The aim of the Audacity Solo Salon is to support and nurture both established and emerging solo performers in the north Texas area. It is also a way to extend the mission of the Dallas Solo Fest beyond just the annual festival itself. 

This quarterly series will be a way for solo artists to present, rehearse, experiement with and develop their work in front of supportive audiences. Come on out and see a new one-person show in progress...

This installment in what has become a semi-quarterly series from Audacity Theatre Lab will feature excerpts from solo shows-in-progress by Shelby-Allison Hibbs, Chris Sykes and Shayne Larango.

Sunday, May 7 @ 8:00 pm
[re-scheduled from the original March 26 date]
At the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park, Dallas TX
For directions and parking information visit... HERE

Admission is FREE, but any and all donations are welcome (donations go towards the the Dallas Solo Fest).
Also BYOB!

The Excerpts:
DemiRepubliCan't - Written and Performed by Shelby-Allison Hibbs
In the second installment of Shelby-Allison Hibbs' solo piece on politics and memory, the election results are in! Shelby-Allison has to move from juice boxes to hard liquor as she presses forward in 45's possession of her country. Maybe she'll move to Canada. Maybe she'll sell plasma. Maybe she'll continue to have a codependent relationship with her chihuahuas. Time will tell. 
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Same Difference - Written and Performed by Chris Sykes
An experimental one-person piece about the casually extreme and nuanced contradictions that exist all around us.

Smell the Roux - Written and Performed by Shayne Larango
A legacy member of the Way to a Man’s Heart, Three Squares, and Clean Your Plate Club resists. An irreverent look at how food culture shapes our lives and our bodies.

From the twisted minds of writers Brad McEntire and Jeff Hernandez comes a comedy horror World Premiere...
NIGHT OF THE TARANTUBEARS
Directed by Brad McEntire

A genetic experiment surfaces as a seemingly harmless viral internet sensation. Part bear, part spider hybrids are the latest trend. But what happens when our passing fascinations grow and things begin to go horribly horribly wrong. Five survivors hole up in an abandoned theatre, while the city is over-run by genetic monstrosities. Who will survive the night?

Featuring Miller Pyke, Dani Martin, Whitney Holotik, Brain Witkowicz and Kasey Tackett

Playing January 21-31, 2016

at the Margo Jones Theatre in historic Fair Park
1121 First Ave., Dallas, TX 75210  [map here]

Online tickets... HERE
For reservations and other information visit... HERE

The aim of the Audacity Solo Salon is to support and nurture both established and emerging solo performers in the north Texas area. It is also a way to extend the mission of the annual Dallas Solo Fest beyond just the festival itself. 
 
This quarterly series will be a way for solo artists to rehearse, experiement and develop their work in front of supportive audiences. Come on out and see a new one-person show in progress...

This third in a quarterly series from Audacity Theatre Lab will feature excerpts from pieces in development by John Davies, Lindsay Hayward, and Kevin Fuld.

Curated by Brad McEntire.

Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 7:30 pm
At the Margo Jones Theatre, 
1121 First Avenue in Fair Park, Dallas TX 75210
[map and info here]

FREE! (though a P-W-Y-C donation is suggested)

Untitled by John S. Davies
John S Davies is an actor, director and teacher.  This is his second solo play.  The first, "Beem", was originally produced by Ground Zero Theater (now defunct) and Kimberlyn Crowe (not defunct) in 1999 at the Deep Ellum Center for the Arts (alas, defunct).  It enjoyed some mild success and was seen by tens of people.  That experience was so encouraging that he's back 16 years later with this next attempt.  He has this to say:

About the Piece:
I sure would like to have a name for this.  Perhaps you can help.  Here are some I've toyed with--Maybe/Maybe Not; Signalling Through the Flames; Jesus F#*%^%g Christ!; The New Adventures of Old Christine  (that one may have been used...).  It's a show about Jesus, or a man who claims to be Jesus, or mental illness, or our collective empathy deficit, or something.  You decide...
More info on John at: www.johnsdavies.com

Portrait of a Rambling Female by Lindsay Hayward
Lindsay Hayward is a seasoned entertainer with experience on three continents. She has acted throughout the DFW area, and with Michigan State Theatre, New Jersey's Appel Farm Arts Center, London’s Ashcroft Theatre, and South Africa’s Baxter Theatre.  Her vocal stylings include cabaret evenings, choral concerts, and sessions with international rock bands. Hayward holds a BFA in Theatre from Texas Christian University, and a Post Graduate Diploma/MA from Mountview Academy of Arts UK.

About the Piece:
Portrait of a RAMBLING FEMALE is an interactive performance that chronicles the misadventures of an millennial everywoman.  Lindsay Hayward examines all the complex roles expected of a modern female though a medley of scenes, songs, and monologues. The audience is invited to join Hayward on a light-hearted journey drawn from her own various semi-autobiographical experiences, in order to find the common thread that weaves all modern humans together.

Premature Emasculation by Kevin Fuld
Kevin Fuld is a frequent actor/collaborator with Dallas' Pocket Sandwich Theater. He studied at the University of North Texas and acts as the Artistic Director of Camp Death Productions.

About the Piece:
Mark Peters is a successful documentary filmmaker who has been recording video diaries every week for twenty-five years. On his 35th birthday he records another and discusses life, love and mulls an important decision. Performed by Nick Haley and written by Kevin Michael Fuld.

After years of traveling to venues and festivals around the country Dallas-based playwright/performer Brad McEntire presents his solo show CHOP for a full run in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area January 29 through February 7, 2015 at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park.

CHOP concerns a man totally isolated from the world around him. A chance meeting with a mysterious tattooed woman leads him to the place he might truly belong… an underground amputation fetish group.

