you felt hurt that I haven't provided a copy of the

resume to you, but what was the point? I recall bitterly talking

to Mike when he received the box of one acts you sent him. I copied

those, A FUCKING YEAR AGO. How can you in good conscience sit on

an unopened box of plays for a year, and then claim month after

month that you are unable to make your minimums? Especially when

three envelopes each containing three one acts would have pretty

much made your minimum. That's less than a book of stamps. A

year? There's no excuse for that. It's not just that you didn't

send in December.

 

One last point, and then I'll get off your back. You kept claiming

you needed addresses for Stigmata because you were running out,

running out. I went back through your statements and recorded the

places to which you sent this play. You sent to less than a third

of the addresses I sent you! I was avoiding these places because

I thought you had them covered. I was running out of addresses

because of sheer numbers, and you afforded to toss out the places

I sent you. Don't you see how this hurts us? We don't know what places

will produce our work. We can't afford to miss a place. I looked

up the listings for the places which have at least come close to

producing our stuff:

 

PERMIAN PLAYHOUSE: "Full-lengths, Musicals, Comedies."

 

THEATRE RAPPORT: "gutsy, relevant plays"

 

IRONBOUND: "Full-lengths, one-acts, musicals."

 

(I can't find a listing for Florida Theatre Connection because Mike

got this address out of the Globe)

 

Now let's look at theatres which (mostly) hate out guts:

 

MANHATTAN PUNCH LINE: "Comedies only."

 

DENVER CENTER: "full-lengths, one-acts, translations, adaptions,

children's black, social-political, musicals, cabarets, revues."

 

STEPHEN GRAHAM: "weird, funny, innovative."

 

Do you see any pattern? Neither do I. All I know is I wouldn't have

sent a play to Ironbound, or to Permian Playhouse based on their

listings. I almost didn't send one to Theatre Rapport. In my books

I have them crossed out. When I ran out of addresses, I sent to

them on a whim. The point is, we have to send to everybody we can.

At least until people start coming to us. That's why, even though

I seem to be the lone supporter of sending out mass resumes, I know

that someone might request a play, and like it. A hundred resumes

is worth that to me. Mass submissions works. I wish we could send

one play out, and get one production, but that would be denying the

truth. We can't just not mass submit because it's hard. I know it's

hard. I've gone into debt knowing how hard it is while you have

carefully chosen the one theatre which, if sent one play, will produce

it. The Manhattan Punch Line. They fucking hate us.

 

I know it must seem like I'm trying to keep you out of the group, but

I'm not. I swear. I just want a full partner. You're welcome to come

back anytime as we agreed, but think before you do. If you can't

give as much to the group as Mike and I do, then bow out gracefully.

I'm not going to let up if I can help it, but if I do, I'll quit.

And believe me, I've considered it. There is no more slack to give.

If you come back with only your foot in the door, you'll wreck this

group forever.

update for march 1989

 

Resumes sent to:

 

U of North Carolina     

U of Ok                 

U of Virginia           

U of West Florida       

U of Wisconsin          

U of Wis./River falls   

Uprising Productions    

Venus Group             

 

play rejects from:

 

 MURDER

Apple Corps  Form

Co-Lab   Definite MIA

 

 MIB

Barbara Barondess Nice

Gloucester Stage Too weird

Theatreworks Form

Mary K. Frank  Nothing

 

 ARK

Doboma Theatre Liked; didn't go far enough

 

Play submissions to:

 

 STIGMATA

 

Playwright's Alliance

Barbara Barondess Theatre Lab

Permian Playhouse

Theatreworks (Colo. Spgs.)

 

 SMALL TOWN

 

Below the Belt

 

 M.I.B.

