Throughout the day, the artists will present their pieces in the Beerfly Alleyfight boxing ring. Some of the artists included this year are Drinking & Writing’s Carolyn Benjamin and Jamie Budzick, Factory Theater’s Corbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny, The Neo-Futurist’s Lily Mooney, and Bruised Orange’s Kim Boler and Kevin Alves. A Short History of the Drinking & Writing Theater
The Drinking & Writing Theater was founded in 2002 after Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda had great success with their site-specific show Drinking & Writing. Since then there have been five volumes of Drinking & Writing performed in bars and theaters all over the U.S. and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Drinking & Writing Theater has also spawned The Drinking & Writing Radio Show on WLUW 88.7FM, the Beerfly Alleyfight, The Drinking & Writing Festival, and the Tied House Film Festival. Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda also created the documentary The Western Avenue Project (a 4 day hike up the entire length of Western Avenue, the longest continuous street in North America, with a pint in every bar). Recent theater productions include BEER, To Cure A Hangover, A Beer Carol, God vs. Hall & Oates, Barnstormers, American Variety 1 and 2 (written by Carolyn Benjamin and Alison Connelly), and The Brewprints part 1: 40 Scenes on Hops, The Earliest Known Photo of Men Drinking Beer (written by Sean Benjamin), Brechtoberfest, and Pseudo-Chum (written by Sean and Carolyn Benjamin). Drinking & Writing’s newest show Vs. is currently running at The Drinking & Writing Theater until May 2, 2015.
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