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A Staged Reading of was presented at TACT on June 8 & 9, 2010  CAST: TACT Company Member, LYNN WRIGHT with Guest Artists: CHRISTOPHER BURNS, HUNTER CANNING & SUSAN LOUISE O'CONNOR  T or C is the 2009 Winner of Virtual Theatre Project's "The Pen is a Mighty Sword" play competition. THE SETTING: The New Mexico desert. Outside a town called Truth or Consequences. There’s a trailer, rusted up, in bad shape. Gravel in front, then a birdbath, dried out, two rusted chairs, small table. In the background, a moonscape of dry hills. Out front, the desert. Somewhere in the distance, Space Port America is being built. THE SET UP: Trying to escape his past, Sheridan rents a broken down trailer in the New Mexico desert. His plans for solitude are thwarted by a very unexpected connection. It isn't long before everything he fears crashes down on him.  The Tor C Company: Susan Manikus (SM), Lynn Wright, Christopher Burns, Susan Louise O'Connor, Darrie Lawrence (Stage directions/narration); Barry Satchwell Smith (Director). Not pictured: Hunter Canning, Vincent Delany (playwright) VINCENT DELANY'S plays have been produced and developed across the country at the Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Rep, ACT, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage, InterAct, the Children’s Theatre Company, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, Pittsburgh Public, and Orlando Shakespeare Festival, among others. Awards include a McKnight Fellowship, a Jerome Commission, the Heideman Award, a Bush Fellowship, the Virtual Theatre Project New Play Award, and the Nathan Miller Award from the Sprenger Lang Foundation. He is a Core Alumnus of the Playwrights Center. THE SEQUENCE, commissioned by the Guthrie, has been produced around the country and in the UK. THE WAR PARTY was developed through the National New Play Network, and had simultaneous world premieres at Seattle Public Theatre and Philadelphia’s InterAct Theatre. KUWAIT was first produced at the Humana Festival, and has since been produced in Minneapolis, Seattle, and the Sonoma County Rep, among others. It was recently filmed by Thursday Films and presented at festivals in Connecticut and New Hampshire. Other plays include PERPETUA (New Harmony Project, PlayLabs, O’Neill Finalist), WRITER 1272 (Seattle University, Guthrie BFA commission), THREE SCREAMS (developed at Luna Stage), and THE ART OF BAD MEN (Pittsburgh Public, History Theatre). Vincent’s plays are published by Smith and Kraus, Samuel French, Heineman, Dramatics Magazine, and Playscripts.com. He teaches playwriting in Seattle, where he lives with his wife and three children. He’s currently finishing a new three actor comedy called AMPERSAND. CAST:  HUNTER CANNING TACT: The Late Christopher Bean (dir. Jenn Thompson) Recent Off-Broadway & Workshops‘: '68 (dir. John Gould-Rubin/LAByrinth); Foreman/Bridge Project (dir. Richard Foreman/Ontological). Film: The Exploding Girl w/ Zoe Kazan. BFA from the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatoire. Hunter would like to express his deepest gratitude to Barry Satchwell Smith for giving him the opportunity to work on such a beautiful and powerful play. www.huntercanning.com  CHRISTOPHER BURNS TACT: Incident at Vichy. New York: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Longacre Theatre); A Question of Mercy (NY Theater Workshop); Fool for Love; Satisfy Me (Studio Tisch); The Lady From the Sea (Century Center); F-Stop (Homegrown Theatre); Beyond Recognition (Abingdon); Ice Island: The Wait for Shackleton (Melting Pot Thtr. Co.); Boise; Suburban Motel: Problem Child (Rattlestick); Prides Crossing (Lincoln Center); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Common Ground); Stones in His Pockets (US Tour). Regional: The Great Game (Broadway @ Duke University); The Crucible (St. Louis Rep. & Cincinnati Playhouse); Night of the Iguana (Dallas Theater Center); The Glass Menagerie (Intiman); Shakes. Theater of NJ, Portland Center Stage, Clarence Brown Theater, Virginia Stage Co., Colorado Shakes. Fest., Westport Country Playhouse. International: Extremities (Edinburgh Fringe) Stones in His Pockets. Film & Television: Ten Stories Tall; A Perfect Christmas; The Accountant; Clown Karma; Kings; Important Things with Demitri Martin; Rescue Me; Law and Order; Law and Order SVU; Guiding Light; All My Children.  SUSAN LOUISE O'CONNOR TACT: Debut. Blithe Spirit on Broadway (Theatre World Award, Dorothy Loudon Fellowship, Outer Critics Circle Nomination). Recent NYC credits include: Vigil, Children at Play, Apostasy, What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends, Susan Gets Some Play and Nerve. Regional credits include: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Huntington Theatre, Barrington Stage & Portland Stage. NYC Fringe Festival's best actor award for the one-woman show, Take. Innovative Award for lead actress in Packawallop's the silent concerto. Films include: Flying Scissors, Coming Up Roses, Acts of Worship, The Day My Towers Fell & Parallel Passage. Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent & Nate the Great. Member of Packawallop Productions. www.susanlouiseoconnor.com  LYNN WRIGHT TACT: Company Member since 1994/95; 27 productions with the company, most recently, Candle-Light. Broadway: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: The Democracy Project (Culture Project/Naked Angels, Jonathan Bernstein, dir.); As Bees in Honey Drown (Mark Brokaw, dir.); Bread and Circuses (Lamb’s); La Mama E.T.C.; Jean Cocteau Rep.; Theatreworks USA. National Tour: M. Butterfly. Regional: Cakewalk (Marshall Mason, dir.); All’s Well That Ends Well (Old Globe, Sheldon Epps, dir.); Cymbeline (Huntington Theatre); Eleemosynary (Hartford Theatreworks); Top Girls, Picnic, Twelfth Night, The Seagull (American Conservatory Theatre), VITA Shakespeare Festival. Television: Another World; The Magic Lie. Ms. Wright is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre. |