Tag: SciFi

  • News & Productions: January – June, 2016

    FEBRUARY

    My short film ORI & ADDISON (based on my short play) will screen at The 41st Boston Science Fiction & Film Festival, to be held at The Somerville Theatre in Boston. The Festival runs 2/5 – 2/15. ORI & ADDISON screens as part of SIBYL’S EYE (shorts) on Tuesday Feb 9th @ 5:30 PM.  Tickets are only $ 12:50 and can be purchased HERE.    

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    My new ten minute play entitled CLASS REUNION will be presented by Urban Stages in NYC as part of The President Plays on Sunday, Feb 21, 2016 at 3 and 5 PM.  (I will be at the 3 PM performance so come on out and say “Hello” if you can.)

    APRIL

    The Emerson Theater Collaborative & The Mark Twain House & Museum present two readings of my full length comedy (presented as a live radio play) KING ARTHUR IN CONTEMPORARY CONNECTICUT at The Mark Twain House & Museum, the home where Twain worked on his version of the classic Arthurian legend, on Saturday, April 9th at 7 PM and Sunday, April 10th at 4 PM, and in Mystic, CT at the United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 16th at 7 PM and Sunday, April 17th at 4 PM.  All tickets: $10  (For tickets for The Mark Twain House & Museum performances:  (860) 247-0998 or visit www.marktwainhouse.org.  For tickets for the Mystic performances:  www.emersontheatercollaborative.org.)

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    After winning 1st place in their new works competition (Another one of my plays, Snowbound, won 3rd place, so they tell me), my full length play HISTORY 101 be performed at The Las Vegas Little Theatre in the LVLT Black Box Theatre April 22-May 8, 2016 and you can purchase tickets HERE.  

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    My award-winning short play THE CHAIR will be included in the Emerging Arts Festival, produced by The Laugh/Riot Performing Arts Company in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, beginning April 21st.

    I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my award-winning short play ORI & ADDISON is an official selection in The Independent Film Festival of Boston, one of my favorite film festivals (They introduced me to The Troll Hunter so, clearly, they have excellent taste).  Ori & Addison will screen with the shorts D (Delta: Narrative) group on Saturday, April 30 6:45pm at the Somerville Theatre – Screen 4 & Sunday, May 1  2:45pm at the Somerville Theatre – Screen 3.    

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    My ten minute play DRIVE BUY will be included as part of 6 Playwrights In Search of a Stage at The Roxbury Repertory Theater at The Roxbury Community College in MA April 29th – 30th, 7 PM.  All shows are FREE.  

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    JUNE

    My ten minute play ALEXANDER THE GREAT will be presented by The Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, NH (in southwest NH near the VT border and Brattleboro VT) as part of their new works festival.  (Dates and times to be announced – Watch this space.)

    ALEXANDER THE GREAT will also be presented by The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in Los AngelesJune 11 through July 17 – Saturdays at 2 PM and Sundays at 7 PM – in their new upstairs black box space at The Lonny Chapman Theatre (10900 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91606).  (Dates changed to July – Update soon.)

    Finally, my short play DRIVE BUY will be presented at part of The Gallery Players 2016 Black Box New Play Festival, presented by The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, NY.  (DRIVE BUY will be produced in the 3rd weekend of the Festival, which runs June 16 – 19.)   

  • Ori & Addison – A short film written and directed by James C. Ferguson

    So now that you’ve watched the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailers an appropriately ridiculous amount of times, maybe you have a few minutes to check out a short film that I wrote and directed about the struggles of fatherhood and friendship entitled Ori & Addison.

    Originally written as a short play, Ori & Addison was produced numerous times in various short play festivals throughout The United States, including The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival where Benjamin Friedberg of Inkcrayon Pictures saw it, enjoyed it and optioned the rights.  Ben wanted to expand the idea out into a full-length screenplay while simultaneously producing Ori & Addison as a short film to serve as both an original piece that would work on its own but also be a representative sample of the larger story.

    I was thrilled beyond words to be asked to direct the piece (and flown out to Los Angeles to do it, no less) and will always be thankful to Ben for that joyous opportunity.  Everyone involved did a bang-up job and should be very proud of the results.  Enjoy.

    (Feel free to share, but no spoilers, okay?  TY!)

    (Please note there is some adult language so it may not be the best thing to watch with the little ones, or at work.)

    https://vimeo.com/inkcrayon/oriandaddison