The Playwrights Database
KENNETH TALBERTH
(1956 - )Nationality: USA
email: Click here to contact Website: Click here
Literary Agent: n/a
KENNETH TALBERTH is playwright, actor, director and stage manager from New York City where he has appeared in productions of King Lear, Dr. Faustus, The Beggar's Opera, Antigone, The Winter's Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry IV Part 1 and After the Rain, among others. He has directed productions of Home Free, Twelfth Night and The Acoustics in New York, has stage managed a tour of Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and staged the 60's/70's musical revue Daydream Believer both in London and in New York. Mr. Talberth has also staged, managed and directed large-scale special events including Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza (both as Senior Production Manager) and Macy's Santaland (as Christmas Coordinator for Herald Square) and the Welcome Back to Brooklyn: On the Waterfront Festival (as Event Director). Originally from Boston, Mr. Talberth holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University School of the Arts where he had the privilege of personally studying with the legendary Stella Adler for four years. He has written a variety of event, celebration and ceremony scripts as well as the brief plays D.V.D.and Minutes of a Meeting and the full-length works Millennium Men and Traveling for the theater. Mr. Talberth is a member of the Dramatists Guild, as well as Actors Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Kenneth Talberth's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
TravelingTraveling
Synopsis:
Winston Lambert was a renowned dancer and choreographer. Now, at 55, he is ill and spends most of his time at home. Tyler Morrison is 21, an elite dance student with enormous promise and Winston's live-in lover. As Winston travels towards the sunset of his life, he begins to ask the hard questions of himself. Tyler, noticing that Winston has been a bit preoccupied with his past, though unaware of the seriousness of the situation, decides to locate someone special from those salad days and arrange a visit to cheer Winston up and provide a bit of distraction during his supposed recovery period. Enter Benjamin Cain, Winston's first love and college roommate. It is a precious, fun and memory-filled reunion visit, but Benjamin's continued presence in their lives, as well as his own personal agenda, threaten Winston and Tyler's relationship and forces all three men to examine the fine line between the embrace and comfort of memories and the danger of living in the past and relying on illusion to avoid the future.
Notes:
The fourth character is called The Dancer. He is powerful, graceful, skilled and electric. He performs at various moments throughout the play, but never speaks. He is visible only to the character Winston.
1st Produced:
[reading] Playroom Theater in New York City
02 Feb 2015
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Gay, theme/character, full length
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page