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Historically, the spring semester One Acts Festival is dedicated to promoting entirely new work. Riding the wave of "new" in the new territory we've entered over the last year, we wanted to continue to honor Raymond Laine's legacy by producing new stories. Our directors worked with these talented writers to develop and produce their never-seen-before pieces. Filmed theatre, traditional film, a hybrid of both mediums -- our playwrights were game for all of the above.
Check out the playwrights down below to get to know them and their work!
MaTia Martin (Bird's Eye View)
MaTia Martin is ecstatic to be making her playwriting debut with RLM Multidimensional one-acts festival. MaTia is a sophomore theatre arts major from West Fargo, North Dakota. Her most recent credits include Climbing the Good Walls as well as assistant stage managing Pippin and the 2019 One Acts Festival all with the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Later this month she will be making her playhouse stage debut in Dance Nation. She would like to give a special thanks to Simone, Stephen, and Jake for bringing this story to life. Leo and Eunice were once a part of my imagination, now they will live with me forever. That is the greatest gift you could ever give.
Jess Kreisler focuses mainly on topics from voices that are seldom heard. Recently graduating from Adelphi University, she is an original member of the Adelphi Alumni Playwrights Group where she's had performances of her most recent work, Still Waters Run Deep, and The Door War on Zoom. Jess has worked with playwrights such as Leslie Ayvazian, and J. Julian Jiménez. Currently, she has four plays being produced through the power of Zoom. Jess' ten minute-play, Trials And Tribulations has also recently been nominated for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Jess is extremely grateful and excited to have her piece, Leave It Be, as a part of Point Park’s Raymond Laine Memorial Multidimensional One Acts Festival.
#PlaywrightInTheSpotlight feature:
What inspired you to write this play? Being that my mother is adopted, I have always been curious about my history and what she may not even know about herself. When I asked her the question of why she has no interest in meeting or getting in contact with her birth parents, she explained to me the amount of outcomes that have gone through her head and that the family she has now is her family and that was enough for her. That I should "Leave it Be". Hence, the birth of this piece.
What do you hope people take away from this work? I hope people take away appreciation for themselves. That sometimes, it's okay to not know all of the answers to life, because it's made you who you are, and you are enough.
Mary Felix (Flying to the Brink)
Mary Felix is thrilled to have her work chosen for this Spring's One Acts Festival! Mary is a BFA Theatre Arts sophomore pursuing a Creative Writer minor. Mary has worked with the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Bridges Theatre Company, Point Park Cinema, and Pinnacle Productions with various roles from writer to assistant director to actress. Mary also currently writes as a student blogger for BroadwayWorld.Com. She thanks the team and cast of Flying to the Brink, with special thanks to the amazing director, Bri Fallahee.
Anna Skeels (In and Of Ourselves)
Anna Skeels is a freshman Theatre Arts major with a Social Justice minor from Baltimore, Maryland. They are beyond excited to share this piece with everyone and incredibly thankful to all who worked on it! Recent Credits include: Dead Man's Cell Phone (shadow puppets), The Children's Hour (Rosalie/Agatha), and CLUE (Mrs. White).
Emily Stofan is a Junior Performance and Practices major and can’t express how excited she is to see something she wrote brought to life for the first time. She couldn’t be more grateful to have such wonderfully talented and inspiring artists working on this project and would like to thank every single one of them for everything they’ve put into this piece and making it more than she ever thought it could be. She is virtually sending hugs to everyone and hopes that you enjoy this piece!
#PlaywrightInTheSpotlight feature:
What inspired you to write this play? I wrote this play on a day that was just really cloudy and rainy during quarantine. My original thought was: We live in a place right now where it feels like we can’t hug or interact with one another like we normally used to, so what if we couldn’t speak to one another without these consequences either? So I formed this creature to represent that and It sort of turned in a bit of a different direction, but I loved it!
What do you hope people take away from this work? I hope the main thing to take from this play would be how sudden life can change in just one moment, and how important it is to stop and really take a look at the people you love around you because “you can’t guarantee time”.
Shannon Krise (She/Her/Hers) is a Junior Theatre Arts: Performance and Practices student at Point Park University with an emphasis on writing for the stage and screen. She wrote Monitor in the throes of quarantine after getting her first gaming system. She previously wrote a play titled 1987 that was chosen for Half-Acts last year and was set to be directed by Lilly Saunders, but the production was cancelled due to COVID-19. She is incredibly grateful to Emmy Masteller for bringing her vision to life as well as to the actors and video editor involved in Monitor. She is currently taking her classes online in her hometown of Punxsutawney but plans to return to Pittsburgh in the fall to complete her degree. In her spare time she plays violin and cries over fictional characters.
Alexa Wildenberg hails from Hawley, PA and is finishing up her sophomore year as a Theatre Arts Major. She is beyond thankful to have her work be brought to life by such a dynamic team of people. Past works: Picasso at The Lapin Agile (AD), Snowing Sand (AD), Flower Power (AD).
#PlaywrightInTheSpotlight feature:
1. What has the processs of collaboration between playwright and director been like for you? The collaboration between Vanessa and I has been the most safe/comforting environment and workspace. We both have that "yes and" mentality with making our vision of this story come to life.
Anna Hanson (Weenies in the Moonlight)
Anna Hanson is a 1st semester senior Theatre Arts major with a directing concentration and a Technical Theatre minor. She is so excited to share this piece with everyone. Some Recent Credits include: Ordinary Days (Assistant Director), The Trail to Oregon! (Son), Push Me Away (Director), Letters of a Lifetime (Director/Playwright), Weenies in the Moonlight (Playwright), Dance Nation (Vanessa/Dance Moms). She would like to thank the cast and crew for all their hard work. In addition she would like to give thanks to her friends, family, and hermit crab, Taco, for always supporting her in all her artistic endeavors. Enjoy the show! @a.hanson1
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