After readings in Seattle (at the Outsider’s Inn Collective) and New York City (Cry Havoc Theatre) McEntire premiered CHOP at the 2010 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Addison’s Water Tower Theatre. Since then he has toured and performed the show at multiple venues and festivals, including the Phoenix Fringe Festival, the New Orleans Fringe, Houston Fringe, Portland Mini-Fringe, College of Santa Fe and San Antonio’s Overtime Theatre, 2012 New York international Fringe Festival, Seattle Fringe and New Orleans SoloMania Fest among others. The piece played a two day limited engagement at the Margo Jones Theatre in July 2012.

McEntire is delighted to bring the show back to Dallas for a full two week run.

The piece was directed and sound designed by Andrew J. Merkel of Brooklyn, NY. Brad McEntire wrote, designed and performs the piece.

Brad McEntire is the founding Artistic Director of the small theatre collective Audacity Theatre Lab. He is a playwright, performer, improviser, director and visual artist. He is the creator/producer of the Dallas Solo Fest. More information about his activities can be viewed at: www.BradMcEntire.com

Opens January 29, 2015 at 8:00 PM. 
Plays January 29 – February 7 (Tuesday thru Saturday) at 8:00 PM. 

The Margo Jones Theatre,
Magnolia Lounge in historic Fair Park,
1121 First Avenue, Dallas TX 75210

Tickets $12. Information/reservations at: (214) 888-6650 or... HERE.

For more information about the show visit... HERE

Here’s a chance to see three north Texas solo performers workshopping original shows-in-progress.

This first in a quarterly series from Audacity Theatre Lab will feature excerpts from pieces in development by Van Quattro, Steve Young and Beth Bontley.

Curated by Brad McEntire.

Monday, August 25, 2014 at 7:30 pmAt the Margo Jones Theatre, 
1121 First Avenue in Fair Park, Dallas TX 75210
[map and info here]

FREE! (though a P-W-Y-C donation is suggested)

STANDING EIGHT COUNT by Van Quattro. 
In this new solo piece, a young broken-hearted man tries to figure out how to to salvage his life.


Van Quattro was born and raised in Los Angeles.  During his time in L.A. he appeared in over twenty stage productions

Van Studied with the esteemed Roy London for years Van has appeared in many television shows, including Millennium, Chicago Hope,  Pickett Fences, General Hospital.

He has been in films such as Fight Club and End of Days and many more.  Besides television and film work, Van has appeared on many Texas stages.  He has worked at Casa Manana and  Dallas Theater Center (as Boo in To Kill A Mockingbird).  At Theatre Three he was Arthur in Superior Donuts, a role that won him a Best Actor Award by the DFW Theater Critics. He was recently  in A Behanding in Spokane at Second Thought Theater. Earlier this year he was seen in Water Tower Theater’s  Grapes of Wrath and as Lennie in Theater Arlingtons Of Mice and Men.

ONE WOMAN SPEAKS FOR THE WOMEN WHO CARRIED THE WORD by ElizaBeth Bontley
 
Charlotte Delbo was a member of the French Resistance who survived an ordeal in a concentration camp in WWII. The women there chose to help each other survive as long as they could, so that one of them could return and carry the words and stories of the women imprisoned there. Upon her return home, Delbo wrote "Who Will Carry the Word."


ElizaBeth Bontley is an actress, director and coach who is exploring theatrical form and content. She recieved her BA in Speech and Drama from Trintity University, graduated from the Circle in the Square Acting Conservatory in NYC and recieved her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

Original works include Being Green and Other Mysteries, Girlz2women Quest and Acet-o-philous or Vinegar Love which was proced locally as well as part of the NYC's United Solo festival in 2013.

She has taught at TCU, TCC, Kids Who Dare and Dallas Children's Theater. Currently, she teaches at S.T.A.G.E. and with the Dallas Summer Musicals Academy. She also House Mangaes at the Texas Star Dinner Theatre. She'll be performing in Cabaret at Runway Theatre in October.



THE RAT BOY OF SOULARD by Steven Young

Soulard, French for drunkard, is both a lifestyle choice for his mother and the St. Louis home for the six-year-old, sun burnt, bald headed, short-trousered, Mickey-Mouse ear wearin’ Stevie Verbal.  Born, coming out the wrong end up, mother and son engage in a struggle that takes them on a turbulent ride through the sixties.


Steven Young works as a playwright, actor, director and theatre educator. As a director Steven has worked at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival in the UK, Milwaukee Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Project, American Southwest Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, New American Theatre, Southwest American Theatre and Swine Palace. Steven was an alternate for the New York Drama League Director’s Fellowship.  He currently is a drama faculty member at Texas Woman’s University.

As an actor he appeared in the one-man show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at Amphibian. He has appeared in over 40 Shakespearian roles and is very proud of winning the Shakespeare Quarterly’s Justin Shaltz Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Falstaff in Henry IV part 2 at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

As a writer, NYC’s Nylon Fusion Theatre Company produced his one-act play Under the Overpass at the Maddox Theatre.  His play The King’s Face was the winner of both the FutureFest and Southwest Playwriting Competitions.  The King’s Face received a staged reading at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles and was a Newman/Woodard Drama Award finalist at the Bloomington Playwright’s Project.  Giant Olive Theatre Company of London originally produced The King’s Face Off West End.  Steve has been a Jerome Fellowship Finalist for his play The Wal*Mart-ians. Chicago Arts & Entertainment heralded the production as the Best Comedy of the Year and the script was recently a Riva Shriner Comedy Award Finalist.  The Resurrectionists was nominated for two Joseph Jefferson Citations; Cheddar Heads was a finalist with the National New Plays Network.  His short play Blank Canvas was selected as one of 50 finalists at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and was produced by the Midtown International Theatre Festival in NYC.

MORE INFO... HERE