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Southern Comfort Writers: Jonathan Larson Grant Winners 🔗
March 10, 2012
Southern Comfort Writers Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins Are Jonathan Larson Grant Winners
By Adam Hetrick
March 9, 2012
The songwriting team of Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins, whose musical Southern Comfort received a New York run last fall, are the recipients of the 2012 Jonathan Larson Grant.
Composer Davis and lyricist-book writer Collins will receive the $10,000 honor in a private March 27 ceremony that will feature performances from Southern Comfort. The musical traces the relationship of two transgender friends who live openly in rural Georgia.
The Larson grants recognize the work of new theatre writers whose goals match those of the late Rent author, who aimed to infuse musical theatre with a “contemporary, joyful, urban vitality.” The American Theatre Wing administers the grants.
Tony Award winners Mark Hollmann (Urinetown) and Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q) selected Davis and Collins as the 2012 recipients.
Previous Larson Grant recipients include Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal), Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar (The Wedding Singer), John Bucchino (A Catered Affair), Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy: The Musical) and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens).
SOUTHERN COMFORT wins prestigious JONATHAN LARSON AWARD!!! 🔗
Southern Comfort Writers Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins Are Jonathan Larson Grant Winners
By Adam Hetrick
March 9, 2012
The songwriting team of Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins, whose musical Southern Comfort received a New York run last fall, are the recipients of the 2012 Jonathan Larson Grant.
Composer Davis and lyricist-book writer Collins will receive the $10,000 honor in a private March 27 ceremony that will feature performances from Southern Comfort. The musical traces the relationship of two transgender friends who live openly in rural Georgia.
The Larson grants recognize the work of new theatre writers whose goals match those of the late Rent author, who aimed to infuse musical theatre with a “contemporary, joyful, urban vitality.” The American Theatre Wing administers the grants.
Tony Award winners Mark Hollmann (Urinetown) and Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q) selected Davis and Collins as the 2012 recipients.
Previous Larson Grant recipients include Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal), Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar (The Wedding Singer), John Bucchino (A Catered Affair), Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy: The Musical) and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens).
Seat Filler: Best New York Theater of 2011 🔗
January 2, 2012
Seat Filler: Best New York Theater of 2011
The Advocate’s man on the New York theater scene counts down the year’s top 10 LGBT-inclusive shows.
Southern Comfort
At turns uplifting and devastating, this folk-bluegrass musical by Julianne Wick and Dan Collins — based on Kate Davis’s 2001 documentary — celebrated a “chosen family” of trans friends in rural Georgia who debate whether gender is in the head or between the legs. Annette O’Toole was a revelation as Robert Eads, a trans man denied care for ovarian cancer, and Jeff McCarthy found the humor and heart in his trans girlfriend Lola.
CAP21 Black Box Theatre, closed October 29.
5 local theater memories from 2011 🔗
December 29, 2011
5 local theater memories from 2011
“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment” at Penguin Rep
The best theater sweeps you away, making you forget the drive, the line at the box office and the anticipation before the house lights dim. By that barometer, Penguin Rep’s “Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself)” was among the year’s very best theater.
Donald Margulies’ spellbinder, splendidly directed by Tom Caruso on Sarah Lambert’s well-appointed spare set, had a cast of three: Steven Hauck as the title character, ably assisted by Edena Hines and David Arkema. The trio made the most of props and bits of costume, rewarding the audience’s imagination with a compelling story of a man who may or may not have been marooned for decades in the South Pacific.
The image that remains, though, is a simple one: When Arkema dropped to his knees, slipped on a ski cap, widened his eyes and stuck out his tongue to become Bruno, the faithful dog, among the most loveable and indelible characters the theater year provided.
SOUTHERN COMFORT THE MUSICAL OPENS OCT 6 in NYC 🔗
September 26, 2011
Zombie Novella 🔗
September 22, 2011
ZOMBIE is a novella by the New York Times bestselling author and American literary giant Joyce Carol Oates. She is a winner of the National Book Award, a four time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, and is mentioned often as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bill Connington adapted the novella into a solo play and performed it to critical acclaim at the New York International Fringe Festival, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, and Off-Broadway for an extended run at Theater Row.
Connington wrote the screenplay of ZOMBIE, and the short film was shot in the spring of 2010 in Dorchester, MA. It was edited over the next several months, and has begun to be submitted to film festivals around the country.
ZOMBIE tells the story of a Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer:
A mild-mannered serial killer commits his final crime. What makes a “seemingly normal person” crack? The unsettling answer: we don’t know. From the award-winning novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates, and the critically-lauded Off-Broadway play. Featuring the award-winning performance of Bill Connington as “Quentin P.” Who are our neighbors, really? Sometimes we don’t like the answers.
Come meet the serial killer next door. If you dare.
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Southern Comfort The Musical 🔗
September 15, 2011
Book & Lyrics by Dan Collins, Music by Julianne Wick Davis