Garret Jon Groenveld's The Hummingbirds
Tuesday, May 15, 7pm at the Piedmont Center for the Arts
About the Play
Welcome to a very special room of the unemployment bureau. Not been able to find a job? You will leave this room with a job today. It may not be a job you are capable of doing (it may not be safe for anyone to do), but you will leave with a job. Written for two actors of any age, race or gender, the play delves into themes of what work means and nostalgia for a better world that may never have been.
About the Playwright
Garret Jon Groenveld is a San Francisco based poet and playwright. The author of many plays, his work has appeared in BAPF 1999 (The Blood of Winter, now called The Absence of Birds) and 2004 (Missives). Missives premiered at Theatre Rhino in 2005 and will receive its New York premiere in March 2008 by Animated Theatreworks at 59E59, in no small part to his participation in the Sister Cities Project through the Playwrights Foundation. Missives was originally commissioned by PlayGround, = which also commissioned the full lengths plays The Grand Divorce and his current play, The Serving Class. He has an MA in Poetry and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University and has worked with Edward Albee in his advanced workshop at the University of Houston.
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