The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) monthly public meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21, at Fells Point Corner Theatre, 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21042, 410-276-7837. After the meeting, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a staged reading of Holler by George P. Tilson, directed by Patricia Woolsey. The reading will be followed by a discussion of the script with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.
In Holler, by George P. Tilson, a young West Virginia woman named Jinx, forever stuck in 1947, observes from afar her three surviving siblings, now aged in 2011, as they sit on the porch of their dilapidated home hanging precariously on the side of their beloved Ol’ Scraggy. As her older brothers and sister jaw about their romanticized memories of life growing up with their coal miner father, Jinx tells the real story about this sensitive man, with ten children he could barely feed, an aspiration of becoming a writer in spite of no education, and the reason for the phobias that would forever haunt the family and leave her abandoned.
George P. Tilson is a Maryland Playwright, librettist and composer. His play Rudy Doo won second place in the 2007 Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Vodu, for which he wrote both look and lyrics, was first presented as a song cycle at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Michael Greif, and was subsequently, produced off-off Broadway by the Harlem Repertory Theater in 2004. In 2010, his musical The Poet Warriors was produced as a part of the DC Capital Fringe Festival, and was well received by audiences and reviewers alike. George has had readings of his plays at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival, and in New York at The Players Club and the Roy Arias Studios.
The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has presented 273 scripts by 165 playwrights, produced by 25 different companies, over the past 30 Years. Our mission is to provide an environment that nurtures the talents of Maryland and DC playwrights through public readings, discussions, critiques and workshopping of new plays. Our summer season is devoted to the presentation of these newly developed works in cooperation with local area theaters. Further information can be found at www.baltplayfest.org
