Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Andrea Alton & Allen Warnock
Sean Chandler & David Leeper
Honor Molloy
“The Fringes of August”
This month's lineup includes two pairs of playwrights with shows in FringeNY, and a return engagement from Honor Molloy, whose new play is opening in August-adjacent September.
Andrea Alton won the 2015 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. As an actor/writer, she’s been involved with FringeNYC since 2003. Notable prod...
Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Andrea Alton & Allen Warnock
Sean Chandler & David Leeper
Honor Molloy
“The Fringes of August”
This month's lineup includes two pairs of playwrights with shows in FringeNY, and a return engagement from Honor Molloy, whose new play is opening in August-adjacent September.
Andrea Alton won the 2015 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. As an actor/writer, she’s been involved with FringeNYC since 2003. Notable productions include, Big Girl, Little World (written by Jay Duffer), Carl & Shelly: Best Friends Forever (2008 co-written with Allen Warnock), The F*cking World According To Molly (2011), and last year’s production of Possum Creek. She is the creator of Molly “Equality” Dykeman and has performed the character to sold-out houses at The Laurie Beechman Theatre and internationally. As a comic, Andrea performs regularly throughout New York, venues include, Gotham, Dixon Place, Broadway Comedy Club, UCB, The PIT, Stonewall and The Duplex. Andrea has also been featured in GO Magazine as 100 Women We Love, The Advocate, The Village Voice and the NY Post. As a writer, Andrea’s plays have been produced throughout the country with notable productions in New York, Washington DC, Florida, and Ireland. Andrea just returned from the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival where she performed in Kathleen Warnock’s play, Julie Andrews Is The Devil.
Allen Warnock is an actor, comedian, and writer. His theater credits include the premiere of David Koteles' After the Chairs (Wild Project), Carl and Shelly: Best Friends Forever (co-writer with Andrea Alton) at the 2008 FringeNYC, and The Skin of Our Teeth (Williamstown Theater Festival). Other FringeNYC credits include Gregg Mozgala's Gamelegs directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. As a stand-up and sketch comedian, he has been seen on Here TV, performed at comedy festivals in Toronto, Chicago, and DC, and local venues including UCB and The PIT. Film: Morning Glory. TV: The Knick, I Just Want My Pants Back.
David Leeper has performed At The Flash under the direction of David Zak for its Jeff-recommended, world premiere in Chicago, the West Coast premiere in Los Angeles at the Celebration Theatre, GayFest! in Philadelphia and its international debut in the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. David is a member of The Dramatists Guild and sits on the advisory board of Pride Films & Plays, Chicago. He would like to thank the International New York Fringe Festival for letting At The Flash be part of its 20th season! David would also like to thank his family and friends for their never-ending support of At The Flash and his husband, Sean Chandler, for his constant drive and tenacity in getting this show seen. www.davidwleeper.com
Sean Chandler: Works include At The Flash (PFP Great Gay Play and Musical Contest Winner, Jeff Recommendation, Oscar Wilde Best New Writing Award Finalist), Radical Morality (Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist, Creative World Awards Semi-Finalist, PFP Great Gay Screenplay Contest Semi-Finalist), Kissing The Frog Prince (Scriptoid Writers Challenge, All Access Screenwriters Competition & The Screenplay Festival Semi-Finalist). Projects in the works include The Pack (Creative World Awards Semi-Finalist), Benji Boomer- Life Coach, and Running: A New Musical. Sean also co-hosts the podcast “Lundon Calling: The Lundon Bridge”. Proud member of The Dramatists Guild and Pride Films and Plays Writers Network. Sean lives with his husband, David, in New York City. www.seanwchandler.com
Honor Molloy’s play, Crackskull Row, directed by Kira Simring, will begin performances at the Cell Theater on September 1. CRACKSKULL ROW is set in 1999. Rasher Moorigan has finally been released from prison after serving time for a monstrous crime he committed over thirty years before. After reuniting with his mother, an old woman haunted by a vanished Dublin, they confront the ghosts of the past and an uncertain future. Melding reality and myth, CRACKSKULL ROW is the story of one Irish family’s desperate actions and forbidden loves. Honor is also the author of the autobiographical novel Smarty Girl - Dublin Savage (Simon & Schuster Audio / GemmaMedia 2012). Honor was a 2002 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that all readings should be by: 1) Good writers; 2) Who read their work well; 3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops. Since 2004.