Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!

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Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!

The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet online once a week to read new plays in development. Please join us every week to hear great new work. Our video performances are available on QuartantinePlayers.org. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

08/06/2021

Play Reading: Country Fried Murder by Judy Klass

Please take a second to support The Quarantine Players with a donation to help us keep putting on great new plays like this one: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/quarantine-players-a-virtual-theater-company/general_support A group of people gathers for a songwriters' retreat in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-2000s. Their "mentor" is an abrasive, charismatic country singer/songwriter named Kyle Samperson. He humiliates some for their songwriting, personally offends some and clashes about politics with others. By the time Kyle turns up dead in Act Two, everyone has a motive for killing him. Snowed in, without internet or phone, the other characters size each other up and wonder whodunit. Judy Klass, Playwright, A. J. Campbell Producer Katy Blake, Director Clint Aphin as Brice, Laurie Canaan as Roberta, Lane Wright as Charlie, Jack E. Chambers as Kyle, Kathy Kerns as Martha, Sophia Sutton as Tiffany, Judy Jackson as Denise, Alyssa Borg as Li, Robert Beard as Ed --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

2h 6m
06/10/2021

This play has an Iguana for a Protagonist by Liz Dooley

This play has an Iguana for a Protagonist by Liz Dooley In the aftermath of a massive miscommunication about biology, iguana Arthur comes to the conclusion that his best friend, a human named Mari, must be dying. He makes up his mind to take the most “noble” course of action—whether Mari likes it or not. Part madcap comedy, part menstrual health PSA. The play with an Iguana has a Sequel by Liz Dooley Since the last… adventure, Arthur the iguana has done everything in his power to research human biology so he doesn’t make any more big mistakes. Armed with his newfound information, he sets out to protect Mari from a new threat: himself. But was she ever really in danger? And is she actually any safer now? Part madcap comedy, part menstrual health PSA—part two. Followed by a talkback with the cast and writer Directed by Monica Cross Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Cast Voice of Iguana: Scott Sickles The puppeteer is Clayton Bauldree Elizabeth Rossen as Mari Draper Harris as Jeff Stage Direction: Gayle Grimes About Liz Dooley Liz Dooley is an asexual- and female-identifying theatre artist based in Atlanta. Her Young Adult Play, FIDGET AND TILDY, has been featured at Synchronicity Theatre through Working Title Playwright’s First Light Series, and her work (WHEREVER) has been featured at Actor’s Express as part of the One-Minute Play Festival. In addition, her short play THIS PLAY HAS AN IGUANA FOR A PROTAGONIST has been produced across the country, including through Quarantine Players and as part of Iowa State University’s Undergrad Director Showcase. She is an active member of Working Title Playwrights and a founding member of the Cultivators, an Atlanta-based new-work development organization for theatre and film. Liz graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014 with a dual major BA in Theatre Arts and Psychology. She studied as a playwriting apprentice at Horizon Theatre during the 2014-2015 season, under Addae Moon. https://newplayexchange.org/users/28626/liz-dooley About the Quarantine Players Website https://quarantineplayers.org/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePl... Twitter: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantinep... Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

59 min
05/07/2021

WHAT’S FOREVER FOR ANYWAY? A Play In Three Acts followed by a talk balk with the authors

To support the new play development work of the Quaratinte Players please give generously at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/quarantine-players-a-virtual-theater-company/general_support Also available on our youtube channel: https://youtu.be/ft0GxqO2zOc Two brothers competing for the love of the same woman never goes well. A wife’s betrayal has consequences. Treachery, however, benign sometimes ends in tragedy. And the truth… well who really knows what good can come of it? Brandon is having an affair with Annie, Arthurs wife. Arthur comes home from work one day to find his younger brother and wife alone again in the apartment. Has he always had his suspicions? Later that week, Arthur escorts his young wife to an on-stage production of his new work about a younger brother having an affair with the older brother’s wife…and someone gets murdered. A play within a play, but who gets played? written by Tom David Barna & Christine Barna directed by Scott Olson produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Starring Ricardo Padilla Lisette Gabrielle Tyler Brown About the Quarantine Players Website https://quarantineplayers.org/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w Podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Twitter: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

2h 2m
02/25/2021

JUST GET OVER IT by Matthew Garlin, A delightful new RomCom (Play Reading)

