Introducing Our 2020 Playwrights
Theatre Huntsville and Evil Cheez Productions annually present the Rocket City Playwrights’ Series, a program to support the creation of new works by local writers. At some point every famous playwright was an unknown, struggling to get that first play read, produced and published. Someone had to take a chance on the unknown, and that is what the Rocket City Playwrights’ Series is all about.
For 2020, while we can’t present a performance to a live audience of these plays, we we will be proceeding with a Livestream performance on Twitch! The public is invited to join us online on November 21st a 7 pm. The live audience will vote to determine our winners, which will be awarded cash prizes.
Without further adieu, introducing our playwrights for 2020:
Pamela Manasco is a writer and English instructor living in Madison, Alabama. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and a BA in English from the University of Alabama. Her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, American Literary Review, Descant, and others.
Her play The Undertakers will be presented at RCPS 2020.
Jacob Lorrin Buechler is an avid reader, writer, and a tireless victim of podcasts. Between working on novels that he will never finish due to extensive creative procrastination, Jacob likes to take part in a heavily fitness oriented lifestyle, eats as clean as his palate will allow, and completes his day chasing his crazy cat Tweek around.
During the work day Jacob can be found teaching in the English Department at the Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University. His favorite genres are: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. His love languages are: Regret and Bitterness.
His play Bleach will be presented at RCPS 2020.
Tommy Walker grew up performing in community theatre in Huntsville, Alabama and is now a theatre teacher in NYC. He has directed and choreographed over 50 productions over the past decade as a theatre educator. As an actor, he most recently appeared Off-Broadway as Chef Bruno in Truffles! (GBTC Productions) and in the national tour of A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley. Some of his favorite appearances as an actor in Huntsville include Bobby Strong (Urinetown, Renaissance Theatre), Dr. Frank-n-Furter (Rocky Horror, Renaissance Theatre), and Ugolin (Puss in Boots, Fantasy Playhouse).”
His play Doodlebug will be presented at RCPS 2020.
Halley Proctor works for the government and has written many things down. She obtained one degree over the course of many schools, as well many degrees from one school. If you would like to know more, she will politely change the subject.
Her play The Clamorer Grew Still (inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s Cask of Amontillado) will be presented at RCPS 2020.
We at Theatre Huntsville and Evil Cheez Productions believe that locally written and created productions can be a unique cultural opportunity, providing a direct lens into the identity of our local community and the surrounding communities of North Alabama. We are committed to investing in and supporting our local storytellers and theatre artists who are interested in the creation of new live works.
Again, we hope you’ll join us on November 21 at 7 pm on Twitch to appreciate and support these local playwrights.