This morning it was announced that Chicago based alumni Laura Jacqmin will have a play for the 2016 Humana Festival for New American Plays. Jacqmin’s play “Residence” will premiere at the Fest from March 2nd to April 10th. The artistic director was quoted in the article , “Its an interesting play about people coping. So many people, when you ask them how they are doing, they seem to tell you they are just hanging on and coping with life. Check out the full article here
Congrats Laura!! Check out the play if you are in the area!
Here is the full lineup:
40TH HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS
March 2 – April 10, 2016
ON SALE NOVEMBER 18TH
For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday
by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Les Waters
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
This Random World
by Steven Dietz
directed by Meredith McDonough
Residence
by Laura Jacqmin
directed by Hal Brooks
Wellesley Girl
by Brendan Pelsue
directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Cardboard Piano
by Hansol Jung
directed by Leigh Silverman
Wondrous Strange
by Martyna Majok, Meg Miroshnik, Jiehae Park, and Jen Silverman
directed by Marti Lyons
performed by the 2015-2016 Acting Apprentice Company
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
– See more at: http://actorstheatre.org/humana-festival-of-new-american-plays/#sthash.wklyDuIk.dpuf
More out Laura
Laura Jacqmin is a Chicago-based playwright, TV writer, and video game writer, originally from Cleveland. Her play Dental Society Midwinter Meeting was named one of New City Stage’s Top Five Plays of 2010, as well as TimeOut Chicago’s Honorable Mentions: Best Theater of 2010. Look, We Are Breathing is currently nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work. Awards: winner of the Wasserstein Prize, two NEA Art Works Grants, Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Award, two MacDowell Fellowships, Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant; finalist for Heideman Award, Laurents/Hatcher Prize, BBC International Playwriting Competition, and the Princess Grace Award.
Television: “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix), “Lucky 7” (ABC). Video games: “Minecraft: Story Mode” (Telltale Games).
Plays: Look, We Are Breathing (Sundance Theater Lab, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble), Ghost Bike (Buzz22 Chicago), Do-Gooder (16th Street Theater), January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre), Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre), Two Lakes, Two Rivers (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency), and Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Chicago Dramatists/At Play, remounted 16th Street Theater and Theater on the Lake).
Her work has been produced and developed by Atlantic Theater Company, Old Vic New Voices, Roundabout Underground, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Ars Nova, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Second Stage Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, The 24 Hour Plays Off-Broadway, and the inaugural NNPN University Playwrights Workshop at Stanford University, among others.
