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TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
April 4 & 5
in the Pamela Brown Auditorium

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME
Forty minutes with no intermission.

On The Porch One Crisp Spring Morning
by Alex Dremann
Terms of Endearment meets Get Smart in this hilarious spy saga. With infinite twists, turns and double-crossings, Dremann brings new meaning to mother-daughter “Bond”-ing.

3:59am: a drag race for two actors
by Marco Ramirez
Two young men on the edge find redemption behind the wheel. Ramirez deftly fuses lyrical beauty and percussive heat in this high-octane, pulse-pounding drag race.

Roanoke
by Michael Lew
music and lyrics by Matt Schatz
Butter churns, hardtack and...musical numbers? This hilarious inside look at the high-stakes, hardcore world of historical re-enactors pits accuracy against exuberance against interoffice politics in the Lost Colony of Roanoke.


Alex Dremann lives in Philadelphia where he is the Producing Artistic Director for Secret Room Theatre. His plays include Postcoital Variations (Philadelphia Theatre Workshop), Split Pea Pod (Brick Playhouse, Roger Cornish Award) and the shorts Third-First Person (2007 Provincetown Theater Playwrights Festival) and The Cheever Tapes (Killing My Lobster).

Marco Ramirez has had plays produced at The Kennedy Center, The Yellow Tree, City Theatre amd Mad Cat and received Actors Theatre’s Heideman Award in 2006. He’s the two-time winner of the Latino Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival and a graduate of New York University. Mr. Ramirez is currently studying playwriting at the Juilliard School.

Michael Lew‘s plays include A Better Babylon (Ensemble Studio Theatre/ Victory Gardens workshops); Stockton; Yit, Ngay; and Moustache Guys. He won the Heideman Award for In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love (2008 Humana Festival). Writing residencies include Youngblood (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab. Mr. Lew graduated from Yale College in 2003.