Our Saturday Reading Series is now virtual:
PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP MEMBERS present NEW WORK
Discussion with the author follows the reading.
The second Saturday of each month at 2 PM, September - November / January - May
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Wolf and Badger
by Michael John McGoldrick 2 PM, Saturday, January 16 Join us on ZOOM! Registration required -- see below. 
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Wolf and Badger tells the story of two brothers from an economically depressed town who turn their frustrations on one another: one brother is ready to leave, the other resents his escape. Into this combustible mix comes a drug-addicted friend who tells a not-entirely-believable story about how to make some quick cash. A play about shifting alliances and fraternal bonds. Set during the height of our nation's opioid epidemic, this play tells a story about a forgotten part of America.
About the author: Michael John McGoldrick's play Wolf and Badger will be produced by the Main Street Players in Miami, FL, in the spring of 2021 (this same play was also a finalist in the 2018 Trustus Theatre Playwrights Festival). His play Allies was selected for the 2020 Residency at The New Jersey Play Lab and will receive a staged reading in Up Theater’s Renewal Reading Series in 2021. His play The Moment After was a Finalist in City Theatre’s National Award for Short Playwriting Contest in 2019. This same play was also a National Finalist in the Gary Garrison MFA Ten-Minute Play Competition sponsored by KCACTF in April 2018 and was also selected for the Theater Masters National Playwriting Festival in 2018. McGoldrick’s play Fantasy for Two won The Chameleon Theatre’s 21st Annual New Play Contest for One Acts. His play The New Pasteur was awarded “Best Overall Play” in Acadia University’s 26th Annual MiniFest and also won the Shawnee Playhouse’s Original Playwright Series Award for One Acts. His 10-minute play The Chinese Life Force was a People’s Choice Winner (Black Show) in the 12th Annual InspiraTO Festival in Toronto, Canada. His play Children of Philadelphia was a finalist in the 2015 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition sponsored by the Alleyway Theater in Buffalo. His play By the Shores of Alluvtoomey was a finalist in Playhouse on the Square’s NewWorks@TheWorks 2nd Annual Playwriting Competition. His other plays have received staged readings from Questors’ Theatre (London), New Jersey Repertory Company, The Monarch Theater, Sundog Theater, Strange Dog Theater, Now and Then Creative Company, The Jersey City Theater Center, Permafrost Theater Collective and The Theater Project. He is a member of the American Renaissance Theater Company in Manhattan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from Arizona State University in May, 2018. . |
Funds benefiting The Theater Project were provided by Friends of the Cranford Library. Donations to support The Theater Project gratefully accepted below.
NOTE: The donation process does not REGISTER you to receive the link for the event.
NOTE: The donation process does not REGISTER you to receive the link for the event.
Donations accepted above.
Friends of the Cranford Library generously support this monthly play reading series.
The Theater Project is deeply grateful to the Friends and to Library Director Michael Maziekien for hosting this event.
Friends of the Cranford Library generously support this monthly play reading series.
The Theater Project is deeply grateful to the Friends and to Library Director Michael Maziekien for hosting this event.
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"As director of the Cranford Public Library, I attend nearly all of The Theater Project play readings, and I am never less than highly impressed by the quality of the productions."
John Malar, Director (retired) Cranford Library |
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