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SHOW TITLE: Bad Fiction

PLAYWRIGHT: Jeffery Keilholtz

DATES: July 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22,23,24

SYNOPSIS: On the eve of a historic political election, an internal affairs officer and a campaign manager surround a forensics investigator and her bloody mangled face. Once joined by a powerful attorney- and over the course of one night- these four unlikely souls must endure epic consequences in the exposure of a major crime.

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DIRECTOR: Brandon Scott-Boyd

STAGE MANAGER: Emily Raines

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Nola- Julie Herber

McDonough- Jack Evans

Quincy- Nathan Smith

Billie- Laura Stark

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BAD FICTION marks the second full length play authored by Jeffery Keilholtz - and the second to garner considerable industry attention, headling the NewTACTics reading series, produced by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) in New York City, in June 2016. His first play, NIGHTSWIMMING, was produced by At Hand Theater Company at Access Theater in New York City. NIGHTSWIMMING was subsequently work-shopped with Millennium Talent Group at the famed Off-Broadway house, Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. NIGHTSWIMMING was also optioned as screenplay by L.I.F.T. Productions (William Friedkin's, BUG) and later by Louisiana Film Consultants (THE MIST). Keilholtz's original, based-on-a-true-story screenplay, the currently UNTITLED MARSHALL KILDUFF PROJECT - the account of the San Francisco Chronicle Reporter who exposed Reverend Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Church - is also optioned and in feature film development.

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Bad Fiction headlined the NewTACTics reading series, produced by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) in New York City, in June 2016.

METLAB SHOWS-READINGS

SHOW TITLE: Reason for Return

PLAYWRIGHT: DC Cathro

DATES: July 22, 30

SYNOPSIS: Gail's dress shop falls on hard times after a tragedy in the community. She and her daughter Abby try to deal with the repercussions but things spiral downward and come to a head when Gail discovers that Abby may have unwittingly caused it all.

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DIRECTOR: D.C. Cathro

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DC Cathro is a playwright, actor, and director in the Washington DC metropolitan area. His musical "Till," written with award-winning composer Leo Schwartz, is one of three winners in the 2016 Main Street Musicals Festival, and will receive readings throughout the year in the U.S. and Canada. In 2014, he became the only playwright to have two shows in the Pride Films and Plays Festival in Chicago, IL; "Pen, A Musical" (also written with Schwartz) and "Family Holiday," which was in last year's MetLab Festival and will receive its first production here at Maryland Ensemble Theatre in their upcoming season.

SHOW TITLE: 11 Days of Bloody Carnage

PLAYWRIGHT: Michael Perrie

DATES: July 21, 29

SYNOPSIS: A surrealist dark comedy, about the power of art, the influence of government, and the plague of censorship, “11 days...” is about a Writer who is given an ultimatum; create a piece of pro-government art in the next couple days, or face the consequences. Yet outside the Writer’s apartment a genocide of the arts begins to explode across the country, and no one has any answers. As the Writer writes, the Director directs, the Officer taunts and the Investigator watches, an Actor appears and changes everything. When truth and fiction collide, it’s up to The Writer to determine what is real and what is not. Despite burgeoning neuroses, writer’s block, guns and pens, can an artist create under such pressures and circumstances? Would a government censor their own people through murder? Where is everyone and why won’t the door lock? The Writer must make a choice: write what’s real or what they want?

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Playwright Bio –

Michael is a New York based Actor/Playwright/Composer and graduate of Baltimore’s Towson University (Acting). As a writer he has completed over 30 plays, 2 screenplays, 2 TV pilots and 4 musicals (book/music/lyrics) which have been seen all over the East Coast and sometimes out West, recently: La Crescita (The Pantry Development Workshop), Big Red Button (H&H Workshop), and more. Last year he was at MET with a reading of Lenny Was Here. As an actor, he’s been seen in Theatre all over the country NYC and the East Coast. Most recently as: Buddy Holly in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (National B’way Tour), Charles Lomax in Major Barbara (Industry Showcase Reading), Lars in Down Among the Vultures (GHTC @ Cincinnati Fringe), and more. He is always and forever grateful for friends, family, Lacy and MET for supporting his work!

