  {"id":64138,"date":"2017-08-31T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=64138"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T22:54:16","slug":"robert-st-john-out-loud-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/robert-st-john-out-loud-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning playwright Robert St. John at Out Loud in the Library!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_64143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64143\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/windward-outloud-library-st.john_.jpg\" alt=\"John with his dog on his lap\" width=\"250\" height=\"335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/windward-outloud-library-st.john_.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/windward-outloud-library-st.john_-194x260.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert <abbr title=\"Saint\">St.<\/abbr> John and Abe. Photo credit: April Jesse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Out Loud in the Library! at <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> presents a reading of <em>Saving Mofo<\/em>&#8212;a new play by award-winning playwright Robert <abbr title=\"Saint\">St.<\/abbr> John&#8212;on Thursday, September 14, 5:30&#8211;7 p.m. at Hale <span aria-label=\"Laakea\">La&#699;akea<\/span> Library on the Windward campus. The reading is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saving Mofo<\/em> explores the adventures of Rachel, a young woman with a lot to prove. Her first day at her new job comes with several surprises, but she\u2019s up for it. In fact, she shows up early to make a good first impression. But a lot can go wrong in a pet store. The business has sides to it which Rachel knows nothing about. She thought she would be handling kittens and puppies, but &ldquo;Fins and Feathers&rdquo; isn\u2019t that kind of store. And the lessons of the job are not the ones she expected. And neither are the animals she is expected to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Out Loud in the Library! is a literary and music event celebrating the rich intersection of words and music by local artists, and is meant to inspire and encourage students and community members to find their own creative voice through writing, reading, poetry, music and spoken word.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saving Mofo<\/em> will be read by actors Nicolas Logue, Daniel A. Kelin <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr>, Kevin Keaveney, Walt Gaines, Claire Edwards and others.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the featured artists<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Robert <abbr>St.<\/abbr> John<\/strong><br \/>\n<abbr>St.<\/abbr> John has been teaching theatre and writing original plays with students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lejardinacademy.org\/\">Le Jardin Academy<\/a> since 1990. In 2014, he won a national teaching grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aate.com\/\">American Alliance for Theater and Education<\/a> (AATE). He has an <abbr title=\"Master of Fine Arts\">MFA<\/abbr> in creative writing from the University of Oregon and has helped to organize student play writing events with <abbr title=\"The Actors Group\">TAG<\/abbr>, PlayBuilders <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> and Honolulu Theater for Youth. <em>Saving Mofo<\/em> won the Best Play Award at the PlayBuilders PlayFestival earlier this year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicolas Logue<\/strong><br \/>\nLogue is an assistant professor of theatre at Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>, as well as an accomplished game designer, Asian theatre director and fight choreographer. He received a special recognition at the PlayBuilders PlayFestival this year for his portrayal of the foul-mouthed parrot &ldquo;Mofo&rdquo; in <em>Saving Mofo<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel A. Kelin <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr><\/strong><br \/>\nKelin has been the director of drama education at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htyweb.org\/\">Honolulu Theater for Youth<\/a> since 1987. He is a past president of <abbr title=\"American Alliance for Theater and Education\">AATE<\/abbr> and has won numerous teaching and acting awards as well as awards for his plays and books about teaching theatre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Keaveney<\/strong><br \/>\nKeaveney is an award-winning local actor and director. He has played lead roles in several local comic and dramatic productions and is the founder and artistic director of the Kailua Onstage Arts Theatre. Keaveney is currently creating a new, original play festival for windward residents. He is a graduate of Yale University.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Walt Gaines<\/strong><br \/>\nGaines is a theatre instructor at Le Jarden Academy.\u00a0He holds an <abbr title=\"Master of Fine Arts\">MFA<\/abbr> in ensemble theatre from the Dell&#8217;Arte School of Physical Theatre and an <abbr title=\"Master of Arts\">MA<\/abbr> in theatre from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.\u00a0He has worked with students for years to create original and devised works of theatre.\u00a0Gaines has appeared on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> 5-0 and in numerous local theatre productions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maile Holck<\/strong><br \/>\nHolck has been a Honolulu Theatre for Youth company member for nine years. She\u00a0has worked in theatre nationally and internationally. Holck\u00a0holds a <abbr title=\"Bachelor of Arts\">BA<\/abbr> in theatre arts from the University of Northern Colorado and an <abbr title=\"Master of Fine Arts\">MFA<\/abbr> in acting from the University of Washington.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Claire Edwards<\/strong><br \/>\nEdwards is a senior theatre student at Le Jardin Academy and an award-winning playwright. She will be reading the role of &ldquo;Rachel,&rdquo; the young protagonist in <em>Saving Mofo<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, contact English instructor and Out Loud in the Library! coordinator <strong>Susan <abbr>St.<\/abbr> John<\/strong> via <a href=\"mailto:susankcl@hawaii.edu\">email<\/a> or call at (808) 236-9226.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Bonnie Beatson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meant to inspire students creativity through writing, reading, poetry and music, Out Loud in the Library celebrates the rich intersection of words and music by local artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[207,130,66],"class_list":["post-64138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-library","tag-theatre","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64138"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112897,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions\/112897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}