Category: 24-7

Will Kerner took these from his seat. They are more or less in order, show by show, from our 7pm show.  Our second, sold out show at 9:30 runs backwards, as you know, or should.

Our seventh year did everything but disappoint. We had 7 great plays, directed with precision, and acted with brilliance.

Theme: Welcome Home

The Plays:

A Space Odyssey Named Disaster

by Alex Rafala
dir by Erica Arvold
(inspiration: painful)

Cast:

• Mary Coy
• Misty Vrendenburg
• Kate Lambert

We have Finally Taken Action

by Kay Leigh Ferguson
dir by Marty Moore
(inspiration: laughter)

Cast:

• Carolyn Demanelis
• Amanda Watson
• Anders Coe
• Rodney Umble

Hell Is Other People

by Miller Murray Susen
dir by Bryan Garey
(inspiration: appendix)

Cast:

• Lee Susen
• Jacqueline Ford
• Dinah Pehrson
• Martyn Kyle
• Kathleen Mueller
• Rodney Umble
• Trina Candia

Free Range

by Joel Jones
dir by Chris Estey
(inspiration: disco)

Cast:

• Joseph Bromfield
• Mariko Schaper
• Trina Candia

Dancin’ Dirty

by Robert Wray
dir by Mary Burruss
(inspiration: bitch)

Cast:

• Ike Anderson
• Michael Swanberg
• Marshall Camden
• Rodney Umble

Sea Shanty

by Kate Monaghan
dir by Kate Bennis
(inspiration: unsightly)

Cast:

• Flavia Ruffner
• Laura Mawyer
• Johnny Butcher
• Trina Candia
• Roger Ainslie

Fun & Games

by Kisha Jarrett
dir by Edward Warwick-White
(inspiration: dance-like)

Cast:

• Jaime Kurtz
• Rose Harper
• Sean Chandler
• Derick Williams
• Sean Michael McCord

With Special Guests: The Tip-Top Twins

• Tina
• Tammy

More Photos Here>> 

• Producer: Ray Nedzel
• Stage Manager: Kristin Wenger
• Assistant Director: Chris Baumer
• ASM: Daryl Bray
• TD for the Day: Will Slusher
• Lights: Heather Hutton
• Light Assist/spot op: Roman Cybak
• Light Op: Heather Hutton
• Sound Design: Wren Curtis
• Sound Design: Felipe Ferro
• Costumes: Amy Goffman
• Costumes: Linda Zuby
• Costume Assistant: Julie Mignosa
• Props Master: Tracie Skipper
• Head Running Crew: Fareine Suarez
• Running Crew: Sarah Cain
• House Manager: Charlotte Drummond
• Box Office: Ernie Reed
• Usher: Cathe Comer
• Usher: Tom Raney
• Usher: Alan Farr
• Concessions: Melissa Wender

 

You’d have to go to 27 consecutive magic shows to get this kind of wonderment.  Look at the line up of actors for 24/7 this year and… prepare to be amazed.

Actors in 24/7 2015 (alphabetically by first name):

• Amanda Watson
• Anders Coe
• Brandon Lee
• Carolyn Demanelis
• Derick Williams
• Dinah Pehrson
• Ike Anderson
• Jacqueline Ford
• Jamie Kurtz
• Johnny Butcher
• Joseph Bromfield
• Kate Lambert
• Kathleen Mueller
• Laura Elliott
• Laura Mawyer
• Lee Susen
• Mariko Schaper
• Marshall Camden
• Martyn Kyle
• Mary Coy
• Michael Swanberg
• Misty Vrederburg
• Rodney Umble
• Roger Ainslie
• Rose Harper
• Sean Chandler
• Sean Michael McCord
• Trina Candia

Tickets on sale now:  www.livearts.org

 

 

This town has the great directors all over it.  But sometimes they’re busy, or hidden, or in high demand.  It’s like a scavenger hunt to find them and lock them in while they still have availability.

We are pack rats.  Or squirrels.  Or hunter-gatherer-types-of-gun-free-amerian-artists.  Anyway, look what we found.  Charlottesville’s hottest director list.  Each and everyone has (voluntarily) signed on for 24/7 2015 at Live Arts.

