Zach will appear at Ojai tribute to McNally

Zachary will be appearing at the Ojai Plays event 'Hearts On Fire', also a tribute to the actor Terence McNally, on January 30th 2010.

McNally will be presented with the OPC 2010 award in recognition of his illustrious career as a playwright, and scenes from his plays will be read by celebrities such as Zach, Steven Weber and Jane Kaczmarek. The readings will be followed by a live auction in which Zach is expected to act as an auctioneer.

Tickets for the reading, at the Matilijia Auditorium, are between $70 and $85. Tickets which include the auction and dinner are $225. For more info contact 640-0400 or http://www.ojaiplays.org/

Pic : Zach at Ojai in 2005.

Zach sponsors a play at Ojai

Zach has co- sponsored a reading at this year's Ojai Playwrights Conference after Heroes scheduling forced him to miss his first Conference in seven years.

Zach, who is a director of the Conference did show up to see two readings, Dusk Rings A Bell by Stephen Belber (which he co-sponsored) and The Motherf***er in the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgus. This lucky livejournaller was there and said Hi to Zach.

Ojai Playwrights Conference is an annual event which presents new plays and supports writers. You can find more about their activities at their website

Zachary appaears at Ojai Playwrites Auction

A report from the Ojai Plays Gala Charity Auction.Likewise, money was the theme around which conference artistic director Robert Egan organized the show, a collection of play excerpts read by an all-star cast that included Van Dyke, Dana Delany of “Desperate Housewives” and Zachary Quinto, who is Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” film due in theaters in May.

And raising a nice little pile of it was the reason for a post-show auction — at the nearby St. Thomas Aquinas Parish hall — that had Quinto flashing Spock’s split-fingered salute at the audience.

He did so in an effort to get the bidding going on a package that included a visit to the set of his NBC show, “Heroes.” Bidding had stalled at $750 when someone shouted out the suggestion that he sweeten the deal with tickets to the “Star Trek” premiere. Quinto hesitated, blushed furiously, acquiesced and then watched in amazement as the bidding raced to $4,000....

...Enter Quinto as the third friend. Playing devil’s advocate, he asks Weber’s character if the artist who created the painting is “fashionable.”

Then, sounding a lot like Spock, he adds that, in the world of contemporary art, such a question is “logical.”

Quite.

Whilst at the event Zachary accepted Neil Patrick Harris's invitation to present an award at the American Magic Association awards in March.

Thanks to www.zachary-kristen.com for the report.