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Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.
- Monday June 15, 7:00pm — Nathan Johnson: The Dummies Guide to Murdering Your Husband
A pair of filthy rich and disgruntled husbands escape for a romantic getaway in a remote mountain cabin unaware that each has hatched a plot to murder the other. If you’ve ever loved someone so much but still thought, 'I could murder him'—welcome home.
Nathan Johnson is a queer performer/playwright/artist. He was a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Fellowship and the Primary Stages Echoes Writing Group, a recipient of the National Queer Theatre-WIO Fellowship, winner of the Meanwhile Park Playwriting Prize, and recipient of the Primary Stages Louise Rockwell Scholarship. His plays have been performed and/or received finalist positions at The SAUK, American Stage, The Artistic Home, Best Medicine Rep, B-Street Theatre, The Chain Theatre, The Magnetic Theatre, and many others. As an actor, he’s worked in off Broadway, television, and film (My Big Gay Italian Wedding, The Party Planner with David Tutera, One Life to Live). MFA: Columbia University.
- Monday June 29, 7:00pm — Jason Wang: Play-Off
The Super Bowl has begun, everyone is hyped and ready to watch. In this comedy-drama, old friends, and new friends, fight old battles, begin new ones, learn secrets and choose sides. Some still try to enjoy this one night event.
Jason Wang is a proud Connecticut native who often travels to New York City to catch new shows. Every time he steps into a theatre, he’s inspired by the creativity on stage—stories that make audiences laugh, cry, or feel a mix of both. After each show, Jason finds himself motivated to write something of his own, hoping one day to see his work performed Off-Broadway or on Broadway.
- Monday July 13, 7:00pm — Timothy Brown & Daniel Chadwick: Loving Vivian, A New Musical
At 82, Vivian, a legendary singer, actress, and songwriter, is incommunicative with dementia. When she moves into her daughter Eleanor’s home everyone in the family is excited, except Eleanor. When her son brings home an avid Vivian fan and would-be biographer who knows how to get Vivian talking lucidly about her checkered past, Eleanor becomes even more uneasy. What secrets might be revealed?
Daniel Martin Chadwick (Book, Lyrics, and Music) is an American playwright, novelist, short story writer, lyricist, and composer. His fiction is mostly horror, speculative, urban fantasy, and psychological thrillers. He lives in a secret paradise in South America where he fills his days with reading, writing, chocolate, coffee, lots of sunshine, and his two cats, Tadzio and Fausto.
Timothy Brown (Music and Arrangements) is a composer, arranger, and copyist who made his debut in music for the theatre with Curious George which toured nationally in a production by Theatreworks/USA for nearly ten years. His other work includes The Cost of Living, Come Dance With Me, and an Incidental Dance Suite for solo piano premiered at Merkin Concert Hall. He has been a music assistant to John Kander and worked with Broadway music directors David Loud, Patrick Vaccarrielo, and Todd Ellison. Tim is a veteran of the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writers Workshop (BMI).
- Monday July 27, 7:00pm — Paul Allman: The Goodness Robot
A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies — The Goodness Robot — is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.
Paul Allman’s plays include Metesky, Appendix, Dog in the Manger, Aloyssius Day, The Puritan, Kill the Vumpire, Otis Furioso, Bombers Row, Dig We Must, and Kenneth — What is the Frequency? Allman served as Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Screenwriting Fellow at the Sundance Institute, and Playwriting Fellow at the Playwrights Lab at the Sundance Institute. He has published two young adult novels and one literary novel with St. Martin’s Press, and his fiction has appeared in Paris Transcontinental, Harper's Magazine, Film Comment, and Witness, where his short story 'We Have Time' won a Pushcart Prize.
- Monday August 10, 7:00pm — Stephen Kaplan: Let There Be
In 1883, two women—one married to the scientist inventing the lightbulb, the other to the reverend resisting it—sit down over birthday cake to debate the future. Sides aren’t what you expect and parlor talk jolts from lightbulbs to AI in a reality-bending collision of past, present, and the terrifying hope of technology racing faster than we can reckon with.
Selected awards and productions for Stephen Kaplan include NNPN Rolling World Premiere: Tracy Jones, Long Drive Home, Un Hombre: A Golem Story, Branwell (and other Brontës), Community, Exquisite Potential, A Real Boy, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. MFA: Point Park University. www.bystephenkaplan.com
- Monday August 24, 7:00pm — Daniel Pink: Julia C
A razor-sharp reimagining of Julius Caesar set inside a soaring AI startup. When Emor AI’s CEO slips an absolute-power clause into the company’s IPO filing, her co-founders face a brutal choice: loyalty or revolt? At once a hilarious sendup of corporate culture and a searing exploration of power in the algorithm age, Julia C asks: In a world where truth is malleable and leadership is a brand, who deserves to rule?
Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books on topics from human motivation to the science of timing. His books include the New York Times bestsellers The Power of Regret, A Whole New Mind, and When—as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. He has hosted a National Geographic television series, worked as a columnist, served as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore, and been a clue on Jeopardy. Writing plays is his next act.