24/7 2015 Directors (alphabetically by first name):

• Bryan Garey
• Edward Warwick-White
• Erica Arvold
• Jasmine Witmer
• Kate Bennis
• Marty Moore
• Mary Burruss

5 women, 2 men.  That’s right.  The secret is out.

Get your tickets now (this will sell out) at www.livearts.org

 

Holy Guacamole!

(And, I’m not talking about a divinely delicious Mexican side dish.)

I’m talking about the fantastical, magical, freakin’-lip-smackin’-divinely delicious lineup of playwrights we have for 24/7 in 2015.

Here they are, alphabetically by first name:

• Alex Rafala
• Joel Jones
• Kate Monaghan
• Kay Leigh Ferguson
• Kisha Jarrett
• Miller Murray Susen
• Robert Wray

Once again, we provide more female playwrights than male playwrights.  That’s just how we roll. We put on our dresses just like every other man.

24/7 — Our Seventh Year Itch!  Tickets go on sale first full week of January at www.livearts.org.

 

 

Well, well, well… going back to the well.

24/7 2015 is gearing up like a rector-set from a child’s dreams in the 1960s.  What?

Each year we produce seven new 10 minute plays in 24 hours. We do this by getting

• seven playwrights,
• seven directors,
• 24 actors,
• and a full crew of designers,

and giving them a theme and 24 hours… Bingo!  (wait, what, now we’re playing bingo? — well, let the metaphors mix.)

Get involved now, or get ready to buy your tickets at livearts.org on January 4th.  Then come see the show of shows:

• 24/7: January 24, 2015
• Live Arts
• 7pm and 9:30pm
• Tickets: livearts.org or 434-977-4177

Okay,Well that’s it, Look for updates soon, and start buying your tickets for this guaranteed to sell out show, on January 4, 2015.

Dip into the well, build something in your dreams, and play many games: bingo!

 

The Plays:

Belieber

By:  Elizabeth Derby
Directed by: Bergen Goesch

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Melissa Charles
• Scott Dunn

Seen Not Heard

By:  Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
Directed by:  Chris Kelly

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Abigail Wiebe
• Lana Young
• Brian Wimer
• Martyn Kyle

Remember the Alamo

By:  Jackson Wolford
Directed by:  Sean Hirabayashi

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Kate Adamson
• Edward Warwick-White
• Mendy St. Ours
• Javier Figueroa
• Lee Susen

Late Night at the Big Box

by:  Cathy Finn-Derecki
Directed by:  Miller Murray Susen

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Claire McGurk Chandler
• Rose Harper
• Cheryl Sandas
• Martyn Kyle
• Latrina Candia

Bo Regards

By:  Sean Michael McCord
Directed by:  Barbara Roberts

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Amy Barrick
• Noel Derecki
• Maria Trapnell
• Mendy St. Ours

Ferbish and Sons

By:  Jenny Mead
Directed by:  Kate Bennis

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Gene Donovan
• Mike Long
• Marty Moore
• Martyn Kyle

The Golden Goose

by:  Kisha Jarrett
Directed by:  Geri Carlson Sauls

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Wendy Winkler
• Jasmine Witmer
• Kip McCharen
• Chris Estey
• Mendy St. Ours

24/7 Dancers:

Summing Up

Original Dance Choreographed and Performed by:

• Kevin LaMarr Jones
• Edwin Roa
• Erin White

Photos (and more photos) by Lance Buckley here >>>

This crew does amazing things that normally take weeks – and they do it all in a day.  We are so lucky – and you will be too when you see the shows — to have this much talent on our crew.  Check them out:

• Kristin Wenger
• Chris Baumer
• Morgan Brophy
• James Harte
• Heather Hutton
• Anne Schelton
• Bob Button
• Clams Taylor
• Amy Goffman
• Linda Zuby
• Julie Mignosa
• Tracie Skipper
• Joe Monaghan
• Heddy Hunt
• Karin Boothe
• Ernie Reed
• Charlotte Drummond
• Cathy Burrier
• Cathe Comer
• Tom Raney
• Melissa Wender
• Eric Gilchrest
• Deborah Caudle
• Kate Monoghan
• Kristin Baltes
• Ray Nedzel

Get tickets at Live Arts now.