Hello and welcome to the sixth episode in our podcast series. We feature plays written during the 2012 31 Plays in 31 Days challenge. Interested in signing up for this year’s challenge? Click here! This week’s play is Donut Erotica by Barbara Jwanouskos. Advisory: podcast listeners may feel an intense urge to consume mass quantities of donuts.

Donut Erotica by Barbara Jwanouskos

Directed by Claire Rice

Read by Colleen Egan (Lindsay), Peter Townley (Kev), Michelle Talgarow (Cashier Lady), and Caitlin Evenson (Stage Directions).

Stage manager: Chelsey Little

Thank you to the people who made this podcast possible:

Playwright:

Barbara Jwanouskos is pursuing an MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked with the San Francisco Olympians Festival, All Terrain Theater, Fusion Theater, La MaMa ETC, and Campo Santo, among others.

Contact Barbara at [email protected], on Twitter @bjwany, and on her blog at dynamicsofgroove.wordpress.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:

Claire Anne Rice (director) is a playwright as well as a director and actor. She has worked with Thunderbird Theatre Company, No Nude Men, Three Wise Monkeys, PianoFight, AtmosTheatre, Theatre Pub, San Francisco Olympians Theatre Festival, Custom Made Theatre Company and is co-founder of Ann Marie Productions.  Her plays include Sex in the Next Room,Woman Come Down, The Carmine Lie, It Ain’t Me, Water Line, Demeter’s Daughter and Pride and Succubus. Claire was born in New Mexico where she spent most of her life. She graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a BFA in Performance. Before moving to San Francisco to get her MFA in Playwriting at San Francisco State University. She lives and works in San Francisco with her wonderful husband.

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:

Colleen Egan (Lindsay) has assistant directed and understudied at The Magic Theatre (The Crowd You’re In With) and The SF Playhouse (The Scene). Colleen has also directed and performed in multiple short works for Wily West Productions, in their “New Plays Festival" and last year’s “Spooky Cabaret." Colleen most recently performed as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Phoenix Theater and as Eris in the staged reading of Ares and Eris in the SF Olympians festival. She is the Assistant Artistic Director of Gritty City Repertory Youth Theater in Oakland. She co-directed Gritty City’s production of The Tempest this past May. She was also a featured actor in the Women in Solodarity: Cat Ladies production by All Terrain Theater.

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.

Michelle Talgarow (Shel) has performed at multiple venues around the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

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