Feb 2 & 3, 2012; 7:00pm
The Theatre Project at South Walton (High School) Presents the 3rd Annual Student-Directed One Act Festival.
Tickets: $5
All proceeds benefit the SWHS Theatre Deptartment
Saturday, Jan 28 7:30pm (Seaside Rep Theatre, Seaside)
Escape To Create and the Seaside Repertory Theatre team up to present the award–winning alt-country Duo “Granville Automatic” performing “An Army Without Music: Civil War Stories From Hallowed Ground.”
Tickets: $25 available online at SeasideRep.org
Guitarist Elizabeth Elkins is an award-winning songwriter whose work has appeared on leading television networks and numerous films. A Grand Prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Elkins was finalist at both the International Songwriting Contest and the UK Singer/Songwriter Awards. She has been a featured musician in several industry publications including Guitar Player magazine and works with top songwriters and performers coast to coast.
Vocalist Vanessa Olivarez wrote and recorded a Top 10 single in Canada and has had three songs recorded by the multi-platinum Grammy-awarded country music duo Sugarland. An accomplished actress and dancer on stage and television, Olivarez received a Dora nomination (Canada’s Tony Award) for her performance in the Toronto production of Hairspray. She was a Top 12 finalist on the second season of American Idol.
Olivarez and Elkins formed their songwriting partnership, Granville Automatic, in 2009 and write in the tradition of musical storytellers such as John Prine, Nanci Griffith, and Bob Dylan. The Atlanta-based duo has toured throughout the U.S. in nationally recognized venues including the 30A Songwriter’s Festival.During their residency, they will create a portfolio of songs inspired by their research of personal histories recorded during the Civil War. Working with The Civil War Trust and the National Park Service, Granville Automatic will later perform the work at national battlefields. Olivarez and Elkins hope to engage middle school students by capturing a historylesson through songwriting and will offer the public a lecture with performance of their completed works.
Reed Unwraps Jolly Rancher at Seaside Repertory Theatre
E2C Artist, David Wayne Reed presents staged reading of one-man show
David Wayne Reed, Actor, Writer, Director and Producer, debuts a staged reading of his one-man show, Jolly Rancher at the Seaside Repertory Theatre on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7:30p.m.
Growing up on a farm in Louisburg, Kansas without formal creative outlets, Reed created his own venues for self-expression—performing impromptu drag performances for visiting seed salesmen, dancing for the hay crew after a long day’s work, rehearsing Shakespeare in abandoned grain silos…
Finding the wheat among the chaff, Reed presents Jolly Rancher, a one-man show based on a collection of stories culled from his own rural upbringing. In Jolly Rancher, Reed plows through a collection of humorous and poignant short stories rife with hilarious characters and universal truths unveiled from his life in the Land of Oz.
Excerpt:
Years later and I’ve just come out of the closet to my father. We’re standing on a frozen pond, with pick-axes in hand chopping holes in the ice so that the cattle can drink. Literally standing on thin ice, my Dad says “You hear the one about the queer bear? He laid his paw (pa) on the table.” I think he was just trying to break the, uh, proverbial ice before he continued.
“So you’re gay, huh? You become a vegetarian, too, while you were at it?”
No, Dad.
“Well, good, cause you best be supporting beef because beef supported you.”
David Wayne Reed has been described as an “actor, writer and a bon vivant” as well as “a one-man classic rock circus.” Reed is a founding member of the late Late Night Theatre where he appeared in over 20 shows playing over 50 roles. He wrote/directed Mother Trucker (2004), adapted/directed Come Back to the 9 to 5 Dolly Parton Dolly Parton (2002, 2006), co-wrote/co-directed Supermodels in Space (2005) and adapted The Show Formerly Known as Purple Rain (named Best Play of 2005 by the Kansas City Star) White Nose Christmas (2010) Mother Trucker 2: Ride On (2011) and Bump (2011). Reed was voted Best Actor: Reader’s Choice and Best Trouper (for work in LNT) in the Pitch Weekly in 2000, Best Actor/Actress in 2008 and won Best Stocking Stuffer for White Nose Christmas in 2011. Reed is a 2011 Arts KC Inspiration Grant recipient, a Charlotte Street Generative Performing Arts Award nominee, and a 2012 Escape to Create artist.
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