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JEFF WHIPPLE P L A Y W R I T I N G |
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RECENT NEWS In April, a skit I wrote and directed was featured in the Mickee Faust Club spring production of "Sex, Beer and Shakespeare". The skit was called "Interactive Shakespeare" and it featured a video I created that interacted with two on-stage actors. The video is a fake website that is clicked on various buttons and that cause the actors to speak and perform lines from from Shakespeare. It builds to a frenetic pace as the buttons click faster and the actors try to keep up. The actors in "Interactive Shakespeare" were Donna Marie Nudd and Jimmers Micallef. I really enjoyed working with them. They also performed in several other skits and songs. This is a video from a performance: INTERACTIVE SHAKESPEARE VIDEO "Couch Potatoes of the 22nd Century" produced in Orlando, April 2009.
To see a video of the performance, CLICK HERE. The video is 1 hour, 15 minutes long. OTHER NEWS.... "Canvases" was given an excellent reading at Stagewrights, the Tampa playwriting group in March 2009. The actors did a great job and the audience response was thoughtful and constructive. The script is currently getting another rewrite. The Prop Thtr in Chicago produced "Spokesperson" last year. It rand from May 22 to June 29, 2008. Directed by William Bullion. MORE INFO
Diane Honeyman and Jenn Remke in SPOKESPERSON. For more pictures from the Chicago show CLICK HERE. CLICK HERE FOR A FLASH VIDEO OF THE PLAY AND SLIDE SHOWS. The performance video is 1 hour 42 minutes long. Click below for a Windows Media video of the perfomance. larger file LESS RECENT NEWS "Canvases" was given a staged reading in November 2006, by Dog and Pony Productions at the Shimberg Playhouse in the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. In March 2006, "Canvases" was given two staged readings at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. The 400-seat house was nearly sold out for both performances. Audience responses were generally favorable but there were several complaints about the foul language. (A typical response from older Florida audiences.)
Stageworks Theater in Tampa presented a staged reading of "The Goddess of the Teeming Masses of the Voiceless" in November 2005. It's a full length play that I just finished. MORE INFO "The Cutting Edge of Amenities" was performed in February 2005. It was one of three short plays by Florida playwrights commissioned by LiveArts Penninsula. It was presented at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida. Click here for details. "Spokesperson" won an Honorable Mention in an "Anti-Corruption" playwriting competition at the Castillo Theatre in NYC in 2004. There were nearly 200 entries from 6 nations. The Florida Arts Council gave me an Honorable Mention for Playwriting for 2005. Not quite a fellowship but a nice recognition. I received a fellowship for Playwriting in 1996 and for Painting in 1982 and I got two fellowships for painting in Illinois in the 80s. I also received Honorable Mentions for Painting from Florida in 1990 and 1996. To make their decision, the theater committee for the Florida Arts Council reviewed an early rough draft of "The Cutting Edge of Amenities" - see above.
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PLAYWRITING BACKGROUND
In 2001, my play THE MEAT BUSH won the Florida Playwright's Process at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. My play, THE TERRORISM OF LOVE, was selected as the winner of the 2002 New Play Contest by the Valencia Character Company. It was the third time I've won that competition. Then in 2008, my play COUCH POTATOES OF THE 22ND CENTURY won the same award again. |
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PLAYS AND INFORMATION
Coping With Coping & The Suburban Missile Crisis Staged Reading at the Playwright's Center of Chicago |
