Selected through acollaborative and intense vetting process, these plays were chosen out of over450 submitted to Rising Sun Performance Company. Each piece was reviewed andapproved by at least two company members and then moved on to our three monthlong reading series for audience feedback. The final plays presented in RSP’s 5thAnnual One Act Series were the top scorers from Audience & EnsembleBallots- only 14 plays from 450 moved onto the reading series.
Sit Still
Written by Jae Kramisen
Directed by Tim Errickson
Featuring Jason Vinoles & Ashley Bloom
Memory and truth collide as a man tries to get to the bottom of a woman’smissing husband.
Delilah
Written by Len Cuthbert
Directed by Mia Y. Anderson
Featuring Andrea Cordaro & Tedra Millan
A girl asks her best friend to cheer her on one last time, the hardestyet. A compassionate, witty way to tella story about one of the most difficult choices we will ever have to make inour lives.
Some ofAll Parts
Written By Mrinalini Kamath
Directed By Derek Shore
Featuring: Lindsay Beecher, Jarrod Luke & EJ Assi
If he seems too good to be true… he probably is. Dating in this city just got awhole lot weirder.
Vultures
Written By Greg Abbott
Directed By Ted Gorodetzky
Featuring Rick Benson, Joe Beaudin & TBA
1994 Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Kevin Carter's photo of a dying childwith a vulture in wait brings him fame, but also controversy on when ajournalist also has a duty to help a fellow human being.
TheCraving
Written By David L. Williams
Directed by Mia Y. Anderson
Featuring Ashley Miller & EJ Assi
Sometimes a carrot isn’t just a carrot. And sometimes what you think you’re agreeing to in a relationship takesyou to a place you never thought you’d go.
On Top
Written By John Patrick Bray
Directed by Jeffrey Woodbridge
Featuring Lindsay Beecher & Joe Beaudin
Does it count as cheating if you’re on top? A couple redefines theirrelationship, and infidelity, in a grocery store.