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CONTACT
Emailinbox@avltheatre.com
Phone
614-558-7408
AUDITIONS
Available light holds auditions once or twice per year. The best way to find out about our auditions and other opportunities for involvement is to sign-up for our emailist.SUBMISSIONS
Available light does accept original works for consideration.All submissions should be typed.
Submissions will only be accepted by mail. If you'd like to send a script, please email an inquiry to the address above.
DO NOT e-mail your submission unless we ask you to.
Submitted scripts will not be returned.
We promise to read all submissions, but our busy schedules may keep us from responding to each script. Rest assured, if we want to produce your play, we will contact you ASAP.
Thank you for your consideration.
MEMBERS
Acacia DuncanAcacia Duncan specializes in creating and performing original works. Her resume includes new plays for BlueForms (A/ThePostModern LoveStory, A Lonely Crowd, The Pursuit of Happiness, These Fragments, InVulnerable, Beat About the Bush, and her solo show On Shakespeare), Women at Play (Hungry Hearts), and Actors' Theatre of Columbus (Much Ado About Love, Shakespeare on Love). Her other favorites include The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild for BlueForms, All My Sons for Gallery Players, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet for Actors' Theatre.
Ryan Osborn
Ryan has worked in and around Columbus for more than a decade, working with nearly every company in town. He has been a long time assistant to local USAA lighting designer, T.J. Gerckens and his many different projects, most notability, Metamorphoses which had a years' run on Broadway. A graduate of the Theatre Department at the Ohio State University, Ryan is in his 9th year as the Lighting Supervisor at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Eleni Papaleonardos
Eleni Papaleonardos is a visiting assistant professor of theatre at Denison University where she teaches courses in acting, movement and ensemble-devised original works. She holds an M.F.A. in Theatre: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Eleni has created new work with The SITI Company and The Tectonic Theatre Company; directed the new play A Light in the Night for EAT Theatre; and has worked as an actor with Actors' Theatre of Louisville (and the Humana Festival), Actors' Theatre of Columbus, EAT Theatre, Hand-Dog Theatre, Phoenix Theatre for Children, and Total Theatre. Eleni was recognized in the Alive, the Columbus Dispatch and by the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle for her work as the title role in Mary Stuart with Actors' of Columbus.
Michelle Schroeder
Michelle, a Columbus native, has worked for just about everyone in town. Her recent successes include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shakespeare on Love, both with Actor’s Theatre; Apocalypso!, A/ThePostModernLoveStory, and The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild all with BlueForms; The Shape of Things and the premiere of A Set Of Thoughtful Guidelines, both at Red Herring; and A Piece of My Heart and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, both with Warehouse Theatre. Michelle also has a lengthy history in children’s theatre including the world premiere musical Green Gables and 2 professional tours for Columbus Children’s Theatre, as well the premiere of Go, Dog, Go! for the Phoenix Children's Theatre. When she's not in the theatre, you can find her on TV in a number of commercials, or, most likely, at home taking care of her husband and daughter.
Ian Short
Ian graduated from Otterbein College and then lived in NYC for eight years pursuing theatre work. Since coming back to Columbus a few years ago, Ian has had the opportunity to act and direct for a number of local theatre companies. He won a Theatre Roundtable acting award in 2006 and was named Best Comedic Actor by the Other Paper in 2005. Some of his other interests are travelling, going to the gym and meditating.
Matt Slaybaugh Artistic Director
Matt Slaybaugh's writing and directing of original works for Available light and the BlueForms Theatre Group has been lauded by American Theatre magazine, New York Press, the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
Past work includes A/ThePostModernLoveStory, The Pursuit of Happiness, These Fragments, A Lonely Crowd, InVulnerable, They Will Be Heroes, The Absurdity of Writing Poetry, I Will Make You Orphans, and Tomorrow is the Question.
Dave Wallingford
Dave's work as a sound designer has been heard in places such as Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Montreal, Sacramento, Boston, and New York City. Dave was the sound supervisor at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where he designed countless productions, including the world premieres of The Water's Edge by Theresa Rebeck, Big Bill by A.R. Gurney, and Red Angel by Eric Bogosian. At home in Columbus, he has worked with CATCO, Red Herring, Phoenix Theatre Circle, Madlab, is a member of the Blueforms Theatre Group, and co-founded Eye Stop Productions. Dave received a DayTony award for Excellence in Sound Design for his work on Getting to Know You at the Human Race Theatre Co.
BFTG
Matt Slaybaugh founded BlueForms Theatre Group in 2002. Acacia, Dave, Michelle, and Ian were also important members of BFTG.Here's a web-archive of work from BlueForms.
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