24/7 2018 Crew

24/7 Designers and Crew for 2018This show rocks. This crew rocks. They need to.  Our 24/7 team has 7 plays to “tech” in just a few hours. Even we don’t know how they do it. Maybe it’s because over 75% of our tech crew teammates are women. Men play football and start wars; women create life and make the world a better place. Just an observation. …Back to the theatre! Come see the magic on Jan 20th.

  • Stage Manager…Kristin Wenger
  • Assistant Director…Marianne Kubik
  • Assistant Stage Manager… Sarah Cain
  • Playwright Coach… Kady Garey and Brian Garey
  • TD for the Day… Sam Carannante
  • Lighting Genius… Heather Hutton
  • Light Assistant… Liz Howard
  • Sound Design… Joseph Schefer
  • Costumes… Amy Goffman
  • Costumes… Mimi Helpern
  • Costumes… Kristen Heiderstadt
  • Costumes… Tricia Emlet
  • Props Master… Daryl Bray
  • Props Assistant… Kerry Moran
  • Set Design… Jim Horstkotte
  • Running Crew… Sue Horne
  • Running Crew… Scott Dunn
  • Utility Player… Kate Monaghan
  • Hospitality Goddess… Deborah Arenstein
  • Documentarian/Photog… Kathleen Mueller
  • Producer/Host… Ray Nedzel

Actors for 24/7 2018

Actors for 24/7 at Live Arts 2018Maybe we’ve gone too far.  You tell me.  Don’t these actors have too much talent to be in 24/7?  But, here they are in 24/7.  Well, maybe they’re each a bit crazy; and maybe that’s just about right.  Thanks, you grossly talented bunch of stage-worthiness, you!

Tickets on sale now here, act fast, it’s selling out.  

  • Alec Beard
  • Amalia Oswald
  • Brandi Duncan
  • Brian Wimer
  • Bruce Young
  • Carla Manno
  • Christina Ball
  • Dawn Schimke
  • Frank Saxons
  • Ike Anderson
  • Johnny Butcher
  • Kara McLane Burk
  • Katie Muhlenkamp
  • Lisa Weigold
  • Lyndsay Goodrich
  • Misty Vredenburg
  • Nick Heiderstadt
  • Pat Owen
  • Perry Medlin
  • Priyanka Shetty
  • Sam Reeder
  • Sharon Millner
  • Tiff Ames
  • Wendy Novicoff

Directors for 24/7 2018

directors for 24/7 2018

Here is all you need to know about the directors for this years 24/7 – our 10th anniversary 24/7 – they are all nuts.

In a good way.

Over the past 10 years, each has been on stage – and few have even been writers — for a previous 24/7.   And yet, most have never directed a 24/7 play before.

With that experience – and nuttiness – this year is gonna rock.

Directors:

  • Chris Estey
  • Claire McGurk Chandler
  • Jen Downey
  • Laura Mawyer
  • Lee Susen
  • Linda Zuby
  • Mendy St. Ours

 

24/7 2018 Playwrights

The playwrights for 24/7 2018
The playwrights for 24/7 2018

Wow is the word.  And with the list below, “wow” maybe even be the theme.  Well, we don’t know yet if “wow” will have anything to do with this year’s 24/7 theme, but we do know it will describe the plays from these amazing writers taking the 24/7 overnight play writing challenge.   Wow:

  • Leslie Scott-Jones
  • Marija Reiff
  • Edwina Herring
  • Nauder Namaky
  • Marty Moore
  • Miller Murray Susen
  • Jen Tidwell

Wow.

 

TRUMPILTON!

When you create an overnight theater festival in 24 hours, the day after the inauguration, you may end up with an 8th, special bonus, presentation. With apologies and respect to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonathan Groff, 24/7, last night, presented the one and only performance of TRUMPILTON!

Thank You Poem – 24/7 2017

To the cast and crew of 24/7 2017 —

Well it happened again in the blink of an eye
When a group of great artists reached for the sky
In the middle of January without any snow

In 24 hours you created one amazing show
Blank Minds Think Alike that’s what we showed
With an art class sketching to the Boss’ Thunder Road
Look now – stuck behind screens – it’s a family flotilla
Completely oblivious to a dancing gorilla.
Michael, Jan, Peter and a lady killer
Bought down the house with The Brady Cure thriller
Then two gay fathers played the adoption game
With their teenage son and his Notre “Dame”?
While a former graphic artist and her best friend were
Finding lost friendship through the songs of John Denver
A refined British beauty went chip-chip-charoo
In a French maids’ outfit with Lord Smoocheroo
Our crew was epic, the opposite of tragic
What they did in one day was nothing but magic!
It’s theater. It’s art. And, yes, fun still won!
Like a one time showing of the hit Trumpilton!
And so, if the circus closes, and you’re searching for your worth,
Remember what you did last night, The Greatest Show on Earth!

