FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Miriam Kulick- Producing Artistic Director
Square Peg Productions is back with Exciting and Engaging World Premiere Work at Brand New Theatre Space!
6 Original Plays + 2 Actresses + 1 Director = Many Rides.
Some Tame, Some Wild.
Square Peg Productions returns to the South Florida theatrical community after the critically acclaimed, award-winning; Three Angels Dancing on a Needle, with a World Premiere program of short plays entitled, Almost Tamed: Tales of Mayhem, Motion, & Malarky written by Miriam Kulick.
Almost Tamed is a collection of plays about women wrestling with their inner monsters. The beast is calling, it has found their numbers! Now how do a middle-aged woman and her friend answer the calls? With clarity, with conviction, or with trepidation? Who knew life could be so complicated? Well, we did, but thought we’d have fun while riding.
The compilation of Almost Tamed was written by Square Peg Artistic Director and Founder, Miriam Kulick. Kulick says of the program, “Almost Tamed is comprised of comedies and dramas from female points of view.”
v Oh Please! - A story of two women from two very different sides of the track meeting in, of all places, jail. Somehow they find similarities in each other’s crimes of passion (both having to do with men) that make for a deeper understanding of one another.
v In Girl of 13, Kulick explores the relationship between a young isolated girl and her best friend, a bird.
v In the heart-warming comedy Sadie and Sylvia, a pair of 92 year-old fraternal twins celebrates their birthday. One tries to remember the past as the other tries to forget it.
v In the extraordinarily poignant play, A Glimpse, Kulick examines the relationship of two women as lovers who together deal with their ambivalence in helping third world political victims.
v Kulick investigates the extent that women put themselves through in order to feel any form of love and respect from the world at large in this movement based comic highlight, Do You Love Me Now?
Almost Tamed: Tales of Mayhem, Motion, & Malarky features Actor’s Equity actress Miriam Kulick with the up-and-coming Casey Dressler in this two woman explosion of laughs, longings and lessons. Stuart Meltzer, fresh from directing Michael McKeever’s award winning play Melt in the Miracle Theatre at Actors Playhouse is directing the project. Meltzer says, “ I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work on this new collection of plays. My years as Artistic Director for City Theatre has really trained me well in the most difficult kind of play- a ten minute-ish one.”
The program is being produced at the new Andrews Living Art Studio in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, 23 NW 5th St. (off Andrews Ave.) 33301.
FREE PARKING around the corner on NW 1st Ave.
Preview, Thursday April 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM.
Opening night, Friday April 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Performances run from April 8- 25, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
April 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 @ 8:00 PM
Sundays 11, 18, 25 @ 2:00 PM
Phone Reservations: (954) 369- 5503
Rodeo Ticket Prices- suggested donation: $20 General, $15 Seniors, $10 Students
(Courtesy of Actor’s Equity Member’s Project Code)
Square Peg Productions is a newly revised production company dedicated to producing imaginative and thought-provoking theatre with an emphasis on women’s perspectives.
Producing/ Artistic Director Miriam Kulick, came to this current production newly energized from her official writing and directing debut of this past summer. Having discovered her newly found passion for writing and her desire to perform again after a hiatus, she decided to write an entire program of all her own work. Kulick says, “I did not have a specific concept in mind, other than a series of relatively short-plays. After I was finished, I paused, mused, and with the aid of my wonderful director, came up with a through line. No pieces are directly related, but the themes of alienation, love, and acceptance of oneself and others kept on popping up, so that is where the connection lies.” She adds, “There are too few substantial roles for women of a certain age. Instead of whining, I decided to take the bull by the horns. To say: ‘Hey, everyone, we’re still here, going strong.’ “
Miriam Kulick ( Producer, Writer, Actress) is originally from New York City, where she trained professionally at the Terry Schreiber Studio, and performed in numerous theatre, television, film, and dance venues. In South Florida she has been seen on many local stages; Area, Acme, Gablestage, Mosaic, New Theatre, Shores Theater, Waterfront Playhouse, The Women’s Theatre Project, among others, as well as in television and film. She was the past vice-president of The Women’s Theatre Project and Co-Founder of Square Peg Productions, where she received the 2007 New Times Best of Miami award for best actress in the theatrical production of, “Three Angels Dancing on a Needle”, which also received the award for best ensemble. She recently concluded her first official directing and writing debut in, “Compostion Notebook”, with the Fly Away Balloon Theatre Company. Miriam is a teacher of long-standing at The Acting School of South Florida and she has branched out offering Communication Workshops to the general public. She is delighted to be a forerunner with Bob Nation, in the newly formed Andrews Living Arts Studio, as a producer performing her show as well as an acting teacher on staff.
Casey Dressler (Actress II) grew up on the tiny islands that make up the Florida Keys. She received a full acting scholarship to New World School of the Arts. After leaving that program midway through her sophomore year, Casey found her home at the Acting School of South Florida, where she graduated from the Conservatory Training Program and now works as the school's registration coordinator. Dressler is the founder and Artistic Director of, Fly Away Balloon Theatre Company, whose debut production, Composition Notebook was produced in Hollywood and In Islamorada, Florida. In March, Casey appeared in Model City, directed by Vanessa Garcia & Wendy White (founders of The Krane Inc/ New Light Foundation), which was featured at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, as part of the Incubator Projects for the Miami Made Festival. In August, Casey will be traveling to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to perform a one-person show, The Jewish Nun, written by Wendy White.
Stuart Meltzer (Director) received his M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio in 2002. For two years, Stuart was the Artistic Director of City Theatre in Miami, where he oversaw and expanded the Summer Shorts Festival. New York credits include Romulus Linney’s Gint, Harold Pinter’s One for the Road, Aristaphanes’ Lysistrata, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls… as well as Morzek’s Striptease. Upon his return to South Florida, where Stuart was raised, he was Head of Theatre at Gulliver Preparatory and then part of the Full Time Faculty at New World School of the Arts. At New World, Stuart directed Weiss’ Marat/Sade and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America staged at The Colony Theatre and Brecht and Weill’s The Threepnny Opera. South Florida directing credits include Melt, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Painted Alice, Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, and Everything Will be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy at Mad Cat Theatre in Miami.
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