This is the story of a couple that has broken up who gets caught at a resort during a storm and now has no choice but to face the ghosts of the past relationship. Both come clean in a hilarious, high-stakes autopsy of their failed relationship. Original Concept by Matthew Garlin & Samantha Davekos Writing Supervision by Rebecca Greene Director Monica Cross Producer A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players CAST David - Ricardo Padilla Jessica - Tammy Peters Melissa: David’s Wife - Elizabeth Rossen Malcolm: Jessica’s Husband - Bryan Matthew Stage directions - Zach Hanna Matthew Garlin Author This is his first time working with Quarantine Players. His acting credit includes working with theaters: Quannapowitt Players in Reading, MA Theatre to Go in Melrose, MA New England School of Performing Arts The Bard Brigade in Saugus, MA Revolutionary Theatre in Danvers, MA Still Small theatre’s repertory company in Beverly, MA. His directing credits include Enchanted April for Theatre to Go Inc., Almost Maine and It’s a Wonderful Life for Theater Company of Saugus, Godspell for Sherwood Entertainment, Side by Side by Sondheim for Colonial Chorus Players, Twelfth Night for The Bard Brigade, and a short film Project Invisible. His playwright credits include Online Dating (one-act play) and Curtain Call (Full-length play) at Acting Out Company in Lawrence, How Do You Know (one-act play) at River’s Edge Arts Alliance, Woods (full-length play) at Theater@First, and A Christmas Gift (one-act play) & A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play (full-length adaptation) at Theater company of Saugus and Love in the Snow: Stories for Christmas at Walpole Footlighters. Author credits: Woods, Curtain Call, And the Oscar Goes To, and Just Get Over it (self-published) available also on Amazon.com in Kindle, Paperback, and Large Print. He currently hosts his own podcast Everything You Never Needed to Know about Movies, Music, and Theater and is the creator, writer, and plays “Jim Henry” of The Movie Critics: A Web series, you can find both on Anchor, Spotify, and every place else you get your podcasts. About the Quarantine Players Website https://quarantineplayers.org/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Twitter: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers Amazon Fire TV APP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like they matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

1h 23m
02/18/2021

The Politics of Fabulousness, PART 1 of 2 Written By Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein | Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players| Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com | NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers Amazon Fire TV App: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

1h 18m
02/18/2021

The Politics of Fabulousness, PART 2 of 2 Written By Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players

Written By Judy Klass Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App Say so long to huddling around the computer. If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players Website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

1h 23m
02/18/2021

TALK BACK: The Politics of Fabulousness by Judy Klass

Written By Judy Klass Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App Say so long to huddling around the computer. If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players Website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

28 min
02/11/2021

Children of Combs and Watch Chains by Emily McClain by the Quarantine Players

A Virtual Play Reading To find all our other performances go to QuarantinePlayers.org A dark twist on the Gift of the Magi. Della and Jim Young desperately long to be parents. After years of failed fertility treatments and then finding out they are not eligible to be adoptive parents due to Della’s medical history, both embark on their own individual quests to achieve the goal they both believe will bring them the true fulfillment and the happiness they’ve been missing. Each keeps their plan secret from the other- but the hidden costs of their journeys eventually overwhelm their relationship. The consequences of their choices come to fruition and leave them longing for another, less treacherous path. Directed by Jacob Daniel Sinclair Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Stage Direction by Sara Lucchini Cast Hannah Reinert as DELLA YOUNG Corneilus Franklin as JIM YOUNG Holly Souchack as POLLY AMANTE Debra Marlowe as ESTHER SALGADO Erin Rae Li as TRICIA MCDONALD Robert Coe as JAMIE BULLARD About the Playwright Emily McClain is a professional playwright and theatre educator. Emily is a proud member of Working Title Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild and currently serves as Board President for Gwinnett Classic Theatre. Her play SLAYING HOLOFERNES was co-winner of Essential Theatre’s New Play Festival and received a world premiere production in 2019. The Pumphouse Players held readings of MY BROTHER’S SECRET KEEPER and PARADISE, STAYED. She was a featured playwright with Elephant Room Productions for her play CHEEK BY JOWL. CHEEK BY JOWL was also featured as Essential Theatre’s Bare Essential Reading Series in October 2020. Her full length comedy JULIE’S PLACE was selected for the JOOKMS Spotlight Series in July 2020 and later went on to be a semi-finalist with the New American Voices with The Landing Theatre Company. Her tragedy TERMINUS ANDRONICUS was a finalist at the American Shakespeare Center Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries competition in 2019. Her Risk Theatre play CHILDREN OF COMBS AND WATCH CHAINS was named a finalist for the Risk Theatre International Competition in August 2020. Her short plays have been staged at many professional theaters across the country including Mississippi, California, Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, and numerous venues in Georgia. Her historical drama COPPER ANGEL will be presented by borderless productions as an audio drama in March 2021. She is published through ArtAge, Smiths Scripts, and Stage-Rights and more of her work may be found on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/27781/emily-mcclain About the Quarantine Players https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers https://quarantineplayers.org/ https://twitter.com/q_players https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

1h 36m

The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors, and directors who meet online once a week to read new plays in development. Please join us every week to hear great new work. Our video performances are available on QuartantinePlayers.org. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qplayers/support

Creator

Quarantine Players
Years Active

2020 - 2021
Episodes

38
Rating

Explicit
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