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       The Elite Theatre Company

Presents

An Evening of One Acts and a Monologue.

Navigating relationships by exploring

Life, Love and Mortality.

Act 1

CEMETERY PLOT

Genre: comedy, drama

Synopsis

After the death of his mother, a young man is convinced he was not a good son. Then one day while visiting his mother's grave, a mysterious stranger might just change his mind.

ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM

Genre: comedy, drama

Synopsis

To cross the room to meet a stranger or not to cross the room--that is the question.

Act 2

CUTTING THE STRINGS

Genre: comedy, drama

Synopsis

A Mother letting go…impossible.

POSTCARDS FROM A DEAD DOG

Genre: comedy, drama

Synopsis

A man and his mother find an unusual way to communicate.

Bios:

Playwright:

F.J. Hartland

F. J. Hartland holds an MFA in Playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon University where he was a Shubert Fellow and the winner of the Bud Yorkin Playwriting Award, He made his New York City playwriting debut at the age of 23 when the Ensemble Studio Theatre workshopped his play A Piano Player With Sad Brown Eyes. Twice, he was the winner of the Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival. Other NYC venues where his work has been seen include: Emerging Artists Theatre, GayFestNYC, the 13th Street Theatre, Lovecreek Productions, Quaigh Theatre, and Lincoln Center Library Theatre. In 2019, F.J.'s short play Tina was named Best Play in the Equity Library Theatre's Summer Short Play Festival. His ten-minute play What the Puck? Was a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Samuel French (now Concord), United Stages, Original Works, Next Stage Press, and The Louisville Review have published his plays. He is the recipient of a Playwriting Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His full-length play Games of the Mind won Throughline Theatre's New Play Competition in Pittsburgh. Another play Waiting for Fair was chosen for the inaugural season of Pittsburgh Playhouse/Point Park University's Virtual New Play Festival. F.J. has made a record-setting eighteen appearances in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, winning Best Play four times. Other Pittsburgh venues where his work has been produced include: Duquesne University, Bricolage, South Park Theatre, Future Ten, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, First Night Pittsburgh, Cup-A-Jo, Pyramid Productions to name a few.
In addition to being a playwright, F.J. is an experienced stage director (with more than 100 productions to his credit) and a professional actor (Actors Equity Association member since 1991).

Director

Kristen Hansen is emerging back to the theatre after years of filmmaking. Subsequent to graduating from Rutgers University with an MFA in acting, Kristen continued her acting career on the stages of Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, The Actors Gang, The Secret Rose and The Raven Playhouse and Stuart Rogers Studio. As a playwright and actress, her work was performed at The Raven Playhouse in Los Angeles under the direction of Brian Robert Harris, to rave reviews. As an independent filmmaker her work includes jury prize winner, Already Gone, and Reflections. As the first female to be awarded the Jury Prize for the Collaboration Filmmaking Challenge, she has gone on to make music videos, web series, and short films. Her feature film Sonny Boy debuted last year winning the Audience Choice Award at Dances With Films. She's currently involved in the film's festival circuit journey.

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Auditions at The Elite

The Elite Theatre Company Nontraditional Casting Policy

Unless otherwise contractually required by our licensing agreement, The Elite Theatre Company holds a nontraditional casting policy. Meaning we expect our directors to cast the best candidate for a role without considering the actor's ethnicity, skin color, body shape, sex and/or gender when casting for a role.