{"id":252,"date":"2009-01-03T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2022-07-15T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:44:08","slug":"reading-of-new-bittrich-play-healer-at-the-drilling-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/reading-of-new-bittrich-play-healer-at-the-drilling-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading of New Bittrich Play \u2013 \u201cHealer\u201d \u2013 at The Drilling Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brand new full-length play, <em><strong>Healer<\/strong><\/em>, will be presented as a semi-staged reading on January 6th at 78th Street Theatre Lab by <a title=\"The Drilling Company\" href=\"http:\/\/drillingcompany.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Drilling Company<\/a>. <em><strong>Healer<\/strong><\/em> was the first expansion of Drill Co.&#8217;s &#8220;Discovery Series&#8221; model (this expansion was originally suggested by me incidentally), which takes a play in its infancy (or various stages of development) and puts it through a series of weekly rehearsals with actors and a director, culminating in a reading of a new draft (or sometimes a first draft) of the play for an audience in a theatre.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <em><strong>Healer<\/strong><\/em>, the play started as 22 pages of new material in late November of &#8217;08 and after 5 consecutive weeks of meetings and a little holiday break for the playwright to finish the play, a solid draft of a brand new full-length was created! The workshop was directed by Rob A. Wilson. I must say, this was the most fun I ever had writing a play. Much less isolating to work with other creative people during the writing process. I&#8217;ll always do it this way in future if I can. This play is dedicated to my buddy, Lisa Peart. &nbsp;Below is the postcard that we made for the project, followed by a rehearsal photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HealerPostcard850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" alt=\"HealerPostcard850\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HealerPostcard850.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HealerPostcard850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HealerPostcard850-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HealerPostcard850-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/healer01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\" wp-image-253\" alt=\"healer01\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/healer01.jpg\" width=\"692\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/healer01.jpg 692w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/healer01-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/healer01-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Apps and Lisa Peart rehearsing for the Discovery Series reading of HEALER by Stephen Bittrich.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_89\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healer03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\" wp-image-89\" alt=\"healer03\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healer03.jpg\" width=\"692\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healer03.jpg 692w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healer03-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healer03-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Feltner, William Apps, Dan Teachout, Rob A. Wilson and Meghan McGeary<br \/>rehearsing for the Discovery Series reading of HEALER by Stephen Bittrich.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brand new full-length play, Healer, will be presented as a semi-staged reading on January 6th at 78th Street Theatre Lab by The Drilling Company. Healer was the first expansion of Drill Co.&#8217;s &#8220;Discovery Series&#8221; model (this expansion was originally&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/reading-of-new-bittrich-play-healer-at-the-drilling-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,183,5],"tags":[26,31,50,399,187,53,189,190,16,18,42,49,25,9,188],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catch-my-show","category-full-length-play","category-healer","category-theatre","tag-dan-teachout","tag-drilling-company","tag-full-length","tag-healer","tag-jordan-feltner","tag-lisa-peart","tag-meghan-mcgeary","tag-miraculous-healing","tag-new-york-city","tag-off-off-broadway","tag-playwright","tag-reading","tag-rob-a-wilson","tag-stephen-bittrich","tag-william-apps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Healer_banner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}