Permian Playhouse

Western Stage

Western Carolina U

Quaigh

Westbeth

 

 MURDER

 

Barbara Barondess

Permian Playhouse

American Place

Arthur Cantor

Academy Theatre

 

 ONE ACT QUINTET (ARK, BLACK BLOOD, CRAWLSPACE, MELTING

  MAN, FALL OF STONES)

Barbara Barondess

Below the Belt

Kalamazoo Civic

Company One

 

 

So we have a finalist in a Cincinatti theatre. Get those charge

cards out and max-ed. You should feel proud, Matt, and I'm not

being sarcastic. It seems a bit distant, but it is ours. BELIEVE

IT OR NOT, THIS PLAY WAS SUBMITTED ON 2/1/89. THIS IS OUR FUCKING

FASTEST RESPONSE. I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M WRITING IN CAPITOL LETTERS,

BUT I WANTED YOUR ATTENTION.

 

All right, Matt. It's ok. I know we've had our differences, but I

don't want to have to put your face on milk cartons to get you home.

I just wanted to list my grievances, and I couldn't do that while

Spike was mad. Even I don't think two against one is fair. And you

all know how fair-minded I am.

 

Your idea has a lot of merit, Matt. It's not yet compelling enough

for a full-length, but that's probably just a matter of time.

 

LICK ME, LICK ME, LICK ONLY ME!!!

 

 

The white boy with the big lips UPDATE FOR APRIL, 1989

 

RESUMES SENT TO:

 

Victory Theatre

Village Performers' The.

Virginia Beach Parks    

Wabash college          

Westport Country        

Western Illinois U.     

Winward Theatre Guild   

Woodminster Amphi-theat.

Woodward Community      

Wool Warehouse          

Wooly Mammoth           

Writers' Theatre        

 

REJECTS FROM:

 

     ARK

Theatre de la Jeune Lune     Not for us

Arvada Center                Didn't like

 

     CRAWLSPACE

Arvada Center                Didn't like

 

     MIB

Arizona Theatre Co.          F.F.*

Victorian Theatre            Liked, but suspended new plays

Western Carolina U           Don't like idea

Unknown Return from NY

 

     MURDER

Actor's Outlet               Interesting Script

 

     SMALL TOWN

Staret                       Not what we're looking for

National Playwright's Show   Nothing

 

     STIGMATA

Ferndale Rep

 

SUBMISSION TO:

 

     MIB

Springboard Theatre

Horizon Theatre

AART (Requested)

 

     SMALL TOWN

Kassi Crews

 

     STIGMATA

Bainbridge Performing

Bristol Valley

City Players of St. Louis

Community Playhouse

Michael Hankins

Michael White (London)

AART (requested)

 

I  had to send AART by overnight mail, so I'm counting that as several

submissions. I still made the minimums, but just barely.

 

Been a slow fucking month for mail. I hope it picks up.

 

Thanks for the sonnets, Mike. They did help, even though I'm still having

some trouble.

 

 

As a child I

   dreamt of starry nights

     and moonlit flights

 

As a man I

   forgot my dreams

 

So when I lay down to

   rest,

     finally

 

I'd forgotten how to flyUPDATE FOR MAY, 1989

 

No Mike, I wouldn't give you the pleasure of seeing me give up.

 

Resumes sent to::

 

The Actor's Company

Actors' Guild of Lexington

Alleghany Highlands Theatre

Avenue Act I

California Theatre Center

Center Theatre

College of the Siskiyous

Creative Arts Team

Double Image Theatre

Free Street Theatre

Ham Heaven

 

Rejects from:

 

MIB

   Mother's Theatre         Nothing

   Springboard Theatre      Booked

 

MURDER

   The Cast Theatre         No Resources

   The Empty space Theatre  Liked, but thought predictable

   Academy Theatre          Form

 

Submissions To:

 

STIGMATA

   Pacific Renaissance

   Penobscot Theatre Co

   Potomac Theatre project        Requested

MIB

   NY Theatre Workshop

   Theatre Three Dallas

   Stop Gap

   Empty Space

   Potomac Theatre Project        Requested

 

MURDER

   Illustrated Stage

   Philip Rose

   Denver Center

PACT

   Potomac Theatre Project        Requested, Dammit

 

One-act quintet (Fall of Stones, Ark, Crawlspace, Metling Man, etc.)

to Snack Patrol Productions

 

Sent the dramatist bile to Matt. Welcome back to the fold, Matt.

