November | 2011

The Bats and Vampires Unite for "She Kills Monsters" at the Flea

She Kills Monsters From left, Megha Nabe, Satomi Blair, Margaret Odette, Allison Buck, Raúl Sigmund Julia and Jack Corcoran in Qui Nguyen’s play about role-playing games at the Flea Theater. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Qui Nguyen (MFA ’02) and a few of his Vampire Cowboys have brought their work to the Flea Theater in Manhattan. Working with the Flea’s resident actors, the Bats, Nguyen and director Robert Ross Parker (fellow OU alum, MFA Directing ’02) present Nguyen’s latest play “She Kills Monsters” a “deceptively breezy and rather ingenious comedy,” says Eric Grode of the New York Times. “It will slash and shapeshift its way into your heart.” Read the full review at NYTimes.com. She Kills Monsters continues through Dec. 23 at the Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa; (212) 352-3101; visit theflea .org for ticket and show information. Up next for Nguyen? He and Parker will return to Ohio University in the Spring of 2012 to develop an original work with the OU School of Theater.

Award-winning Kennedy Play Heads Down Under

I’ll Hear It When I See It, the award-winning play by 3rd Year MFA Playwright Ira Gamerman has been selected for Short + Sweet Sydney’s 2012 10-minute play festival in Sydney, Australia. The play, seen at the Kennedy Center in January 2011, was shortlisted for several Short + Sweet festivals around Australia. From the Short + Sweet website: “Short+Sweet Sydney will produce 180 brand new 10 minute plays in Jan, Feb and Mar of 2012, never before seen in Sydney. With over 300 writers and directors and close to 500 actors involved, Short+Sweet Sydney truly is the biggest little play festival in the world!” For more information, visit www.shortandsweet.org.

East Coast Premiere of Student’s Feature Film

Separation Anxiety, a feature film written by 2nd year MFA playwright Jeremy Sony, is an Official Selection of the 5th Annual Alexandria Film Festival and will be screened on Saturday, November 5th at 5pm, at the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria. “More than 200 high quality, independent, short and feature length films, documentaries, animation and narrative entries from 25 countries were received,” said organizers of this year’s festival. Sony will be in attendance with the film’s director Cole Simon of Glass City Films. Separation Anxiety stars Tyler Seiple, Corbin Jones, Kiana Harris, with John Wesley Shipp (Dawson’s Creek) and Polly Adams (United 93). Visit alexandriafilm.org to learn about the festival.

Watch the trailer for Separation Anxiety and visit Glass City Films for more information.

Taking Madness Beyond the Hahne

First-year MFA Playwright Jacob Juntunen will be in Chicago this weekend for Caffeine Theatre’s Aphra Behn Coffeehouse at the Newberry Library where they will feature a revised and expanded version of his short play “Code Name: Astrea” in an afternoon of short plays and other artistic works. The play was developed as part of Ohio Playwriting’s weekly Production 650 class, also known as Madness.