Each month The Echo presents a FREE public reading series showcasing both new and established playwrights.

THIS MONTH:

The Big Meal

by Dan LeFranc

directed by Chris Fields

with: Paul Caramagno – Liz Fenning – Elan Garfias – Melody Hollis – Jeremy Maxwell – Cindy Pickett – Amanda Saunders & Ned Van Zandt

Monday August 1 @ 7:30p | The Zephyr Theatre | 7456 Melrose Ave (at Vista)

About the Author:

Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, premiered by Page 73 Productions and SoHo Rep. His other plays include Origin Story, Bruise Easy, Night Surf, In The Labyrinth, The Big Meal, The Fishbone Fables, Backyard, Kill The Keepers, and Catgut. His most recent play, The Big Meal, received its world premiere at American Theater Company in Chicago, and will receive its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
Awards include the Whitfield Cook Award, the John C. Russell Fellowship, a Djerassi Resident Artists Program Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony/Alpert Foundation Residency; and commissions from Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and American Theatre Company in Chicago. He is a proud member of New Dramatists, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and a former member of the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. A graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, Dan served as visiting faculty in Literary Arts at Brown and head playwriting instructor of the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. He was recently a visiting lecturer at University of Rochester and Whitman College. Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is published by Samuel French and his short play Hippie Van Gumdrop is published in The Backstage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas. He was born and raised in Southern California.

Past readings include:

David Lindsay-Abaire’s A Devil Inside

David Linday-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dotting and Dashing

Todd Alcott’s The User’s Waltz

Tanya Barfields’s Pecan Tan

P.J. Barry’s And Fat Freddy’s Blues

Mike Batistick’s Port Authority Throwdown

Mike Batistick’s Chicken

Neena Beber’s Tommorowland

Neena Beber’s Hard Feelings

Chad Beguelin’s Harbor

Matthew Benjamin & Logan Brown’s Wirehead

Adam Bock’s Thursday

Adam Bock’s The Receptionist

Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream

Carlyle Brown’s The Pool Room

Keith Bunin’s King of Clocks

Rick Cleveland’s Home Grown

Rick Cleveland’s Danny Bouncing

Kevin Crowley’s Disgruntled Employees

Cusi Cram’s Landlocked

Gordon Dahlquist’s The Secret Machine

Bryan Davidson’s War Music

Brian Delaney’s The Onion Game

Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods

Padraic Duffy’s Copy

Padraic Duffy’s Past Time

Fielding Edlow’s Admissions

Julia Edwards’ Family Planning

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Farewell Undertaker

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Hunting for Game

Napoleon Ellsworth’s Wicked Messenger

Herman Daniel Farrell III’s Bedfellows

Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know

Amy Freed’s The Psychic Life of Savages

Karl Gajdusek’s Spin

Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing

Jessica Goldberg’s Get What You Need

Jessica Goldberg’s Body Politic

Jennifer Haley’s Froggy

Steven Haworth’s Fernando

Michael Hollinger’s Incorruptible

Keith Huff’s Harry’s Way

Elroyce D. Jones’ A Thimble of Smoke

Nick Jones & Rachel Shukert’s The Sporting Life

Susan Johnston’s The Bourgeois Willie B.

Bill Leavengood’s 17 Black

Adam LeFevre’s Ethoipian Tooth

Rick Lieberman’s Left on Flatbush

Quincy Long’s Year of the Baby

Quincy Long’s Aux Cops

Heather McCutchen’s Alabama Rain

Wendy MacLeod’s House of Yes

Melanie Marnich’s Cradle of Man

Teri Minksy’s Amazing Frogs & Toads

Wesley Moore’s A Reckoning

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Bob

Kira Obolensky’s The Adventures of Herculina

Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice

Riel Paley’s Antiman

Laura Quinn’s The White Album

Adam Rapp’s Finer Noble Gases

Adam Rapp’s Nocturne

Kate Robin’s Anon

Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play

Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play

Leah Ryan’s Short Order

Leah Ryan’s Bleach

Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear

Red Shuttleworth’s High Plains Fandango

Bernardo Solano’s Wild Life

Bernardo Solano’s Dominion

Richard Strand’s Median Strip

Lucy Thurber’s Where We’re Born

Erin Cressida Wilson’s Hurricane

Paul Zimmerman’s Pigs and Bugs