The Salon Series is my semi - monthly reading series. The goal of the Salon Series is to create space for new plays to develop and receive exposure in front of a supportive audience in a comfortable setting (like a living room!), for the simple cost of bringing your own snack/drink. Afterward, the company then invites the audience to mingle with the actors, each other, and the playwright.
If you are a playwright or a director and would like to submit, please send a 10 page sample of your play as well as a short biography to theskeletonrep@gmail.com.
If you are a playwright or a director and would like to submit, please send a 10 page sample of your play as well as a short biography to theskeletonrep@gmail.com.
Salons are back for a third year!
Kick off the season with us -- 9/29 @ 7pm
WENDELL AND PAN
by Katelynn Kenney
9/29 @ 7pm
11-year old Wendell Barnes and his family arrive at his ailing grandpa’s home and is welcomed by his best friend and 12-year old dead aunt, Pan. When Pan concludes that what may be best for Grandpa is to kill him and put him out of his misery, Wendell faces the choice of being at odds with his best friend or his own budding beliefs. Father and Mother hope they can use this trip to mend the breaks within their family while Kayla, Wendell’s older sister, finally tries to connect with the grandfather she never really knew and the brother she fears she may never truly understand. WENDELL AND PAN is a play about loneliness, the strange nature of grief, and that pivotal moment a child can have that reverberates with each step taken into adulthood.
RSVP by emailing theskeletonrep@gmail.com
by Katelynn Kenney
9/29 @ 7pm
11-year old Wendell Barnes and his family arrive at his ailing grandpa’s home and is welcomed by his best friend and 12-year old dead aunt, Pan. When Pan concludes that what may be best for Grandpa is to kill him and put him out of his misery, Wendell faces the choice of being at odds with his best friend or his own budding beliefs. Father and Mother hope they can use this trip to mend the breaks within their family while Kayla, Wendell’s older sister, finally tries to connect with the grandfather she never really knew and the brother she fears she may never truly understand. WENDELL AND PAN is a play about loneliness, the strange nature of grief, and that pivotal moment a child can have that reverberates with each step taken into adulthood.
RSVP by emailing theskeletonrep@gmail.com
A Call to Action: We Should Know Her
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Performed by Sarah Matteucci, Charlotte Pines, Courtney McClellan, Roxy Reynolds, Camille-Bettina Atkinson, John Carlin, Susannah Jones & Maria DiFabbio
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Performed by Amanda Bruton, Hannah Jane Ginsberg, Chase Kuertz, and Jasmine Stiefel
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HUNGRY by Lia Romeo
directed by Ria T. DiLullo 4.21.17 Amy is trying. Trying to lose weight, trying to be popular, trying to do well in school... but it's not working out very well. When a minotaur suddenly shows up in her backyard, Amy finds the unconditional acceptance she's been looking for... but when the "mean kids" start turning up dead, she realizes that being best friends with a man-eating mythological beast might have its drawbacks. Will the minotaur be her salvation or her downfall? |
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SEVERANCE by Jack Horton Gilbert
directed by Ria T. DiLullo 3.24.17 The Earth has stopped spinning. Below life has all but ended and above six astronauts now find themselves trapped. With no hope of rescue and nothing left to them but time, together they must decide how to move forward. But as time stretches out, and the pressure mounts, the growing boredom, monotony, and the voices in their minds call to question all that makes them human and the dark measures they're each willing to take in order to survive. |
Performed by Barron Bass, Cristina Pitter, Dante Alexander, Alejandra Rivera, John Carlin, Courtney McClellan, and Charlotte Pines.
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Actors this evening included Eliza Simpson, Barron Bass, Teresa Attridge, Timothy French, Brittany Sowards, & Gil Polk (as well as writers Amanda Bruton, Veronica Cooper, Emily Claire Schmitt, & Ria T. DiLullo)
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A Call to Action: Take Your Broken Heart & Make it into Art
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SCRATCHING by Britton Buttrill
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 03.11.2016 Sex, drugs, and illegal tattoos collide in a nameless Southern blue-collar town. A doomed circle of unrequited love unfolds between four souls, causing brothers to confront the past, the present, and ultimately each other. 
Performed by Jonathan Huggins, Courtney McClellan, Rebecca Burton, & Matthew Van Gessel
THE NORSE by Allan Staples
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 01.22.2016 The lives of a star professional athlete and the reporters assigned to cover him are forever changed when a shocking incident propels each of them into surprising new directions. Set amidst the ruins of the newspaper industry and the flourishing world of sports, THE NORSE examines the parasitic connection between the two and how that connection is capable of destroying lives. 
Performed by Sammi Katz, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, Scott Thomas, McKenna Cox, & Courtney McClellan
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Performed by Colin Waitt, Tyler Gardella, Sydney Blaxill, & Andi Morrow
SHELTER by Jack Horton Gilbert
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 02.19.2016 We messed up. Hawaii: sunk, the South-West: burnt to a crisp, the ice-caps: melted, California: Gone, and the rest of the world's not doing much better. Now, living in an Autonomous Shelter 3,000 feet below the ground along with his trusty robot pal iZak and an AI system affectionately named "Mom", Peter Barnes might just be the last living person on Earth. And he's just run out of food. Answering the age-old question; if you broadcast a radio-show, and no one's alive to hear it, does it still rock 'n' roll? 
Performed by John Racioppo, Robert Emmet Lunney, Jak Watson, Gil Polk, Brandon Johnson, Elizabeth Scopel, & David Cohen
JOLEY by Caitlin Saylor Stephens
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 12.04.2015 After a long separation, Jim and Joley, two Tennessee mountain lovers reunite one hot n' heavy evening in a broke-ass bar. But when Joley reveals her battle wounds from a particularly violent episode of domestic abuse, the two are challenged with the task of confronting their wrongs, unearthing their truths, finding forgiveness, and burying a body. |
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WHILE WE WAIT by Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 11.13.2015 Letters and airplane tickets fall from the sky. Memories, like snowflakes and feathers, come in on a breeze. Grace waits for an email to come. James waits to send it. And as they wait, they replay memories, imagine futures, and deal with a present that is sometimes lovely and sometimes sad. While We Wait is about a relationship--the erosion, the peaks and valleys, the beginning and the end…and the urge to start it all over again. |
Performed by Terkeisha Tyler, Edgar Edguia, Gil Polk, Miranda Poett, & Erik Olsen
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Performed by Dean Temple, Andi Morrow, Jonathan Huggins, & Rebecca Burton
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EVANGELICAL by Britton Buttrill
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 10.15.2016 Tessa, a twenty-something New Jersey bartender, is forced to move to the American heartland where her mother has found a new life with her Born-Again Christian husband, Jay. There, Tessa finds her new stepbrother, Ty, an Evangelist-in-training, having returned home after a traumatic incident at his Bible camp. As tensions between the four of them build, Tessa takes it upon herself to rip open past and present wounds, shaking this fractured family's belief system to its core. At the end of a brutal 24 hours in the suburban Bible Belt, who will find Salvation and who will be left behind? |
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SPINOZA'S ETHICS by Emily Claire Schmitt
Directed by Ria T. DiLullo 09.18.2015 Inspired by the true story of an extraordinary and average woman's struggle for love and faith in 1960s America, Spinoza's Ethics follows Ruth as she weaves in and out of marriages, vocations, and states of existence, accompanied always by the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Because everything that is simply is. |
Performed by John Carlin, Colin Waitt, Lillith Fallon, Marisa Fratto, & Wiliam Barnet IV
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