Alley Stage Reading Series: One Time by Richard Conlon

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Sometimes it takes a lifetime of stories to tell the story of a lifetime. Unrequited love, religious epiphanies, posing in the nude, an abusive marriage, and the secret powers of nuns … these are just some of the stories Sonia and Mason tell each other from their individual lives. Now, can they complete the story of a common past they once shared more than three decades earlier? Richard Conlon is a proud Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild and Resident Playwright Alum at Chicago Dramatists where his social satire, 7 Minutes to Live, received an extended-run world premiere last August. Kerry Reid of the Chicago Reader called it: “Highly entertaining, funny, sexy, action-packed” with “whip-smart dialogue” and “the edgy, high-talent ingredients Chicago storefront theatre is famous for.” He is an O’Neill Semi-Finalist, and was selected as a 2020 Kennedy Center Playwright. Richard’s work has won several awards and been published by Next Stage Press, Eldridge Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Flowersong Press. His sci-fi play Memory, Speak was produced in April in Otherworld Theatre’s Paragon Festival in Chicago. Earlier this year, he was selected to create a new play as part of “Uncovered Scenes from Ukraine”. The play, A Harvest Truth, was awarded The Vinnytsia Citation by the Festival Producer and Ukrainian Jurors.