2nd Annual 1st Stage New Works Festival

March 2-4, 2008

1st STAGE: 2nd Annual New Works Festival In its continuing efforts to inspire and develop new work Florida Stage presents its 2nd Annual New Works Festival. Join us for 6 playreadings read over 2 days, a playwrights' panel discussion, artist receptions, the sun, the surf, and so much more...

Featuring:

NILO CRUZ (Anna in the Tropics, A Bicycle Country)
Interpreter of Desire
The Pulitzer Prize-winner returns to Florida Stage with a poetic drama of lost love in 1960s Cuba.

JEFFREY HATCHER (Ella, Stage Beauty)
GI Gay
Jeffrey Hatcher confronts the controversial topic of gays in the military.

WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE (Benedict Arnold, Extremities)
Dirty Business
The true story of a party girl caught between a mafia capo and the President of the United States.

CHRISTOPHER McGOVERN (Backwards in High Heels, Lizzie Borden)
A Crash in Roswell
In this new musical, a family is caught up in the otherworldly events of July 1947.

MARCO RAMIREZ (Mister Beast, I Am Not Batman)
Macon City
The lines blur between the comic book panel and the theatrical stage.

And a sixth reading to be announced...

Keynote speaker is Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright, Marsha Norman.

Special Packages Available for Theatre Professionals.

For tickets call the box office at:

(561) 585-3433 (inside Palm Beach County)
(800) 514-3837 (outside Palm Beach County)

www.floridastage.org/festival