This month: LIVE recording of The Mystery of Easter Island by Justin Glanville and Open Mic!

The Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work has a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second Tuesday of each month. The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran playwrights the space and resources to develop new works. It offers a venue to workshop plays, novels, poems, or any other written work in a supportive, yet critical environment.

Tuesday, November 12th

Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required.

ABOUT THE FEATURED WORK: Join us for a live recording of Episode 3 ("The Other Half of the Sky") of a new audio fiction podcast written by Justin Glanville, directed and produced by Mindy Childress Herman. The Mystery of Easter Island is a serialized historical fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. In 1914, Routledge built a ship and traveled to Easter Island in an attempt to decipher the culture and language of the island.  In Episode 3, Katherine, her husband Scoresby, and their crew must contend with wild storms, damage to their ship, and rising interpersonal tensions, while Katherine fights for respect from her all-male crew.
FEATURING: Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Cat Kenney, David Munnell, Tom Horton, Andy Tarr, Josh Brown and Robert Hawkes.

ABOUT THE  CREATIVE TEAM:

Justin Glanville is a public radio and television reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His pilot script for The Mystery of Easter Island was a finalist in the 2017 Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous fiction podcast, Munchen, Minnesota, followed a gay librarian, his daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper Midwest. You can check out more of his work at http://www.oursidewalk.com and http://www.justinglanville.com.

Mindy Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast Munchen, Minnesota.

 

Open session readings are first come, first serve until all slots have been allotted. All submissions should be made to Mindy Herman at herman.mindy@gmail.com or to John Busser at jpbusser@gmail.com .