August DRillNotes

Dear All,

We’ve been absent for a month or so due to technical difficulty – computers crashing, gas leaks – the walls have trembled. But we’re back with a load of info and instead of sending out twelve of these it seemed better send one
with everything in it. So enclosed is news about some things that are going on and some things that have happened and some things that are going to happen.

And if any of the info seems too last minute, let's just say we have no control over New York power outtages.

Without further……
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Go See

There are two DrillingCompaNY artists with wonderful shows at
The New York International Fringe Festival.

First Dana Slamp started writing a play for our BOTH project , now two years ago, and
couldn't stop writing. The result was a full length: The Importance of Marrying Wells.
It has Slamp's signature wit, a classic turned on its head a little but just right so we can see it all brand new. She's veteran DrillingCompany director Nancy Chu at the helm
(Nancy directed last summer's 2G and most recently Ms. Santos' Medea for Revenge)
and sound design by Michael Graetzer who has captured so many of our shows with fantastic sound design it would be too many to list.
They are in the big theatre for the Fringe. Great cast! The Lucille Lortel
121 Christopher Street
Friday the 19th at 9:45pm
Saturday the 20th at 12 noon
Sunday the 21st at 5pm
Monday the 22nd at 7pm
www. whoiswells.com
212-279-4488
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Okay only three performances remain but The Cross is extremely worth your attention.
Toby Wherry and Laura Strausfeld have teamed up as actor and director.
You may remember their unforgettable version of Rodes Fishburne's Gaggle for PAPER TheLateEdition, again two years ago.

Truly one of the most engaging actors we've had the pleasure of working with,
Toby is well known to anyone who has seen shows produced by
78th Street Theatre Lab ( like Kenneth What is the Frequency or Man in the Flying Lawn Chair or Mamet's The Frog Prince) . The Lab is also a producer on this one. Don't miss this really amazing work if you can help it. Toby takes the acting moment many of us have experienced - if you've ever worked as an extra - and turns it into a fantastic journey of self-discovery. It's a great hour of theatre. Here's the info:


The Cross by Toby Wherry
13th Street Repertory Company
50 West 13th Street
Friday 19 at 3:30
Saturday 20 at 5:45
Wedenesday the 24th at 8:00
for reservations call that fringe number - 212-279-4488.
go to thes page t read the blurb on the show:
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.asp?ltr=C

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Gotta Brag!

Because of our furious summer activity and the above crash, I haven't had an opportunity to announce our FIVE NOMINATIONS for excellence in Off-Off Broadway Theatre which is being recognized by Off-Off-Broadaway's newest friend,
the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. With FIVE NOMINATIONS, The DrillingCompany was one of the most lauded companies - all for HONOR part two ( which was the only show we produced that was eligible for consideration),

Renne Flermings - Outstanding Original Short Play, "Legend"
P. Seth Bauer - Outstanding Original Short Play, "First Time Out of Bounds"
Edward Manning - Outstanding Original Short Play, "Titus Lucretius Carus"

Maria McConville - Outstanding Performance by an Actress, in P. Seth Bauer's
"First Time Out of Bounds"

Michael Gant - Best Supporting Performance by and Actor, im Edward Manning's Titus Lucretius Carus.

The awards are on September 19, 2005. For TDC, we've already decided for us it's a three way tie for Outstanding Original Short Play.


New Drillers

Actor David Sinkus (PAPER) and his wife Beth have welcomed a son, John Sinkus in to the big experiemnt, while LAurent Nahon (Dealers, HONOR pt. 2 "Pec") and wife Francine have hit double euphoria with the birth of their TWIN sons.

Coming this fall

P.Seth Bauer's The Karma Cookie (workshop production with 78th Street Theatre Lab)

The Workout returns October 1.

C.Denby Swanson's Atomic Farmgirl (reading)

REVENGE part 2 Dec3 - 18 with new plays by

Molly Rice Brenner
Kate McCamey
Nicholas Gray
Katherine Clark Gray
Rodes Fishburne
Robin Rice Lichtig
Sheri Graubert
and more......

Did you know?

DrillingCompany playwright and actor, Bruce Faulk's "Wally and the Chosen Few", first presented in BOTH was being turned into a short film this summer featuring the writer and , Dana Slamp, and Karen Kitz.

Frequent DrillingCompany contributor Kerry Logan has just completed a final cut on his first feature film, TRUE MEN, written and directed by himself with a co-story credit going to Hamilton Clancy. Film will premiere in Los Angeles this fall.

Andrew Lawton's film company Thursday Films has completed a cut of
KUWAIT by Vincent Delaney, originally a short play for TheDrillingCompany's SERVICE and now a short film and full length play . The film features
Andrew in the lead role.

Madelaine and George, Rodes Fishburne's new Revenge play , was alos featured this summer at the Strawberry One -Act Festival - it made it onto the second round but had to withdraw because of an actor