Staci Swedeen
Playwright, Author, Actor

PERFORMANCE

Friday, February 5th, 7:30 pm FULL BUCK MOON
A staged reading of a new play by Staci Swedeen, the author and actress of last season's hit "Pardon Me for Living". $10 general admission.

When Jill hits a deer on her honeymoon her nightmare begins – especially when the deer turns into a Buck impaled on her windshield. Jill and Richard must deal with the funny, frightening consequences and in the process explore the question - is there anything scarier than getting married? A Q&A follows with the playwright, director and actors. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli

HUDSON STAGE is happy to present the following performances. Please mark your calendars and join us as we celebrate our ongoing 11th season which began with the critically acclaimed powerful drama, "Rabbit Hole". All performances are at Woodward Hall Theatre, Pace University, 235 Elm Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY.

www.hudsonstage.com or call the HSC hotline at 914-271-2811 for more info.

January 20 and 21, 2010 - 8 PM
Theatre 4: Acting Out
Site-Specific Tiny Plays at Lena’s Cafe in New Haven

Theatre 4: Acting Out Four regional playwrights take on the same challenge–write a new short play that happens in a New Haven setting—this time it’s Lena’s Café and Confections in Westville. This evening of new theatre with music will feature the core company members of Theatre 4 as well as other local professional theatre artists. Doors open at Lena’s Café at 7 pm for drinks and tapas. Performance begins at 8 pm and is free with donations appreciated.

Seating is first come, first served. Lena’s Café is located at 873 Whalley Ave, New Haven, CT. Free parking behind the restaurant.

Playwrights:
George Brant, Rosemary Foley, Jack Rushen, and Staci Swedeen
For more information: http:/​/​www.t4ct.org

Sunday, January 24, 2:00 p.m.

THEATRE
Pardon Me for Living: A Biting Comedy
Playwright and actor Staci Swedeen recounts her true story about an encounter with a rabid raccoon. Part Woody Allen, part Stephen King, Pardon Me for Living is a dark, hilarious and heartbreaking journey into the human condition. This one-woman play is written and performed by Staci Swedeen and directed by Yvonne Conybeare.

One performance only; free and open to the public.

Croton Free Library
171 Cleveland Drive
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
914-271-6612
www.crotonfreelibrary.org

FALL EATFEST - EAT IN BED

8 PLAYS!!!

SERIES B

November 11th – 22nd
Thursdays at 7:00 pm
Saturdays at 5:30 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm




including
There’s No Zombies Like Show Zombies
by Staci Swedeen / directed by Molly Marinik
with Vinnie Costa*, Lee Kaplan*, Lue McWilliams* and Matt Stapleton
TADA! Theatre
15 West 28th Street 2nd Floor Btn 5th/Bdwy
Tickets are $18 adults / $12 student rush/seniors
www.emergingartiststheatre.org
or by phone: (800) 838-3006

“Full Buck Moon” to rise again!
2009 November 11 at STORYSLAM - Charlotte, NC

Some of the city’s most talented actors are on stage Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14, at Story Slam for the second week of “Full Buck Moon” by Staci Swedeen.

Doors open @​ 7 p.m.; Performance @​ 8 p.m. Tickets: advance: $10; door: $14.

The cast includes Jon Parker Douglas, Caroline Bower and Philip Sprinkle, who are all making their Story Slam debut.

Douglas and Parker are fresh from their roles in Children’s Theatre’s lauded production of “Beauty and the Beast.” They also played the all-American couple in Actor’s Theatre production of “Evil Dead: The Musical.” Sprinkle is veteran of the Charlotte theater scene. He worked with Randell Haynes at Moving Poets, where Sprinkle played key roles in “Salame” and “Dracula.”

September 12 at 4 and 8 PM
Penguin Repertory Theatre
Pardon Me For Living: a true comic nightmare
For more information or to order tickets:
www.penguinrep.org

At The Lark Theatre - May 12
A roundtable reading of FULL BUCK MOON

When Jill hits a deer on her honeymoon her nightmare begins. Jill and Richard must deal with the funny, frightening consequences and in the process explore the question - is there anything scarier than getting married? Liaison: David Chapman
www.larktheatre.org

Drunken! Careening! Writers!
"Speak the speech trippingly..."

