This Winter, Know Theatre’s Monday night theatre party returns.
Serials! 10: THUNDERDOME
Jan 20 – Mar 16, 2020
15 minute episodes of new plays, every two weeks, for a total of 5 installments. Every week, YOU, the audience, votes on which 3 plays will continue for another episode, and which 2 will be banished to a dystopian theatrical wasteland… You’ll also have an additional vote in Week 4 to determine which 2 previously-eliminated shows will be resurrected for one more episode.
10 words or less: Elimination format, episodic theatre celebrating local artists.
Rated: Varies (but it can definitely hit R territory at times…)
SERIALS! 10 Line Up
Week 1 – January 20, 2020
Posy’s Predicament by Hannah Gregory
Have Monster, Will Travel by Trey Tatum
My Roommate is Lesbian Vampire by Mary Bringer
Poster Child by Dan Winters
The Kingdom’s at Hand but the Game’s Afoot by Robert Macke
Week 2 – February 3, 2020
Now Streaming by Sawyer Shafer
The Election of Miss Rebecca’s Third Grade Class by Brandon Leatherland
Posy’s Predicament by Hannah Gregory
Have Monster, Will Travel by Trey Tatum
The Kingdom’s at Hand but the Game’s Afoot by Robert Macke
Week 3 – February 17, 2020
Bloody Mary by Kelly Collette
Posy’s Predicament by Hannah Gregory
Have Monster, Will Travel by Trey Tatum
The Kingdom’s at Hand but the Game’s Afoot by Robert Macke
The Election of Miss Rebecca’s Third Grade Class by Brandon Leatherland
Week 4 – February 17, 2020
Title TBD by John Bromels
Psych-O (or O is for Outcast) by Gray Shaw
plus the survivors of week 3!
Week 4 – February 17, 2020
The survivors of week 4 PLUS two previously eliminate shows, back for one more episode!
plus the survivors of week 3!
SUBMIT TO THE SERIALS! 10 TALENT POOL
Just because you don’t have a show to apply with doesn’t mean you can’t be involved! Click here for the Serials! 10 Talent Pool, which we’ll share with show producers once they apply in case they are on the hunt for directors, actors, etc. Break a leg!
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Serials! is Know Theatre’s biannual episodic theatre party.
It’s also a new play incubator that helps playwrights see their work on stage almost instantly, bypassing years of workshopping or staged readings to go straight to performance.
Thus far, six productions have graduated from Serials! to further life on Know Theatre’s stages:
Serials! 1:
Saturday the 14th by Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin
(Second Stage, February 2015)Serials! 2: Thunderdome:
Andy’s House of Blank by Paul Strickland & Trey Tatum
(MainStage Development run, October 2015)
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
(Fringe Encore Run, January 2015)Serials! 4: Thunderdome 2:
Archie and the Ashes by Tracy Hoida
(Second Stage, November 2016)Serials! 6: Lightning Cube:
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
Space Porn 2000: A crowd sourced musical by James Allen & Robert Macke
(Second Stage, August 2017)
Here’s the line up from Season 7: Mini-Serials!The Fountain Drink by Carmel Rechnitzer
The Fog in “Kiss of the Scarab” by David J. Loehr
A Shot in the Dark Matter by A.K. Forbes
Sinner and Saint by Maggie Rader
Sit Down by Ben Dudley
Here’s the line up from Season 6: Lightning CubeEpisode 1:
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
Dates these days, amirite? by Andy Simpson
Middletown by Mike Bizzarri
Space Pornography 2000: A Crowd Sourced Musical by Robert Macke & James Allen
Half-Cocked by Brian GriffinEpisode 2 – February 13, 2017:
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
Middletown by Mike Bizzarri
Space Pornography 2000: A Crowd Sourced Musical by Robert Macke & James Allen
Wasaktuchatts by Chris Wesselman
My First Bible Storybook (Adult Edition) by John BromelsEpisode 3 – February 27, 2017:
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
The Nautical Nonsense and Fun Time Adventure Fun Times Of Spongey Spongey Bogdan by Andy Simpson
Space Pornography 2000: A Crowd Sourced Musical by Robert Macke & James Allen
Wasaktuchatts by Chris Wesselman
Sounds Like Rain by Brian GriffinEpisode 4 – March 13, 2017:
The Nautical Nonsense and Fun Time Adventure Fun Times Of Spongey Spongey Bogdan by Andy Simpson
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
Sounds Like Rain by Brian Griffin
The Attraction of Opposites by Mike Bizzarri
Revenge of the Venus Flytraps by John Bromels & Henry Bromels, with music by Paul StricklandEpisode 5
The Nautical Nonsense and Fun Time Adventure Fun Times Of Spongey Spongey Bogdan by Andy Simpson
Retention of Disbelief by Ben Dudley
Sounds Like Rain by Brian Griffin
Loman! The Death of a Salesman Musical by James Allen & Robert Macke
Shrimp are the end of the World by Chris Wesselman
Here’s the line up from Season 5: Mini-Serials
Working Title by James Allen. Directed by Alice Flanders.
