"Everyone, give yourselves a pat on the back!", a staged reading of one of Erin Malone Turner's newest plays.
June 22 | 11am-1pm | $15
June 22 | 11am-1pm | $15
Featuring her largest cast of characters yet (and including Erin herself in a rare moment of performing!) this play is a dramedy about a marketing company full of millennials who embark on a weekend retreat complete with an improv workshop. Please feel free to partake in the pre-show audience engagement activity that asks questions about work in our current age, and stay for the talkback to ask Erin and the actors questions in return about the process of bringing this play to life in its first iteration. Anyone is welcome - especially lovers of new work and staged readings. Come along for the ride to The Sunshine Sanctuary as we all contemplate jobs we tolerate, what work family means, the potential of 'yes, and', and the truths revealed through the silliest of games. "Everyone, give yourselves a pat on the back!" is a love letter to office employees, overworked millennials with intersectionally marginalized identities, people who love improv, or even people who love to hate improv.
More about Artist-in-Residence, Erin Malone Turner:
Erin Malone Turner is a New Orleans born, Dallas-based playwright and occasional actor/director/producer. Her featured plays across DFW include: “ingrained” & “GRAY” (Bishop Arts Theatre Co), “through a glass darkly” (Amphibian Stage), & “how to catch a ghost” (Kitchen Dog Theater). After focusing on playwriting for several years post graduating with a BA in English from UT Arlington, she returned to the stage in 2022 as Olympe de Gouges in “The Revolutionists” (Resolute Theatre Project/Tree Trunk Theater) & has performed with numerous theaters since then, including Echo Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Plague Mask Players, & Sundown Theatre. Her TACA Grant-funded commissioned play “what fits inside a human heart” had its world premiere with Soul Repertory Theatre in Oct. 2023, and was nominated for an Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Award for Best Play in 2024. She was mentored by Audra McDonald from 2021-2023. She has been a member of two local playwriting cohorts: BATC's First Move and Second Thought Theatre's Thought Process. Her work can be found on New Play Exchange. Black lives matter.
