6/19/2023 0 Comments Freefall theatre sarasotaSarasota: Marvin’s Room, Jest A Second, Singin’ In The Rain, 42 nd Street, Big River, Babes In Arms, and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. New York: Ann Morrison in Linda Lovely Goes To Broadway and Word Painting: Soliloquies Around An Easel Heather Massie in Hedy! The Life and Inventions Of Hedy Lamarr (and Sarasota Jewish Theater 2022-23 season), In The Moment, The XXX Scholar, Shangri-La, and The Better Man. In September he will direct the world premiere of Katherine Michelle Tanner’s Mann’s Last Dance at Tree Fort Productions. Most recently he directed the world premiere of Sharon Ohrenstein in her and David Ohrenstein’s Rhapsody For Golda at the 2022 SaraSolo SpringFest and will helm the production again in November in a co-production at The Players Centre The Unspoken Problem and The Real World (Best Play Winner) for Theatre Odyssey’s 2022 Ten-Minute Student Playwriting Festival, and both Bloodline and Fermata (Best Play Runner-Up) for the 2021 Festival. In 2020 he moved back to Sarasota after a 17-year absence. Check out their season at īlake Walton (director) is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, teaching artist, and acting coach for the past 40 years. She is the owner and artistic director of Tree Fort Productions. She has written and directed the films The Crimson Cloak, Living Losing Loving and the documentary film, Pay Attention. She has written and composed the plays/musicals Shakespeare’s Lovers, Nineteen, Mann’s Last Dance, Echoes, Idiot Servant, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, Pippi Longstocking, The Storybook Nutcracker and The Enchanted Toy Shop. Katherine was highlighted as a feature playwright at Clutch Productions in NY for her suffragist musical Nineteen. Television: Diamonds Along the Highway on PBS. Films include Waiting on Mary, The Darndest Things, 15 Minutes of Faye, A Chance to Live and The Surgeon, Respire Mon Amie. Regional theatre favorite roles include Proof, August Osage County, Hamlet, Metamorphoses, Suddenly Last Summer, The Drowning Girls, Nineteen, The Glass Menagerie, Gidion’s Knot, The Last Five Years, Charm, A Doll’s House, Picasso’s Women and many more. Katherine is thrilled to be back onstage at Tree Fort Productions Theatre in her brand new play Mann’s Last Dance and for her new album release concert, The Mississippi. She is best known for her multi-award winning performance of the one woman play, The Amish Project (Off Broadway and US Tour). Katherine Michelle Tanner (director) is originally from Hastings, Minnesota and lives in Sarasota as actor, playwright, singer, director, filmmaker, choreographer, photographer and teaching artist. Many of you have steadfastly supported this company for its past seventeen years and we are deeply grateful. Thank you in advance for your continued support. We hope you will enjoy these plays, and the special effort made to bring them to you. Theater rental, insurance, advertising, ticketing, and other costs were also still to be paid. Theatre Odyssey feels strongly that artists deserve to be compensated, and we continued to pay our actors, directors, and support staff. We are sharing these performances at no charge but please donate what you can afford to help us defray the thousands of dollars we lost on this festival. Loyal supporters of Theatre Odyssey told us at the end of each performance that it was the best work they had seen from us in all our years. Fortunately, the performances were recorded-and they deserve to be enjoyed by our many loyal patrons. As a result, our normally sold-out performances were played before many empty seats. Unfortunately, our audience members were facing the same storm related issues. Even our online ticketing operations were down until just two days before opening night.ĭespite these obstacles, we made the decision that “The show must go on.” Our actors, directors, stage, and support crew had been working months to get these wonderful plays on the stage and we owed it to them, the playwrights, and our audience to bring them to life. For some cast members, final rehearsals were held under carports. Power, Internet, water and even sewage operations were out for many days for tens of thousands of area residents, including the creative team working diligently to stage our festival. Tragically, our friends south of Sarasota received the brunt of the storm, but effects here were also significant. Hurricane Ian assaulted Florida in late September.
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