The journey for The Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Ever Heard continues, thanks to a wonderful and daring small theatre company in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator of the project, "Elevator Plays" (in which they staged 24 plays inside of elevators in downtown Louisville), Specific Gravity Ensemble, has taken on Lullaby and the work we've begun has been very encouraging and fun.
Directed by fellow former Longhorn (and artistic director of Specific Gravity), Rand Harmon, we've just cast the show and had our first rehearsal. This group is asking good questions and Rand brings alot of experience and alot of love for this play to the production. This group has me asking new questions about the play, which is very exicting and rewarding.
The rest of the creative team includes:
The Narrator: Julia Leist
The Man: Christopher Shiner
The Woman: Jennifer Poliskie
I've been in residence with these guys for almost a week, and I like them all very much. As a fan of the "big small theatre", the folks at Specific Gravity give me another reason to love the scrappy theatre companies that keep the blood of the American theatre flowing. Groups like Specific Gravity, The Cardboard Box Collaborative (Philly), and City Attic Theatre (NYC) will have my heart forever for doing work in such a passionate, fun, and professional way.
Rock on,
ROMERO
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About Me
Biography
Greg Romero is a playwright and theater artist, originally from Louisiana. His plays, site-specific projects, and experimental live events have been presented in U.S. cities of New York, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Dallas, Austin, Denver, Washington DC, Louisville, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Anchorage, as well as internationally in Victoria, British Columbia and Kingston, Jamaica.
Romero's collaborations with electronic music composer Mike Vernusky have been produced live in New York, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Austin, and Baltimore, while also receiving airplay in Toronto, Ontario; Manchester, England; and Zurich, Switzerland.
Romero has been a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, twice a finalist for the Heideman Award, and nominated for the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theater Artist. He was selected as the first-ever Resident Writer of the ArtsEdge Residency as well as one of three writers to inaugurate the Philadelphia Dramatists Center/Plays & Players Playwriting Residency.
His works are published by Heinemann Press, YouthPLAYS, and Playscripts, Inc. and he is a proud alum of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab and The Last Frontier Theater Conference.
Romero received a BA in Liberal Arts from the Louisiana Scholars' College and an MFA in Playwriting from The University of Texas-Austin where he held the James A. Michener Fellowship.
Romero's collaborations with electronic music composer Mike Vernusky have been produced live in New York, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Austin, and Baltimore, while also receiving airplay in Toronto, Ontario; Manchester, England; and Zurich, Switzerland.
Romero has been a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, twice a finalist for the Heideman Award, and nominated for the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theater Artist. He was selected as the first-ever Resident Writer of the ArtsEdge Residency as well as one of three writers to inaugurate the Philadelphia Dramatists Center/Plays & Players Playwriting Residency.
His works are published by Heinemann Press, YouthPLAYS, and Playscripts, Inc. and he is a proud alum of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab and The Last Frontier Theater Conference.
Romero received a BA in Liberal Arts from the Louisiana Scholars' College and an MFA in Playwriting from The University of Texas-Austin where he held the James A. Michener Fellowship.
Published Works
Delaware Mudtub and the Mighty Wampum; YouthPLAYS, 2014.
Of Plastic Things and Butterfly Wings; YouthPLAYS, 2013.
Two Bubbles; Playscripts, 2008.
The Eulogy; Heinemann, 2003.
Of Plastic Things and Butterfly Wings; YouthPLAYS, 2013.
Two Bubbles; Playscripts, 2008.
The Eulogy; Heinemann, 2003.