Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets returns for a special Valentine’s Weekend edition at West of Lenin theatre in Fremont as the World’s Greatest Literary Boxing Match of the Year takes on literally the most fearsome tropic to face mankind – Love and Sex.

Like a boxing match, playwrights and poets are paired off, given a prompt to write toward, and then the acting company performs the plays and poems produced in a series of seven rounds with the audience voting on who wins each round – playwright or poet.

At the end of the weekend, the winning team of writers each wins a bottle of Two-Buck-Chuck while each member of the losing team wins a can of warm Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. So there are no losers in Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets! Everybody is a winner!

Playwrights - Jose Amador, Jessica Andrewartha, Heidi Heimarck, Joshua Jon, Scotto Moore, JC Pankratz, and Daniel Tarker

Poets –  Daemond Arrindell, Kris Hall, Chelsea Kurnick, Triston McAvoy, Amber Nelson, Imani Sims and Jeremy Springsteed 

Actors - Michael Blackwood. Patty Bonnell, Terry Boyd, Gretchen Douma, Brent Griffith, D’Arcy Harrison, David Hsieh, Fox Rain Matthews, Skye Stephenson, Christine Shaw White, Lyam White, Chip Wood , and Mahria Zook

Visual Artists -  Laura Antone, MO Anoun, Paul Bestock, Kymberlee della Luce, Colleen Gnos, Kate Vrijmoet, and Omar Wiley

Tech Crew: Jennifer West (SM) Barbara Cawley (ASM), Teddy Dolas (Lighting Designer), Ken Holmes (Graphic Designer)


Directors: Ellen Graham, Katie Haster, Jen Moon and Daniel Tarker