QUEEN OF HEARTS night of programming

5/5, 5/13, 5/21, 5/26 (all at 8pm), 5/28 at 2pm

MORNIN’, DAUGHTER MINE by Tom Deiker

SELDOM IS HEARD by Mary Steelsmith

BOOM, POW, OOF by Jennifer Feather Youngblood


ONE-EYED JACKS night of programming

5/6, 5/14, 5/19, 5/27 (all at 8pm), 5/28 at 4pm

THIS ALMOST JOY by Barbara Lindsay

LOLLY by Donald Dewey

THE MEETING by Greg Freier


SUICIDE KINGS night of programming

5/7, 5/12, 5/20, 5/28 (all at 8pm)

HOUND DOG AND ME by Chris Lane

UP ON THE ROOF by Mark Harvey Levine

STUCK by Christopher Lockheardt

THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS by Quentin James

227 North 3rd Street | Columbus, OH 43215 | 614.221.5418

THEATRE ROULETTE, in its twelfth year, continues as Central Ohio’s longest running annual shorts festival.

May 5th-28th, 2011

Thursdays-Saturdays

$12 regular admission

$8 students/seniors

$6 MadLab Members

Buy Tickets Here!


Click on individual show title below to view more information, trailers, & photos of each play.

BOOM, POW, OOF by Jennifer Feather Youngblood

In a comic-book world of superheroes and supervillians, civilians have to learn to be powerful without powers.


CAST AND CREW

David Tull as Henry

Stephen Woosley as Martin

Jim Azelvandre as Gary

Josh Kessler as Sean

Linda O’Donnell as Gladys

Michelle Batt as Dr. Nebula Bryce

Directed by Jennifer Feather Youngblood


HOUND DOG AND ME by Chris Lane

An exploration of the inner workings of a mind that is in duress.


CAST AND CREW

Chris Lane as Hound Dog

Andy Batt as Me

Directed by Michelle Batt


LOLLY by Donald Dewey

Barbara goes to Leo's Doll Repair store to get the eyes changed on her doll. When the mysterious --- and mysteriously aggressive --- Leo asks her why, she says it's because she wants to pass the doll on to her daughter and have the girl's doll see different things than her mother's has. Before she knows it, Leo has her revealing some of those things, and not merely for therapeutic purposes.


CAST AND CREW

Sarah Brunet as Barbara

Peter Graybeal as Leo

Directed by Randi Morgan


MORNIN’, DAUGHTER MINE by Tom Deiker

A mother makes a radical proposal to save the life of her suicidal daughter.


CAST AND CREW

Melissa Bair as Nan

Hilary Shelton as Robyn

Directed by David Thonnings


SELDOM IS HEARD by Mary Steelsmith

A woman whose husband newly returned from combat in Afghanistan, copes with his I.E.D.-caused head injury. battles a local kind of terrorist, the pink suited president of their local Neighborhood Restoration Association (N.R.A.).


CAST AND CREW

Melissa Bair as Hanna

Jennifer Feather Youngblood as Marilyn

Vince Reese as Ivan

Directed by Michelle Batt


STUCK by Christopher Lockheardt

They say that you never really know someone until you're trapped in a revolving door with them.


CAST AND CREW

Stephen Woosley as Man

Michelle Batt as Woman

Directed by Andy Batt


THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS by Quentin James

Jerry, Carmichael, and Paul.  Three grown men running in the desert.  With them a caboodle of other inspired and unheralded runners trudging their lives behind them in their wake.  How long they’ve been running is too long for their comfort.  To where they are running they have no idea.  The reason they are running is beyond their comprehension.  They are tired, stinky, and confused; yet the only  thing that they are certain of is that they all must keep going.


CAST AND CREW

Andy Batt as Jerry

Brendan Michna as Carmichael

David Thonnings as Paul

Directed by Nikki Smith


THE MEETING by Greg Freier

A small group of corporate executives attempt to disavow themselves from their own ineptness in a nonsensical, gibberish induced forum and arrive at the only logical conclusion they can deduce: violent incompetence.


CAST AND CREW

Vicki Andronis as Jenkins

Sarah Brunet as Dibble

Josh Kessler as Porter

Erin Prosser as Smith

Directed by Peter Graybeal


THIS ALMOST JOY by Barbara Lindsay

Friendly Professor Hart-Meadows, an actor in what he believes is a rather dull play, decides to speak directly to the audience, engaging them in a conversation about the nature of reality.  This is upsetting for the other characters in the play, Sylvia and Bradley, for whom the play is the real world.  The confrontation intensifies as Sylvia and Bradley’s desire to save Prof. Hart-Meadows from madness bumps up against the Professor’s insistence on his own truth.


CAST AND CREW

Jim Azelvandre as Professor Steven Hart-Meadows

Vicki Andronis as Sylvia Hart Johns

Michael Moore as Bradley Johns

Mony Carpenter as Margaret Hart-Meadows

Directed by Travis Horseman


UP ON THE ROOF by Mark Harvey Levine

Jason is looking for a sign from God.  Carrie is looking for a little help with the dishes.


CAST AND CREW

Damian Synadinos as Jason

Christina Duryea as Carrie

Directed by Andy Batt