Thursday, May 11 7:30-9:00 $15
The Yeti Play: A new play by local playwright Nicholas Wardigo
Reading directed by Dave Ebersole
At an isolated monastery in Nepal, the monks find a woman on the ice. A naturalist treats her mysterious wounds, and as the sun goes down, she spins a harrowing tale about an American big game hunter and his obsession to bag the legendary yeti. As the story weaves through its twists and turns, sinister howls grow closer, screams echo outside, and something pounds on the door. Our heroes must get to the end of the story and parse the exaggerations from the lies, if either of them is going to survive the night.
Nick is a Philadelphia-based playwright whose produced plays include Snowglobe, Hum, Concrete Dinosaur, Exit Corpse, The Do’s and Don’ts of Time Travel, The Biggest Box of Crayons, and Editorial Decisions. He’s been produced by such forward-thinking theaters as Plays & Players, Straw Flower Productions, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, The Brick Playhouse, The Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), the Theater Alliance (Washington, DC), and Quantum Dragon Theatre (San Francisco). He’s received staged readings in lots of other places, including PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Society Hill Playhouse, and Flashpoint Theatre Company.
He’s proud to be the recipient of grants from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He was also a nominee for the 2009 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.
He also writes novels, works in a bookstore, and makes pasta from scratch.
The Media Arts Council (MAC) Play Reading Series was created by playwrights Julie Zaffarano, Dave Ebersole, and Keenya Jackson, in partnership with the MAC to create a space for local playwrights to hear their work read by talented actors and receive feedback from a public audience. The only regular new play reading series in in the area, it brings exciting new stories to Delaware County.
Playwrights, actors, and directors who are interested in being involved in the series should contact Julie Zaffarano, juliezaffarano.gmail.com. Due to the limited budget for this project, we are unable to offer actors or directors a stipend through the MAC