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Bianca Sams reading in Chicago this weekend!

  • September 24, 2015
  • by catherineforever666
  • · alumni · Chicago · News

A Reading of Bianca Sams thesis play “Rust on Bone” will be presented this Sunday, September 27th at noon with Babes with Blade Theater in Chicago!  Bianca’s script has been part of their “Fighting Words” New Play Development series for female writers and this is the final reading of her play.  Go check it out if you’re in Chicago!!

 

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. The reading will take place at the Heartland Studio space located at 7016 N. Glenwood in Chicago at 12pm. Keep your eyes peeled on our Fighting Words page for future readings. As always: Free food! Free drink! Free theatre!

More about Bianca

As a female playwright of color, she is drawn to stories that question the roles of women, ethnicity, and family in modern society, that deal with the search for self in the collective identity and which explore underlying connective threads of mankind.  Bianca weaves hot button social issues into her work because growing up in the politically active San Francisco Bay Area instilled a drive to create art that “holds as it ‘twere a mirror up to nature”.  She hopes that through watching a dynamic dramatization of these issues unfold before their eyes, she will engage the audience in a visceral manner that convicts them to do something about it. You can see the fingerprints of  her approach in her full length plays, At The Rivers End, Battle Cry, Rust On Bone, Black. Irish., Just Porgy, Rise Phoenix Rise and Summer Nights & Fireflies.

Awards and honors include KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry (2nd place), Rosa Parks Award (2nd place), Kennedy Center/Eugene O’Neill New Play Conference fellow, Jane Chambers Student Playwright Award/Athe (2nd Place), Scott McPherson Playwright Award, The Playwright Center Core Apprentice (2014), Playwright Foundation BAPF (finalist), Eugene O’Neill NPC (semi-finalist), TRI Research Fellowship at Ohio State University, Nashville Rep/Ingram New Works Lab Playwright-in-residence , Warner Brothers TV Writers Workshop, and T. S. Eliot Acting Fellowship.   

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