Gary Strapp Honored

Eldridge playwright Gary Stapp has been named a recipient of a $500 mini-fellowship award from the Kansas Arts Commission. Stapp, 45, is a founding member of the Chamber Players Community Theater, and was bitten by the playwriting bug while working in numerous local productions, either as an actor, director or set designer. In 2003 Stapp added playwright to his resume when his first playwriting endeavor, "Love Thy Neighbor," was performed by the Chamber Players for a run which broke the group's previous attendance record by fifty-percent and required an unprecedented two-performance encore. Eldridge also publishes another play of his,“Family Ties and Little White Lies.”