Monday Night Guest Speaker Series
Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage, 20 Church Ave SE
Admission: Free and open to the public
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week's guest is: Bob Bartlett.
Bob Bartlett’s plays include three new full lengths, WRITING IN DINERS, MEDIOCRE WHITE MEN, and A BOY ON A BED; UNION, a sometimes fiction chronicling Walt Whitman’s years living and loving in Washington, DC during the Civil War; E2, a contemporary reimagining of Marlowe's Edward II, which premiered last season at Maryland's Rep Stage; SWIMMING WITH WHALES (1st Stage; O'Neill Finalist; Seven Devils); HAPPINESS (AND OTHER REASONS TO DIE) (The Welders); THE REGULAR (O'Neill Finalist; Seven Devils); THE ORBIT OF MERCURY (O'Neill Finalist); BAREBACK INK, a queer reimagining of the Ganymede myth, which recently had runs at the Capital and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and NYC's Hard Sparks. Recently, Bartlett has been producing his own site-specific work: his play THE ACCIDENT BEAR had a successful run in the Avenue Laundromat in Downtown Annapolis; during the first year of covid, he staged his play THREE STRANGERS SITTING AROUND A BACKYARD FIREPIT AT TWO IN THE MORNING LISTENING TO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S NEBRASKA in his backyard; he recently staged his horror play, LÝKOS ÁNTHRŌPOS, in a wooded clearing in the middle of the woods on a farm in Maryland and at historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC; his romcom LOVE AND VINYL premiered in the summer of 2023 at KA-CHUNK!! Records in downtown Annapolis with subsequent productions at Astro Records and Good Records (Kitchen Dog Theater) in Texas and Byrdland Records in Washington, DC); and he wrote the covid-inspired, twelve-episode DUCK HARBOR with EM Lewis for 1st Stage in Tysons which aired in 2021. He’ll return this fall to Congressional Cemetery’s historic chapel with a new adaptation of Frankenstein, MARY SHELLEY’S MONSTERS. Bartlett is an affiliated artist with the National New Play Network and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. He lives in Central Maryland in an old farmhouse and is a founding member of The Welders, a Washington, DC-based, producing playwrights collective. He earned the MFA in Playwriting at Catholic University of America, and is a longtime and soon retiring member of the theatre faculty at Bowie State University in Maryland, where he teaches playwriting, screenwriting, dramatic literature and theory, and more. (bob-bartlett.com).
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