The University at Albany Department of Theatre is pleased to present Plays in Process, a series offered each season which features readings of original works by student playwrights. This fall’s readings will take place in the Studio Theatre at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus on Friday through Sunday, October 9-11, 2009. Performance times are 7:30pm on Friday & Saturday and 2pm on Saturday & Sunday.

The series will feature three works by three student playwrights. Philip Brown’s Should I is a funny and poignant look at gender stereotypes, cultural misconceptions and how personal growth can yield artistic payoff. Whitney Sperrazza’s Jokers Are Wild is a loving look at mothers, daughters, aunts, friendship and the bonds between women that stretch and hold even when life’s recipe sometimes falls flat. Part historical account, part contemporary drama, Christopher Leeder’s On the Brink holds a mirror up to nature and reveals humanity’s own destructive tendencies.

Should I and Jokers Are Wild will be presented on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon while On the Brink will fill the bill for Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

About the series, literary advisor James Farrell says, “Plays in Process is a reflection of the UAlbany Theatre Department's ongoing commitment to nurture and encourage student playwriting by providing the student playwrights the opportunity to develop their plays with actors, directors and audiences.”

The readings will be directed by adjunct faculty member David Lane who says, “By putting these plays up in front of an audience, the playwrights can hear for themselves what’s working and what’s not. When it’s up on its feet and being performed by actors is when the work really starts to spark — characters come alive, situations gain palpable drama . . . the playwrights get a better sense of how the mechanics of their plays are working and get a better sense of what an audience will respond to.”

Admission for each reading is $3. For further information, contact the Box Office at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.

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