Dallas Playwrights in the Big Apple

A play by Dallas actor/playwright Steven Walters, who's currently playing Prince Hal in Dallas Theater Center's Henry IV, will open the fifth season for EBE Ensemble in New York.

The work is The Girl From Nashville, a "further evolution" of Walters' Snake Eyes at the Mardi Gras Hotel, which played at Second Thought Theatre in 2008. The updated version tells the story of a high school football coach who murders the star quarterback in the middle of playoff season. Snake Eyes was a selection for one of the outstanding new plays of the year by the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum.

Walters, who was in LA for a a few years, had a recurring role on the series Friday Night Lights. In the spring, he appeared in the Dallas Theater Center's The Shape of Things and Fat Pig, part of the "Beauty Plays" trilogy.

In April 2011, EBE will also present its fourth annual "Elephants on Parade" one-act play festival, and the next installment features six new plays, including one by Tom Sime, former Dallas Morning News theater critic and then Contemporary Theatre of Dallas Executive Director. Sime's play will be included among works by national and international writers Matthew Hanf, Alexander Motyle, Michael Niederman, Danny Carroll and Chris Purnell).

EBE was co-founded by former Dallas actor Montgomery Sutton, who is the group's Executive Director, and moved to New York in 2005. He has returned to Dallas a few times since moving there to perform at Shakespeare Dallas and Dallas Children's Theater.

EBE's 2010-'11 season rounds out in June/July 2011 with "Shakespeare in the Pagoda," featuring repertory productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Henry VI.