The Crowbait Club

The Crowbait Club Monthly gathering for Maine actors, playwrights, and theatre lovers alike!

📍Royal River Community Players in Yarmouth, ME

AUDITION FOR KING OF CROWS! 🐦‍⬛ We're excited to officially announce auditions for our King of Crows festival, a festiva...
06/04/2026

AUDITION FOR KING OF CROWS! 🐦‍⬛

We're excited to officially announce auditions for our King of Crows festival, a festival celebrating all of the winning plays from this past season! Eleven 10-minute plays will be performed by a pool of actors who will flex between roles. A small stipend will be provided to all actors.

Auditions will involve cold readings of the plays. No additional preparation required.

AUDITION DATES: June 22 & 23 at 6 pm at Royal River Community Players
FESTIVAL DATES: September 4-6 at Royal River Community Players

If you are interested in auditioning, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/L3LFWeKkVByQdzsd9

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]!

GREAT SCOTT! June Crowbait is approaching! And if our calculations are correct, this is our FINAL deathmatch of the seas...
06/02/2026

GREAT SCOTT! June Crowbait is approaching! And if our calculations are correct, this is our FINAL deathmatch of the season! Only one more play will be chosen for our King of Crows festival in September, who will it be?! 🐦‍⬛ 👑

Your marvelous host is Randy Hunt! Randy moved from Bangor to southern Maine ten years ago, and Crowbait Club was one of his first theatre-related things he discovered. He has won Best Play five times over the years. He always enjoys taking a month off from writing to step up to play host! Randy works in healthcare simulation, training people to portray patients for simulated clinical encounters – a job he thoroughly enjoys!

We hope to see you Sunday, June 14! $10, cash or Venmo. Please note that this Crowbait is on the second Sunday this month, not the first.

CALL FOR DIRECTORS! 📣We are excited to bring back KING OF CROWS this year — a festival celebrating all of the winning pl...
05/18/2026

CALL FOR DIRECTORS! 📣

We are excited to bring back KING OF CROWS this year — a festival celebrating all of the winning plays of the ‘25-26 Crowbait season! We welcome directors of all experience levels to apply. Directors are expected to direct at least two 10-minute plays. This is a paid position.

If you are interested, please email [email protected] with a copy of your resume (if you have one). Information on auditions will be arranged once we have a slate of directors. 🐦‍⬛

At the end of 2025, the torch was passed to us to lead The Crowbait Club, so we thought we’d take a second to reintroduc...
05/13/2026

At the end of 2025, the torch was passed to us to lead The Crowbait Club, so we thought we’d take a second to reintroduce ourselves! 🐦‍⬛

We are so grateful to carry on this organization’s legacy, which includes bringing back the King of Crows festival! Stay tuned for more information about that soon (call for actors, directors, and more!)

We hope to see you at our next gathering on Sunday, June 14 at 7 pm!

What an absolute BLAST this past Crowbait was! A lively crowd, new members, and gorgeous live music from Jane Clukey! A ...
05/05/2026

What an absolute BLAST this past Crowbait was! A lively crowd, new members, and gorgeous live music from Jane Clukey!

A big congratulations to our winners Cory King (actor) and Hal Cohen (playwright). Thank you to Jamie Orenstein for being such a lovely host, and bringing your delicious baked goods!

NEXT CROWBAIT: Sunday, June 14. Please note this is the second Sunday of the month, not the first. Your host is actor and playwright Randy Hunt, and the theme is “This changes everything.”

Oh, and we have a website! Huge thanks to our board member Sean Farrelly for building it for us. You can find information about our organization here and purchase tickets for our King of Crows festival in September (more info to come soon!)

Our website: https://www.crowbaitclub.com/

We hope to see you in June! 🐦‍⬛

GASP! May Crowbait is just around the corner! Your host is the incomparable actor and playwright Jamie Orenstein! 💥 Play...
04/27/2026

GASP! May Crowbait is just around the corner! Your host is the incomparable actor and playwright Jamie Orenstein! 💥

Playwrights, get writing! The theme is “Meanwhile…”

Jamie Orenstein has been acting for almost 60 years, ever since a bit part in Mrs. Delafield’s first grade class dramatization of the song “Alouette.” He has written a few plays and acted in a bunch more, but his biggest Crowbait accomplishment is getting Blue and Karin to start coming. Sorry, and you’re welcome. In his day job (which no one has ever suggested he quit to pursue a career in the theater) Jamie is a lawyer.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, admission is $10 cash or Venmo! Come act, bring a script, spectate, or all three! We look forward to seeing you Sunday, May 3 at ! 🐦‍⬛

April’s Crowbait was truly OUT OF THIS WORLD! 💥(sorry, we’ll let ourselves out…) Congrats to our winners of the evening:...
04/13/2026

April’s Crowbait was truly OUT OF THIS WORLD! 💥(sorry, we’ll let ourselves out…)

Congrats to our winners of the evening: Korrine Mehta (actor) and Jamie Orenstein (playwright) — we will certainly be envious of those new shades. 👽

We look forward to seeing you May 3 for our next gathering! Your host is actor and playwright Jamie Orenstein, and the theme is “MEANWHILE…”

April Crowbait is around the corner and it’s time to announce our next theme: PARANORMAL! Playwrights, have you started ...
03/28/2026

April Crowbait is around the corner and it’s time to announce our next theme: PARANORMAL! Playwrights, have you started writing yet? 👻

Your lovely host is playwright Jeff Stewart! Jeff is a graduate of the East Carolina Graduate Writing program, where he studied creative nonfiction and fiction along with contemporary literature. He’s a Crowbait regular (and frequent playwright winner!) who lives on the midcoast of Maine with his amazing wife.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, 7 pm start! We’ll see you Easter Sunday, April 5! 🐦‍⬛ 🐥

So many FANTASTIC shows opening this weekend and happening throughout March! We’re so excited to promote these shows and...
03/20/2026

So many FANTASTIC shows opening this weekend and happening throughout March! We’re so excited to promote these shows and send all of the love to all of the talented artists involved 🎭

THE SECRET GARDEN
🎟️ citytheater.org

TAMING OF THE SHREW
🎟️ https://ci.ovationtix.com/36005/production/1249137

LITTLE WOMEN
🎟️ https://vivenu.com/event/little-women-the-musical-w9jend

WHITS END
🎟️ ThePublicTheatre.org

LIKE FLIES
🎟️ https://www.portlandstage.org/show/like-flies/

SHREK THE MUSICAL
🎟️ www.kitetails.org/shrek-the-musical

THE MINUTES
🎟️ https://ci.ovationtix.com/36205/production/1262259

And just like that, our March Crowbait is in the books! We had eight powerful plays performed, all welcomed by new membe...
03/10/2026

And just like that, our March Crowbait is in the books! We had eight powerful plays performed, all welcomed by new members and talented actors alike. ❄️

Huge thanks to our host Joe O’Donnell and musician Alan McLucas. Congrats to our winners of the evening, Jamie Orenstein (actor) and Jeff Stewart (playwright)!

Speaking of Jeff, he’s your host next month! The theme is PARANORMAL. Hope to see you on Sunday, April 5! 🕸️ 🐦‍⬛

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Royal River Community Players
Yarmouth, ME
04096

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