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Father Mike

Part of the New American Playwrights Project
By TJ Edwards
Directed by Charles Metten

August 14, 15, 28, 2008 • 10 a.m.

In the Auditorium Theatre

Father Mike is a gentle nostalgic comedy that takes place in 1955 in the home of a proud Catholic family, the Francises. Mother and father are doing their best to be devout in an age of change. However, rapidly churning social forces hedge them in. When their only son announces that he may leave the seminary because he’s fallen in love, one daughter announces plans to elope, and a second daughter considers breaking off an engagement, the home is turned upside down. The family comically struggles with questions of faith, change, and love in an innocent American era.

About the Playwright

TJ Edwards is a playwright and actor living in New York where he is an acting company member at the Pearl Theatre, an off-Broadway classical theatre company. His plays have been performed in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and London. He has garnered two Helen Hayes Awards for playwriting for his New York Mets and National Defense. His play Mike’s Lunch was a finalist in both the Midwest Playlabs and Eugene O’Neill Festival. Also a journalist, Edwards has freelanced for The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and City Paper. As an actor, he has performed in over 100 regional theatre productions at theatres such as The Denver Center Theatre, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre, The Missouri Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the Shakespeare Theatre among others.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The plays in this series are written for contemporary adult audiences and may occasionally contain themes and language not appropriate for children and that some may find offensive.