About
the Play
"Wow,
this is not the usual." That was director Brad McEntire's first thought after
reading LULLABY the first time. Playwright Greg Romero has endowed the piece
with its own original set of stage conventions, including how the actors engage
each other as well as with the audience. It creates its own world, shifting
back and forth through time, or even playing the same encounters over and over
through infinite possibilities. The piece is a nonlinear, almost cubist, view
of a relationship that begins with a Man and a Woman. They each breathe in the
possibility of a blank sheet of paper. The paper becomes a sailboat and their
breath becomes a journey over impossible distances. An exploration of what is
inside the human heart when a person falls in love with another equally and
beautifully broken individual.
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About
the Playwright
Greg
Romero received an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas-Austin where
he held the James A. Michener Fellowship. Originally from Louisiana, he is currently
based in Philadelphia. Mr. Romero's works include THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LULLABY
YOU'VE EVER HEARD, THE MILKY WAY CABARET, DANDELION MOMMA, THE MISHUMAA, and
THE SHELTER, and have been produced off-off Broadway by City Attic Theatre and
Working Man's Clothes Productions, and across the country by Salvage Vanguard
Theater, Rude Mechanicals Theatre Collective, Theater In My Basement, Specific
Gravity Ensemble, City Theater Company, Little Fish Theatre, and Audacity Productions.
Mr.
Romero has been a semi-finalist for the National Playwright's Conference at
the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, a finalist for the Heideman Award given by
Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award.
His works have been published by Heinemann Press and, soon, by Playscripts,
Inc. Mr. Romero currently works as a Resident Artist for The Cardboard Box Collaborative
and teaches writing at the University of the Arts and the Wilma Theatre.
For
more information on Greg Romero visit his blog... click here.
