Friday, January 14, 2022
All readings begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.
1. “Black Irish” by Heath Houseman
Black Customer Service Telephone Operator D-von James and white Client Caller Peter Butane’s conversation goes off the rails when race is brought up.
Black Customer Service Telephone Operator D-von James and white Client Caller Peter Butane’s conversation goes off the rails when race is brought up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Heath is a Canadian-American screenwriter, produced and published playwright, author, and actor. He holds a BA in Theatre/Acting and an MFA in Creative Writing/Screenwriting and has worked on the stage and in the television and film industry as an actor and artistic director. Freelance work includes copy editing, proofreading, and manuscript critiques for the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Bifrost Pictures, and a motley crew of screenwriters, playwrights, authors, and dreamers.
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2. “Natalina Woods: The Sundowning Gypsy” by Suzka
A Sundowning Gypsy visits Violet in the later part of the night carrying bags of trinkets, stories and game changing spells.
A Sundowning Gypsy visits Violet in the later part of the night carrying bags of trinkets, stories and game changing spells.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Suzka is a painter, writer, storyteller and author who looks at life different than most. Her works are irreverent, imaginative, delightfully manic and always brimming with color. Born in Chicago, Suzka studied at the Chicago Academy of Art and received a degree from Northern Illinois University: active in theater, directing and producing, a performer of Mime and a student of ‘improv’ from Chicago’s Second City Company. Suzka is best known as Monterey’s Jazz Festival’s set design creator and painter for 25 years, Gaslamp’s Comic-Con Painter, author of Wonders In Dementialand and producer/creator of the Dementialand Podcast.
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3. “A Sense of Entitlement” by Grant Gelvin
An old man is recruited as an artist’s model, but the painter’s intentions extend beyond the canvas. The long dead past and the cutting edge of art collide.
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3. “A Sense of Entitlement” by Grant Gelvin
An old man is recruited as an artist’s model, but the painter’s intentions extend beyond the canvas. The long dead past and the cutting edge of art collide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Grant Gelvin has been an actor, director, and theatrical artistic manager. He has written/directed/produced short films and is currently trying to convince some gullible filmmaker to make them for him.