We are excited to announce the upcoming plays selected for the July and August slots of At Hand’s Free Staged Reading Series, presented at the Ted Bardy Studio (153 W. 27th Street, Suite #301, between 6th and 7th Avenues).
The first play, Lila Cante, written by Mark Snyder and directed by Sara Sahin, will be presented on July 13th at 7:00pm.
“A reclusive singer-songwriter makes an album that rocks the world. Now, as the music industry implodes, two siblings battle over their mother’s legacy and her thirty years of silence.”
At Hand will then present Letters to the End of the World, written by Anton Dudley and directed by Daniel Horrigan, on August 17th at 7:00pm, presented with permission of Gotham Stage Company.
“A revealing article about the African AIDS crisis, buried deep in the pages of a fashion magazine, leads a young gay man in New York to form an unexpected correspondence with a woman in Zambia. The friendship takes him halfway around the world to discover that Africa is much closer to his heart than he thinks.”
No casting has been announced yet. Check back for updates on our website: athandtheatre.com!
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MARK SNYDER’s plays include Lila Cante, Wipe Away,The Beanbag Game, Lilith on Today, and The Sounds of Ice, as well as many one-acts and shorter plays. For three summers, he hosted and performed in Red Light Nights at New York’s The Slipper Room (Firecracker Productions). His plays have been produced and developed in Chicago, San Francisco, Portland and Minneapolis. His essays have appeared in ThePeeq and at Maud Newton.com, and he has read new work at Pete’s Candy Store (courtesy of the2ndHand.com) and throughout downtown NYC. Mark was born in Warren, Ohio and can be found at: myspace.com/markbsnyder.
ANTON DUDLEY’s off-Broadway productions include Substitution (Soho Playhouse), Getting Home (SecondStage Theatre), and Slag Heap (Cherry Lane Theatre). Other New York productions include Circumvention (Keen Company), Honor and the River (SPF; New York Stage & Film), Davy & Stu (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Lake’s End (Adirondack Theatre Festival), BOB (NYS&F; EST), Flight of Kings (37Arts), January 1, 2000 (Lincoln Center Theater@HERE), Pleaching the Coffin Sisters (EST), Drowned People (Fire Dept.@Joe’s Pub), Up Here/In Here (Altered Stages), Antarctica (Vital Theatre), and edWARd2 (FringeNYC). Regionally, his plays have been produced by the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Cleveland Public Theatre in Ohio, Theatre Pro Rata in Minneapolis, Luna Stage in New Jersey, New Works/New Haven in Connecticut, both Cherry Red Productions and The Kennedy Center’s Prelude Festival in Washington DC, Momentum Productions in Texas, and other companies in Idaho, California, and Virginia. Anton’s work has been published by Playscripts, Inc. (both Honor and the River and Circumvention) and in The Dramatist, PLAY A Journal of Plays (Vol. II), The Waverly Review, both volumes of Gary Garrison’s Monologues for Men by Men (Heinemann Press), Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens (Playscripts, Inc.), Audition Monologues (Meriwether Publishing), and New American Short Plays 2005 (Backstage Books) edited by Craig Lucas. The short film of “Davy & Stu,” for which Anton adapted the screenplay, appears on Strand Releasing’s collection Boys Life 6. The award-winning film was an official selection of over 60 international film festivals, playing on 5 continents (www.nopressureproductions.com). Anton is a recipient of the Manhattan Theater Club Playwriting Fellowship and commission, the Bill Foeller Fellowship at Williamstown Theater Festival, the Cherry Lane Mentor’s Project Fellowship (Mentor: Ed Bullins), a Dramatists’ Guild of America Fellowship, a Translation Residency and Travel Grant from Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques in Montreal, a New York Theatre Workshop Summer Residency at Dartmouth College, a Baryshnikov Dance Foundation Residency (Mentor: Edwin Sanchez), both NYU’s Goldberg Award for Best Play (Mentor: Tony Kushner) and the John Golden Prize in Playwriting, an Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation Grant, and was chosen by Arthur Kopit to be an inaugural member of the Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights Workshop and was its Playwright-in-Residence for the 2006-2007 season. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Anton is a member of New York Theatre Workshop’s “Usual Suspects” and MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition. Currently, Anton is developing books for two new musicals: Kissing the Underworld, a commission from Cherry Lane Theatre, and Tina Girlstar, under commercial option by Olympus Theatricals, LLC.
