bareNaked Reading Series LA closes with 3 short plays by ISRAEL HOROVITZ

ISRAEL HOROVITZ’S plays have been translated and performed, worldwide. His 70+ plays include Line (now in 36th year, off-Broadway), The Indian Wants The Bronx, Rats, Morning, The Primary English Class, The Wakefield Plays, The Widow’s Blind Date, Today I Am A Fountain Pen, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard,North Shore Fish, Fighting Over Beverley, Lebensraum , My Old Lady, Free Gift,Cat-Lady, Stations of the Cross, One Under, 50 Years of Caddieing, Speaking Well of the Dead, Unexpected Tenderness, Fast Hands, Security, A Mother’s Love, Sins of the Mother, 6 Hotels (including The Audition Play, Fiddleheads and Lovers,Speaking of Tushy, 2nd Violin, Beirut Rocks, and The Hotel Play), Compromise,The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath, and The P Word. Screenplays include Author! Author!, The Strawberry Statement (Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival), Sunshine(European Academy Award – Best Screenplay), New York, I Love You, and EMMY-nominated James Dean. Horovitz wrote, directed and performed the award-winning documentary 3 Weeks After Paradise, shown in the USA on Bravo, now on stage in Paris. Awards include the OBIE (twice), the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The Sony Radio Academy Award (for Man In Snow), The Writers Guild of Canada Best Screenwriter Award, The Christopher Award, The Drama Desk Award, an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B’Nai Brith, The Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, Boston Public Library’s Literary Lights Award, The Walker Hancock Prize, and many others. Horovitz is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage, and active Artistic Director of the New York Playwrights Lab. He teaches a master class in screenwriting at Columbia University and La Fèmis, France’s national film school. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history, and has recently been named to receive France’s coveted Order of Merit in Arts and Letters (March 2009).

Courtney Seiberling joins line-up for West Coast Premiere...

Here's another exciting playwright joining our line-up for this coming week's upcoming event...

Courtney Seiberling is a writer, reader, yogi, music lover, friend, and project maker. Originally from Lancaster, Ohio, Courtney attended the University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music for acting. After receiving her degree, she pursued theater in New York City where she spent the first half of her 20’s. Now in Los Angeles, Courtney makes films and writes plays, screenplays, and short stories as she surrounds herself with a great network of artists and friends. Currently, Courtney is submitting her short film Like the Penguins to festivals and developing the band documentaryWho Are We Now If We Ain’t Who We Are. Her book Five Leaves Left came out in July and her website is http://courtneyseiberling.wordpress.com/.

Seeking ASM & Production Assistant...

We are currently seeking an Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager and Production Assistant for our Spring Production of Joseph Sousa's Teeth of the Sons. The 4 week Off-Broadway run will take place at the legendary Cherry Lane Theatre with a 3/4 week rehearsal. Looking for eager, dedicated, and professional individuals interested in joining the Barefoot Theatre Company family!

Rehearsals will take place at our rehearsal space in Park Slope, Brooklyn during the day on Weekdays and some possible nights beginning March 19th thru April 18th. The ASM will assist our Production Stage Manager with any and all aspects of rehearsal during the three weeks prior to performances. Must also be available for Load-in / Tech: April 18th, 19th, 20th, & 21st.

ASM is a paid position. Possible stipend for Production Assistant who will be required to work closely with the ASM on an occasional basis regarding prop gathering, contacting design team, etc. Must also be available for Load-in/Tech week. We guarantee an incredible time during rehearsals with a full stocked Kitchen and even, yes, a Ping Pong table for use during breaks!!! Lunch and snacks are provided during load-in and tech. We will also be looking for a tech crew as we get closer to the load-in dates - should you be interested in just helping us this way please feel free to submit as well. All participants will receive a pair of tickets to the Opening Night / Red-Carpet Event as well as the After Party. All inquires should be submitted to:

Office@barefoottheatrecompany.org c/o Christopher Whalen, Producing Director.

Ensemble Member, John Gazzale

Check out ensemble member John Gazzale's performance in the upcoming show "Birds on a Wire" presented by the VOICETheatre in association with The Drilling Company! March 9th-20th at 236 West 78th Street. "It is a family story of resilience, forgiveness and foreclosure during one of the greatest ecological disasters America has ever faced, the dust storms of the 1930’s. A family and community fight for the most basic principles and rights in life, to have a home." For tickets, call 212 201 9337.

