Torrey B. Lawrence - Performances

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Dr. Love Theater Group in association with Moe Media Productions presents the MOVIE….

'DIVINE INTERVENTION'

The Rev. Dexter Pratt is a rich and successful television evangelist. However, he has a skeleton in his closet. Before he was saved, he lived a life addicted to crack. He abandoned his family when his son was only two years old. Fourteen years has passed, and he finds out that his son is in a gang and selling drugs on the street. At the risk of losing his current family, his followers, and his TV show, he ventures back to his old neighborhood to save his son from a life of destruction. To do this, he must deal with a vicious drug lord who has a grip on his son. Can he save a street wise kid, who doesn't’t know him or respect him? And will he make it back home alive. His current wife and his son’s mother are praying for a miracle.

Torrey Lawrence will be portraying Byron Banks, a mysterious messenger sent to confront Rev. Dexter Pratt on the moral decisions of his former life.

Burning Coal Theatre Presents....

'90 in 90'

November 4 - 5, 2005

http://www.hpowc.org/

Durham-based playwright Jerome Oster's first play, 90 in 90, concerns a middle aged man who has recently entered an AA "12 step" program. It follows his comically poignant efforts to make Alcoholics' Anonymous's strict "90 meetings in 90 days" goal. The friends who hover around him at the local coffee shop try desperate to ease his transition from alcoholic to sober, but they always seem to make matters worse. Torrey B. Lawrence will be portraying the "Good Looking Man".

Flying Machine Theatre Company presents...

RED HERRING

By Michael Hollinger

September 30 - October 15, 2005

http://www.theflyingmachine.net/productions/redherring.html

A “noir” comedy caper filled with intrigue and romance. It’s 1952 and Ike and Stevenson are battling for the presidency while McCarthy’s hearings fill the airwaves. Meanwhile, a head-over-heels in love FBI agent attempts to flush out Soviet spies leaking nuclear secrets, a female police detective stalks a serial killer whose calling card is a Mercury dime and two mismatched youngsters become engaged amidst political espionage. McCarthyism, murder, and kippered herring create the comic chaos through which three couples must forge the rocky-road of love. Torrey Lawrence will be portraying FBI agent, Frank Keller and Major Hartwell, a military lifer who has a sharp tongue when it comes to relationships.

It’s The Fourth Annual - Ten by Ten in the Triangle

10 plays, 10 actors, 10 minutes, 10 bucks

Got ten?

There’s a body in the bedroom. A bathroom full of secrets. A kitchen filled with borscht.

Not to mention:

A stolen trumpet, naked mole rats, and a mother who hasn't’t slept in . . . years.

Ten by Ten in the Triangle is our international festival of new, 10-minute plays. This fourth annual summer installment of theatrical shorts brings to the Triangle the very best of the ten-minute format. From 400 scripts submitted around the world, a national panel of theatre artists has selected these 10 finalists.

Directed and performed by an ensemble of Triangle favorites: Greg Hohn, Thomas King, Julie Fishell, Jerome Davis, Rob Hamilton, Andy Hayworth, and Lynden Harris with Nicole Farmer, Katja Hill, Eryn Makepeace, Becca Johnson, Jane Hallstrom, Mark Miller, Torrey Lawrence, Ryan Brock, Steven Warnock, and Allan Vesley and special guest appearances by Scott Franco and Joe Brack.

July 16 Playwrights Reception: On July 16, five of the playwrights are attending the show. Audiences will have the opportunity to meet and speak with the writers, actors, and directors at this special playwright talkback and reception.

July 14-24, 2005 Thursday - Saturday @ 8 pm, Sundays @ 3
Special Playwrights Reception, July 16
www.artscenterlive.org

There is such a thing as knowing too much about your best friend’s sex life. Steven Warnock and Torrey Lawrence in The Morons.

In Costumes, by Stephen Hyers, Trixie’s idea of a good time is just a little overwhelming for Jim. (Eryn Makepeace, Ryan, Brock)

Songs & Scenes from Sam/SARA

The story is simple and blunt. It's set in a mountain wilderness right after the turn of the 20th century. Sara plays a reckless joke on her lover Sam. He responds with a cruel joke of his own. As a consequence,Sara must do penance to be released from her suffering, and Sam is driven to searching long years for Sara while he practices kindness and sings in a wilderness dive. Enslaved strippers, murderous inn-keepers, cursed farms, and suicidal rustics complicate things.

Torrey Lawrence will portray Ben, a friend of Sam's; PA, Sara's father; and BUSTER, a psycho juke joint owner who is murderously jealous of his strippers.

