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This year's Original Works Selection, Jeff Irvin’s “The Texas Book of Beasts” is told through a series of 25 short scenes featuring four characters: a property developer, a university professor, an idealistic biologist, and a toad. This cast of characters is involved in raucous public meetings as the twenty-something woman learns to organize a diverse community to save the endangered toad's habitat from a large encroaching development. Featuring metaphors in verse, interjections in unison, and group movements that mimic Texas fauna, "Texas Book of Beasts" is a melodrama and romantic comedy about learning to recognize a sharp brain and a good heart.
"Texas Book of Beasts" will be directed by Staci Ingram with Sara Blair acting as Stage Manager.
CAST & CREW
Actor 1: Developer............................. Lainey Brock
Actor 2: Professor............................... Tyler Dorney
Actor 3: Toad....................................... Corina Sosa
Actor 4: Toad, Gar.............................. Trevor Smith
Actor 5: Hero.................. Lauren Elizabeth Moreau
Actor 6: Lead Clerk................... Ronald Fernandez
Actor 7: Drop Clerk......................... Amanda Reyes
Actor 8: Theatre Teacher................. Cynthia Beene
Director............................................... Staci Ingram
Stage Manager........................................ Sara Blair
Lights.................................................. Penny Smith
Video Projection................................... Tim Fetters
Set Design........................................... Jason Leyva
Scenic Painting........................ Lily Stapp-Courtney
Costumes & Props............................... Cast & Crew
Crew/Board Op...............................Damion Skaggs
Playwright...................................................Jeff Irvin
Friday -Sunday, March 10-26
Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 2 p.m.
Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Original Works Series Virtual Readings
Now in its third year, the Original Works Series program creates opportunities for new and emerging playwrights to showcase their work. Eight selected scripts will receive a live reading. From those selected scripts, a panel of theater professionals select one submission to become a fully staged production at Arts Fort Worth!
