In a recent fund-raising pitch, I have offered a special gift to the generous folks who offer a gift of Thirty-Three dollars or more.
The offer:
For gifts larger than $ 33 (2 dang 3s, plus that's how old I am), I will perform ANYTHING you ask me to, for up to three minutes. Send me a piece of writing, a challenge, a piece of music, a dream, an object, a demand, a question, a drawing, an impossible task, and I will perform it, somehow, on January 1, 2010. For serious. Make it something awesome. Dare me. I will perform anything and everything asked of me as part of the performance, Thirty-Three.
I will list the donors on this page, as well as what they are asking me to perform. I will also keep this page updated with any other specific performance information.
I look forward to it!
Gift-Givers (and their gift to be performed)
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1. Jodi Alonzo (TBA)
2. Alexandra Bassett (Family of 9 at the dinner table. And you're all 9 of em. And oh shucks Benoit just spilled the gay).
3. Ilana Brownstein (TBA)
4. The Burn Ward Theater Company (TBA)
5. Hugh Craig (a monologue about birthdays: 13, 23, and 33)
6. Deena Gerson (TBA)
7. GerRee Hinshaw (Father visits the aquarium on Mondays and the arcade on Thursdays)
8. Kate Houlihan (a monologue from Hideki Matsui's perspective about Game 6 of the World Series)
9. Deven MacNair/Fire! (a project involving wrestling)
10. Nancy Mouton and Chester Forest (my birthday)
11. Dustin Puryear (something re: mou shu pork)
12. Wanda, Doyle, and Kristi Reeves (TBA)
13. Pat and Johnie Romero (TBA)
14. Sean Kendall Schneyer (Something in Outer Space, no Zombies allowed)
15. Hank Schwemmer ("Moonpies" by Hank Schwemmer)
16. Heidi Taylor (A dream about pear trees)
17. Angela Turner (a bit from Wind and the Willows as Mr. Toad)
18. Jeff Williams (The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence and Abu Graib torture photos)
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To donate your Thirty-Three Dollars, you can PayPal me at gregoryromero@yahoo.com
Or mail me at:
Greg Romero
322 N 39th St
Philadelphia PA 19104
To read the entire fund-raising letter, go here.
Thank you!!
sincerely,
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.