Category: Fertile Ground Festival

Lewis’ DICTIONARY wins PCTG’s top new play prize

Watch the Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s awards announcement honoring E. M. Lewis and DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY.

Congratulations also go to the finalists, two by LineStorm members: ACTS OF CREATION by Brianna Barrett, and FOUR SPARROWS by Rich Rubin.

Ready for some fresh Fertile Ground?

LineStorm has three delicious lunchtime offerings this year.

ONE PIG, TWO PIG, THREE PIG, BLUE PIG
by Matthew Miller

Thursday, January 28 @ NOON

COPPING OUT: SHORT FILMS
by
Sara Jean Accuardi, Audrey Block, Susan Faust,
Dan Kitrosser, E. M. Lewis, Matt Pavik, Josie Seid, and Lolly Ward

Thursday, February 4 @ NOON

FEZZIWIG’S FORTUNE
by Sara Jean Accuardi & Josie Seid

Saturday, February 6 @ NOON

The ground is getting fertile…

LineStorm is busy preparing for PATA’s Fertile Ground!

Special Fundraiser Performance at The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza

You Ruined My Play or, Svetlana! Svetlana!

by Dan Kitrosser
Starring: Dan Kitrosser & Alissa Jessup
Directed by Josh Hecht

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Jan. 26, Doors 6:30 p.m., Staged reading 7:30 p.m.
Purchase tickets for $20 or PWYW: Box Office Tickets

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Lunchtime (and Evening) Readings  @ Artists Rep

Jan. 24 – Jan. 31, NOON, and Feb. 1, 5:30 p.m., 2019

FREE! Just show up.

New ten-minute and full-length plays by LineStorm Playwrights.

1/24: To the Moon by Matthew Miller
1/25: 38 Minutes by Audrey Block
1/28: Small Bites: 10-Minute Plays by Sara Jean Accuardi, Heath Hyun Houghton, Kisha Jarrett, E. M. Lewis, Matthew Miller, Rich Rubin, and Lolly Ward
1/29: Welcome to Zion a new musical by friend of LineStorm Holly Harmon
1/30: Mate by Lolly Ward
1/31: Confabulous by Susan Faust
2/1 (5:30 p.m.): The Great God of the Dark Storm Cloud by Josie Seid

Save your Fertile Ground dates!

Fertile Ground Lunchtime (and Evening) Readings 
in association with Artists Repertory Theatre

January 18 – 27, NOON, and January 19, 6pm, 2018

FREE! Just show up.

New one-act and full-length plays by 10 LineStorm Playwrights.

1/18: True Love & Other Noncommunicable Diseases by Brianna Barrett
1/19: Grand Junction by Rich Rubin
1/19 (6pm): The Storyteller by Sara Jean Accuardi
1/22: Petite Dames by Josie Seid
1/23: Alaska by Audrey Block and Strangest Yellow by Susan Faust
1/24: Out of the Blue by Miriam Feder
1/25: How the Light Gets In by E. M. Lewis
1/26: Gone by Lolly Ward
1/27: Cancelled — Not Safe for Adults: A Play for Kids by Dan Kitrosser

 

LineStorm is storming the Fertile Ground Lunchtime Readings

Please join us for TEN new full-length and one-act plays:

January 18-26, 2018, at Artists Rep. FREE.

Full schedule to the left, on our calendar. We look forward to seeing you there — more than once!

Congrats to PCTG winner and finalists: Matthew Miller, Miriam Feder & Rich Rubin

The Portland Civic Theatre Guild honored three of our writers for their Fertile Ground 2018 New Play Award:

I LOVE YOU/WHO ARE YOU by Matthew Miller, winner
OUT OF THE BLUE by Miriam Feder, finalist
GRAND JUNCTION by Rich Rubin, finalist

LineStorm featured in The Dramatist magazine’s National Report

Read a bit about what LineStorm has been up to in the Fertile Ground festival and with Portland in Play. Thank you, Francesca Piantadosi, for the lovely piece in The Dramatist magazine (Mar/Apr 2017).