PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN READING SERIES

The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company are pleased to announce an innovative partnership, whereby DC area student actors honing their craft at the nationally recognized Theatre Lab will apprentice with professional actors and directors, many of them Woolly veterans, to perform a series of staged readings by four of Woolly’s favorite groundbreaking playwrights.

Time: 8pm, followed by a talk-back with actors and directors. Location: Feb. 17, 24, and March 3 at Woolly Mammoth;
March 10 at The Theatre Lab (733 8th St, NW).
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

At Woolly Mammoth:

Tues., February 17:
SNOW ANGEL
by David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers, Shrek the Musical, Inkheart).
Featuring Woolly Company Member Kimberly Gilbert (The K of D, Boom).
Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick, Co-Artistic Director, Rorschach Theatre.
A funny, eerie tale about a mysterious girl named Eva who, during the blizzard of the century, steps out of a snow bank and into the lives of fifteen very confused Vermont teenagers in search of discovery.

Tues., February 24:
BOX AMERICANA, A DREAM OF WAL-MART 
by Jason Grote (Maria/Stuart, 1001).
Featuring Deidra LaWan Starnes (Hurlyburly), ACTCo veteran.
Directed by Woolly Company Member Mitchell Hébert (Gigli Concert).
Kelly, a passionate cheerleader for Wal-Mart, and Danae, a devoted mother escaping a violent past, seek the Promised Land in Wal-Mart while being haunted by the ghost of Sam Walton, as the the ruthless spirit of capitalism.

Tues., March 3:
RESTORATION COMEDY
by Amy Freed (The Psychic Life of Savages, The Beard of Avon).
Featuring Deb Gottesman, Theatre Lab founder and Woolly veteran (Current Nobody).
Directed by Scott Fortier, Artistic Director, Catalyst Theater.
A big and bawdy romantic comedy that mines the wit, style, and sexual intrigues of the late 17th century.  Loosely based on restoration comedies by Colly Cibber and John Vanbrugh, Freed’s comedy brings a feminist sensibility to the adventures and misadventures of Amanda, the long suffering wife of Loveless, a philandering husband who pretends to be deceased so he can romp from bed to bed throughout Europe.

At The Theatre Lab:

Tues., March 10:
KATE CRACKERNUTS 
by Sheila Callaghan (Fever/Dream, Crumble (lay me down Justin Timberlake)).
Featuring MaryBeth Wise (The Mineola Twins), Olney Theatre veteran.
Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz, Artistic Director, Theater Alliance.
A surreal and edgy adult fairy tale about two sisters, one of whom wakes up one morning to find a sheep’s head between her shoulders, and their efforts to return that sister’s true head to its proper place. The journey is sidetracked, however, by Kate’s obsession with a slim raver-boy who has a nasty little addiction.

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Deb Gottesmann in Current Nobody (2007)

Kimberly Gilbert in The K of D (2008)

Sarah Marshall in Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007)