2020

MARCH

GENIUS OF LOVE

By Ellen K. Graham, directed by Hart DeRose

Featuring Augustus Truhn, Gina Wencel, Dakota C. Hill, Rhea Amos, Bevin Antea, and Ryan Goold. 

Itinerant nurse Walter (Augustus Truhn) is an expert at hiding his unusual appetites. His carefully orchestrated life begins to crumble when he meets Mado (Gina Wencel), a Czech manicurist with a nose for the perverse, and her earnest young paramour, Lyle (Dakota C. Hill), whose morbid job poses a temptation Walter is unable to resist.

• Episode 1

• Episode 2

• Episode 3

APRIL

CoLab 2020 - 2022

Facilitated by Lisa Wagner Erickson and Ellen K. Graham

The Theater 29 CoLab program was launched in 2020 as a commission and collaboration opportunity; furthering our commitment to collaborative and playwright developed and produced new work by Colorado playwrights.

APRIL

April featured a virtual Multi-genre MashUp with animation, fiction, comedy, plays, music and creative non-fiction by John Aden, Rowena Alegria, James Brunt, Tami Canaday, Ellen K. Graham, Jennifer Erickson, Jared Ewy, Judith Sara Gelt, ODYLE, Frank Oteri, MJ Stacey, and Gina Wencel.

Presented by the Lulubird Project

JULY

DISSERTATION DEFENDERS

Creative Concept: Lisa Wagner Erickson

Written by Sean Michael Cummings, Lisa Wagner Erickson, and Rebecca Gorman O’Neill

Direction and Video by Veronica Straight-Lingo

Presented by the Lulubird Project

Featuring Sean Michael Cummings, Veronica Straight Lingo, and Sadie Gracelynn Trigg

A fictitious online university struggling to remain relevant, PhD candidates desperate to secure full-time teaching positions at adjunct wages, and academic-sounding topics make for a fraught (and odd) series of online debates written by Colorado playwrights.

AUGUST

Gallery 29

Created and Curated by Lisa Wagner Erickson

August 2020 marked the opening of our online gallery featuring plays, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, animation, visual art, podcasts and video by a fantastic cadre of Colorado Creative Artists.

OCTOBER

Project PlayBox

Project PlayBox was an immersive theatrical experience delivered direct to audience members. Via USPS and email, participants received the theatrical building blocks to experience three short plays in the comfort of their own homes. With cut-out characters affixed to popsicle sticks and an animated video, travel to the soon-to-be-lost continent of Atlantis, where citizens protest an unpopular government mandate in Against Sand. Next, garden drawings become a game board as an audio play guides you on A Shiny Quest with a gnome to find the sparkliest plastic stone. And in The Art of a Guest, with cut-out characters in hand, printed art becomes a backdrop and a journal: a potential partnership is drawn to life as you immerse yourself in an audio play and turn each page.

CREATIVE TEAM

Concept by Lisa Wagner Erickson

Written and produced by Tami Canaday, Lisa Wagner Erickson, and Ellen K. Graham

Sound and Animation Design by John Aden (sound and animation) and Veronica Straight-Lingo (sound design)

Artwork by John Aden, Shane Rodriguez, and Sara Rockinger

Featuring the talents of Bevin Antea, James Brunt, Terry Burnsed, Sean Michael Cummings, Emily Fisher, Tresha Ferris, Amber Irish, Michael McFadden, and Veronica Straight-Lingo

NOVEMBER

The CoLab Plays

CoLab Playwrights Alex Burkart, Melissa Leach, Felice Locker, Pamela Nocerino, and Matthew Schultz produced an online reading of their commissioned plays on the theme of “Pivot.”