Actors for 24/7 2017

Those of you who know, you know; those of you out of the know, will have to trust; those of you out of trust, will have to come to see for yourself.

The actors we have for his year are aces!  (except for the jokers, and the queens, and kings, and, you know what, they’re all just cards.)

This year we are delighted to have the following actors jump into the unknown to bring you back gold.

  • Donna Chabot
  • Marissa Carioscia
  • Tiffany Smith
  • Julie Stavitski
  • Mendy St. Ours
  • Christina Henderson
  • Julia Robertson
  • Kate Adamson
  • Priyanka Shetty
  • Michelle James
  • Sharon Miller
  • Aly Brookland
  • Ike Anderson
  • Martyn Kyle
  • Dan Stern
  • Russ Witt
  • Nick Heiderstadt
  • Kevin Minor
  • Michael Miranda
  • Johnny Butcher
  • Joel Alexander
  • Winston Smith II
  • Brandon Lee

A few things to mention:

  • This is the highest percentage of new-to-24/7 actors since the first year when everyone was a virgin.
  • Each year over 50% of the participants are new – this year those new to 24/7 is 83.3333333~% !)

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Directors Announced – 24/7 2017

Directors for 24/7 Jan. 21, 2017 at Live ArtsThe directors of 24/7 are often the unsung heroes — unsung, even in a musical.  (that’s right, you never know what you’re gonna get in 24/7 – someone might write a musical overnight).

Directors get a random script and random cast and have to make it work.  And they do.  Oh to the yeah.  Year after year.

24/7 is Jan 21, 2017.  Nothing will be written until 24 hours before that.  Then the directors read their script for the first time Saturday morning.  Then the fun, action packed day begins – cast, designers, staging, timing, costumes, set, tech, all in one day.

This year we are honored to have the following great line up of 24/7 directors:

  • Carol Pedersen
  • Chris Kelly
  • Claire McGurk Chandler
  • Frank Saxons
  • Liz Howard
  • Richard Cooper
  • Tracie Skipper

A few things to mention:

  • Five of these directors will be directing their first 24/7 play.
  • Tracie brings a designers touch to her directing – watch out!
  • Chris once told me, “there’s always room for more ‘camp’!”  –  so watch out for that, too.
  • Liz and Frank will be performing on stage in Guys And Dolls the weekend before, then turning their talents off-stage for 24/7.
  • Carol has taught more acting classes than anyone at Live Arts, but this is her first 24/7.
  • Richard jumped in hear first to 24/7 last year as and actor; and now feet first, from a higher level, he’s doing it again.
  • Claire’s not scared of anything.  As an actor, she has had some of the wildest roles in 24/7 history — including a big box store worker singing ballads about adult diapers to a post-modern-pre-appocalyse-cafe-server-dominatrix-type-person.

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Playwrights Announced 24/7 2017

Nothing’s written in stone.  Well, not anymore (I mean, at one time it was, in a literal sense.)  But, what I meant was, “nothing is written in stone, yet.”  No, that’s not quite it, either.

I meant, Nothing Is Written… Yet!

24/7 is Jan 21, 2017.  Nothing will be written until 24 hours before that.  The writing starts Friday night for our Saturday night shows.  But when it is written, it will be written by this amazing line up of overnight sensations:

  • Bryan Garey
  • Cady Garey
  • Doug Grissom
  • Lance Stewart
  • Larry Goldstein
  • Lee Susen
  • Marija Reiff

A few things worth pointing out:

  • Marija will be writing for two (she will be 8 months, 3 weeks pregnant for this 24/7)
  • UVA will be well represented with two faculty members this year, Doug and Cady.
  • Three time 24/7 actor Lee Susen picks up the laptop to give playwriting a go-go.
  • Live Arts founding member Larry Goldstein returns to 24/7.
  • First time that two plays will come from one household: Bryan and Cady.
  • Four new playwrights this year: Bryan, Cady, Lee and Marija.
  • And three who have written once before, Doug, Lance, Larry.

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