A Special Fundraising Event
Love Letters
Directed by Michael Day
Produced by Doug Browell
Nov. 24, 2024 at 2:00PM
Jill Taylor Barnes (Melissa Gardner) & Mark Schuliger (Andrew Makepeace Ladd III)
We are proud to announce that our inaugural fundraiser show Love Letters will run November 22nd and 23rd at 8:00 PM and November 24th at 2:00 PM at our Harlem Road playhouse. A suggested donation of $25 per seat will benefit building maintenance and grounds upkeep so we can keep on bringing you Good Stories, Well Told as safely and as comfortably as possible. So we are asking our loyal members, patrons, and audience to show your favorite local theatre some love and come see Love Letters.
A unique and imaginative theatre piece which, in the words of the author, "needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance." The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
Jill Taylor
Jill Taylor first became involved with Curtain Players in 2008, in our production of The Guys, for which she won our Audience Choice award as well as the OCTA award for Outstanding Acting. She went on to appear in Dinner With Friends (another OCTA award), Becky's New Car, The Importance of Being Earnest, and our summer show Robin Hood. She also served as CP president, chair of the Artistic Advisory and Season Selection committees, and was a past recipient of the CP Volunteer of the Year and Richard D. Near awards. She holds an MFA degree from Indiana University's Graduate Acting Program.
Mark Schuliger
Mark Schuliger first appeared on our stage in Darkside in 2007, for which he received the OCTA Outstanding in Ensemble award and the Theatre Roundtable Excellence in Acting award. He also appeared in Dinner With Friends, alongside Jill. He's also appeared at the Long Beach Playhouse, where he received the Ethel Case Outstanding Actor award for Lend Me a Tenor, and was nominated for the same award for his work in Private Lives and Murder by Misadventure. He's also appeared in the 2023 film A Bachelor's Valentine, and the soon to be released on streaming Death 4 Dinner.
Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service