I hope you like your 4th class stamp. I hereby relinquish US stigmata

submissions to you. Update for June, 1989

 

Resumes sent to:

 

Hispano American Theatre Co

Laughing Horse Summer Theatre

New Mexico Repertory Theatre

New View Theatre

Periwinkle Nat'l Theatre

Play Works Co

Playwrights Continuum

The Playwrights Unit

P.S. Productions

 

RETURNS:

 

MIB

 

Theatre Three (Dallas)       Too weird

Empty Space                  Not good enough

Clavis Theatre               Form

 

MURDER

 

Actor's outlet               double sub

 

STIGMATA

 

Calvis Theatre               Form

Pacific Renaissance          No longer @ this address

Philadelphia Theatre Co      Nice

Purgatory Play competition   Form

 

SENDS:

 

MIB

 

Little Theatre of Alexandria

Love Creek Productions

Vermont Repertory Theatre

American Playhouse

American Nook & Cranny

 

MURDER

 

California Theatre Center

Richard Kagan

LA Theatre Works

Western Carolina

 

STIGMATA

 

Gerrard Armand (London)

 

ONE ACTS (Melting,Crawlspace,Ark,Blood) to Simi Valley TheatreUpdate for July, 1989

 

Resumes sent to:

 

Second Studio for Actors

Soup Stone Project

South Jersey Regional Theatre

Storefront Theatre

Theatre Association of Pennsylvania

Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival

Triad Ensemble

Vineyard Theatre

 

Rejects from:

 

MIB

 

Westbeth Very Nice

Stop Gap Real nice, but no social statement

Little Theatre

   of Alexandria Missed deadline

Love Creek Productions Nice

American Playhouse Doesn't read until Sept.

American Nook and  moved

   Cranny

Blackmarket  Doesn't produce

 

MURDER

 

Western Carolina Needs full length set in the future

Richard Kagan  Nothing

 

STIGMATA

 

Unicorn  Nice form

Theatre of the Open  Nice

   eye

Cordel Productions Not seeking scripts

 

 

Submissions to:

 

MIB

 

Story People

Sandcastle Players

Actors' Theatre at the Lex

Bailiwick Rep

Blackmarket Theatre Co

City Theatre

First Street

Robert Spira, Quartz

 

MURDER

 

Stop Gap

Love Creek Productions

 

STIGMATA

 

Jeffrey Campbell (U.K.)

Script Review

 

ONE ACTS

 

Ark, Crawlspace, Melting Man to Robert Spira

 

 

Well we now have a Stigmata production. A busy month for plays

(Spira/Ironbound). Busy month for submissions. Busy, busy,

buzzzzzzz..zzzy.

 

 

Update for August, 1989

 

QUERIES SENT OUT:

 

Rosita Sarnoff

Seven Stages

Sherwood Forest Theatre

Shubert Organization

Smith College

Southern Cal. Center for the Arts

Southernmost Productions

Springside Inn

Stage Left Theatre

Stage West

Stages of Community Enrichment

Roger L. Stevens

 

RETURNS:

 

MURDER

 

American Place           Nice, but don't send more

Arthur Cantor            Ditto for Art

Love Creek               Short works only

Medicine Show Ensemble   Wrong address

 

SKETCHES

 

TIC Public Radio         Unable to forward

 

STIGMATA

 

LA Theatre Works         Nice, but didn't like play

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

MIB

 

Torso Theatre

GPA Ltd

 

MURDER

 

Medicine Show Ensemble

Drama Project

Fountainhead Theatre

Torso Theatre

Leon Johnson, (Salt Lake)

 

SKETCHES II

 

Western Public Radio

TIC Radio Theatre

Wisconsin Public Radio

Coyote Radio Theatre

 

Ark, Crawlspace, Black Blood, Melting Man to Torso Theatre

 

I  feel  good that we're now having people calling up and asking us  for

plays. Chicago theatres, at that.

 

****MATT FLASH****DIRECT FROM MOSES HIMSELF***********

 

I received STIGMATA back from Alvita Martin at Kalamazoo.  There was NO

return envelope. Are you including SASE's with your plays, Matt? This is

part of your ten submissions/month, you know.

