FIRST LOOKS AT THE FRINGE

Two very gifted writers playwright Jerry McGee and songwriter Jared Dembowski are ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE during the 2010 Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. During their residency they will write, develop, rehearse and present their new work in workshop performances. These readings are offered free of charge.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Songwriter and pianist Jared Demobowki presents a workshop performance of his new songs written as the 2010 Woodstock Fringe Composer-in-Residence. Woodstock Fringe audiences will have a unique opportunity to learn about the creative process of Jared and his collaborator, talented singer/actor Watson Heintz. Jared recently said, "At the beginning of 2010, I began a conversation with Watson about how I was feeling a little bit creatively defunct over the past few months. Many years ago when I first began writing, I didn't have a lyricist or know any for that matter. I discovered poetry as an inspiration for my music. This work revisits poetry as a creative milieu as well as some previously written, in progress and unperformed works “

We will hear an early draft of a new play Burning the Ocean Dry, set in the Terrezin Concentration camp near Prague during Ww2 and in the Catskills Borscht Belt during the 1950's. It is the story of two sisters and their struggle for survival in a most unusual set of circumstances and in a most unusual camp.

Working with director Nicola Sheara and featuring actress Noni Connor, Jerry, Nicola and Noni will be in residence working with Jerry to develop his new play. What is a CIA operative to do? All he wants is to save the country. His partner, Bill, disappears with a crucial package. People are breaking into his apartment. Bill’s wife barges in. And she won’t leave. A brand new romantic thriller by Jerry McGee, wildly funny, intensely gripping. If Bourne Identity met Three Days Of The Condor and could be savagely funny, it would be this.