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2014 SEABURY QUINN, JR. PLAYWRIGHTS’ FESTIVAL
Alum Cecilia Copeland News: Published Plays, Howlround, Awards & Productions
OU Alum Cecilia Copeland has been very busy in New York.
She was named a “Person of the Year” for 2013 by Indie Theatre Now! OU MFA Playwright, Qui Nguyen, also held this distinction in 2004. (Link to Indie Theatre Now Announcement.)
Indie Theater Now has also published her play “Light of Night,” and it’s available to purchase. Other plays by OU Playwrights available on Indie Theater Now include: Jeni Mahoney and Qui Nguyen.
“Light of Night” will also be produced by Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD this coming spring. It is the second production of this play that was first penned at OU and the first regional production. (Youtube Promo Video.)
NoPassport’s 30/30 Scheme will have Cecilia’s play, “Tiene Duende (It Has Soul)” Read on March 31 in Texas, and it’s directed by OU MFA Director Vanessa Mercado-Taylor. ( Interview with NoPassport Press.)
Cecilia Copeland’s play, “Light of Night” was named one of the 101 Plays by the New Americas, Latino Plays in the American Cannon you should know on HowlRound, by Tlaloc Rivas. (HowRound Article.)
Her article “Contradiction & Compromise: My Uncle & The Next Time” was published in HowlRound in conjunction with her play, “The Next Time” in the Gun Control Plays Collection. (HowlRound Article.)
She was Interviewed and Featured in the Huffington Post for her play, “The Next Time” along with Neil LaBute, Caridad Svich and others. (Link to Huffington Post Article.)
Congrats Cecilia!
Bianca Sams’ Essay on
Bianca Sams, MFA ’14, has a new piece in Howlround on Amiri Baraka. Baraka is the legendary poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and political activist who recently passed away.
Alum Mark Chrisler’s “Worse Than Tigers” Garners Two Accolades.
MFA Alum, Mark Chrisler‘s play WORSE THAN TIGERS has garnered two accolades. It’s been selected for The Stella Adler Studio’s First Breath Festival in New York. (The site for the festival isn’t full operational yet, but the link is to the main site.)
The play was also semi-finalist for The New American Voices Festival put on by the The Landing Theater in Houston!
Jeremy Sony & Garret Schneider’s Work Goes Up at Nashville’s 10-Minute Festival
Alumni, Jeremy Sony and Garret Schneider, have 10-minute plays that will be part of Playhouse Nashville’s 10-Minute Playhouse February 9 & 10 in Nashville.
Sony’s play is NEXT STOP CENTRAL STATION, and Schenider’s is EX-GIRLFRIEND IS THE CENTERFOLD.
Check out their site for more information: http://www.tenminuteplayhouse.com/
Nick Sgouros New One-Act goes up at Toronto’s “Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival”
MFA alum Nick Sgouros’s one-act play “Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House” will be presented in Toronto at the Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival March 12 – 16th.
MFA Alum Sarah Katherine Bowden’s Has a Piece on Howlround
OU MFA Playwright Alum Sarah Katherine Bowden has a new essay “A Place In The Conversation: Portraying Disability Onstage on the popular theater website Howlround.
You can also check her website out at: http://sarahbowden.weebly.com/
TimeOut Chicago gives 4-Stars to Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder.”
Laura Jacqmin’s Do-Gooder is starting to rack up a lot of good reviews. This week’s Timeout Chicago gave it 4-Stars.
Gwen Purdom writes: (I)ts Jacqmin’s subtle script that leaves the lasting impression. In a play that ponders whether goodness comes from a life of privilege or passion, this is one story that’s far more compelling than its ordinary cover would suggest.
Do-Gooder is playing at the 16th Street Theater.
Check out Laura’s site: www.laurajacqmin.com
Third-Year Playwright Bianca Sams Giving a Lecture Thursday at OSU.
Third-year MFA playwright, Bianca Sams, is giving a lecture at Ohio State University Thursday, January 30th at 4pm. It’s titled “Creative Playwriting: Using ‘Found Stories’ as Inspiration.” It’s at the Thurber Theatre at the Drake Performance and Event Center.
For more information, please click: Bianca Sams’ Lecture at Ohio State.
Laura Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder” is “Recommended” by Chicago Reader
Laura Jacqmin’s Do-Gooder was “Recommended” in this weeks’ review by the Chicago Reader.
Jack Helbig writes Do-Gooder is “a remarkable, slyly told meditation on gender and racial politics, and how genuinely hard it is to really make a difference.”
Learn more about Laura from her website http://www.laurajacqmin.com/
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