 

Well, I'm out of writing commission for this month. We finished a dmaned

fine play this month,  Mike. I feel this one is worth submitting. I'll

submit it heavily, as usual.

 

Gee  Matt. I  don't know why you're always so damned sensitive. I've

hesitated  calling you because I get the feeling that you might  explode

at any minute. What's wrong? You can talk to me.

 

Gonna  go  to the grocery store today and get me a big hunk of Polish

sausage.

 

 

K-boy Update for September, 1989

 

Queries sent to:

 

Playhouse 51            

Playhouse on the Square 

Playwrights Horizons    

Playwright's Platform   

Poplar Pike Playhouse   

Princeton Rep.          

Quaigh Theatre          

Raft Theatre            

Rainbow theatre Co.     

Roberts & Blank         

 

RETURNS:

 

STIGMATA

 

Hip Pocket         Nice

 

THE ARK

 

Louisville one act contest         Contest no more

 

SKETCHES II

 

Bloomington Playwrights Project    No such address

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

STIGMATA

 

Cervantes Players (London)

Donmar Productions (ditto)

Entertainment Machine (thritto)

Robert Fox (fourtto)

 

MURDER

 

Playhouse Theatre Co.

 

MIB

 

Company One Theatre

 

SKETCHES II

 

Bloomington Playwrights Project

 

MOBIUS

 

Patrick Lopes

American Place Theatre

Los Angeles Theatre Works

Stop Gap

Theatre of the Open Eye

Illustrated Stage

The Script Review

 

Not a bad submission month,  considering. I was boosted by the review of

STIGMATA in the Script Review. I assume you boys have read it by now. I

sent MOBIUS to them for obvious reasons. Hopefully, now we can look

forward to dozens of requests.

 

MATT-- I'm sorry you're running out of addresses for STIG. I can't help

much, unfortunately, as I gave you all the addresses I could find. We've

almost covered the market with that play. Your options:

 

1. I  could send you UK addresses. Please don't submit  here  without

checking with me first. No use double subbing as expensive it is here.

 

2. You could get addresses from SPIKE as he gets the from the GLOBE.

 

3. If I do happen to get requests for Stig due to the review,  I will

split them with you. As you notice, I send you extra copies every once

in a while, so I could do the same with these. I wouldn't count on these

too  much, though.  I don't know what type of circulation  the Script

Review has.

 

It was good to see you boys, and thanks for the breathing room.

Update for October, 1989

 

Yeah, yeah, it's fucking late.

 

RETRIEVAL FORMS SENT TO (STIGMATA)

I'm  substituting retrieval forms for resume subs since they are

the same postage and I'm waiting for the new bible.

 

ABBEVILLE OPERA HOUSE

ASOLO STATE THEATRE

BAILIWICK REP

BARBARA  BARONDESS   (This is a mistake, since this is Leslie H.

  Blake)

BRISTOL VALLEY

CHICAGO THEATRE CO

CITY PLAYERS OF ST. LOUIS

CLIFF INVESTING

COMUNITY PLAYHOUSE

LUTHER DAVIS

DETROIT REP

MARY K. FRANK (She's dead, she's dead!)

STEPHEN GRAHAM

 

 

REJECTS:

 

MIB

South high P-town

 

MOBIUS

Stephen Graham     Gone

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

MURDER

 

Playwrights Continuum

 

MOBIUS

American Theatre of Actors

Below the Belt

California Theatre Center

Chicago Theatre Co

Cliff Investing

Ensemble Studio NY

Ensemble Studio LA

Mary K. Frank

Georgetown Productions

Stephen Graham

Rick Hobard

Hollywood Actors

Hollywood Theatre Co

Richard Horner

Playwrights Continuum

Mixed Blood

 

SKETCHES I

Impact Productions

Shorts Productions

 

SKETCHES II

Unique Magazine

 

 

A poem for you Mike. I wroted it way back when Hughes had dumped

me, I had no income, and I thought I was destitute.