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BOA X Program Announcement

PROGRAM 1 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)

THE FALL

By Crish Barth

In March of 2009, an online chat-group emerged to discuss Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. What they ended up discussing was anything but Natasha Richardson -- inspired by true events.

Directed by Colin Johnson/Round Belly Theatre Company

TEST PREPARATION

By M.R. Fall

Standardized testing is Hell. Or is Hell standardized testing?

Directed by Julia Heitner/No Nude Men

SPEAK ROUGHLY

By Stuart Eugene Bousel

A dramatic meditation on puzzles and things that are puzzling, iconic and inconclusive identities, significant and insignificant life moments, and all the times you wish you hadn't had sex.

Directed by Kate Jopson/Woman’s Will

THE OPPOSITE OF ROMANCE

By Jon Brooks

An imminent extra-marital affair is short-circuited by a possibly public post on Facebook. A play about middle age and marriage in the era of instant communication.

Directed by Stephanie Renee Maysonave/Company Member, Boxcar Theatre

THE POND

By Sam Leichter

It's Christmas Eve near the idyllic shores of Maine's Wrang Pond. As Bella awaits her husband's return, a winter storm and an unexpected turn of events bring her face-to-face with an enigmatic stranger.

Directed by Paul Cello/Instrumental Theatre

PROGRAM 2 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)

TWICE AS BRIGHT

By Daniel Heath

A woman waits for a bus and decides to fall in love and break up with the next man she meets before she gets on her bus. She has ten minutes to make it happen.

Directed by Sara Staley/Playwrights Center, SF

THE HOT SPOT

By Tim Bauer

A couple discovers a strange pool of light in their living room that, whenever they step into, compels them to perform monologues.

Directed by Rob Ready/PianoFight Productions

A THREE LITTLE DUMPLINGS ADVENTURE

By Megan Cohen

A delightfully twisted tale of three little dumpling's epic adventure through the house one afternoon.

Directed by Jessica Holt/3WM

PURE BALTIC AVENUE

By Bennett Fisher

A mortgage fraud scheme turns into a clockwork frenzy as three suits struggle to get rich and escape unscathed. It's a simple premise, really.

Directed by Alex Curtis/Threshold

CANARY YELLOW

By Sharif Abu-Hamdeh

A couple's relationship rewinds; a review of loss and love, in its absurdity and poignancy.

Directed by Sara Judge/Theater Pub

CLOUD FLOWER

By 11^th Hour Ensemble

Cloud Flower explores the memory of the atom bomb's devastation of Hiroshima through the tangled dreams of one of its survivors. Using trademark imagination and physicality, the 11th Hour Ensemble presents an evocative take on the infamy of the Mushroom Cloud.

Created and directed by Allison Combs and Ryo Harada/11^th Hour Ensemble

BOA X Gets A Brand New Look

Thanks to BOA Graphic Designer Cody Rishell

BOA X: Auditions a Great Success!

Thank you to all who attended our BOA X General Auditions!

We had a great day and saw over 70 actors for the 25+ roles available in our upcoming festival of original new short work. So much talent. The BOA X directors and playwrights are completely delighted by the range and skill of the Bay Area actor pool. Thank you Actors!

Now to the process of casting... fun.

We will post the cast lists of the shows in the next week or so.

Thank you to all who attended and good luck!

BOA X Auditions

AUDITION NOTICE

10th Annual Bay One Acts (BOA) Festival
March 6 - March 27, 2011
Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco

Audition Dates: December 12 10AM-6PM
Where: Boxcar Studios
125A Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(between Golden Gate and Turk)

What: Please prepare a 1 minute contemporary monologue.
Audition may also include cold read.

Contact: boa10casting@gmail.com to reserve an audition slot.

Please include a headshot and resume.

Featuring short plays by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, Crish Barth, Tim Bauer, Stuart Bousel, Jon Brooks, Megan Cohen, M.R. Fall, Bennett Fisher, Daniel Heath, Sam Leichter and 11th Hour Ensemble.

Directed by Paul Cello, Allison Combs, Alex Curtis, Julia Heitner, Jessica Holt, Colin Johnson, Kate Jopson, Sara Judge, Stephanie Renee Maysonave, Rob Ready, Sara Staley.

Producing Partners: 3WM, 11th Hour Ensemble, Instrumental Theatre, No Nude Men, PianoFight, Playwrights Center, Round Belly Theatre Company, Theater Pub, Threshold, and Woman's Will.

Artistic Director, Jessica Holt & Consulting Producer, Claire Zawa

BOA X: In the Works!

We are very excited that planning has finally begun in earnest for BOA X. Plays are making final selection, directors are signing on, producing partners are lining up and the look of the festival is being hashed out.

A formal announcement will be made in early December listing all of the BOA X players. For now, we can tell you that BOA X will feature a return of many of the favorites of last year's BOA, as well as some fabulous new artists.

We will continue to build our COMMUNITY by focusing on the ways in which we have grown together over the past year and have COLLABORATED to create adventurous, innovative and bold new work together. BOA X will be a celebration of our collaborations together and a breeding ground for the future collaborations between the artists of the BOA community. The festival will feature kick-ass new work that represents the best of small theatre!

BOA X will take place at Boxcar Theatre again this year in March 2011.

Specific dates and program information coming soon!