SHOW TITLE: Dorina's Story

PLAYWRIGHT: M.G. Stephens

DATES: July 23, 28

SYNOPSIS: Dorina’s Story takes place during a Sunday brunch in North London. Dorina has the brunch to celebrate the publication of her first story in English. Her very odd and unusual friends come to the house for the celebration. But then Sarah, her boss, appears, and everything goes haywire. The play ends in a mythical woods outside of London, as Dorina and her brother Lucian search for their friends and their own identities. This is a play about immigrants and outsiders in a place like London. It is also a love story, using stock characters from the commedia dell’arte, while contrasting this with both the Dionysian and the more contemporary notion of sobriety. Dorina is a singular young woman determined to succeed in her adopted city, no matter what.

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M. G. Stephens has had his plays produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, among other places, and his play Our Father ran on Theatre Row (42^nd Street in New York) for over five years. He has also published nineteen books, including the novel The Brooklyn Book of the Dead; the memoir Lost in Seoul; and the essay collection Green Dreams. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he also has a doctorate in Literature, Film and Theatre Studies from Essex University in England. Stephens was born in Washington, D.C., and lived in Maryland when younger.

COFFEE HOUSE READINGS

SHOW TITLE: The Funeral of Casey B.

PLAYWRIGHT: Natalie Ann Piegari

DATES: July 20

SYNOPSIS: Three young women deal with the weight and impossible depth of loss after an ex, a first love, a lover and a friend takes his own life. They grapple with a forward-spinning world when death halts life in its tracks -- and are forced to reckon with their relationships with the living. What happens when words aren't enough?

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DIRECTOR: Emily Perper

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Natalie Ann Piegari is a DC-based playwright, arts administrator and actor with a BA in Theatre from the University of Maryland. Plays she has written include Safe as Houses, The Funeral of Casey B. Collins, Left/Right, Sunday at St. Jude’s, Trash, the Knight’s Tale in Pointless Theatre Company’s production of Canterbury, Monster Match in Rorschach Theatre's Fall 2014 Klecksography: Haunting Monsters, and Unbound as part of University of Maryland's Alumni Commissioning Project at the NextNOW Festival. Her plays have been performed, workshopped and read at the University of Maryland, the Kennedy Center, and Mobtown Players in Baltimore. She founded and facilitates Bridge Club: A Writer's Collective, a writer's group that meets monthly. Upcoming: Normal/Magic, a fantastical double-feature, at this year's Capital Fringe Festival. @nataliepiegari

SHOW TITLE: Investigation

PLAYWRIGHT: David Nice

DATES: July 20

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Two employees from the same corporation are assigned to investigate a harassment claim at one of their divisional locations. After spending a day and half together doing their duty, Peter and Amy, are ready to fly home, but a snow storm grounds their plans. These two coworkers wind up sharing a hotel room, giving them plenty of opportunity for discussing the harassment case, as well as exploring their own views of the rules we create for each other at work and in life.

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DIRECTOR: Nicholas Fruit

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David has written three full-length plays (The Attic Which is Desire, In Family Ways, and The Alegria Sisters), several one-act plays and many 10-minute plays over the last 9 years.

David is a founding member of the Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform. He has participated in a number of workshops sponsored by PlayPenn in Philadelphia, including classes led by Jacqueline Goldfinger, Stefanie Zadravec, Lee Blessing, Craig Lucas and Erik Ehn. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia).

David was an actor and theater student in his youth. He returned to theater in his 50s, after a “lifetime” as a husband, father, business guy, and political activist.

SHOW TITLE: The Art of the Smile

PLAYWRIGHT: William Allen

DATES: July 27

SYNOPSIS: This play is loosely based upon a questionable story as told by a disreputable character to a shady journalist renowned for his exaggerations.

