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We are an emerging theater company committed to nurturing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to gather and experience original stories.
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INDIVIDUAL a new play by Ben M. Jones
Live Audio Play Reading of INDIVIDUAL by Ben M. Jones
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company
Directed by Ariella Wolfe
Dramaturgy by Stephanie Wilborn
Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra
Featuring Radhika Rao (A, or The Whole Entire Goddamn Motherf***ing World) and Matt Regan (B, or The United States Of America), with Stephanie Wilborn reading Stage Directions.
About The Play:
The United States wants out of the United Nations; the UN wants to set the record straight. INDIVIDUAL is an experiment that examines the tensions between the self and the collective, exploring how the way we live our day-to-day lives intersects with the big picture.
Content Warning: language, brief threat of gun violence
About the Playwright:
Ben M. Jones (he/him/his) is a New York City based theatre and film maker. His plays have had been produced and/or had reading from: National Queer Theater, The New Cosmopolitans, The Village Playwrights, and The New Short Play Festival. Plays include: All The Sex I Want, The Asexual Romance Fantasy Play, Art to Art, and Individual. He is also the author of the travel/photo book, #BenAndHannahGoToEurope.
Music: “Begin Again” by Flow Loris and “Taking My Time” feat. Stephan Sharp by Jacquire King
Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories.
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JACK & THE BEANSTALK: TYPE 2 (Original Podcast Play)
JACK & THE BEANSTALK: TYPE 2 is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 4)
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company
Teachers: Lynn Dutra, Ariella Wolfe
Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
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CINDERELLA, BUT DIFFERENT (Original Podcast Play)
CINDERELLA, BUT DIFFERENT is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 3)
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company
Teachers: Lynn Dutra, Ariella Wolfe
Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
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RAPUNZEL: THE MAGICAL KEY (Original Podcast Play)
RAPUNZEL: THE MAGICAL KEY is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 2)
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company
Teachers: Ariella Wolfe, Melissa Cunha
Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
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LITTLE RED'S TWISTED TALE (Original Podcast Play)
LITTLE RED’S TWISTED TALE is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 1)
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company
Teachers: Ariella Wolfe, Melissa Cunha
Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
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Emerging Voices 2021
Live Audio Play Reading of [Emerging Voices]
a selection of short plays by Theatre students from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
Hana Rudoff, Karen Ear, Colten Hitchcock, Lucia Pachynski-Hoopes, Phillip Wong, Itohan Ediae, Sally Meeks, and Lan Lan Honda-Rottler
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company
Directed by Ariella Wolfe
Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra
Featuring Jasmine Washington, Edward Hong, Pilar Gonzales, John Cody Fasano, Stephanie Fields, and Scott Schwerdtfeger.
00:39 VALENTINE’S DAY IS OVERRATED
11:25 THE LAST DINNER
19:05 CHEKHOV’S GUN
36:08 UNKNOWN
46:19 THE EXIT
54:40 REUNITED
1:00:16 AWAKE
1:13:44 IT MIGHT BE TIME
About The Plays: [Emerging Voices] features eight plays about relationships, forgiveness, waking up, and finding your voice (plus some twists and turns along the way). These stories take us from the everyday to the surreal and back again, inviting us to dig deep and reflect on what it means to be alive.
About the Playwrights:
The student-playwrights whose work we selected for this production were in the 10th-12th grade during the 2020-2021 school year. They wrote their scripts under the supervision of Aren Haun in the Theatre Department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
Music by Lyle Workman
Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.