Past Readings & Productions

Descending order from most recent

May 26, 2010 Reading

Zidney’s Hollywoodland

(Formerly “The Wonderful World of Zidney”)

Mike Pettry & Shawn Northrip

by Mike Pettry and Shawn Northrip

We had a fantastic cast, led by returning actors Bobby Smith (reprising his role of evil Ike Meisner), Toni Rae Brotons (the loyal and long suffering Cristine Meisner), Michael Grew (deliciously snaky as teen star Jimmy Johnson), John Dow (Ray Zidney), and Jennie Lutz in her hilarious ensemble roles. Newcomers Jason Lott, Claire Karpen Pettry (a Julliard grad student… what a talent!), and local actress Any Kellet, a revelation in a supporting role of Patti.

This was an unpublicized developmental reading. Director Shirley Serotsky and I are meeting with Shawn next week. More to come fom DC most productive – and funniest – playwright Shawn Northrip, whose new “Horrors of Online Dating” is one of the hits of the 2010 DC Fringe.

There were two other readings of Zidney, in 2007 at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage DC reading festival, and at Metrostage in December, 2007. Still hoping something good will happen with this show. Shawn is very  persistent, and everyone sees the potential of this show.

Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue, The Orestia

Poster Orestia Dizzy

If the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus had gone on tour with Led Zeppelin, Woody Guthrie and a carnie troup, this is what he would have written.

A tale of blood, guts and vengeance, this is Aeschylus’ Oresteia, re-charged. Rowdy, raucous, loud and literate: Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue presents The Oresteia.

JULY 11 – AUGUST 9, 2009
Church Street Theater

Fridays and Saturdays at 11:00 pm

Sunday evenings at 7:00 & 9:00pm

Titus X by Shawn Northrip

2009 Fringe Production

TitusX: the punk rock version of the bard's nastiest play

Fringe favorite Shawn Northrip’ss original, critically acclaimed punk musical, Titus X. Inspired by the DC music scene of Northrip’s youth and based on Shakespeare’s nastiest play. Punk and Shakespeare go together like Sid and Nancy.

Also at Fringe 09

Dizzy Miss Lizzy’s Second Fringe Hit

The Saints

JULY 9 – July 16, 2009
1021 7th St NW
Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue: The Saints

Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue: The Saints

Saints, sinners, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Imagine Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, St. Augustine and a bevy of virgin martyrs singin’ songs around a celestial campfire. DMLRR Presents The Saints. Virtue and vaudeville. Burlesque and the blessed: Where the revival tent meets the carnie tent.