The performance dates are July 7 - 9 at 8:15pm.
http://www.manbitesdogtheater.org/129/

Killer Joe - 2005

Meet the Smiths: Chris, Ansel, Sharla, and Dottie...and then hang on as they rock their Texas trailer park to its foundation in this dark, dangerous, and dysfunctional comedy. With a story seemingly ripped from today's headlines, this Off-Broadway smash gives new meaning to the phrase "domestic disturbance in progress. Torrey B. Lawrence will be portraying Joe Cooper.

*This show contains nudity, sexual content, and violence, and is decidedly not for children.

Torn - 2005

A single mother torn between two lovers, while raising her son to become a man. The engagement of Juanita Baxter (Angela Ray) to Russell Moran (Rodney Roldan) is suddenly put on hold when Bernard Baxter (Torrey Lawrence), the father of her children, is released from jail. Old feelings for Bernard erupt within Juanita and causes her to become torn between the two men. This dilemma forces her to make a heart wrenching decision of being with Bernard or with Russell, who is able to financially support her family.

What will be the outcome of their story? Will Bernard become the husband and father he always wanted to be? Will Tyrell follow his dreams? Will Juanita have faith that Bernard is a changed man or will she choose to marry Russell instead? “

Torn (Fall From Grace-Part II) follows the success of Fall From Grace Part I. “Fall From Grace Part-tells the story of Tyrell Smalls, a teenager who aspires to follow his dreams. Torn” is an independent movie written, produced and directed by April Mial, a native North Carolinian filmmaker. She is president of Lilac Films [www.lilacfilms.com], which produces movies that don't contain nudity, violence or profanity. Its goal is to bring families back to the movies.

http://www.lilacfilms.com/torn.htm

Bangin' - 2004

An original play by Joseph Henderson, founder of the Walltown Children's Theater.

The tragic play deals with local teenagers struggling with the moral decisions surrounding gang membership and violence. Will the community rise up together to battle the injustice or falter under the brutality. The play is based on real life events. Torrey Lawrence portrays the character of Pastor Daniels.

The Justice Theatre Project in cooperation with the Arts for Justice Ministry at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
    "A LESSON BEFORE DYING" by Romulus Linney - 2004

Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines

In 1948 Louisiana, the sensitive and innocent Jefferson is condemned to death by an all white jury. At his trial, Jefferson's lawyer claims the uneducated Jefferson is no more a human being than a hog, lacking the mental skills to commit the pre-meditated murder he is charged with. Jefferson takes his lawyer's words to heart and, once in prison, acts as though he were as intelligent as a hog, insisting that he will be dragged like a hog to his death in the electric chair. His godmother, Miss Emma, terribly distressed by the situation, insists that Jefferson be educated so as to die with dignity at the time of his execution. Miss Emma persuades a reluctant schoolteacher, Grant Wiggins, to face his own cynicism and negativity to try to get through to Jefferson before he dies. Not surprisingly, the teacher learns as much as the condemned. Ernest J. Gaines' celebrated novel makes an engrossing, moving and ultimately devastating play for the stage.

"Irresistible momentum and a cathartic explosion…a powerful inevitability."
                                                                                 --The New York Times

"A Lesson in the transformative power of theatre."
                                                                                 --Time Out New York

The Justice Theatre Project in cooperation with the Arts for Justice Ministry at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church brings this compelling and transformative story to life.

"A Lesson Before Dying" features Jackie Marriott as Emma Glen, Sean Brosnahan as Paul Bonin, Kareem Nemley as Jefferson, Torrey Lawrence as Grant Wiggins, Jordan Smith as Sam Guidry, Barbette Hunter as Vivian Baptiste, and Antuan Hawkins as Reverend Moses Ambrose The production is directed by Deb Royals, with designs by Thomas Mauney. Jennifer Baker provides Stage Management and Rebecca Nerz assistant directs.

New World Stage
"COLD KILL" by Terry Roueche - 2003

A winter vacation turns deadly in COLD KILL, a new play by North Carolina native Terry Roueche. In the Colorado Mountains two snowbound couples confront the weather raging outside and a blizzard of betrayal sweeping through their cabin. Stephen and Laura have a troubled marriage and a winter vacation with their good friend Paul and his girlfriend might be their opportunity to work things out. But deceit boils beneath a frozen exterior and threatens to melt away the safety of their day to day façade. The lies mount as the hours pass and the weight bears down on the cracking frame of their decaying relationship.

