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2022 Original Works Series

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2022'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.  

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Jeff Irvin is the author of “High Noon in the Styrofoam with Timely Nick and Betty Brown” (Dramatic Publishing), a series of three comic melodramas commonly used as community fundraisers. “The Texas Book of Beasts” is derived from a series of shorter 25-minute works: “Emily’s Unusual Morning” (workshop performance at State Theatre in Austin), and three pieces performed at the FronteraFest Short Fringe (“The Texas Book of Beasts,” “The Texas Book of Beasts: Year of the Gar,” and “The Texas Book of Beasts: Year of the Rooster”) at the Hyde Park Theatre in Austin in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has been a member of ScriptWorks since 2015.

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Fort Worth Community Arts Center | Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre

Friday -Sunday, March 10-26

Friday and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sundays at 2 p.m.​

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Directed by Staci Ingram

Stage Manager, Sara Blair

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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

Learn more about the Original Works Series featuring the selected work, author interviews and virtual readings.

OUR FUNDERS 

Arts Fort Worth programs are made possible through gifts from local individuals, small businesses, corporations, foundations, the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and Texas Commission on the Arts.

CONTACT

Arts Fort Worth

1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107

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(817) 738-1938

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talkto@artsfortworth.org

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