About Theatreforté

This is what's happening.

Theatreforté reports live from our underground bunker in Columbus, Ohio, where we sift through the mass of theatre reporting from the entire country (and beyond) and serve-up the tastiest stories in bite-size chunks that whet your appetite for more from the best theatre resources online. In addition, we feed-in headlines from blogs, newspapers, and other sites that are making waves.

iI you have a blog, and we're not yet feeding you in, and you think we should be, let us know by emailing to forte@avltheatre.com.

WHO WE ARE

SLAY
Matt Slaybaugh's writing and directing of original works for Available light and the BlueForms Theatre Group has been lauded by American Theatre magazine, the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

BRANT
Brant Jones has spent the last ten years straddling the artistic divide between theatre and cinema. He is currently a graduate student at the Ohio State University, where he is researching the role of artists in the creative economy and their impact upon urban redevelopment.

JEN
Jen Spillane has survived the swamps of Southeast Texas, the glaciers of Alaska, and a fantastic three-flip car wreck in Kansas. With nary a scar, she forges ahead, and has has worked as a playwright, actor, designer and producer with such groups as Available light, the Cincinnati Fringe Fest, and Infernal Bridegroom Productions. Her most recent solo performance, VIRTUE: did she fall or was she pushed? was last produced in July of 06.

ACACIA
Acacia Duncan is an actress who specializes in creating and performing original works. Her resume includes new plays for Available light, BlueForms Theatre Group, Women at Play, and Actors' Theatre of Columbus. She's also a big fan of Nightwing, Invincible, the SITI Company, The Lord of the Rings movies, and all things Harry Potter.

SEAN
Sean Christopher Lewis is an MFA graduate of the renowned Iowa Playwrights' Workshop and the founder of Working Group. He has performed in over 25 professional productions nationally, including off-Broadway at the Pearl Theatre Company, off-off-Broadway at LaMaMa ETC, and at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. His plays have been developed at the Harriet Lake Festival at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, the Iowa New Play Festival, and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University and he's been awarded the 2003 Invictus TC Playwrighting Prize and two Norman Felton Fellowships. His "one-man, one-mic, hip-hop drama," I Will Make You Orphans has toured all over the U.S and into Canada.