Taking Flight Theatre Company would like to congratulate all 2012 WATCH Award nominees. A special congratulations and thank you goes out to the talented artists who are nominated for their work on a Taking Flight production. We are privileged to have worked with you, and are so excited to share this great honor with you. Your hard work and dedication helped to make our 2011 season one of great success. We wish you all the best at the upcoming ceremony!

Award Nominations:

Outstanding Hair Design in a Play – Molly Hicks Larson – A Streetcar Named Desire
Outstanding Cameo in a Musical – Andy Izquierdo as “Blind Man” – Frankenstein
Outstanding Costume Design in a Musical – Mary Ayala-Bush – Frankenstein
Outstanding Hair Design in a Musical – Melodie Wilson – Frankenstein
Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical – Kat Brais & Andy Izquierdo – Frankenstein
Outstanding Properties in a Play – Jessie Roberts – Loose Kni

Congratulations to our WATCH Award nominees!

Audition information for Next to Normal.

Produced by Denise Perrino
Directed by Jessie Roberts
Music Direction by Bobby McCoy

Audition Dates:
Saturday February 25th from 12-3pm
Sunday February 26th from 7-9pm

Audition Location:
Waddell Theatre on NOVA’s Loudoun Campus
1000 Harry Byrd Highway
Sterling, VA 20164

Audition Information
For auditions we ask that you prepare a song in a style similar to that of Next To Normal. You will also be asked to do cold readings from the script. The Music Director will provide the accompaniment, please bring your own sheet music with you.

Callback Dates:
Wednesday, February 29th 7:30-9:30pm

Callback Location:
Potomac Falls High School
46400 Algonkian Parkway
Sterling, VA 20165

Show Dates:
June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16; Friday and Saturday @ 8pm, Sunday @ 7pm

Next to Normal Auditions

We are proud to announce the cast of Earth and Sky coming February 2012.

Sara McKeon: Lauren Palmer Kiesling
David Ames: Steve Oliverez
Det Al Kersnowski: Michael Richardson
Det. H.E. Weber: Jim Johnson
Joyce Lazlo: Ruth Neaveill
Billy Hart: Jude Rodriguez
Carl Eisenstadt: David Segal
Marie DeFaria: Kathleen Burnard
Julius Gatz: Mario Font

Cast of Earth and Sky Announced

Taking Flight Theatre Company is seeking Directors for its 2012 Season:

Earth and Sky by Doug Post
February 2012

Spitfire Grill, a musical by James Falcq and Fred Alley
June 2012

Equus by Peter Schaffer
October 2012

Director applications are due by Wednesday, August 10th. Please contact us at season@tftheatre.org with any questions.

Download the 2012 Director Application

Seeking Directors for 2012 Season

Announcing Taking Flight Theatre Company’s 2012 Season!

Earth and Sky by Doug Post
February 2012

Next to Normal book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt
June 2012

Equus by Peter Schaffer
November 2012

Announcing Taking Flight Theatre Company’s 2012 Season!

This compelling new musical, directed by our Managing Director Natalie Safley, brings the suspense and romance of the classic tale to life in a uniquely faithful, yet thoroughly innovative adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original novel. The powerful and thrilling music is beautifully presented by an amazing cast and the direction of David Rohde.

In his quest to discover the secret of life, Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, creates a human of his own design that turns out to instead be a horrifying beast. This is no “Hollywood monster,” but a flesh-and-blood man who, while terrifying in appearance, grows to become articulate, cunning, and thirsting for revenge upon the creator who abandoned him. A tragic love story and exploration of humanity, Frankenstein, A New Musical breathes new life into the world-renowned story of man and creator pitted against one another in epic battle.

The production is featured in the Ashburn Patch’s spotlight on community clubs and organiztions

Frankenstein, A New Musical Opens Tonight

The WATCH nominations are out, and Taking Flight received 3 nominations.

• Outstanding Makeup Design in a Musical – Christine Spata – Evil Dead: The Musical
• Outstanding Set Decoration in a Musical – Shannon Khatcheressian – Evil Dead: The Musical
• Outstanding Special Effects – Jeff Bender – Evil Dead: The Musical

Congratulations to the individuals nominated, and to the casts and crews of Evil Dead!

The WATCH awards ceremony will be held at the Birchmere on Sunday, March 6, 2010. Check back after the ceremony to see if any of the Taking Flight nominees won awards!

2011 Watch Award Nominations

Taking Flight Theatre Company is currently seeking Director Submissions for our 2012 season.

We are seeking directors/shows for the following time slots:

• February 2012
• End of May/Beginning of June 2012
• October 2012

Deadline for submissions is March 18, 2011. If you are interesting in submitting a show to be produced at Taking Flight Theatre Company, please submit a completed Director Application to season@tftheatre.org.

Click Here to download the application.

Now Accepting Director Applications for the 2012 Season

Announcing Taking Flight Theatre Company’s 2011 Season!

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Matthew Randall
Feb 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm

Frankenstein, A New Musical
Book & Lyrics by Jeffrey Jackson
Music by Mark Baron
Adaptation by Gary P. Cohen
Directed by Natalie Safley
June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm

Loose Knit by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Haley Murphy
October 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 and November 4, 5, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm

Announcing Taking Flight Theatre Company’s 2011 Season!

It’s official.  The Author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha, Edward Falco, has agreed to do a talk back after the Opening Night performance on October 8th.  We’re very excited for this and hope to see everyone there!

Here’s a little bit about the Author:

Edward Falco

Falco is also the author of the novel Winter in Florida (Soho, 1990), the hypertext novel, A Dream with Demons (Eastgate Systems, 1997), the hypertext poetry collection, Sea Island (Eastgate Systems, 1995), and the prose poem collection, Concert in the Park of Culture (Tamarack, 1985), as well as two collections of short stories:  Acid (Notre Dame, 1996) and Plato at Scratch Daniel’s & Other Stories (University of Arkansas Press, 1990).  Acid won the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame, and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize.  He has won a number of other prizes and awards for his fiction, including the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction from The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction from The Saint Andrews Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, two Individual Artist’s Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Governor’s Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of American Film.  His stories have been published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and TriQuarterly, and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including, most recently, Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium.

As a playwright, Falco is the author of Home Delivery, which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award in 1992, and was subsequently staged by the Hampden-Sydney Theater Department.  Earlier versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater’s Centerpiece and Theater B reading series.  Two recent plays, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha and Radon, premiered in university productions at Virginia Tech.  Both were directed by David Johnson.  In the summer of 2001, Falco worked with artists and actors from the United States, England, Greece, Bosnia, and Germany in an international theatre project meant to explore the healing power of drama.  Scenes from The Cretans, a play begun during the project, were presented for a small audience in an amphitheatre on the Aegean in the village of Kolympari, Crete.  His most recent play is Welcome to Castle in the Air.
 
Ed Falco lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he teaches writing and literature at Virginia Tech, and edits The New River, an online journal of digital writing.

Sabbath Night talk back with the Author Planned!