ABOUT THE COMPANY: New World Stage promotes new theatrical work by North Carolina playwrights and performing artists. It also encourages original and innovative theatre through the development and artistic process of playwrights, actors, directors and other individuals involved in the theatrical arts.

"Images" -- An African American Odyessey in Music, Dance, Poetry & Prose. - 2003

This play covers the African American experience from the Harlem Renissance to the Present.

New World Stage
"SETTLING SOPHIA" written by North Carolina native Cherryl Floyd-Miller. - 2003

Is this a world an innocent spirit would choose to live in? Is this a world that would embrace an innocent spirit standing at the threshold of mortality regardless of race, social status, or religion? Is this a world that holds open its arms to the unborn and says, "come, let us rise up and live out the true meaning of the creed: "that all men are created equal?" Is this world the world of Sophia, North Carolina?

In SETTLING SOPHIA, a quiet rural town has an audience, a spirit peering into it from the heavens, contemplating existence. It observes its birth and life through a family and community of the South, the soul of our nation, to determine whether or not to be born. You can see Mr. Lawrence perform as the character "Lent Reynolds" in this production.

Deep Dish Theater Company - Chapel Hill, NC
"Lobby Hero" by Kenneth Lonergan - 2003
Directed by Paul Frellick

The play is about a hapless security guard, Jeff, that works for a Manhattan high-rise who suddenly finds himself facing a host of ethical dilemmas in this recent Off-Broadway hit, from the author of "This Is Our Youth" and the writer/director of the Oscar-nominated film "You Can Count on Me"- a North Carolina premiere. You can see Mr. Lawrence perform as the character "William" in this production.

StreetSigns Center for Literature & Performance - Chapel Hill, NC
"Twilight: Los Angeles 1992" - 2003

Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. A diverse ensemble of fifteen actors will perform this powerful work of documentary theater, hailed by Newsweek as "an American masterpiece.” The performance uses the personal testimonies of a wide range of citizens, politicians, thinkers, public servants, artists, and family members who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that tragic event, the implications of which are still reverberating a decade later. Click the link for more.

Also take a moment to read a preview on Mr. Lawrence, for this production and how he is dealing with stuttering in, "Speak Easy", an article by Orla Swift of
the Raleigh News & Observer.

You can view a clip of Torrey performing briefly as "Paul Parker" in this production, by clicking here: "Twilight Movie Clip"

"Open the Darn Door" - 2002

Mr. Lawrence played the character LINWOOD. Drunk and locked out. He left home in the morning. He's been out hanging and drinking with his boys. It's now 3:00AM the following morning. While he was gone, his wife changed the lock on the door. He pleads with her to let him back in. "Baby baby baby please open the darn door".

Deep Dish Theater Company - Chapel Hill, NC
“A Lesson Before Dying” - 2002

Written by Romulus linney adapted from the novel by Ernest Gaines directed by Paul Frelick, August 22- September 7 - A young black man is wrongly convicted of murder,
and his former teacher is recruited to help him come to terms with his fate. Like the novel, which won the National Book Award, the play is set in the fictional town of
Bayonne, Louisiana, in 1948, and is a moving look at individuals struggling within an unjust and uncaring society, click performance link for more info...

Invader Films- Durham, NC
“67 Fortunato” - 2002

Written & Directed by Hal Burdick of Invader Films, Torrey plays, “Darren”, an impulsive person whom thinks he has bought a classic automobile - a 67 Fortunato.
But does it even exist? If Darren would only think, he wouldn't get himself into so much trouble. His lack of judgment sure blew his relationship with Marissa, and fuels the competition with his friend and car afficianado James.

Burning Coal Theatre Company - Raleigh, NC
“A Doll's House” - 2001

Adapted by Randolph Curtis Rand from the play by Henrik Ibsen directed by Rebecca Holderness, click performance title for more info...

Invader Films - Durham, NC
“Neptune and Me” - 2001

Written & Directed by Hal Burdick of Invader Films, Torrey appears as an extra in this sci-fi film about how a member of a family of telepaths tries communicate with family members and others through his music.

National Miller Lite Commercial - Miller Brewing Company - Milwaukee, WI
“Where There's A Track” - Bristol, TN - 2001

Meredith College - Drama Dept. - Raleigh, NC
“Praying Mantis” - 2000

The Raleigh Little Theater - Raleigh, NC
“Taming Of The Shrew” - 2000

Set in the 1970's, Torrey plays many roles in this fun and contemporary rendition of William Shakespeare's “Taming of the Shrew”.

Torrey B. Lawrence - SAG ACTOR