The year is 1911, and the Mona Lisa is about to be stolen from the Louvre. Eduardo De Valfierno and Mathilde Chaudron have hatched a scheme to sell fake Mona Lisa’s to rich Americans once the news of the theft is out. They have recruited a pleasant but seemingly not too bright Italian immigrant, Vincenzo Peruggia, to steal the painting. Peruggia agrees to perform the theft only after he has fallen in love and planned to marry the disreputable Mathilde. Act I tells the story of the planning and stealing of the painting, while Act II revolves around Vincenzo’s revenge for his unrequited loves--his love for Mathilde and his love for Mona Lisa.

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DIRECTOR: Tabetha White

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SHOW TITLE: Investigation

PLAYWRIGHT: David Nice

DATES: July 20

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Two employees from the same corporation are assigned to investigate aharassment claim at one of their divisional locations. After spending a day andhalf together doing their duty, Peter and Amy, are ready to fly home, but a snowstorm grounds their plans. These two coworkers wind up sharing a hotel room,giving them plenty of opportunity for discussing the harassment case, as well asexploring their own views of the rules we create for each other at work and in life.

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Playwright Bio

David has written three full-length plays (The Attic Which is Desire, In Family Ways, and The Alegria Sisters), several one-act plays and many 10-minute plays over the last 9 years.

David was an actor and theater student in his youth. He returned to theater in his 50s, after a “lifetime” as a husband, father, business guy, and political activist.

SHOW TITLE: Laugh Station: Election

PLAYWRIGHT: Jack Colliver & Matt Lee

DATES: Friday July 8 and Saturday July 9, 9 p.m.

SYNOPSIS: The intrepid and inebriated crew of Laugh Station are about to embark on their most absurd mission yet: politics. As the candidates for President of the Future enter a battle royale style fight to the death, our heroes find themselves on the front line of a full scale galactic showdown. With brainwashed assassins and robot terrorists thrown into the mix, this is going to one ugly race. The eleventh installment of the Laugh Station series guarantees to be the bloodiest, druggiest, and raunchiest yet!

RATING/AGE APPROPRIATE/WARNINGS: MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY

RUNNING TIME: 2hr

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DIRECTOR: Matt Lee

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COSTUME DESIGN: Julie Herber

LIGHTING DESIGN: Doug Grove

SOUND DESIGN: Bailey Sterling

PROPS: Matt Lee and Bailey Sterling

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Brian Artusio, Lisa Burl, Karli Cole, Kevin Cole, Jack, Colliver, Joe Colliver, Clay Comer, Joe Jalette, Eric Jones, Caitlyn Joy, Matt Lee, Trevor Marin, Colin Shultzaberger, and Bailey Sterling.

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Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is thrilled to present another installment of the Laugh Station series in this summer’s uproarious “Laugh Station: Election.”

SHOW TITLE: Carrie The Musical

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DATES: June 23-July 7

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DIRECTOR: Caitlyn Joy

STAGE MANAGER: Dorie Marusich

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SHOW TITLE: Gulliver's Travels in Space

PLAYWRIGHT: Book bySarah Shulman, Music by Callan Holderbaum, Lyrics by Caitlyn Joy

DATES: August 11,12, 13, 17,18 & 19

SYNOPSIS: Gulliver has always dreamed big, but felt small. Longing to travel the galaxy and see new worlds, but trapped at home with a boring dad and a crazy uncle all Gulliver has been able to do is look to the stars and hope... until now. When Gulliver's crazy Uncle John prepares to launch his new spaceship Gulliver stows away in hopes of having a great space adventure, but he soon realizes he's in way over his head and that home sweet home might not have been all that bad.

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DIRECTOR: Julie Herber

Assistant Directors: Sarah Shulman, Caitlyn Joy

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SET DESIGN: Joann Lee?

COSTUME DESIGN: Julie Herber

LIGHTING DESIGN: Paul Shillinger

SOUND DESIGN: Callan Holderbaum

PROPS: Cecelia Lee

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SHOW TITLE: Comedy Festival?

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