This is the fifth episode of the 31 Plays in 31 Days Podcast Series, presenting 31 of the plays written during our 2012 Challenge. If you’re interested in signing up for this year’s challenge please visit 31plays31days.com.

Leap by Nora Vetter

Directed by Sunil Patel

Read by Charles Lewis III (Dirk), Caitlin Evenson (Amber), and Peter Townley (Stage Directions).

Stage manager: Chelsey Little

Thank you to the people who made this podcast possible:

Playwright:

Nora Vetter is a Nebraska native who currently resides in NYC. When not writing, she’s acting, baking (google “cupcake kebabs"), and working at a survival job.

Contact Nora online at her website, noravetter.com.

Tech Support:

Thomas Kessinger (Sound) is a musician/publicist residing in Salt Lake City. Working for Exigent Records/Crucial Fest he promotes patronage of the performance arts. Follow him @xthomasx.

Taylor Gonzalez (Sound) has designed and run sound for the SF Mime Troupe, Fusion Theater, and All Terrain Theater. He joined Fusion Theater at the Edinburgh Festival with Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories.

Director:

Sunil Patel (Director) is a writer and actor who has, on occasion, directed. He first got a taste for directing while producing halftime shows for the Marching Owl Band, where he wrangled men and women in pinstripe suits and blue body paint in and out of a giant box on wheels. Then he co-ran a Veronica Mars ARG and directed a woman in Wisconsin over the phone as she made a viral video. He gained notoriety for writing and directing musical comedy skits at a regional medical writing conference. His first time directing legitimate theater was, appropriately enough, “Ode to the Director,” part of San Francisco Theater Pub’s The Odes of March in 2012. He has never directed a podcast before, so it seems perfectly reasonable to just go ahead and do five.

Stage Manager:

Chelsey Little (Stage Manager) A native of Austin, TX, Chelsey smirks rather than smiles just like her mother and has a voracious temper just like her father. She is one of five children in the Little Clan and bears the cross of being the only redheaded daughter. After graduating with honors from Stanford University with a degree in English Literature and a concentration in Shakespeare, Chelsey moved to “the City” where she has been living and working since, dipping her toes into the vibrant theatre scene. She’s worked with theatre companies worldwide, from ZACH Theatre in her hometown to FESTA Theatre in Florence, the Corpus Christi Owlets in Oxford, Dragon Productions in Palo Alto, and the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco. While she’s an actress at heart, she is interested in every aspect of theatre and has experience in theatre education and administration. She also writes from time to time.

Actors:

Charles Lewis III (Dirk) is an actor, writer, and director in the San Francisco Bay Area theatre scene. He has previously written for San Francisco TheaterPub, Wily West Productions, and the San Francisco Olympians Festival. A prolific presence in front of the curtain, the companies for which he’s acted include such renowned local names as ACT, Custom Made, PianoFight, Impact, Cutting Ball, New Conservatory Theatre Centre, Playwrights Centre of San Francisco, Wily West, Atmos Theatre, No Nude Men, TheaterPub, and Custom Made (of which he is a member). He has made nearly as many appearances on film and television. He can also be found on-line, condensing his nonsensical thoughts on Twitter @SimonPatt. His more long-winded ramblings can be found on his blog, http://TheThinkingMansIdiot.wordpress.com.

Caitlin Evenson (Amber) is delighted to make her podcast ‘debut’ with the wonderful people involved in the ‘31 Plays Podcast’. Recent credits includeThe Farnsworth Invention (Town Hall Theatre), It’s a Wonderful Life (Town Hall Theatre), SF Shakes’ touring production of Macbeth, Five Lesbian Eating a Quiche (Tides Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Diablo Actors’ Ensemble), As You Like It (Curtain Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (RVP) and understudy for The Verona Project (Cal Shakes). She’s also had the privilege of working with the SF Olympian Festival, All Terrain Theater and various other theatre groups around the Bay Area. Caitlin holds an Honors degree in History from UC, Berkeley with a minor in Theatre and Performance studies.

Peter Townley (Stage Directions) is a large mammal endemic to Northern California whose habitat has only recently expanded to the Bay Area.  Its range is now thought to extend into San Francisco and the East Bay, where its elaborate calls and social displays have been observed in theatrical settings.

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