{"id":19,"date":"2015-04-29T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2015-10-07T03:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T03:23:32","slug":"chesley-chambers-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/chesley-chambers-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesley Chambers Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"203\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/chesley-chambers-series\/chesley-chambers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers.jpg?fit=584%2C877\" data-orig-size=\"584,877\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chesley-Chambers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers.jpg?fit=200%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers.jpg?fit=584%2C877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Chesley-Chambers\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chesley-Chambers.jpg?w=584 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Robert Chesley \/ Jane Chambers Playwrights Project is a forum for playwrights to have their work presented to an invited audience.<\/p>\n<p>No staging.<br \/>\nNo Q and A.<br \/>\nJust an opportunity for playwrights to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers a chance to look at plays from the past in an attempt to keep our heritage alive.<\/p>\n<p>The series honors Jane Chambers (1937-83) and Robert Chesley (1943-90) \u2013 arguably two of the most original and impassioned voices to contribute to our theatrical heritage.<\/p>\n<p>TOSOS would also like to acknowledge the generous support of <a href=\"http:\/\/dgfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dramatists Guild Fund<\/a>\u00a0whose support through the Theater Grant makes this series possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/\/contact\/\">Contact Us<\/a> to acquire scripts of these plays or to pose any question to Kathleen Warnock, the series producer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Upcoming Chesley\/Chambers Readings<\/h3>\n<p><strong>November 9<\/strong>: J. Stephen Brantley&#8217;s <em>Billy Baal<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>December 7<\/strong>: Chris Weikel&#8217;s <em>Nellie<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Past Chesley\/Chambers Playwrights<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Swan Adamson<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0<em>The Dads Try to Get Married<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Kathy Anderson<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<em>Incoming<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Virginia Baeta<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Damaged Goods<\/em>(2015)<br \/>\n<strong>Leslie Bramm<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0 <em>The Minute Man<\/em>(2013)<br \/>\n<strong>J. Stephen Brantley<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0<em>The Jamb<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Brofsky<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<em>Dancing Straight<\/em>, <em>Tops and Bottoms<\/em> &amp; <em>Hurricane Damage<\/em>(2015)<br \/>\n<strong>Victor Bumbalo<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Questa<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jane Chambers<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<em>My Blue Heaven<\/em>(2013)<br \/>\n<strong>Robert Chesley<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0<em>Stray Dog Story<\/em>(2013)\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Meryl Cohn<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<em>Almost Home<\/em>, <em>And Sophie Comes Too<\/em> &amp; <em>Insatiable Hunger<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Constance Congdon<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Dog Opera<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Josh Conkel<\/strong> \u2014 <em>I Wanna Destroy You<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Fiona Coyne<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Careful<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Bob Cruz<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Schadenfreude!<\/em> &amp; <em>The Writers Block<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Emma Donoghue<\/strong> \u2014 <em>I Know My Own Heart<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Linda Eisenstein<\/strong> \u2014 <em>That Was No Lady from the Sea!<\/em> &amp; <em>Zombie Grrrlz from the Crypt<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Lisa Ferber<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Penny&#8217;s One Date<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Steven Fales<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Missionary Position<\/em> &amp; <em>Who\u2019s Your Daddy?<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Mark Finley<\/strong> \u2014<em> Christmas Moon<\/em>, <em>The Chiselers<\/em>, <em>Forever Under<\/em>, <em>How Do We Get Her in the Water?<\/em> &amp; <em>The Mermaid<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>The Five Lesbian Brothers<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Secretaries<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Carolyn Gage<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Countess and the Lesbians<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Joe Godfrey<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Winter Cruise<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jewelle Gomez<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Waiting for Giovanni<\/em>(2013)<br \/>\n<strong>Donnetta Lavinia Grays<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The B Factor<\/em> &amp; <em>The Review: Or How to Eat Your Enemy<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Hector Lugo<\/strong> \u2014 <em>La Tosca&#8230;!<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Georgette Kelley<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 <em>Ballast<\/em>(2015)<br \/>\n<strong>Charles Ludlam<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Caprice<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jimmy Maize<\/strong> \u2014 <em>In One Room<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>L. Jay Meyer<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Minor Victories<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tim Mullaney<\/strong> \u2014 <em>What to Say (Glass Houses)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Nick Mwaluko<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Waafrika<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Bob Ost<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Breeders<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>David Parr<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Slap &amp; Tickle<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Nicholas A. Patricca<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Robert Patrick<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Hollywood at Sunset<\/em>, <em>The Haunted Host<\/em> &amp; <em>Sound<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Felice Picano<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Bombay Trunk<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Robbie Robertson<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Revival<\/em>(2014),<em>Satan in High Heels<\/em>(2013)<br \/>\n<strong>Garet Scott<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Roll with the Punches<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Alisha Silver<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Golden<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Daniel Talbott<\/strong> \u2014<em> Slipping<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ron Tavel<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Kitchenette<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Vanda<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Screaming in the Wilderness<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Bruce Ward<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Fabulous Ride into the Unknown<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Kathleen Warnock<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Audience<\/em>, <em>Outlook<\/em> &amp; <em>The Further Adventures of\u2026<\/em>(2014)<br \/>\n<strong>Chris Weikel<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Making it up as We Go Along<\/em>, <em>Speaking Parts<\/em>, <em>Dansport<\/em>, <em>Pig Tale, an Urban Faerie Story<\/em>, <em>Provenance<\/em> &amp; <em>Secret Identity<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tennessee Williams<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Clothes for a Summer Hotel<\/em> and <em>The Parade or Approaching the End of a Summer<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Doric Wilson<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Boy Next Door<\/em>, <em>Forever After<\/em>, <em>Now She Dances!<\/em> &amp; <em>The West Street Gang<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Lanford Wilson<\/strong> \u2014 <em>Say De Kooning<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The Robert Chesley \/ Jane Chambers Playwrights Project is a forum for playwrights to have their work presented to an invited audience. No staging. No Q and A. Just an opportunity for playwrights to be heard. It also offers a chance to look at plays from the past in an attempt to keep our heritage alive. The series honors Jane&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/chesley-chambers-series\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp_tosos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}