On
Tuesday, April 20 at 8:00 pm at The Signature Theater, 555 W. 42nd St., New York City,
The Sundance Institute will present a screenplay reading in association with MTV Films and the Writers Guild of America, West, of
UP, to be directed by
Elisabeth Subrin from a screenplay by Subrin and Evan Carlson. The reading cast includes
Tina Holmes,
Laila Robins (currently featured in the Off-Broadway play,
Frozen),
Jonathan Togo, and Jennifer Subrin.
In
UP, an opportunity to join the fast-paced world of a dot-com has unforeseen repercussions for a young woman when it triggers a spectacular manic-depressive cycle, causing her to "crash" just as the company collapses in the stock market fallout.
The Sundance Screenplay Readings series, which is free to the public, is part of the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program.
Elisabeth Subrin's
award-winning trilogy of experimental biographies have screened widely in the U.S. and abroad at venues including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Channel and the Whitney Biennial. A 2002-2003 Guggenheim Fellow, Subrin is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Evan Carlson studied literature and fine arts at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art before receiving his MFA from the USC School of Cinema-Television. His original play
Quickfire was produced and performed as part of the
Institute of Contemporary Art/London's Young Playwright's Festival.
To attend this reading RSVP to (212) 727-9573.
On
Tuesday, April 27th at 7:30 pm at the Actors' Gang Theater, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, the Sundance Institute presents a special screenplay reading in Los Angeles of
Paper Man.
Co-written and co-directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney,
Paper Man was developed at the 2004 January Screenwriters Lab. In
Paper Man, a frustrated writer spends a lonely winter on Cape Cod, where he is forced to choose between a world-weary superhero, an extinct bird, and a 16-year-old local girl in this coming-of-middle-age story.
Writers/directors
Kieran and Michele Mulroney. Cast
Brian Finney,
Jena Malone,
Patrick Warburton,
Colin Fickes, and
Chris Lowell.
Kieran Mulroney is an actor with over 15 years' experience in front of the camera. His film and television credits include John Hughes's
Career Opportunities, the Emmy Award Winning series
From the Earth to the Moon and the Sundance award-winner
The Spitfire Grill. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied English Literature and Film Theory. Michele Mulroney graduated from the University of London and trained as a director at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London. She founded and served as director of the Mill Grove Children's Theatre and is the author of a number of plays and musicals. Michele has directed for the stage in both the United Kingdom and Los Angeles. Together, they spent a season writing for the Emmy nominated PBS series
Wishbone and most recently worked on the Doug Liman project
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The RSVP line to attend this reading is (310) 360-1983.
# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 4/16/2004 03:58:00 PM
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