Play Cafe

Play Cafe is the producing arm of Playwrights Cafe. We focus on readings and productions of plays written by participants of Playwrights Cafe.

UPCOMING READINGS SPONSORED BY PLAY CAFE

Play Cafe Reading Series 6: Mystery Spot
by Steve Lyons
Directed by Sarah Mitchell

Sunday January 20, 2008 @ 4pm
Sacramento Street Center
2436 Sacramento Street, (near Dwight Way) Berkeley
Free!

Staged reading of a new comedy by award winning playwright Steve Lyons. A tour guide at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot becomes entangled in a battle between cosmic beings with consequences that will stretch across the universe.

PAST READINGS SPONSORED BY PLAY CAFE

Play Cafe Reading Series 5
Straitjacket
by Bret Rohmer
Directed by Maya Gurantz.
Featuring James Allen Brewer, Alexis Wong, Jordan Winer

Donkey Face
by Jamie Greenblatt
Directed by Maya Gurantz
Featuring James Allen Brewer, Alexandra Matthew, Juan Neumeister, Naomi Adiv, Jordan Winer, Alexis Wong, Andre Nigoghossian

Performed Sunday August 5, 2007 at Eighth Street Studio in Berkeley.

Play Cafe Reading Series 4
The Wedding Gown
by Dorothy Snodgrass
Directed by Edward Hightower.
Featuring Jamie Clark and Meghan Kane

Behind My Eyelids
by Hilde Susan Jaegtnes
Directed by Hilde Susan Jaegtnes
Featuring Meghan Kane, Warden Lawlor, Kevin Tierney, Jamie Clark, Paul Gerrior

Waiting for Danny
by Robert Fields
Directed by Edward Hightower
Featuring Austin Ku, Ninno DePatrick, Patrice Binaisa, Paul Gerrior, Andre C. Andree, Edward Hightower

Performed Sunday July 17, 2007 at La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley.

Play Cafe Reading Series 3
Stillborn House
by Marc Capobianco
Directed by Marc Capobianco
Featuring Joel Rainwater, David Usner, Lance Huntley, Colin Hussey, Summer Sarafin

Dickens
by Cary James
Directed by David Usner
Featuring Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, Donovan Keith, Mario Gonzales

Doris & Frieda
by Morton Felix
Directed by Paula Barish
Featuring Paula Barish, Claudia Barr

Failed Artists
by Dan Calvisi
Directed by Dan Calvisi
Featuring Nicole Schlosser, Joel Rainwater, Paula Barish, Colin Hussey

Performed Sunday, January 28, 2007 at Gaia Arts Center in Berkeley.

SHORTS ‘n CHAMPAGNE!
A Benefit for Play Café
8 short comedies by
Marilyn Flower, Nancy Cooper Frank, Morgan Ludlow, Steve Lyons, Bob Marcus, Patricia Milton, Bret Rohmer, and Ron Weaver.
Directed by Jonathan Luskin

Performance followed by wine and hors d’oeuvres reception!

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Gaia Building
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley

Play Cafe Reading Series 2
short plays and excerpts of plays by
Kate Rix, Nancy Frank, Marilyn Flower, Abe Bern, Cary James, and Ira Brightman.

Featuring actors Ira Brightman, Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, Paula Barish, David Usner, Colin Hussey, Paul Gerrior, and Vincent Palo

Sunday, September 3, 2006 7pm.
Gaia Cultural Arts Center, Berkeley

Play Cafe Reading Series 1
short plays and excerpts of plays by
Steve Lyons, Morgan Ludlow, Bret Rohmer, Nicole Schlosser, Ron Weaver, Marc Capobianco, and Robert Estes.

Featuring actors Jennifer Dean, Vincent Palo, Paula Barrish, Paul Gerrior, Colin Hussey, David Usner, and Hilde Susan Jaegtnes

Sunday, June 25, 2006 7pm.
Gaia Cultural Arts Center, Berkeley

First Casulty - a screenplay
by Steve Lyons

Robert McNamara's secretary stops the Vietnam War before it begins.

Directed by Eugene Corr
Featuring Rebecca Friese, Tiffany Hoover, Jennifer Dean, Cec Levinson, Julie Golde, Peter Abraham, Kai Morrison, Greg Lucey and Thomas Lynch

Sunday, October 2, 2005 7pm.
La Val's Subterranean Theater, Berkeley

Thieves in Theatre - Two One-Act Comedies
Rob

By D. Marc Capobianco
Directed by Aaron Schmookler
Featuring Robert Farrell, Paul Gerrior, and Diane DiPrima

Big Bank Job

By Ron Weaver
Directed by Taylor Valentine
Featuring Ricardo Gil and Colin Hussey

Staged reading performed Monday November 22, 2004 at
La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley

HATIKVA
By Jamie Greenblatt
Directed by Kay Kleinerman
Featuring Bob Lane, Holly Bradford, Michael Barr, Alexandra Creighton, Carmen Elena Sosa, Alexandra Matthew, and Blake Maxam

Staged reading performed Monday July 21, 2003 at La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley

Three One-Acts

Sister Margaret and the Devil
by Ron Cruize
Directed by Michele Cox
Featuring Sandra Risser, Kirsten Finkas, Clarence Mitchell, Sorsha Miles, and Heidi Hooker

Accosted
by Maureen Studer
Directed by Josh Loar
Featuring Sarah Mitchell and Dan Wilson

Eden
by Bill Smock
Directed by Jean Mazzei
Featuring Federico Edwards, Sarah Mitchell, Dan Wilson, Garth Petal, and Pearl Wong

Staged reading performed December 2, 2002 at La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley.

These Altered Days: By Steve Lyons
Directed by Cris Cassell
Featuring Alex Moggridge and Michael Keys Hall

Performed March 12, 2002 at La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley
Mattie Moon: By Cheryll Crane
Directed by Hal Gelb
Featuring Ashley Hopkins, Tajma Soleil*, Federico Edwards, C. Kelly Wright*, Helena Joyce Wright*, Anthony (AJ) Norris, Jeannie Cuffey and Ashlei Williams.

Performed April 30, 2001 at Speakeasy Theatre in Berkeley

FULL PRODUCTIONS SPONSORED (IN PART) BY PLAY CAFE

Cockroach Infestation: By Steve Lyons
Produced by Three Wise Monkeys
Directed by Dawson Moore
Featuring Jim Eckert, Mara Luthane, T.J. Metz, Sarah Mitchell, Michael J Symonds
Performed at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, May 10 to June 2, 2002.

Click here for photos from the production.
San Francisco Fringe Festival, 2003: 0 to 6 in 60
San Francisco Fringe Festival
Performed at the Exit Theatre, San Francisco, September 3 to September 13, 2003

Playwrights: Christopher Chen, Robert Estes, Marilyn Flower, Steve Lyons, Maureen Studer
Directors: Jeffrey Hoffmann, Josh Loar
Actors: Shelley Johnson, Anna Loar, TJ Metz, Cesar Prietto, Michelle Barton, Chris Loar, Kristie Cox