Sandcastle Theater Company: Recent Episodes
Sandcastle Theater Co.
We are an emerging theater company committed to nurturing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to gather and experience original stories.
Live Audio Play Reading of INDIVIDUAL by Ben M. Jones Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company Directed by Ariella Wolfe Dramaturgy by Stephanie Wilborn Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra
Featuring Radhika Rao (A, or The Whole Entire Goddamn Motherf***ing World) and Matt Regan (B, or The United States Of America), with Stephanie Wilborn reading Stage Directions.
About The Play: The United States wants out of the United Nations; the UN wants to set the record straight. INDIVIDUAL is an experiment that examines the tensions between the self and the collective, exploring how the way we live our day-to-day lives intersects with the big picture.
Content Warning: language, brief threat of gun violence
About the Playwright: Ben M. Jones (he/him/his) is a New York City based theatre and film maker. His plays have had been produced and/or had reading from: National Queer Theater, The New Cosmopolitans, The Village Playwrights, and The New Short Play Festival. Plays include: All The Sex I Want, The Asexual Romance Fantasy Play, Art to Art, and Individual. He is also the author of the travel/photo book, #BenAndHannahGoToEurope.
Music: “Begin Again” by Flow Loris and “Taking My Time” feat. Stephan Sharp by Jacquire King
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JACK & THE BEANSTALK: TYPE 2 is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 4) Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company Teachers: Lynn Dutra, Ariella Wolfe Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
Sandcastle Theater Company is committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
CINDERELLA, BUT DIFFERENT is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 3) Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company Teachers: Lynn Dutra, Ariella Wolfe Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
Sandcastle Theater Company is committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
RAPUNZEL: THE MAGICAL KEY is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 2) Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company Teachers: Ariella Wolfe, Melissa Cunha Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
Sandcastle Theater Company is committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
LITTLE RED’S TWISTED TALE is an original podcast play created by the kids of Sandcastle Theater Company’s 2021 Summer Drama Program (session 1) Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company and Bike City Theatre Company Teachers: Ariella Wolfe, Melissa Cunha Editor: Kristine Hager
About the Program: Kids spend 1 week working together to create an original podcast play, inspired by a popular fairy tale. Through games and activities, students make friends, strengthen their creative voice, and build self-confidence and collaboration skills.
Sandcastle Theater Company is committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
Live Audio Play Reading of [Emerging Voices] a selection of short plays by Theatre students from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Hana Rudoff, Karen Ear, Colten Hitchcock, Lucia Pachynski-Hoopes, Phillip Wong, Itohan Ediae, Sally Meeks, and Lan Lan Honda-Rottler Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company Directed by Ariella Wolfe Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra
Featuring Jasmine Washington, Edward Hong, Pilar Gonzales, John Cody Fasano, Stephanie Fields, and Scott Schwerdtfeger.
00:39 VALENTINE’S DAY IS OVERRATED 11:25 THE LAST DINNER 19:05 CHEKHOV’S GUN 36:08 UNKNOWN 46:19 THE EXIT 54:40 REUNITED 1:00:16 AWAKE 1:13:44 IT MIGHT BE TIME
About The Plays: [Emerging Voices] features eight plays about relationships, forgiveness, waking up, and finding your voice (plus some twists and turns along the way). These stories take us from the everyday to the surreal and back again, inviting us to dig deep and reflect on what it means to be alive.
About the Playwrights: The student-playwrights whose work we selected for this production were in the 10th-12th grade during the 2020-2021 school year. They wrote their scripts under the supervision of Aren Haun in the Theatre Department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
Music by Lyle Workman
Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
Live Audio Play Reading of TRIFLES Written by Susan Glaspell Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company Adapted and directed by Ariella Wolfe Stage Management by J. Lynn Dutra
Featuring Tatiana Quiapo as NARRATOR, Warren Foster as ATTORNEY HENDERSON, Emily Keyishian as MRS. PETERS, Jerome St. Jerome as SHERIFF PETERS, Sheila M. Devitt as MRS. HALE, and Jason Oler as MR. HALE
About The Play: A man is dead. His wife is in jail. In a midwestern farmhouse in the winter of 1900, two women unravel the mystery of what happened, and who is responsible. *Content Warning: murder investigation
About the Playwright: Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. She founded the Provincetown Players with her husband George Cram Cook, which is considered the first modern American theatre company. She was well-known for her short stories, and her play “Alison's House” (1930) earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Glaspell is recognized as a pioneering feminist writer and one of America's first modern female playwrights.
Music Credits: “Fly By Night” by Paul Fowler
Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.
Live Audio Play Reading of SONRISA DEL COYOTE Written by David Alonso Rodriguez Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company Adapted and directed by Ariella Wolfe Language consultation by Dr. Olga Sanchez-Saltveit
Featuring Alma de Leon as NARRATOR, Hernán Angulo as DANNY, Cristina Maria as SOFÍA/YOTO, Diana Gonzalez-Morett as LUPA/EREMITA, Gene Arroyo as FAMILIA #1/TÍO, and Manuel Fernandez as FAMILIA #2.
About The Play: SONRISA DEL COYOTE follows siblings Danny and Lupa, as they are forced to leave their home in Mexico and travel across the border to Los Angeles. During their journey, they encounter a trickster coyote of legend and learn about who they are, where they come from, and the true meaning of family. Time/Place: Mexico City (1991), multiple locations across Mexico (1997), Los Angeles (2001). *Content Warning: thematic elements
This audio play production is in honor of the life of David Alonso Rodriguez and in celebration of his memory. We invite you to make a donation to the David Alonso Rodriguez memorial fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-david-alonso-rodriguez-memorial-fund
About the Playwright: David Alonso Rodriguez (1993-2020) devoted much of his life to the creation of theater and to his theater community. David’s bilingual play, SONRISA DEL COYOTE, won the New Voices playwriting competition at the University of Oregon and was featured in the Pocket Playhouse in fall of 2015. As an actor with the University Theatre Department, he was featured in performances of SILA, ARCADIA, and BREAKING THE CODE. During his time living in the Rogue Valley, David participated in community theater productions of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, PIPPIN, SILENT SKY and BILLY ELLIOT.
Special thanks to Jenny Rodriguez, Nicholas J. Maurer, Michael Teague, Tina D’Elia.
Music Credits: “Aztec Music - Sacred Jungle” by Phantawalker - Composer “Bella Amargura” by Mariachi Son de México
“Sonrisa Del Coyote” Companion Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UUa1GlWPedsOuzBh2Y6jp?si=ErX-l0ddQ_CSnqUWbvF4tw
Sandcastle Theater Company is an emerging theater company committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. Follow us on social media at facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco and @sandcastletheaterco on Instagram.