Playwright Bruce Graham

The Road Theatre Company Proudly Presents

The Eighth Annual
SUMMER PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL

8 Days! 30+ plays!
Receptions and live music nightly!

This year’s festival will include a 50/50 parity of male and female playwrights and runs Sunday, July 3Oth through Sunday, August 6th at The Road on Lankershim, in the Historic Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood at 5108 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood  and at The Road on Magnolia at 10747 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood  at the NoHo Arts Colony!

 We will feature spotlights on all the playwrights of full length plays over the next few weeks. This week the spotlight shines on Bruce Graham, author of Sanctions*. 

What is your familiarity with The Road and the Playwrights Festival? If you have been here before how would you rate your experience? If not, why did you choose to bring your play here? Have you seen work produced here?

 Nope, never been there.  Didn't even know it existed until Stewart Zully, who directed White Guy on the Bus there, asked to submit it. I really should pay attention to these things.

 What is your process for writing and rewriting? Anything you care to share here as advice for other playwrights would be welcome.

The process changes with each play. One play, Any Given Monday, I thought about for over 20 years and then wrote it in two weeks.  Advice? Nahhh.  I'm the wrong guy for that.  I tell my students about my career and then say, "Do the exact opposite."

What is the value of having your work done here at The Road in California? What are your expectations and hopes for your play for the future?

A reading of any kind is always helpful. We don't know if it works till the audience tells us. Plays are kind of written in a vacuum but not performed that way. The only hope I have is that the audience is entertained. Yeah, I know. Pretty shallow, huh?

Remember: The Road on Lankershim is located in the Historic Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood at 5108 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood  and The Road on Magnolia at 10747 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood  at the NoHo Arts Colony! There is street parking available in both locations, but come early, at least a half hour before curtain.

Because SPF8 is a fundraiser, tickets are by donation only and are only available at the door! Suggested donation for a single performance is $15 –or this year, try a weeklong festival pass for the suggested donation of $50! 

*To be read Wednesday August 2  at 8 pm at Lankershim.