All Aboard!

So as I type this, our playwrights have scattered across the city and will soon be boarding their respective T lines. Tonight we will begin rehearsing Week 1 of the T Plays. Here is how the match ups went last evening.

The Red Line Play
Writer: William Donnelly
Director: Antoine A. Gagnon
Cast: Greer Rooney and Andrew Winson

The Orange Line Play
Writer: Ginger Lazarus
Director: Barlow Adamson
Cast: Mike Bash and Julia Specht

The Green Line Play
Writer: Forrest Walter
Director: Nora Long
Cast: Rodney Raftery and George Saulnier

The Blue Line Play
Writer: Rick Park
Director: Meg Taintor
Cast: Tony Dangerfield and Rafael Marinho

The Silver Line Play
Writer: Carl Danielson
Director: Jeremy Johnson
Cast: Irene Daly and Brashani Reece

Time to Name Names

In a post below we used the phrase "players to be named later" to describe the group of not then quite confirmed actors for The T Plays. Well the time has come to names some more names. So joining the group of actors already mentioned below are: Anthony Dangerfield, Leah Fine, Rafael Marinho, Ellen Bates Powers, Greer Rooney, Giselle Ty, Forrest Walter, Andrew Winson. Welcome aboard folks.

Animoto Video

So Who's Riding The T?

Well the list is still being double checked and finalized, but here are a few folks who have signed up for The T plays this September. As always artists subject to change. Among the writers are several members of the playwriting group Rhombus: Carl Danielson, Pat Gabridge and Ginger Lazarus; Dan Milstein and Kristin Baker from Rough and Tumble Theater; Boston Theater Marathon playwrights Matt Chapuran and John Edward O'Brien; IRNE winner Forrest Walter; local acting favorite Rick Park and Ken Urban a reviewer for nytheatre.com

Among the directors are IRNE nominee Barlow Adamson, Meg Taintor from Whistler in the Dark, Jeremy Johnson and Dawn Simmons both from StageSource, co-managing director Antoine A. Gagnon and more.

Several Mill 6 regulars including Irene Daly, Lonnie McAdoo and Rodney Raftery will be acting plus George Saulnier, Nathaniel Gundy, Brashani Reece, Julia Specht, Mike Bash, Kim Anton Myatt, Bonnie Duncan, Faith Imafidon, Casey Preston, Michael Jorgensen, Rachel Cummings and in the parlance of baseball several players to be named later.

It is the largest production team we have assembled and we are quite excited about what they will produce.

Congrats to Pat

A few months back Mill 6 produced Pat Gabridge's play Counting Rita for the Tenth Boston Theater Marathon. Well, we just heard that Counting Rita will be included in Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009, 2 Actors, to be published by Smith & Kraus. The book will be published next year. We wish Pat the best and are looking forward to seeing our name in print.

Where the &*%@!#$ is Bunbury?

As faithful readers, you might find yourself asking...

Um...what the heck happened to Bunbury?  The show that Mill 6 was so excited about? That they performed a snippet of at their Jamboree? That they raffled off TICKets for for Pete's Sake?

And you'd be right to ask, because all that is true.  And we *will* be producing "Bunbury".

Just not this September.

How am I so sure that we will be performing it?  Two reasons:

1. We really love it.  "Bunbury" is a fantastic, funny play that has heart and is just...*different*.
2. We've already paid for the rights.  

So it's really a good thing we like it so much.

But due to circumstances beyond our control, we'll bring it to you in 2009 - we promise.  

In the meantime, we're thrilled to bring you The T Plays!  A way we've come up with to work with some of our favorite people.  More coming soon!

Fantastic "Aether" Photos

Hey there, well we had an EXcellent weekend in our third time as part of FeverFest, hosted by the good people at Whistler in the Dark . Friendly audiences, and we met some terrific companies!

We also appreciate the wonderful photos taken by Ms. Meg Taintor, Artistic Director of Whistler, photographer extraordinaire and mean karaoke singer of "End of the World as We Know It". I've attached a couple below, and we'll be uploading all of them at our own Mill6.org.

"Aether" by William Donnelly
Directed by Antoine A. Gagnon, with Irene Daly & John Sorice

Thanks to all who came out to the show!