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North Shore Readers' Theater Collaborative
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Ron Pullins
311 Merrimac
Newburyport MA 01950
Phone: 978 462 7288
e-mail: pullins (at) pullins (dot) com
Biography
I grew up in the Midwest, but followed a publishing career East.
After working for several major publishing
company, I started my own company, Focus. I and my colleagues at Focus publish a wide
range of books in the humanities, arts and languages, including titles
from Shakespeare, Greek theater, the Dramatist Guild Resource Manual,
and the best guide to English available to the intelligent contemporary
reader, Jack Lynch's "The English
Language, A User's Guide." I have published a novella and stories which
have appeared in Shenandoah, New Laurel Review, the Kansas Review and
other places, but in the last few interests are in theater and I have
written or co-written with my partner, Leslie Powell, plays that have
been produced in Arizona, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and New
York City. This past
summer I attended the Playwrighting Intensive at the Kennedy Center
(D.C.) and I will attend the Great Plains Theatre Conference in the
summer of 2008.
Focus Publishing (www.pullins.com )
is ranked among the top 100 Independent Publishers by Bookmarket. com (John Kremer)
North Shore Readers' Collaborative Theater
The Reader's Collaborative Theater is the joint venture of Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell and Marc Clopton. We are devoted to the advanced development of plays and theater on the North Shore from Boston, Lowell, Durham, Portsmouth, York, and Newburyport. We are currently sponsoring a Saturday Morning series of full plays in the Readers' Theater format, all to take place once a month at Marc Clopton's Actor's Studio at the Tannery in Newburyport. The readings will take place on the second Saturday (after the first Sunday) of each month, with the first to be held September 15 at 10:00. The play will be a reading of ENEMIES OF THE STATE by Ron Pullins. A $7.00 donation is suggested. There will be a talk back following the play. For more information on the Collaborative, go here.
Areas of Artistic Endeavor:
Fiction writing, short
stories, novels, drama.
Publications
Novel
The Boss is Dead, a novella, Focus
Publishing. 2004. For an excerpt, click
here.
Two excerpts from
The Boss is Dead in, 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature,
selected and edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler, Autumn 2007, Smith
and Kraus.
Stories
Sweet Smelling Meat
Shenandoah, William and Mary College, 1972.
Mr. Walking Stick
New Laurel Review, 1972
C.-scape
Kansas Quarterly, 1974.
Two short stories in Food and Other Enemies, edited by Leslie Powell, 2002.
Radio Play
Sweet Smelling Meat, Radio script version of short story, National Public Radio earplay
Full Length Stage Plays
The Boss is Dead
Staged Reading, New Works Festival, Newburyport (MA)
Honorable Mention, American Theater Co-op Fall Original Full Length Play Contest, Fall 2003
Actor's Studio (Newburyport, MA) June 2004.
Ice's Crossing, 2008
As two brothers struggle over the care of their dying mother, the great change occurs.
Readers Theater, North Shore Collaborative, Newburyport MA, April 2008
photo courtesy
©
Brent
Mitchell
Enemies of the State, 2007
The greatest punishments are senseless, and random, and secret. But they
shape the lives of those on whom they have been inflected, as well as on
those who are near to them. And so the secrets emerged on one perfect
weekend in a lovely house that sits on the slope of a mountain in
Colorado. Two couples, anxious for the conversations they would kill
for, sort through the puzzles of things that have gone wrong and the
hidden wounds which have shaped them.
Staged Reading, Shadowboxing, Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston, July 2007
Readers Theater, North Shore Collaborative, Newburyport
MA, September 2007
Great Plains Theater Conference, Concurrent Playlab Reading, May
2008
For a sample scene from this play in
pdf format, click
here.
Short Stage Plays
Mrs. McAlaster's Plot, co-written with Leslie Powell
Belfast (ME) 15 Minute Festival, 2002, Finalist
Mill City Minutes, Lowell, Fall 2006
American Globe, NYC, Turnip Festival, Spring 2008
Movie Mogul in His Mama's Muumuu, co-written with Leslie Powell
Runner Up, Belfast ME 15 Minute Festival, 2003,
Five Sleazy Pieces, Short play review, Player's Ring, Portsmouth NH
Rose Enters the Room
New Works Festival, Newburyport MA 2002
Nailed, co-written with Leslie Powell
Old Pueblo
Playwrights New Works Festival, Tucson Arizona, March 2007.
Ma Ma Mafia, co-written with Michael McKearney
Random Acts (Play in a Day) Festival, Newburyport MA, November 2007
Recyclist
North Shore Reader's Theater, Reading, Newburyport MA, December 2007.
ATHE conference, Denver, 2008, play development workshop, August 2008.
Fort Point Exclamation Point!, Reading, Boston, March 2008
Nothing You Can Say, co-authored with Adair Rowland, Random Acts,
Firehouse Center, Newburyport MA 2006
Acting Lesson #10: The Death Scene, cowritten with Mary H. Frakes,
Random Acts, Newburyport MA, 2004
Other Awards
Caldwell writing award for undergraduates, University of Kansas
Education
University of Kansas, B.A. and M.A. in English.
Participant, Advanced Playwrighting
Intensive, Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, Summer 2007.
Associations and memberships
Association of American Publishers (head of house)
Dramatists Guild, Associate member
Playwrights Platform, Boston
Other related professional experience
Instructor, University of West Virginia (English). Taught composition, freshman / sophomore level literature courses.
Assistant Instructor, University of Kansas (English). Taught composition.
Adjunct Faculty, Northern Essex Community College (English) Taught composition.
Marketing Manager: Macmillan
Publishing, New York
Marketing Manager: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Editor, Addison Wesley, Reading MA
Editor, Little Brown, Boston MA
Editor, West Publishing, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Publisher and founder, Focus Publishing, Newburyport MA