Michael Vukadinovich
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12/19/2009 A production of Billboard will kick off The Centenary Stage Company's (CSC) "Second Stage" series in 2010. The program is dedicated to emerging voices and adventurous young professional theatre-goers. CSC, in association with Tommy Gunn Theatricals, presents "Billboard" January 15 – 31 at the Centenary Theatre in Hackettstown, NJ with Don Amorosi directing.
11/18/2009 A Giant Arc in the Skyspace of Directions (or the Story of Miracles) will be having a staged reading directed by Efrain Schunior at the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica on Sunday, December 6, at 7pm. For reservations email e.killerbee@gmail.com or call 575-649-7716.
9/29/2009 Billboard will be playing at the Lighthouse Theater in Edmond, OK from OCT. 2 - 25 directed by Darren Park. The play is now available from Samuel French. You can order it from Amazon here.
5/8/2009 Gilbert, or Death By Obituary is a finalist for the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival and will be playing July 14-19 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York. Red Tie Production is producing and Kevin Broberg is starring. It's the same production that got a 4 star recommended review from the Scotsman at the Fringe. Check out their blog.
"This is a funny and touching dark comedy about Gilbert, an obituary writer in a town where no-one dies. It's a conundrum that is bleakly poetic, and Kevin Broberg is wonderfully adept at portraying this as our amiable protagonist...Broberg has an engaging voice perfect for this kind of narrative storytelling, while Vukadinovich has a strong feeling for comic timing. The additional characters are so well-painted you forget you're watching one man perform."
4/19/2009 Trog and Clay (an Imagined History of the Electric Chair) is the winner of the Gloria Peter Playwright Competition for historical plays and will be produced at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora, NY this November. 2/1/2009 In Serbia? See a show. Sound Cues (Efekti) will be playing in Serbian at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad during the month of March. The play is being produced by PLUS Teatar and directed by Strahinja Bojovic.
1/5 ~ Misconceptions in Florida in January Misconceptions will be playing in an old movie theatre in Chiefland, FL staged by the Suwannee Valley Players. 1st weekend: 2nd weekend:
11/15 ~ Trog and Clay in Los Angeles on November 24 Trog and Clay will be receiving a staged reading in San Pedro by Panndora Productions on Sunday November 24 at 4pm at the Little Fish Theatre. Tickets are $10. Sonya Berggren is directing.
9/12 ~ Billboard Now Available from Samuel French My play Billboard is now available from Samuel French. Order it from Amazon here.
8/25 ~ Billboard Scene Featured in Dramatist Magazine A scene from Billboard is published in his month's Dramatist Magazine. Billboard is currently available for pre-order from Samuel French. 8/22 ~ Gilbert Reviewed in The Herald and The Economist Read The Herald review of Gilbert, or Death By Obituary at the Edinburgh Fringe festival here.
Read The Economist review of Gilbert, or Death By Obituary at the Edinburgh Fringe festival here.
8/15 ~ Gilbert Reviewed in the Scotsman Read The Scotsman review of Gilbert, or Death By Obituary at the Edinburgh Fringe festival here.
7/30 ~ Gilbert Press Gilbert, or Death By Obituary is featured on the Edinburgh Fringe website and tickets are on sale here. The show will be running from August 2 to August 16 at The Space @ Venue 36 at 5:10pm. 7/23 ~ New Film Project I'll be adapting Park Chan-Wook's Korean film, I'm A Cyborg, But That's Ok for the awesome director Mark Palansky and Vertigo Entertainment. The Story: Check it out, it's great.
7/1 ~ Come see Gilbert before it goes to Edinburgh Gilbert, or Death By Obituary will be playing in Los Angeles for two nights to raise money to take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 6/29 ~ Tickets now on sale for Gilbert at the Edinburgh Fringe Tickets for Gilbert, or Death By Obituary are now on sale at the Edinburgh Fringe box office. The show will be running from August 2 to August 16 at The Space @ Venue 36 at 5:10pm.
Buy tickets here.
