Preliminary August 9th - 19th & Finale August 23rd - 27th
Gala & Awards August 30th

Location: 300 W 43rd ST. 4th Floor (between 8th & 9th)
Tickets: $20 Smarttix.com or call 212 868 4444

Special rated tickets available for multiple performances

This year Turtle Shell Productions' hugely successful annual event, the 8-MINUTE MADNESS FESTIVAL OF 2007, will be spectacular! This year hundreds of playwrights from across the country, as well as internationally, had submitted their short plays for this year's award-winning event. Our selection committee read and selected America's top 21 plays. The 8 MINUTE MADNESS FESTIVAL will feature those top 21 playwrights over a three-week period and you, the audience, will get to choose which playwright wins the highest honor and title of 8 MINUTE MADNESS PLAYWRIGHT OF 2007! Tickets are available at www.SmartTix.com or call 212 868 4444

Director: John W. Cooper & Norman Beim
August 9th-7PM,10th-7PM, 11th-9:15PM, 12th-3:15 PM,
13th-7PM, 15th-7PM, 16th-7PM, 17th-9:15PM
Playwrights: Molly Cameron, Merryn Johns, Scott McCrea,
W. Newkirk, M.Z. Ribalow, Norman Beim, Larry Swansen
Cast: Thomas Andren, Laura Bailey, Christie Booker.
Martin Ewens, Natalie Kuhn, Joan Slavin,
Shaun Wilson, Alan Altschuler, Renato Biribin,
Toneda Laiwan, Joe Miller, Charmaine Reedy,
Isabel Martin, Anthony Crep, Jonathan M. Castro

Director: Shawn Rozsa
August 10th-9:15PM, 11th-3:15PM & 7PM, 13th-9:15PM,
16th-9:15PM, 18th-1PM & 9:15PM, 19th-3:15PM
Playwrights: Dan Bancroft, Mark William Butler, Lizz
Leiser, Henry Meyerson, Anne Nelson, M.Z. Ribalow,
John Weagly.
Cast: Devin Burnam, Anthony Crep, Mike Culhane,
Michael Huber, Natalie Kuhn, Alana O'Brien, Bonnie
Singer, James Stahl, Arje Shaw, Laura Bailey, Vickie Varnuska

Director: Julie Halpern & Jon Castro
August 9th-9:15PM, 11th-1PM, 12th-1PM, 15th-9:15PM,
17th-7PM, 18th-3:15PM & 7PM, 19th-1PM
Playwrights: Jeff Berry, Frank Hertle, Liza Lentini,
Staci Swedeen, Brett Hursey, D. Tucker Smith,
Francine L. Trevens
Cast: Katherine Barron, Christina Christman,
Elizabeth Clark, Jeff Essex, Kate Geller, Michael Huber,
Christopher Rosamond, Chris Smith, Christie Booker,
Verlon Brown, Hector Lincoln, Nadia Owusu, Albert Frylewicz,
Jennifer Terpak

Producer & Director..................................John W. Cooper
Director.....................................................Shawn Rozsa
Director.....................................................Julie S. Halpern
Director.....................................................Jonathan M. Castro
Stage Manager..........................................Sarah-Dakotah Farney
Scenic Designer.........................................Gino Ng
Lighting/Sound Designer.............................David Roy
Costume Designer......................................A. Christina Giannini
Carpenter..................................................Colin McGurk
Projection..................................................Jackson Lau
Painting......................................................Lauren Rockman
Asst. Stage Manager..................................Christine Seisler
Asst. Stage Manager..................................Amy Grossman
Assistant....................................................Fikile Nhlapo

8 Minute Madness Playwright Fesival 2007

Congratulations to those selected to be produced in our Playwright Festival 2007!

Thank you for you patience and interest in our 8 Minute Madness Playwright Festival 2007. There were many plays submitted this year and we are still reviewing the submission.
We will be contacting you shortly.

We hope that you will attend this year’s festival so that we might meet and you may see the plays we are producing.
This year the Festival starts August 9th – August 27th.

Thank you and we look forward to working with you in the near future.

Sincerely,
John W. Cooper
Artistic Director, Turtle Shell Productions
8 Minute Madness Playwright Festival 2007.