Inkwell
a world premiere micro-play
by Isaac Schott-Rosenfield
directed by Isaiah Dufort
A WORLD PREMIERE MICROPLAY
A senior in the Creative Writing Department, poet ISAAC SCHOTT ROSENFIELD (CW 2017) has written three ten-minute plays under the tutelage of Isaiah Dufort, long time CW Playwright-in-Residence, learning the rudiments of the craft and being inspired by the works of Chekov, Sartre, Moliere, etc.
This past spring, Isaac was offered the opportunity to work with Andrew Saito, taking part in Saito’s master class in absurdist playwriting at The Cutting Ball Theater. It was in that class that Isaac wrote Inkwell, a short play about the writing process and crocodiles. Isaac cites e.e. cummings’ Six Nonlectures, as well as Woolf’s Orlando. “From Orlando I borrowed the excellent word ‘obfusc’ (though for a rather vulgar context). Six Nonlectures in particular no longer receives the attention it deserves.”
ARTISTS:
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[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Isaac_Schott-Rosenfield.jpg” name=”Isaac Schott-Rosenfield” title=”Playwright”]Isaac Schott-Rosenfield is a senior in the Creative Writing Department at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, a public school. He is a student editor for the yearly anthology Best American Non-Required Reading and edits the literary journal Umläut. He is grateful to have worked with Isiah Dufourt for three years and would like to thank Andrew Saito for believing in crocodiles.[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Isaiah_headshot-copy.jpg” name=”Isaiah Dufort” title=”Director”]Isaiah Dufort is assistant director of the [San Francisco Art & Film Program](http://www.artandfilm.org/), an arts education nonprofit making the arts accessible to Bay Area students. He is also an artist-in-residence at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts where he produces plays for the Creative Writing department. His plays include Absolute Pure Happiness and The Pheasant. His films include Silent Anna and Intermissions directed by Max Sokoloff, and Two Photographs directed by Dominic Santos. [/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Glass_Kevin_HS.jpg” name=”Kevin Glass” title=”Ensemble”]Kevin Glass is a newcomer to the Bay Area theatre scene and is already in love with the community and its dedication to new works and cutting edge performance – especially Cutting Ball’s Avant GardARAMA. You might have seen him doing all sorts of different things in the Shortlived short play competition this year, speaking in an Australian accent in Pianofight’s production of Stuart Bousel’s Adventures in Tech or most recently as a meta-theatrical device in a leather jacket in The Line. [/headshot]
[headshot src= “https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Michelle-Drexler.jpg” name= “Michelle Drexler” title=”Narrator”]Michelle Drexler has been seen at Theatreworks, San Francisco Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival on Tour, Bay Area Children’s Theater, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, 42nd St Moon, Great River Shakespeare Festival and American Repertory Theatre. She has also played sold out houses at Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko in SF and the Laurie Beechman in NYC with her identical twin sister, Lily, in A Very Drexler Cabaret. Michelle is a proud native of San Francisco. Emerson College: BFA Acting www.MichelleDrexler.com[/headshot][headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/unnamed.jpg” name= “Kunal Prasad” title=”Ensemble”]Kunal Prasad is a Bay Area native and received an MFA in Acting from The American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. He is a long form improviser and trail runner and recently played The Poet in “A Dreamplay” here at The Cutting Ball Theater. He has performed at Berkeley Repertory Theater, City Lights Theater Company, Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, and Un-Scripted Theater Company. Favorite theater credits include: “HIStory” at |the claque|, “homeward” at Red Fern Theatre Company, “Julius Caesar” at Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans, “Room” and “Celebration” at The American Repertory Theater.[/headshot][headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Melanie2.jpg” name=”Melanie DuPuy” title= “Ensemble”]Melanie DuPuy was last seen as Margie Walsh in GOOD PEOPLE with the Role Players Ensemble. She also starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire during the Eugene O’Neill Festival where she was named one of the Bay Area’s Top Ten Female Performances by Talkin’ Broadway, 2015.[/headshot]