4/21 ~ Come see Gilbert before it goes to Edinburgh Gilbert, or Death By Obituary will be playing in San Juan Capistrano for one night to raise money to take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
2/16 ~ Trog and Clay (An Imagined History of the Electric Chair) Read a sample of Trog and Clay which was just developed with the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre as part of their new play festival. Read an interview about the play on the Orlando Sentinel Website. 1/30 ~ Shows in Orlando and Los Angeles Come to Orlando and see this:
or come to Los Angeles and see The Magician and the Memory as part of this. 11/3 ~ Samuel Goldwyn Awards Buckbee has won second place in the 2007 Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Awards. I get some money plus the bottle of wine I stole from the ceremony. 9/10 ~ Staged Reading of "Terrarium" My new play "Terrarium" will be getting a staged reading by Upper Reaches at Koo's Art Center in Long Beach on Oct. 7, 2007 at 2:00pm. It's free.
For Eva, time stopped the day her beloved Jonah left to fight in World War II. When he went missing in action, his brother Sam stepped in and married Eva, but she's spent the thirty years since waiting for Jonah to return. A prophetic dream suggests this might just be the day, but there's more to Jonah's disappearance than Eva realizes. Will Sam permit her fantasy to continue even as it pushes him further to the side? Michael Vukadinovich's haunting tale about the harsh compromises of war and romance asks difficult questions about hope and miracles. 8/11 ~ Heideman Finalist The Magician and the Memory is a finalist for the 2007 Heideman Award through the Actors Theatre of Louisville. 7/24 ~ Some New Upcoming Shows! The Magician and the Memory will be performed as part of the Stormy Weather Players annual Pregnant Chad One-Act Festival in Cornwall, New York August 24-25 Misconceptions will be performed by the Dublin Mainstreet Players in East Dublin, Georgia on January 17, 2008 I have also been selected as a writer in residence for Upper Reaches Theatre Company in Long Beach and will have a staged reading of a new play in September followed by a production next year 6/30 ~ Read the LA Monitor review of Fusion Theatre's ten minute play festival featuring The Magician and the Memory: "With elements both touching and funny, the husband dabbles in his childhood dreams while the wife pleads for adjustments in their lifestyle that would rid them of the leak-catching buckets in their living room." 5/30 ~ A Giant Arc in the Skyspace of Directions, or the Story of Miracles is the winner of the Wichita State University Playwriting Contest and will receive a production in November. Synopsis: A mesh of Old Testament stories, fairy tales and magical realism, A Giant Arc in the Skyspace in Directions is a play about the impossibility of miracles and the loss of wonder in a world of science. It is outside of the world, in the imagination of a child, where those from before still live and miracles are still possible. It is a place where birds disappear into thin air, it snows inside and women give birth to turkey dinners. 5/8 ~ The Magician and the Memory will premiere at the Fusion Theatre Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico during their annual ten minute play festival June 21-24.
2/8 ~ Sound Cues will be performed at Seattle Pacific University directed by Dustin Morache on March 6-10. More info. 2/6 ~ The Magician and the Memory received an honorable mention in the FirstStage LA one-act competition. 2/2 ~ Billboard is featured in today's New York Times. Read here. Read the Show Business Weekly Review of Billboard. Read the HX Review here. New Yorker on Billboard: "In 2005, a man from Omaha used eBay to auction off advertising space on his forehead and scored more than thirty-seven thousand dollars from a company selling a snoring remedy. The playwright Michael Vukadinovich has employed this odd news bit as a jumping-off point for a comic exploration of personal and corporate greed. Commercialism vs. art, big media vs. the soul of the American people—the battle lines are clearly drawn." Village Voice on Billboard: "all aspects of Billboard amuse and the performers appeal." 1/10 ~ Director Tania Inessa Kirkman and co-producer Colin Young discuss Billboard with Michael Criscuolo on nytheatre.om. Listen here. (14:35) 12/21 ~ Reverie/Overlap's production of Billboard is a featured pick in the December/January issue of The L Magazine in New York: "Character driven and hilarious in readings, this is the small show to catch." 12/1 ~ Reverie Productions and Overlap Productions will be co-producing Billboard in New York at 59E59 Theaters beginning January 12. You can buy tickets here
Andy got a tattoo....of a corporate logo...on his forehead. His talented girlfriend is not impressed, his 15 minutes of fame is almost up, and now he has to live with it. Inspired by a true story, a comedy about the battle between consumerism, fame, art and love. |
