Friday, Jan 28, 10:30 PM
Saturday, Jan 29, 10:30 PM
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PULP SAMPLER!
Hosted by acclaimed voice-over artist and storyteller Bill Ratner, we present you with a mini-fest of 10 minute plays:
Hosted by acclaimed voice-over artist and storyteller Bill Ratner, we present you with a mini-fest of 10 minute plays:
 Photo by Jonah Weston | The Pulp SamplerFrederika by Tina Connolly Rolling Boulders by Ralph Greco, Jr. Plumbank by Bill Ratner Rules of Horror by Jeremiah Benjamin -Intermission- The Flood by Vincent Kovar Key by Brian Allard Hush by Robin Pond Maxima Vrugleplex by Liz Argall |
FREDERIKA by Tina Connolly
Directed by Matt Haynes MAUDE: Dalene Young HORTENSE: Erin Shannon CALLISTA: Jessica Tidd PAULY: Kaia Hillier FRED: Clara Hillier ROLLING BOULDERS by Ralph Greco, Jr. Directed by: Jason Ferte FRAN: Jessica Tidd MAN IN BOOTH: Jonathan Owicki OLD MAN: Curt Hanson OLD WOMAN: Dalene Young WAITRESS: Kaia Hillier GIRL 1: Lissie Lewis GIRL 2: Hailey Bachrach PLUMBANK by Bill Ratner Directed by Megan Murphy Ruckman KILLIAN PLUM: Bill Ratner DORIS: Erin Shannon KEN: Tom Mounsey RULES OF HORROR by Jeremiah Benjamin Directed by Jason Ferte MARY: Hailey Bachrach AMBER: Lissie Lewis | THE FLOOD by Vincent Kovar
Directed by: Matt Haynes MARSHALL: Curt Hanson LILLY: Jessica Tidd JAC: Tom Mounsey KEY by Brian Allard Directed by Brian Allard KEY: Josh Schoonmaker CLAIRE: Hailey Bachrach RANGER: Tom Mounsey HUSH by Robin Pond Directed by Megan Murphy Ruckman EMILY: Dalene Young ARTY: Brian Allard MAXIMA VRUGLEPLEX by Liz Argall & Brian Allard Adapeted from the short story Maxima Vrugleplex Me to the End by Liz Argall Directed by Brian Allard MODSPIDER: Erin Shannon BOOTSTRAPPER: Clara Hillier PHIL: Nik Hoback EUGENE EUGENICS: Tom Mounsey CHARYBDIS: Dalene Young ANON TROLL: Joel Patrick Durham |
Tina Connolly - Playwright
Tina Connolly is a speculative fiction writer with a background in theatre. Her work appeared during last year's Pulp Sampler, and she is working on a full-length in conjunction with The Pulp Stage. She recently sold two books to Macmillan/Tor (a steampunk retelling of Jane Eyre), for publication in 2012 & 2013. As well, she has three dozen published stories and poems in places such as Asimov's, Highlights, and the anthology "Unplugged: Year's Best Online SF". She is a frequent narrator for the F/SF story podcasts Escape Pod and Podcastle, and her website is tinaconnolly.com.
Ralph Greco, Jr - Playwright
Ralph Greco, Jr. is an internationally published author of short stories, plays, essays, button slogans, 800# phone sex scripts, children’s songs and SEO copy. Ralph is also an ASCAP licensed songwriter/performer and Internet radio D.J. He lives in the wilds of suburban NJ, where he attempts to keep his ever-expanding ego in check.
Bill Ratner - Playwright
From swallowing pennies and crawling through oatmeal in musty black-box theaters to performing the voice of “Flint” in G.I. Joe, Transformers, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken, Bill Ratner flaps his lips for pay, struts and poses dramatically for no pay, and publishes his literary spume in Niteblade.com, The Amor Fati/L.A., Spork, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, Cheng Kung Literary, and Southern Journal for very little pay. He is a five-time Moth StorySLAM winner and told stories this year at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough TN. He sports a Van Dyke because he grew it to play the Prince in Romeo & Juliet and is too lazy to shave it off. He is back with a short play in Pulp Diction for a second year.
Jeremiah Benjamin - Playwright
Jeremy Benjamin - playwright, actor and author of the short story collection "If I Catch You Reading This" as well as the sci-fi novella "After" - has performed on several stages throughout the Portland area, and can be seen playing bloodthirsty monsters, sociopaths, gamblers and goofball-Star-Wars-fanatics in independent film projects. For more scintillating details, refer to his personal website: www.JeremyRBenjamin.com. If you visit a haunted house attraction in Portland, Jeremy will likely be perched in hiding behind the next cobwebby corner planning his attack, and in case that doesn't boost your heartrate enough, he works by day as a personal trainer and aerobics instructor."
| Vincent Kovar - Playwright
Vincent Kovar is currently a teacher of writing at Antioch University Seattle and Richard Hugo House. He is also the founding editor and curator of the GayCity Anthology series and a regular contributor to Education 3.0. Recently he collaborated on writing Open Circle Theatre’s annual HP Lovecraft show Pickman’s Model and Gay City Health Project’s The Infection Monologues. He has previously appeared as an actor both on stage and in independent films such as the gay-zombie spoof Creatures from the Pink Lagoon. His short story The Bride and the Bachelors will be published this spring in A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes from Lethe Press.
Brian Allard - Playwright
Brian Allard is the Associate Director of The Pulp Stage as well as the Artistic Director and Founder of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival. Brian comes to Portland via Minneapolis, London and New York, but is now very happy to call Oregon home. His training has taken many courses, from London's Globe to the New England Shakespaere Festival. During his time in New York, Brian appeared off-Broadway as Caliban in The Tempest and Romney Leigh in Aurora Leigh. Since coming to PDX, he played in the US Premiere of Tales of Ordinary Madness in the lead role of Peter with CoHo Productions, clucked around as Allen in bobrauschenbergamerica with Portland Playhouse, and proudly appeared as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice with Quincessence.
Robin Pond - Playwright
Robin Pond is a playwright who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He has been writing sporadically for almost forty years, but has only been submitting plays to festivals since 2007. Over the past few years, his shorter plays have received numerous productions in schools and community theatres throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Robin’s full-length play, Prevailing Wins, premiering at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York in July.
Liz Argall - Playwright
Fascinated by storytelling in all forms Liz writes poetry, prose, comics and song. Liz wrote and directed her first play when she was twelve - Ody Par and Hel, a Greek tragedy of comic proportions. Her short stories and comics have been published in an array of publications including Daily Science Fiction, The Pedestal Magazine, Meanjin, Eat Comics and The Girl’s Guide to Guy Stuff. She was a featured performance poet at the Dan O’Connell in Melbourne. Liz wrote the book and libretto for Comicbook Opera, which premiered January 2009 in Canberra, Australia. She moved from Australia to the Pacific North West in 2009 and has been having a blast in America. Maxima Vrugleplex was written shortly after Liz completed Clarion Writers workshop, the six week bootcamp for science fiction and fantasy writers.
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