Barrow Student Playwriting Festival

My short play, One Final Caller, was selected to be part of a slate of short plays for rehearsed readings. Tickets are here.

Arcadia at Shotgun Players

Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house in Derbyshire, and takes place in both 1809 and the present day. The activities of two modern scholars and the house’s current residents are juxtaposed with those of the people who lived there in the earlier period.

Written by Tom Stoppard

Directed by Patrick Dooley

Review

Aaron Murphy as latter-day Byron scholar Bernard Nightingale makes his character’s undisciplined ideas, his parade of aphorisms and allusions, his casual hauteur, his even more casual lust for every woman in his field of vision into a one-man fireworks display of gesticulations.

Everything reels him, strikes him, hobbles him, springs him back to life with preposterously redoubled vigor. He gives his scene partners gifts, making an exchange meaningful and important not through what Bernard initiates, but by how he witnesses, absorbs and reflects what others put forth.
– Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle (full review here.)

Livermore Shakespeare on ABC – Winter’s Tale

Hughie at the Eugene O’Neill Festival at Danville & Ireland

In the darkest hours of the night, two lonely souls grapple to make sense of their lives, their relationship and their responsibilities to each other. In this radically re-imagined telling of the story, the stage directions come to life and shed new light on the characters and their author. Along with the one-act Hughie, there will be a playful presentation of some of O’Neill greatest stage directions.

This production of Hughie toured Ireland after its Tao House engagement. Featuring Aaron Murphy, Clive Worsley, Dorian Locket, and Craig Eichner (U/S).