Codes of Conduct: Plays About Women and Men November 12, 2010

Codes of Conduct: Plays About Women and Men presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel.

Having recently been described by Boston Magazine as "a unique initiative in the performing arts in the city," Fort Point Theatre Channel is eager to announce the premiere of two one-act plays: "Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie" by Silvia Graziano and "Sunday with Joy" by James Swindell.

"Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie," directed by Dawn Simmons, tells the story of an on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman -- and an obsession with low-fat Twinkies. The question is, which is healthier, the relationship or the ingredients of a Twinkie? Twinkie the play will be performed by Tim Hoover, Rory Kulz, Greer Rooney, Nick Thorkelson, Ally Tully, and Amy West.

"Sunday with Joy," directed by Dani Duggan, is a real language romp, a display of consummate word craftsmanship as we follow Joy disregarding the rules of her marriage and trying her hand at driving that relationship. Sunday with Joy received a reading by Main Street Theater at the Ovations Night Club in 2006, in Houston, Texas. This will be the first full production for the stage. Sunday with Joy will be performed by Christie Lee Gibson, Frances Idlebrook, Christine Power, Paul Shafer, and Robin JaVonne Smith.

The artistic support team for Codes of Contact: Sylvie Agudelo (Costume Designer), Sean Cote (Set Designer), Amanda Sheehan (Props Design), PJ Strachman (Lighting Design), and Heidi Zander (Scene Painter).

Background information:

Silvia Graziano is the co-artistic director and resident playwright of Fort Point Theatre Channel. Her The Romantic was produced in FPTC's "Gods, Monsters, and the Other" play festival in 2008. Most recently, her short play Heads or Tales?” was part of FeverFest 2010 in Boston. Other works include the prose poems A Slightly Sick Feeling and Pussy Willow, the short play Mourning the Narcissist, a poem/video script Boys Running: A True Confession, and the script for the short film, The Lumber Yard. Graziano has a BFA in dramatic writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. In the September issue of Boston Magazine, Graziano was honored as a "New Revolutionary."

Dawn Simmons is co-artistic director of New Exhibition Room. She previously directed Graziano's one-act play The Romantic. Simmons is director of programs for StageSource: The Greater Boston Theatre Alliance.

James Swindell worked throughout his life behind the scenes in technical roles at many theaters. He was a lighting designer, sound designer, set designer, stage manager, and house manager at such theaters as Main Street Theater and Stages Theater in Houston, Texas, the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Besides Sunday with Joy, he wrote poems and full-length plays. He also wrote two opera librettos for composer Mark Warhol, co-founder of Fort Point Theatre Channel and artistic director of Ensemble Warhol.

Dani Duggan is a veteran of the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. She is artistic director of Devanaughn Theatre, president of the executive council of the Massachusetts Drama Guild, producing director of Shakespeare on the Rock in Plymouth, and has worked with many international companies.

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