For Immediate Release
December 27, 2005
Contact: Frank Barnhart, Festival Director
Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival
614/263-9448
Curve Magazine Selects National Theatre Festival
For 2005 Lesbian Theatre Award
(Columbus, OH) The Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival has
been honored with a 2005 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve Magazine.
“We are extremely honored to receive this recognition from such a prestigious
publication.” says festival director Frank Barnhart.
About The Festival
Theatre and entertainment companies and performers from across the country
will converge on Columbus, Ohio in September 2006 for the Third Bi-Annual
Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival. Hosted by Act Out
Productions, a gay and lesbian theatrical company in Columbus, the ten-day event
will include participants from the nation’s largest cities, including New York,
Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Austin, Boston, Columbus, and more.
The Festival will run from Thursday, September 7, 2006 through Saturday,
September 16, 2006.
According to New York performer and writer, Jade Esteban Estrada, who debuted
his original one-person show, ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World
at the First Bi-Annual Festival in 2002, “It is the most organized festival of its kind
in the country.”
The Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival showcases the newest
gay works from around the country. “Columbus is the perfect city for an event like
this,” says Barnhart, festival director. “We have an established theatre scene here
with an appreciative and supportive audience.” Barnhart, whose New York City
production Members of the Tribe won an OOBR Award (Off-Off Broadway Award)
for Outstanding Production, is also the founder and executive director of Act Out
Productions.
For more information about the festival please visit online at www.
columbustheatrefestival.com or contact Frank Barnhart at 614/263-9448
About Curve Magazine
Curve, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, spotlights all that is fresh,
funny, exciting, controversial and cutting-edge in the lesbian community. Curve
brings the latest in lesbian-related celebrity interviews, news, politics, pop culture,
style, travel, social issues and entertainment.
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