'Windowmen' awarded Outstanding New Script at last night's Norties

Ryan Landry presents the award for Outstanding New Script to Steven Barkhimer

Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees at last night's Elliot Norton Awards, but especially to Steven Barkhimer, whose Windowmen was awarded Outstanding New Script! Windowmen lead Alex Pollock received the Outstanding Actor award in the Small or Fringe category for his performance...and also for his stage turns in Company One's The Flick and Gloucester Stage Company's This Is Our Youth.

Alumni news, in brief:

The Accident

The nominations for this year's Elliot Norton Awards include nods to Steven Barkhimer (Windowmen) and Peter M. Floyd (Absence) in the Best New Script category. Windowmen is also nominated in the Outstanding Production, Outstanding Ensemble, and Outstanding Design categories; Alex Pollock is also nominated for his performance in Windowmen...

Ronan Noone's short film The Accident (based on his ten-minute play I Glue You and starring Mary McCann and Andrew Rothenberg, above) was an official selection for the Boston International Film Festival earlier this month, and is also an official selection for the Montclair Film Festival next month...

'Windowmen' wins IRNE for Best New Play

Congratulations to all of last night's IRNE winners and nominees, but especially to Steven Barkhimer, whose Windowmen won Best New Play in the Small/Fringe Company category! (Photo: Christopher McKenzie via Instagram)

Final weekend of Windowmen

Demonio does not want you to miss Windowmen! The final weekend of performances starts tonight. A limited number of tickets are still available here and on Goldstar.com. Hope to see you!

Thanks for stopping by the booth

If you've come to see our production of Steven Barkhimer's Windowmen (which runs one more weekend!), you've encountered these friendly faces in the ticket booth: current MFA playwrights Abbey Fenbert (L) and Stephanie Brownell (R). Last weekend they told me they plan to collaborate on a play about their box office experience...Window Women! (Or should it be Windowwomen?)

Good one, guys. Start writing!

Foxhole camaraderie and mid-night dealings

Steven Barkhimer

I’ve confessed elsewhere that I only began writing Windowmen because I needed some speakable dialogue for a playwriting class and had grown tired of some of my oh-so-original ideas for plays. So I decided to write down a few anecdotes about these guys I worked with at the Fulton Fish Market shortly after I graduated college. I was impressed not only by their dedication to the tough-guy persona, but by their awareness that it WAS a persona, one they relished and wore with gusto. They were self-consciously macho, blisteringly and relentlessly vulgar, fiercely funny, and displayed a kind of foxhole camaraderie amid the mad mid-night dealings that took place when the market was in full swing at 4 a.m. Most of all, however, I was impressed by their spontaneous and utterly immediate wit, making hilarious remarks and sometimes dangerous decisions that could never have been pre-planned. Thus, despite its being a fictional work, the best stuff in the play is stuff I could never have invented. I found myself laughing out loud as I wrote. 

Checking in on Fulton Fish

This is the Windowmen set about a week ago. (Here's an earlier update.)

Talkin' To: Steven Barkhimer

Steven Barkhimer talks about his play Windowmen -- which opens next week -- in the latest video from superstar intern Alexis Scheer.

Fulton Fish in the back theatre

Anthony Phelps' set model for Steven Barkhimer's Windowmen (which opens in previews on Halloween) and building progress over the past week or so...