Scripts & Sips
A Playreading Series
November 16
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Scripts & Sips
November 16 / 3:00 PM
Join us on November 16th at 3:00PM for the next installment of our Scripts & Sips Playreading Series. A casual, fun, immersive afternoon giving audience members a taste of the creative process in bringing new work to life. Enjoy themed cocktails and mocktails, complimentary light bites, and a post-show panel discussion with the writer, director, and cast.
This program is supported in part by the Community Arts Grant from the City of Burbank.
Stay tuned for our 2025 script announcement!
"What Doesn't Kill You Hurts You Longer" Logline:
Months before their 60th anniversary, a Burbank couple hits a rough patch, leaving their actor son to mediate in this comical battle over life, death, and the fervent pursuit of immortality.
Steve Apostolina Bio:
Steve is a writer/actor/director and a long time Burbank resident. As a playwright: 2025 “Hold Up the Sun” - Semi-Finalist at Premiere Stages, “Jar of Lightning” - Finalist at The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, “A Gentle Lift” was produced by EDP. “Killer” - Finalist at Ashland NPF 2023, Semi-Finalist at Premiere Stages 2023 and Winner of The Julie Harris 2022 Playwriting Competition. Other plays: Derelict in Fairville, Broken, Forever Bound and Flight of the Penguin. Ovation Award Nomination (Forever Bound), Dramalogue Award and LA Weekly nomination (Flight of the Penguin), Labute New Theatre Festival (2 time finalist) New Jersey Rep Festival finalist (Embroiled) and the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (2 time Finalist). Forever Bound, after a critical successful run in LA starring French Stewart, subsequently had a reading in NYC for Williamstown Theatre Festival with Amanda Seyfried and Tommy Sadoski. You can find his acting and voiceover credits on IMDB. "This reading is dedicated to my wife, Karen Apostolina, who has shared a life with me these past thirty years and has given us the most amazing son, Nicholas. Also to my parents Helen and James Apostolina who gave me some of the lines you'll hear performed at Scripts & Sips. I'm a very lucky man."