Boxcar Theatre
505 Natoma Street, SF
(between 6th and 7th and Mission and Howard)

For more information, please contact Artistic Director, Jessica Holt at jessicadirect@gmail.com

The BOA Festival Program a Huge Success!

Congratulations to Program 1 and Program 2 on very successful openings!

From the smart, innovative, imaginative writing to the dynamic staging to the sharp acting to the gorgeous look and sound of the design to the spot-on efficiency of the stage management, the BOA programs ROCK!

We are extraordinarily excited about the community that we are creating within this festival. Thanks to all of you for embracing, fostering and cultivating this community.

If you haven't gotten a chance to check out this great video about BOA made by our friends at Piano Fight, take a look!

The Photo above features:

Jasen Talise, Dave Dyson, Megan Briggs, and Nick Dickson in Tim Bauer's "Three Little Words." Directed by Alex Curtis for Playpen. Photo by: Clay Robeson

Photo Below: Andy Strong and Kirsten Broadbear as Kansas and Marra in "Housebroken" by Stuart Bousel. DIrected by Claire Rice for No Nude Men. Photo by Clay Robeson.

BOA Kills! Program One opens to Great Success!

A big congratulations to the playwrights, directors, actors and production team of Program 1. The program went beautifully and I am so impressed with everyone's work. We played to a packed (oversold!!) house who left the theatre abuzzing.

Thank you to all for making it such a success.




We are also thrilled with this new promotional video made by Piano Fight's Duncan Wold and Raymond Hobbs:



Thanks PF!

The sense of community is quite incredible this year. To see what all the fuss is about, buy your tickets at www.threewisemonkeys.org and come see the show!

See you at the theatre!
Jessica

Pictured Above (left to right): Raymond Hobbs as George & Brian Trybom as Devon in Sam Leichter's The Philadelphian. Directed by Rob Ready of Piano Fight.

Photo Taken by Claire Rice.

BOA Poster!

We are thrilled with our BOA poster this year created by the fabulous Cody Rishell!


Thank you Cody!!

Program 2: A Delicious Brew!

The Monkeys enjoyed listening to the plays of Program 2 on a stormy night at the Off-Market Theatre last week. Thanks to Rob Ready and Piano Fight for providing the space and giving us the lowdown on what's happening in their theatrical world. For more info about PianoFight, go here.

Great stories, wonderful language, kick-ass actors, and a room stuffed with playwrights, directors, designers and actors all drinking wine and whiskey made the evening bright even as the storm darkened the skies outside.

We were also excited to discover a kind of them tying the 5 pieces by Daniel Heath, Tim Bauer, Megan Cohen, Stuart Bousel and Lauren Yee together. Each piece explores a "breakdown" in some form -- whether it is nothing ever working in our modern world, the doomed fate of two starcrossed lovers, the failure of memory under hyper stress, the resistance of a proud piano and the effects that has on a marriage, or the rupture a death can create in the life of another.

That realization has prompted a reorganization our program order for Program 2. Nothing Works by Daniel Heath will kick off our night. A short comedy about failure, this play provides a philosophical lens through which to view the other offerings of the evening:

The new program order is:
Nothing Works by Daniel Heath
Three Little Words by Tim Bauer
The Great Double Check by Megan Cohen
**Intermission**
Housebroken by Stuart Bousel
The Life and Death of Joshua Zweig by Lauren Yee

Very excited to see these plays in 3 weeks -- February 25th launched Program 2. Be there!

Pictured above (l to r): Claire Rice, Director, Housebroken, Stuart Bousel, Housebroken, Tore Ingersoll-Thorp, Director, Life and Death of Joshua Zweig, Claire Zawa, Production Manger and Director, The Great Double Check

Program 1 Rocks Group Table Read

The Monkeys had a blast this past Monday night listening to a Program 1 Group Table Read. The theme of this year's festival is community, and Monday night's showing affirmed this. Over 35 people -- playwrights, directors, actors, designers from both Program 1 and Program 2 -- came out to read, listen, schmooze and nosh. The casual group read was a huge success!

Thanks to all of our resident artists from Sleepwalkers Theatre, Piano Fight, No Nude Men, Climate, Threshold, Playpen, and Instrumental for being there!

We heard these comments from our fellow collaborators as they walked out the door:

"Looks like a seriously great line-up for program 1" -- Crish Barth (Playwright, Reading with Friends, Program 1)

"These plays are hilarious!" -- Paul Cello (Director, Reading with Friends, Program 1)

"Awesome read-through! Got me pumped for the festival. Great plays and talented actors!" -- Patrick Barresi (Actor, Altered Landscape, Program 1)

Three Wise Monkeys is stoked and looking forward to next weeks Program 2 Group Table Read to be held at Piano Fight's Off-Market Space!

Pictured above from l to r are the playwrights: Jon Brooks, Stuart Bousel, Megan Cohen, Ben Fisher, Crish Barth

Get Your BOA Tickets!

Tickets are now on sale for the 9th Annual Bay One Acts (BOA)!

Tickets are $24 for General Admission

Half‐price tickets are available for students and seniors.

TBA and 30-and-Under tickets available for $16.

To purchase tickets please visit

www.threewisemonkeys.org or call 415‐776‐7427.

For complete program schedule, please go to:

http://threewisemonkeys.org/BOAsched.html

To learn more about BOA's line-up of kick-ass plays, click HERE.