The on-screen comedies and real-life tragedies of silent screen legends Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Nomad, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin leading up to Hollywood's first celebrity scandal.
Five scripts have been chosen from this year's group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay and Teleplay Competition to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. Selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting.
Two soldiers, two bankers, a war overseas and a war at home. Beau Willimon's WAR STORY explores how we navigate the battlefields of our past as we confront an uncertain future.
Directed by: Beau Willimon
Featured Cast: Glen Powell
The Last Supper (1996) Presented by Dan Rosen
(USA, 92 min)
Writers: Dan Rosen (in attendance)
Director: Stacy Title
Stranded student Pete (Ron Eldard) gets a lift from racist trucker Zack and repays the favor by inviting him in for dinner with his roommates, Jude (Cameron Diaz), Luke (Courtney B. Vance), Marc (Jonathan Penner) and Paulie (Annabeth Gish). When Zack praises Hitler and pulls a knife at the table, the roommates kill him. Rationalizing their actions as a favor to humanity, they bury Zack in the yard and begin to invite other offensive types to a string of similarly murderous meals.
Imperfections
(USA, 109 min)
Writer/Director: David Singer (in attendance)
Cast: Virginia Kull, Ed Begley, Jr., Marilu Henner, Ashton Holmes
Desperate to save enough money to move to Hollywood, struggling actress Cassidy takes a job working as a runner for an importer in Chicago’s diamond district. When she realizes the money is trickling in too slowly for her to put a stake together, she conspires with the owner’s son to stage a robbery and keep the diamonds—using her former boyfriend as the fall guy.
A look inside the volatile, and surprisingly vulnerable, mind of Tonya Harding exposes how 90s pop culture and media inspired and ensnared her and Nancy Kerrigan into an epic and infamous rivalry.
Screenplay by: Amy Talkington
Directed by: Charlie McDowell
Producer: Matt Smith (Circle of Confusion)
Featured Cast: Zosia Mamet, Alexandra Daddario