Panndora Productions

Panndora's Box 2008

2nd Annual Festival of New Works

Cast Sonja Berggren, Jo Black-Jacob*, Brenda Calvillo, Leandro Cano*, Michael Csoppenszky, Lee Fitzpatrick, David Gold, Carmen Guo, Erin Henriques, Katie Rose Houck, Lovelle Liquigan, Mark Margolis, Michelle Margolis, Robert Dean Nunez, Oliver Rayon, John Wray, Karen Wray, and Sonja Fontana
Venue Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro

Full-length plays selected

AN UNCOMMON LANGUAGE by Evan Guilford-Blake, directed by David Gold
THE HIVE by Paula Fell, directed by Cecilia Fannon
CAT AND MOUSE by Michael Wolfson, directed by Karen Wray
TROG AND CLAY by Michael Vukadinovich, directed by Sonja Berggren

Honorable Mention

The art and craft of playwrighting can be a lonely experience. With Panndora's Box Festival of New Works, Panndora Productions provides playwrights with a forum in which their plays can be heard as they come off the page in readings by experienced actors, with the benefit of direction. The second year of Panndora's Box saw a dramatic increase in the number of plays submitted. We received 100 works from across the country and even across the Pond. It was a delight to read so many fabulous plays and we were honored that so many playwrights trusted their works to us. Because we couldn't include even more in the readings, we created a category of "Honorable Mention" for those pieces we found particularly inspiring. The following plays received Honorable Mention in 2008:

AMERICAN SUICIDE by Lyn Coffin
HIGHER CONCEPTS by Joan Dunayer
PREP by David Rusiecki
SAPPHISTO SUMMERS by Mary Fengar Gail
SINKING BASS TURDS by Russell Weeks
WINDOW/PAIN by Jerome Berning