Woodlands Teacher Will Have Plays Performed at New York Festival

Doug DuBrin, a Highland Park resident and chair of the Department of English of Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, will have two of his plays featured as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City this summer.

The first, The Dead for Breakfast: A War Comedy in Two Acts (directed by Dan Swern), is scheduled for six performances at The Davenport Theatre: 8:30 p.m. on July 13, 16 and 24, 2:30 p.m. on July 26 and 6:30 p.m. on both July 29 and 30.

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The second, Intestinal Pulchritude: A Gut-Cleansing Love Tale (directed by Constantine Tariloff) is slated for three performances, a 7:30 on July 29, 8:30 on July 31 and 4 p.m. on August 2.

DuBrin’s involvement with the fest began last summer with his one-act play Saganaki Serenade alongside his entry into the “short-play lab,”Check Mates. In the October short-play lab, DuBrin had two selections produced, The Data Bank and The Lethe-Wards of Calista. The latter also received a staged reading this past November as part of the Writers’ Series of Chicago’s AstonRep Theatre Company.