When: June 29th at 7pm

Tickets are free!

Event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/copy-of-askews-10-minute-play-reading-festival-week-5-tickets-110843511928 

Back in March, I was excited to participate in Askew Theatre Company’s “Out of the Box 10 Minute Play Festival” in Ashland. Originally from L.A., Askew Theatre was launching their first-ever Rogue Valley event, which featured 10-minute plays from around the world.

Due to COVID-19, March’s performances were canceled just before opening night. However, Obed and Micheal at Askew have revived the readings over Zoom! Recently I reprised my role as a leaf in Diane Walker’s “Falling” and I’m thrilled to be reading for two of my other favorite plays from this series over Zoom—”One Night Fran” and “Assumptions.”

In “One Night Fran,” I play Holly, one of three women recounting her recent date with a mysterious woman named Fran. The talking heads nature of the script, written by playwright Adam Szudrich from Australia, totally lends itself to the Zoom platform. My co-stars are also really awesome actors from the L.A. area and I enjoyed rehearsing with them online. This one should be fun!

Immediately following that, I’ll be playing Grace in the 10-minute comedy “Assumptions,” by Lynne Bolen. This one has some plot twists I don’t want to give away, but I’ll just say that the script is delightfully clever, witty, and takes all sorts of unexpected turns that are fun to play around with as an actor. It’s also great to be working with Trevor Pekas again, who I just acted with in February’s “The Last Butterfly” play reading (which feels like a million years ago, wow!)

The Zoom world of play-readings that have become more and more popular in the era of social distancing are really a fascinating thing. It’s a different acting style from theatre and film, and just like in live theatre, you never know what might happen, but it’s all part of the experience! Check out more of Askew’s work on their website at http://askewtheatre.org/.