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NORTHWEST ACTORS LAB PRESENTS

an evening of new works

Staged readings of short plays by local playwrights

Staged and edited by Dinah Manoff and Renee Longstreet

April 29, 2011
Friday @ 7:30 p.m.

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$10 suggested donation; all proceeds benefit Helpline House

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“An Evening of New Works” emerged as a collaboration between actors and writers living and working on Bainbridge Island. Each of the entertaining plays is approximately ten minutes in length. Most are comedies and none have ever been performed.

The plays are still “works in progress” and are presented as staged readings, meaning that the actors will move about the stage but with scripts in hand. As this is a fluid process with writers, actors and director working together, the writers have the opportunity and freedom to re-write their material all the way up to the night of the performance.

Eventually, some of the pieces may end up developing into full length plays, while others will remain short one-acts. For audiences this is a rare and wonderful first-hand opportunity to see the process of creating live theater.

Featured authors include Lynn Brunelle, Jenna Clark, Rustin Dozeman, Dinah Manoff, Warren Read, Dura Temple Curry, and Wendy Wallace.

The cast includes Michelle Allen, Jim Anderson, Lori Anderson, Christie Capps, Robert Craighead, Tim Davidson, Barbara Deering, Tracy Dickerson, Todd Erler, Cynthia Lair, Corinna Lapid-Munter, Arthur Mortell, Warren Read, Marybeth Redmond, Bhama Roget, Shannon Sheehan, and Sue Ellen Van Duyne.

SUITABLE FOR “PG-13” AUDIENCES

About Dinah Manoff

Born in New York City to actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff, Dinah Manoff won both Theater World and Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s I Ought To Be In Pictures, and she reprised the role in the motion picture of the same title.

Manoff’s numerous theater credits include Broadway’s Leader of the Pack, Alfred and Victoria at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Kingdom of Earth at Theatre West, and Gifted Children at the JRT off Broadway. She won a Dramalogue Award (Best Director of the Year, 1993) for directing Telegrams From Heaven, a play — which she co-wrote with Dennis Bailey — based on her late father’s novel.

On television, Manoff was a series regular on Soap, and is best known for her portrayal as Richard Mulligan’s daughter “Carol Weston” the character she played for seven years on Empty Nest. Her feature film credit’s include Bloodhounds of Broadway, Child’s Play, Staying Together, Backfire, Ordinary People, Grease, I Ought To Be In Pictures, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and Bart Got a Room, which was released last spring.

Manoff has directed for television, including episodes of Sister Sister, Empty Nest, Brothers, and Movie Stars. She currently resides on Bainbridge with her husband Arthur Mortell. When she is not busy being mom to Dashiell, Desi and Oliver, she writes and teaches acting.