Jami Attenberg
The Bitter Poet (Kevin Draine)
Staci Swedeen

And your hostess
Kathleen Warnock

Thursday, March 19
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
www.kgbbar.com
7pm FREE!

Jan 16, 2009
New River Dramatists in association with
The Players Second Wednesday Workshop
presents a festival of new plays. All readings are FREE at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park, on East 20th Street (east of Park Avenue). For reservations call 212-475-6116. Plays include:

Making Her Moan by Staci Swedeen
with Dominic Chianese, Anne O'Sullivan and Ann Talman
Friday, January 16 @​ 7:30 pm

Why does aging have to mean the end of passion? It doesn’t in this new dramatic comedy by the acclaimed playwright of The Goldman Project and winner of the Arts & Letters Prize in Drama, a New York State Council for the Arts grant and an Ensemble Studio Theatre/​Sloan Foundation commission. "What's strongest about Swedeen's play is its engaging mixture of sentiment, sadness and hilarity. Swedeen has a strong comic voice." (The Miami Herald on Three Forks)

January 23 and 24 at 8 PM
PARDON ME FOR LIVING
at The Pepsico Theater at Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
Reservations: 203-254-4000 XT 2274 tickets $5.00



January 8, 2009

6:00PM BEST MEN'S MONOLOGUES
Hosted by Bob Shuman and Robin Goldfin

The Cornelia Street Café ? 29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 ? 212-989-9319

Celebrating the publication of ONE on ONE: THE BEST MEN'S MONOLOGUES FOR THE 21st CENTURY, (Applause Books) edited by Joyce E. Henry, Rebecca Dunn Jaroff and Bob Shuman, please join us for an evening of spectacular monologues!
Actors and Writers will be performing the work of: *STACI SWEDEEN *DAVID SIMPATICO *DAVID RIMMER *KATHLEEN WARNOCK *FRANK GAGLIANO *BOB SHUMAN *ROBIN GOLDFIN *ANDY BRAGEN *JUNE RIFKIN

Cover $7 (includes one house drink)


Art imitates life in a biting comedy
November 7 2008

A quote from poet John Berryman inspired writer and actress Staci Swedeen: “The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.”
“It’s an understatement to say that I’ve been in business,” Swedeen says. “Baby, I’ve been in business!”
In 2003, Swedeen was coming home from running errands when she was bitten by a rabid raccoon in front of her Sleepy Hollow home. She captures the event and its aftermath with comedic flair in “Pardon Me for Living,” her one-woman show on stage for the next two Sundays at Hudson Stage Company in Briarcliff Manor.
“It’s my version of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ but instead of ‘through the rabbit hole,’ it’s ‘through the rabid raccoon hole,’” she jokes.
Don’t suggest that the storytelling experience might be helping Swedeen deal with the trauma.
“I’m Scandinavian,” she deadpans. “We don’t believe in cathartic experiences. Listen to Garrison Keillor. We’re not about catharsis. We are about telling a story.”
And tell it she does.
Performances of “Pardon Me for Living” are Nov. 9 and 16 at 7 p.m. at Woodward Hall 235 Elm Road, Briarcliff Manor. $20. Call Smarttix at 877-238-5596. Hudsonstage.com. (See video of “Pardon Me for Living” at www.staciswedeen.com.)

This entry was posted on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am by Peter D. Kramer. Journal News Theatre Editor


Staci Swedeen’s NEXT! is part of the Fall EATfest 2008 - Emerging Artist’s Theatre festival of short new plays. At the Roy Arias Theatre Center at West 43rd and 8th Avenue. It runs November 4 - 16, 2008. For more information: eatheatre.org.

Review at:
http:/​/​www.broadwayworld.com/​article/​2008_Fall_EATfest_Series_A_20010101