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Play by Dayton native tops Futurefest
“Night and Fog,” a post-World War II drama by M.J. Feeley of Los Angeles, captured the $1,000 first prize at Futurefest on Sunday, July 26, at the Dayton Playhouse.
A panel of adjudicators voted it the best of six new plays produced during the 19th annual new play festival.
Born in Dayton, Feely attended St. Albert the Great and Incarnation schools and was graduated from Alter High School in 1969. His father was editor of the “Young Catholic Messenger,” which had offices at Fifth and Ludlow streets.
He has has written 20 plays. One of them, “Bookends,” was a finalist in the 2006 Futurefest and had a professional production in Philadelphia last year.
This year’s festival was heavy on drama. Many who have attended previous Futurefests rated the quality of scripts as high. They were chosen from 200 submissions from all over the country.
Other finalists were: “Darkroom,” by Devon Boan; “A Snake That Eats Itself,” by Chad Baker of Beavercreek, a student at DePaul University; “G-Man,” by Rosemary Frisino Toohey; “Quietus,” by Richard Manley, and “Carve,” by Molly Smith Metzler. “Quietus” and “Carve” also received strong adjudications.
Festival director Fran Pesch said the people’s choice, based on audience balloting, will be announced later.
Feely said he has done drama everywhere from “my garage to professional Equity productions. My best experience in the theater, bar none, has been right here at Futurefest both times. Keep picking my plays because I want to keep coming back.”
“Night and Fog” was co-directed by Saul Caplan and Deirdre Root. The cast included David Shough as journalist Kevin Riley and Charles Larkowski as Ernst von Helldorf, with Geoff Burkman, Jennie Yeaman, K.L. Storer, Megan Cooper, Cheryl Mellen and Brad Mattingly.
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