Front Row Seat

It is 1963 and the Flannery family is on a trip, a rare outing from their little hometown. They are not experienced travelers and suffer multiple mishaps and calamities. Franny wrestles with a killer girdle. Inez crashes into a wayward cow. Billy fends off a knife-wielding Christian. The strangers they meet are getting stranger and stranger. But they are increasingly determined to realize their once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the President and First Lady in person. And they want to be right up front.

World Premiere FRONT ROW SEAT
by Kathy Anderson
directed by Bill Felty

November 20 - December 12, 2010
Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, Philadelphia, PA

FRONT ROW SEAT was nominated as one of Philadelphia's Best New Works in the 2010 BroadwayWorld.com Theatre Fans' Choice Awards.

(Pictured: Janine White, Peter Zielinski, Kelly DelDuca. Photo Credit: John Flak Photgraphy)

The Meatpackers Book Club

Imagine a book club where the members wield bloody hacksaws for a living and discussions about literature break out in fistfights. It's the Meatpackers Book Club. To rise above the raw gore of their daily lives, clever Harry, tough guy Red, one-armed Augustus, and lone female meatpacker Tiny discuss Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, The Life of Pi, and the proper way to hack animal carcasses. Meanwhile, a love triangle is evolving and something very strange and troubling is going on in Sector 8 of the meatpacking plant. And today, while all these worlds are colliding, it's really difficult to get a meaningful literary discussion going.

The Meatpackers Book Club had its world premiere May 30 - June 14, 2009 with the Philadelphia Theatre Workshop.

For Official Meatpackers Book Club Reading List, click here.

Incoming

Incoming is a full-length comedy about a lesbian couple who is having a baby in a most unusual way, involving an inverse gravity slant board, a game of Red Rover, and an ex-lover trapped under a hospital bed. This comic fantasy explores what it means to be a child, a parent, a family.

Incoming won Bloody Unicorn Theater Company's Queer Women's Play Contest and received a full production in September 2007 in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.

Incoming was selected for the International Centre for Women Playwrights Chicago HER-RAH 2007: A Festival of the World's Best Women Playwrights and Their New Plays.  World premiere in 2008 with Philadelphia Theatre Workshop. Produced by Bloody Unicorn Theatre in Arizona. Featured in TOSOS II Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright Project in New York City in 2008. To read an excerpt, click here.

Incoming, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop Production

(photo credits John Flak)