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  • Featured Artist of the Month

    Featured Artist of the Month

    Please enjoy all the great offerings we have this month in the categories of non fiction, poetry, drama, food & wine, essay on art, book review, and featured undergrad. Our artist of the month feature will return in March. 

  • The Written Artists Section

    The Written Artists Section

    Our Written Artists section is off the hook! Check out the Featured Guest Column hosted by John Hoppenthaler and all the great artists in the Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama sections. And don't miss the new play, Buddy Buddette, and the interview that proceeds it, with writer Jacqueline Wright.

  • The Undergraduate Section

    The Undergraduate Section

    Our Featured Undergrad section is unique in that our Undergrads are nominated by their teachers. This month's Featured Undergrads section includes work by Jennifer Butcher as nominated by Allison Joseph. see more...

Issue VI, Volume II : March 2010

All Connotation Press plays are presented online to the reading public. All performance rights, including professional, amateur, television and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. If you are interested in seeking performance rights to a specific work contact the Drama Editor, Joshua Fardon.



Josh Fardon - Drama Editor

Joshua Fardon

A note to Connotation Press readers:
 
I wanted to write and say how glad I was to hear that Connotation Press had chosen Josh Fardon to be its first drama editor. Josh is a highly respected writer, composer, director and actor, and the idea of a genuine “practitioner” ---also being on the editorial side---well, it makes my heart leap with anticipation at what current, provocative and timely work he will bring to the table at Connotation Press.
 
Fielding Edlow: The Something-Nothing

Fielding Edlow, a native New Yorker, has had her plays produced/workshopped in New York and Los Angeles with Naked Angels, NY Stage & Film, PSNBC, Dixon Place, The Culture Project, NY Fringe Festival and Home for Contemporary Arts. Her full-length play, The Something-Nothing was recently workshopped at
 
Erik Patterson - Sick

ErikPatterson-Drama.jpg Erik Patterson is proud to be a native Southern Californian who writes for the theater. Plays include Tonseisha; Yellow Flesh / Alabaster Rose (winner, Backstage West Garland Award, Best Play); Red Light, Green Light (2004 Ovation Award nomination, World Premiere Play); The Making of Mary Kelly; He Asked For It (2008 Ovation Award nomination, World Premiere Play; GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Theater); and Sick, which will have its World Premiere at Playwrights Arena in April.
 
Ruth Margraff - Night Parachute Battalion, Drama

RuthMargraff.jpg Ruth Margraff's writings have been presented throughout the USA, UK, Canada, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Sweden, Japan, Egypt and India.
 
Briandaniel Oglesby - Game

Briandaniel-Oglesby Briandaniel Oglesby took his MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from UC-Riverside in 2009. He writes fiction and plays. Game was a National Finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival ten-minute play contest. His short play Trainwhistles received the same honor in 2009 and was staged as a reading at the Kennedy Center. His fiction has been published in ZYZZYVA and Gertrude.

 
Jacqueline Wright - Buddy Buddette

Jacqueline Wright is a Los Angeles based writer/performer. Her plays have been produced/developed with Theatre of NOTE, Santa Clarita Rep, the Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York & Los Angeles), Ghost Road Company, ASK Theatre Projects, Occidental College, California Institute of the Arts, Playwrights Arena, Echo Theatre Company, 24th Street Theatre, The Virginia Avenue Project, and HBO's Comedy Arts Festival.
 
Laural Meade - The Wide Open Ocean Ate Aimee Semple Whole

Laural-Meade.jpg Laural Meade works as a playwright, performer, director and educator in her native Los Angeles. Her original plays about historical figures both infamous and obscure have been seen throughout Los Angeles and in alternative venues in New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
 
Bill Robens - Interview

BRobens Bill Robens has authored several hit shows, including The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical (co-written with Genemichael Barrera and featured in the Fox Movie Channel documentary “Cult Culture: the Poseidon Adventure”), The Towering Inferno: the Musical (co-written with Steve Marca), the comedy variety show, A Fish Without His Flippers and the perennial Hollywood favorite, A Mulholland Christmas Carol which earned Bill an L.A. Weekly Award for Best Adaptation.