HB Playwrights Short Play Festival: 2000 The Funeral Plays [Paperback]

William Carden (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2003 | ISBN-10: 1575252864 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252865

The variety, originality, and spontaneity of these plays is a testament to what happens when you give gifted, committed playwrights the opportunity to write a short play knowing that it will be produced. In their hands it has been proven to be a risk that pays off. At the heart of this event is the imaginative impulse of a playwright writing a play knowing that it will be produced as opposed to hoping that it will be produced. How liberating that has proven to be for this talented group of writers and for all the actors, directors, and designers who have joined them to work on these plays. - William Carden, Artistic Director, HB Playwrights Theatre

Editorial Reviews

Review

The always outstanding work of the HB Playwrights Foundation...is once again exemplified in its Annual Short Play Festival. -- Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Producer

About the Author

William Carden is Artistic Director of the Herbert Bergdorf Playwrights Foundation and Theatre where he founded the Playwrights Unit in 1995. Productions he has directed at HB Studios include: Mrs. Klein and Collected Stories, both with Uta Hagen, Voir Dire by Joe Sutton, Mall America by Peter Sagal, The Wax by Kathleen Tolan and the 25th Anniversary production of Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes. Last season, he directed the all-star reading of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Uta Hagen, Jonathan Pryce, Mia Farrow, and Matthew Broderick at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. Off-Broadway, he directed James Ryan's The Young Girl and the Monsoon at Playwrights Horizons. As an actor he has played leading roles Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Rep, WPA, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Phoenix Theatre. On Broadway, he created the title role in Short Eyes. He has been seen in a variety of television shows, the most recent being Law & Order.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (February 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575252864
• ISBN-13: 978-1575252865
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,586,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)