Hello all! We at Portland Theatre Works are pleased to bring Dennis Schebatta, Seattle's Regional Representative for The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc, to Portland for a reading of his play, "The Albatross". We're doing this May 19th, 7 pm, at Theater!Theatre! free of admission.
The gist of the story is this: David is a successful poet and teacher at a small private university and hits a good game of golf. David’s wife committed suicide five years ago, and his therapist is the bottle. This works for him, until one of his students shows promise as brave and emotional poet, and to teach her to create beautiful poetry, he must re-examine his own half-shattered life.
Dennis writes for The Dramatist magazine and teaches at Bellevue Community College. Dennis Schebetta has worked as an actor, director and playwright with various companies regionally and in New York City. His plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, 13th Street Rep, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, NY Fringe Festival, Vital Theater, and the Chester Horn Festival. He received his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University where he wrote and directed OBSCURA, which won the Charles Getchell New Play Award and was a finalist for the Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Award.