Annual Playwrights Festival Showcases Mark Lambeck's Work

During “Tribal Humor 5, “presented by The Temple Players Theatre Company on June 23 and June 26, Mark Lambeck of Stratford will direct “Learning Experience at ElderHostel.”

The comic tale was written by John Donnelly of Portland, Ore.

“It’s a very funny story about two senior citizens on a retreat who realize that the other has had an affair during the marriage,” Lambeck explains. “The husband’s affair occurred years before. The wife’s affair occurred at the beginning of the retreat. It’s a 10-minute story that takes you from revelation to reconciling.”

Lambeck, who is the artistic director of Temple Players, helped to found the organization about about 14 years ago.

He is a director, producer, and sometime actor. “But I am primarily a playwright,” he says.

His works have been presented throughout Connecticut including at The Warner Studio Theatre (Torrington), The Little Theatre (New Haven), Playhouse on the Green (Bridgeport), and Eastbound Theatre (Milford).

His New York City credits include The Pulse Ensemble Theatre, American Globe Theatre, Genesis Rep, and others.

A resident playwright of the Stratford-based SquareWrights and Manhattan-based Emerging Artists Theatre Company, he has directed with SquareWrights, the Oronoque Reader’s Theatre, and the Greenwich House Theatre in New York’s Greenwich Village.

His plays, “Countdown to 40” and “Bus Stories” are available at www.amazon.com. His plays "October People" and "Intervention" are in an anthology of Best 10-Minute Plays published by Smith & Kraus, and "Lucky Day" was published by United Stages Publishers.

In August, he will be among the producers and directors involved in the Stratford Theater Festival.

For more information about the Tribal Humor 5 festival, .

Editor's note: This is the sixth and final in a series of features on the "Tribal 5 Humor" festival.