The Interview by John Bromels. Directed by Rebecca Bromels.
Break by Carolyn Guido Clifford. Directed by Lauren Carr
Elizabeth and Annie by Alice Flanders. Directed by Jen Joplin.
Finding the Falcon written & directed by Sara Swartout
Here’s the line up from Season 4 Thunderdome 2:Beyond Thunder.
EPISODE 1
Archie and the Ashes by Tracy Hoida
It’s beginning to look a lot like Murder by Andrew Ornelas
Wake Up, Andy Simpson! by Trey Tatum & Andy Simpson
Hold the Sausage by John Bromels
Life After Death by Chase JohnsonEPISODE 2
Archie and the Ashes by Tracy Hoida
It’s beginning to look a lot like Murder by Andrew Ornelas
Hold the Sausage by John Bromels
Pit by Chris Wesselman
My Messed Upera by Paul StricklandEPISODE 3
*Featured 6 episodes due to an unprecedented tie!*
Archie and the Ashes by Tracy Hoida
Hold the Sausage by John Bromels
Pit by Chris Wesselman
My Messed Upera by Paul Strickland
Redscare by Robert Macke
Vigilante Justice Squad by Rory SheridanEPISODE 4
Archie and the Ashes by Tracy Hoida
Hold the Sausage by John Bromels
Pit by Chris Wesselman
My Messed Upera by Paul Strickland
Ricardo and Julia by Nick Pinelli
Waiting by James AllenEPISODE 5
Hold the Sausage by John Bromels
Pit by Chris Wesselman
My Messed Upera by Paul Strickland
Ricardo and Julia by Nick Pinelli
Waiting by James Allen-
Season 3 featured 5 playwrights, 5 stories. 5 directors, 5 casts. Each week we switched which playwright wrote which story!
Here’s the line up from Season 3 Roundhouse:
Hangin’ With Ben created by John Bromels. Directed by Mike Hall.
Fire Down Below created by Ben Dudley. Directed by John Muething.
#roxybalboa created by Andy Simpson and Alexx Rouse. Directed by Maggie Kissinger.
The Good, The Bad, and the Elderly created by Robert Macke. Directed by Rebecca Bromels.
Real Time Strategy created by Andrew Hungerford. Directed by Nate Netzley.
Here’s the line up from Season 2 Thunderdome:
Episode 1 – February 2, 2015
Peggy Hart Mini Mystery Hour by Alison Rampa
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
Andy’s House of [blank] by Trey Tatum and Paul Strickland
His Satanic Majesties Request by Andy Simpson
How I Learned to Blog Like a Champ After the End of the World by Nick CarmineEpisode 2 – DUE TO SNOW, FEBRUARY 23 @ 7:30pm
Andy’s House of [blank] by Trey Tatum and Paul Strickland
Barrel of Monkeys by Jon Kovach
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
Happily by Becca Howell
Peggy Hart Mini Mystery Hour by Alison RampaEpisode 3 – March 2, 2015
Andy’s House of [blank] by Trey Tatum and Paul Strickland
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
Peggy Hart Mini Mystery Hour by Alison Rampa
The Next Fifteen Minutes by Chris Wesselman
So In Tents by John BromelsEpisode 4 – March 16, 2015
Andy’s House of [blank] by Trey Tatum and Paul Strickland
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
So In Tents by John Bromels
So This Couple by Kevin Crowley
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Loss by Robert Macke & Alexx RouseEpisode 5 – March 30, 2015
Andy’s House of [blank] by Trey Tatum and Paul Strickland
Cinderblock by Ben Dudley
So In Tents by John Bromels
Peggy Hart Mini Mystery Hour by Alison Rampa
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Loss by Robert Macke & Alexx Rouse-
Here’s the line up from Season 1
Season 1 featured six shows that played out in six fifteen minute episodes during the summer of 2014. Those shows were (in order of appearance):
Flesh Descending written and directed by Chris Wesselman
Fetus and the God written by Ben Dudley, directed by Leah Strasser
The Listener written and directed by Mike Hall
The Funeral written and directed by Jon Kovach
Saturday the 14th written by Elizabeth Martin & Lauren Hynek, directed by Tamara Winters
Mars Vs. the Atom written by Trey Tatum, directed by Bridget Leak
