From Stage to Screen and Back Again! A Chick & A Dude Productions Proudly Presents their 10th Anniversary Season! The New Originals, A Steady Rain, and HIT.!
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 09:56AM Folks, we have one word to describe our upcoming season: Game-changing. “But… that’s two words,” you say? Indeed. That’s how changed the game will be. After a decade of ‘keeping Austin weird by keeping Austin thinking’ with compelling and cutting-edge productions, we’ll take our first ever leap from the small stage to the big screen, give a Broadway smash its Austin premiere, and remount the show that started it all 10 years ago. Read on, chicks & dudes.
The New Originals by a chick & a dude productions
This fall, a chick & a dude Austin will re-unite with a chick & a dude L.A. to shoot our first short film: The New Originals. On a lonely night, a wayward couple breaks down in front of a tavern filled with smoke and broken dreams—not to mention some peculiar patrons. Sounds simple, right? Oh, did we mention the ENTIRE script is comprised of film quotes? Some of you may remember this script as our FronteraFest 2011 “Best of the Week” winner! We’re overjoyed to make the move to film, and we hope you’ll keep an eye out for opportunities to be a part of this exciting project! Filming in the fall of 2012!
A Steady Rain by Keith Huff*
February-March 2013, Hyde Park Theatre.
Directed by Melissa Livingston-Weaver. Starring Kenneth Wayne Bradley and Tom Green.
Joey and Denny are Chicago beat-cops (often passed over for promotion) and lifelong friends. When unethical actions on the job bring tragedy on Denny’s family, that friendship is put through the wringer. Issues of loyalty, fidelity, racism, ethics, dependence and more are put on display in this duologue as the characters simultaneously tell their versions of events leading to a deplorable climax—itself based on a grisly true story. A Steady Rain opened on Broadway in September of 2009 for a limited 12-week engagement following its 2007 staging by Chicago Dramatists. If you’re familiar with our work, you know this piece is right up our alley. We couldn’t be more anxious to sink our teeth into this script and bring you the Austin premiere! *Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City.
HIT. by Shanon Weaver
Summer 2013, Hyde Park Theatre.
Directed by Melissa Livingston-Weaver. Starring Tom Green, Gary Livingston-Weaver, Shanon Weaver, TBA.
As a young boy, Asher was rescued from an abusive foster home by two hit men on a job: Ervin and Wyatt. Asher is raised in their image, and is now one of the best hits in the game. Last year, Ervin was killed, Asher set out on his own, and Wyatt was left to carry the torch. Tonight, however, both Asher and Wyatt have found each other at the same place to do the same job on the same man—but that man isn’t there. Growing up is hard on both fathers and sons when taking life IS your life, and all cards will be on the table before the sun rises. HIT. was our first main stage production in the summer of 2003, and we can think of no better way to celebrate our ten-year anniversary than by bringing back the show that started it all. Our original production was honored with three B. Iden Payne Awards in 2003: Outstanding Original Script (Shanon Weaver,) Outstanding Cast Performance (Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Joel Citty, Shanon Weaver,) and Outstanding Director of a Drama (Melissa Livingston-Weaver.) In 2005, we took the show to the prestigious New York International Fringe Festival, where it garnered an award for Overall Excellence-Ensemble Performance. Don’t miss your chance to see HIT. again, or for the first time!
And there you have it, friends. We feel our upcoming season will be the crown jewel of our ten years in Austin, and we’d like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for sticking by us. Without our audience, we are nothing, and we hope to continue bringing you even more of the type of work you’ve come to expect from us in the coming years!
Thanks again for coming to our shows these past ten years. We really mean that.
See you soon!
a chick & a dude productions
