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The Aim:
Connect with professional theatre.
Texas Dramatists was created to foster playwrights
of the greater southwest . . .
by providing performance
opportunities through development,
support, and recognition. |
Future Projects:
Festivals, contests, readings, symposiums,
and workshops located throughout the
region, economically priced, and led by
playwrights, directors, and actors. |
2008 Selected Plays
The Last Words by Michael Ward
Losing Daniel by Lon E. Rogers
Night Cries by David Wright Crawford
Call Board
WANTED -
Hosts for:
- "An Autumn Reading" - a Saturday in October-November
- "A Winter Reading II" - a Saturday in January-February
if interested, contact us ;)
Linda Daugherty has a new play published: The Secret Life of Girls.
Her publisher is Dramatic Publishing.
For a synopsis and more reviews/comments, visit
DramaticPublishing.com.
To view a short trailer, visit
YouTube.com.
And for more information on this and other plays, visit
LindaDaugherty.com.
David W. Crawford will have an Off-Broadway reading of his new play Night Cries at
Theatre Row, June 6th.
Dr. Marion Castleberry
Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University Theatre Department; member, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY; Off-Broadway director, actor; Founding President of the Horton Foote Society; Artistic Director of the American Actors Company; co-founder of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival; nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play; editor of Horton Foote: The Genesis of an American Playwright.
Dr. David W. Crawford
Chair, Theatre Department, Tyler Junior College; authored six published plays, (two appearing off-Broadway: Borrowed Plumage: North American Theatre Project and Harvest: A High Plains Trilogy, a staged reading at the Ensemble Studio Theatre), and three scene books: Moments, Timeless, and Gallery. Harvest played off-broadway at the Beckett Theatre produced by the Alchemy Theatre Company in December, 2007.
Judson Jones
Judson Jones, is a founder and Producing Artistic Director for Theatre East
and has been working professionally as an actor, director and producer for
over a decade. The past few years he's had the privilege of collaborating
Off Broadway with the premier of Christopher Durang's "The Vietnamization of
New Jersey", and the premier of David W. Crawford's "Harvest", which he also
co-directed with Benard Cummings, L. Pontius's "Umbrella", and Zayd Dohrn's
"Haymarket". Along with his involvement with Theatre East, he served as
Associate Director for Alchemy Theatre Company from 2004 – 2007, currently
serves of the Board of Directors, both for Texas Dramatists and the dirigo
group. He is a founding member of the dirigo group where he served as
Co-Producing Artistic Director, and is an active member of First Look
Theatre Company, Hyde Park Theatre Company, and a proud member of Actors'
Equity Association.
Jon Perry
Marketing/Public Relations Coordinator, Tyler Museum of Art, following seven
years as award-winning arts/entertainment editor, chief film and theater
critic, and columnist for Tyler Morning Telegraph; former drama critic for
the Santa Fe New Mexican; 10 years as actor, director and designer in
educational and regional theater in Texas.
Clarence Strickland
Technical Director, Tyler Junior College for forty years with over one hundred plays
directing and designing. A dramaturge of regional renown. Has conducted workshops and clinics all over Texas.
Larry Wisdom
Long time Texas high school teacher and theatre director winning countless competitions at Van and Mineola High Schools; leads workshops for the Texas University Interscholastic League and presenter at Texas Educational Theatre Association.
Dr. David W. Crawford,
Speech & Theatre -
Department Chair, TJC
e-Mail: dcra@tjc.edu
Phone: 903-510-2678
Dr. Marion Castleberry, Director of Graduate Theatre Studies, Baylor
Phone: (254) 710-1861
e-Mail: Marion_Castleberry@baylor.edu
Judson Jones,
Associate Director of Alchemy Theatre Company
e-Mail: jjones@alchemytheatre.org
Larry Wisdom,
Theatre Director, Van High School - Van, Texas
e-Mail: LWisdom@aol.com
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