Pictured with Barefoot Family member, Betty Hudson.

Resident Playwrights, Daniel Graff & Francisco Solorzano will present works at bareNaked Reading Series LA!

Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Members and Resident Playwrights - Daniel Graff and Francisco Solorzano will present new works in the west coast premiere of the bareNaked Reading Series. Graff's short play, Maharaja Palace was originally workshopped in a writing retreat in July 10' and Solorzano's Jessica originally written and workshopped in the summer of 07.

DANIEL GRAFF "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."- George Eliot (1819 – 1880)

Daniel Graff was blessed until after the age of 30. It took some time, but Graff has begun to hone in on what he wants to say, and Barefoot functions as open ground for Graff to develop his voice. This voice can be heard in his first two plays Maharaja Palace and Black Man's Dilemma - performed in January 2011 at the Secret Theatre. As an actor, he joined forces with Barefoot Theatre Company in 2009, performing in Israel Horovitz's What Strong Fences Make, The Hotel Plays and A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. He studied acting at The Maggie Flanigan Studio and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

FRANCISCO SOLORZANO

Theater: adapted, acted in and directed the critically acclaimed/sold-out world premiere of Dog Day Afternoon (Theatre Row Theatres). Currently working on several writing projects for Barefoot Studio Pictures, a film co. he co-founded with Christopher Whalen and Daniel Graff. As an Actor and Director, Francisco has worked on numerous productions that include award winning revivals, NY and World Premiere, regionally and throughout NYC. BFA: CUNY'S Brooklyn College; a founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Barefoot Theatre Company since 1999. Recipient of the 2009 Graduate Theater Organization of Brooklyn College, CUNY's Alumnus of the Year Award. Member Since 1999.

This playwriting duo will be seen acting opposite each other during the week long event. Keep your eyes open for any and all sudden stage combat!!!

Resident Playwright, Joseph Sousa joins line-up for bareNaked Reading Series LA

We are thrilled to announce that one of our Resident Plawrights, Joseph Sousa will be joining us with our bareNaked Reading Series, the West Coast Premiere! Sousa's first full-length play, the award winning Teeth of the Sons will be seen later this Spring, Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of our current 2010-2011 Season.

JOSEPH SOUSA - Theater: The Fool in Lear at The Portland Center For Performing Arts, Ensemble in the Public's Shakespeare in the Park production of Mother Courage, and Davis inRed Light Winter at the New Workshop theater, Teeth Of The Sons is Joseph's first play, and he is currently finishing his first screenplay St. Anthony's Feast. He first began working on his play, Teeth Of The Sons, when asked to write a play as part of the Brooklyn College Theater Grant Program. The play had a staged reading of an earlier draft at 78th Street Theater Lab.

Film: Joseph is a proud member of 776 Lincoln Films which is currently editing their first feature documentary, Witch Orphans, concerning the lives of Angolan orphans abandoned by their families due to witchcraft accusations. He worked as the on-camera interviewer and lead translator on the project. B.F.A. in Acting from Brooklyn College. Member Since 2009.

Tim Plaehn joins bareNaked Reading Series LA line-up!

Tim Plaehn's West Asheville directed by Barefoot Theatre Company Co-Artistic Director, Nicole Haran was seen in our Director's LAB late last year and we're excited to bring it to LA for our first ever bareNaked Reading Series out west!

TIM PLAEHN

Most of the writing Tim Plaehn has done over the last ten years has been at the bottom of student essays, but he has still found time to write short fiction and two full-length plays. His short story "Please Read" was featured in Atlanta's Creative Loafing, and Short Story America has recently selected another story, Confirmation," for publication both on its website and in its anthology of short fiction. In his previous life as poet, Tim lived for a time on Inishmore off the coast of Ireland after he was awarded The Aran Islands Poetry Fellowship.

Tim graduated from Northeastern University and holds master's degrees from both Harvard's School of Education and Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English. He has been a teacher and coach for fifteen years and lives in Asheville with his wife Helen and their four children, Martha, Patrick, Flannery, and Henry.