Playwright Lee Blessing to Keynote Compass Rose Theater New Play Festival May 17 - 19

Compass Rose Theater of Annapolis will debut a New Play Festival May 17, 18 and 19, 2013 by presenting a diverse mix of staged readings and featuring Lee Blessing, an award-winning playwright, as the keynote speaker on Saturday evening, May 18.

The festival will include a play written by Compass Rose student, Hannah Geib; a reading of Freefall by frequent BPF playwright Mark Scharf; a play for young audiences by local playwright Dan Baum; and a Page to Stage presentation by local life story authors. Selections of Lee Blessing’s play, Eleemosynary, the most recent production in the Compass Rose season, will be presented Saturday night as part of the keynote evening.

For more information visit Compass Rose Theatre's web site.

BPF Playwright Rosemary Frisino Toohey's Plays Produced Around The World

BPF Playwright Rosemary Frisino Toohey is getting many of her plays produced this year:

Gladys In Wonderland, produced in the BPF in 1999, is being produced this weekend April 25-28, at the Colorado City Opera House in Colorado City, Texas.

Frozen Fishsticks will be done by Drip Action Theatre Company in this year's Arundel Festival in Arundel, England, August 17-24. This is a festival where they do a bunch of plays in all different spots in this town in England.

In The Tank (now produced more than 50 times) will be done at Ontario High School, in Ontario, California 5/15. Both Frozen Fishsticks and In The Tank were produced as part of Seafood Buffet by the BPF in 2001.

10-18-02 is in New York's 15 minute play festival at the American Globe Theatre on W. 46th in Times Square this Sunday, April 28, at 8:00 PM.

Congratulations to her for all of these productions!