“In December, Theater 29 also presented Hidden Worlds & Strange Negotiations, which was an evening of plays by local playwrights directed by Veronica Straight-Lingo and produced by the Lulubird Project. It included: Apollo Flies by Jessica Austgen, Signage of the Times by Edith Weiss, Talk, Tock, Talk by Tami Canaday, There’s No Place Like Gnome by Lisa Wagner Erickson, Worse Than Cold Feet by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill, Home by Ellen K. Graham, This Side of the Room by Dakota C. Hill, and Mating by Edith Weiss.”
On THE DISSERTATION DEFENDERS: “Theater 29 was in the middle of of planning its next production when the coronavirus pandemic hit. After that, the action moved off the stage and into cyberspace, where creative director Lisa Wagner Erickson and Veronica Straight-Lingo came up with a new concept: Anoitos University, a fictitious online university struggling to remain relevant, where Ph.D. candidates are desperate to secure full-time teaching positions at adjunct wages.”
“THE DISSERTATION DEFENDERS: Lisa Wagner Erickson (Theater 29) and Veronica Straight-Lingo (KGNU) came up with the concept and characters for playwrights Sean Michael Cummings and Rebecca Gorman O’Neill to develop.”
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“Hidden Worlds & Strange Negotiations: Denver’s Theater 29 presents nothing but original plays by local playwrights — and this production is no exception. Jessica Austgen, Tami Canaday, Lisa Wagner Erickson, Ellen K. Graham, Dakota C. Hill, Rebecca Gorman O’Neill and Edith Weiss put together these stories of one reality spilling into the next: literary lovers grow tired of their genre, a homeless man connects with knock-knock jokes, time becomes a palindrome on East Colfax (doesn’t it always?), and much more.”
“Theater 29 helped usher in several new plays by local writers. Burnt Offering by Dakota C. Hill was produced there by Chase & Be Still Productions and Feral Assembly. Yet Another Night of Grand Guignol by Rhea Amos and Jeff Garland and Atomic Sea Fish Death Romp from the Deep by Amos and Jerod Brito were produced by Pandemic. The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant by Lisa Wagner Erickson was brought to us by Lulubird Project at Theater 29.”
“While The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant may not have all the pomp and circumstance of the Miss America Pageant, this new play by Lisa Wagner Erickson, opening Thursday February 28, at Theater 29, Promises to run away with the Miss Congeniality award. Presented by the Lulubird Project and Directed by Hart DeRose, the world premiere will mix sitcom nostalgia, small-town reality and gender norms.”
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