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Category: News

MFA Alumni Update: Joseph Gallo

  • March 3, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

Mile Square Theatre presents Joseph Gallo’s (’08) podcast play, Playbill Gallery (a love story) starting Friday, March 5th.

From Mile Square Theatre:

In February of 2020, Gallo’s compilation of more than 250 Playbills, made-up entirely of shows he had seen on Broadway and Off-Broadway, opened as part of an art exhibit held at the Benjamin J. Dineen, II and Dennis C. Hull Gallery in Jersey City.

An accompanying solo play used the Playbills to collectively tell the story of a life in the theatre, and to highlight the unique journey that each live theatre experience brings.

The Playbills, and additional performances by Gallo, were slated to be on display at MST in 2021. But because of these trying times, The Playbill Gallery (a love story) has been re-worked as a Podcast, featuring a sound score by our resident designer Michael Blaskewicz, with the help of 16 additional voices.

With our theatrical spaces shuttered, this bittersweet homage to a lifetime of theatre-going taps into the current longing that every theatre-goer and every theatre-maker is experiencing.

The Playbill Gallery (a love story) could not arrive at a more critical time!

For more information, please check out: https://www.milesquaretheatre.org/shows-events/the-playbill-gallery/

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MFA Alumni Update: Jordan Ramirez Puckett

  • February 25, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · alumni · News

Tantrum East Theatre presents Jordan Ramirez Puckett’s (’20) play En Los Sombras in a live reading tomorrow, Friday, February 26th at 7:00 p.m. eastern! If you can’t make the live reading, it will be recorded and streamed through Tuesday, March 2nd.

For more information, please check out: https://www.classy.org/event/en-las-sombras/e324814

En Los Sombras: Listen closely because I am going to tell you an ancient tale. At a time when people were nothing more than pawns for gods and shadows, the Sun God disappeared leaving the world in darkness and in danger. When their own mother’s life is threatened, young Xenia and Luz must take the trial of the gods, risking their lives for the chance to become deities themselves. And why do you need to hear this story? Because time is cyclical, and what happened in the past did happen again and is happening now.

With this play, Jordan was the recipient of the 2019 Trisolini Fellowship.

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MFA Alumni Update: Laura Jacqmin

  • February 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · alumni · News

Laura Jacqmin (’07) spent 2019 and 2020 writing for the forthcoming Netflix series, ONE PIECE (based on the longrunning manga series by Eiichiro Oda) and the forthcoming NBCU/Peacock/USA series, JOE EXOTIC (based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon). Her first feature, WE BROKE UP (co-written and directed by Jeff Rosenberg, also an OU alum), starring William Jackson Harper and Aya Cash, will be released in 2021. Also, all three seasons of GET SHORTY are now available free with Amazon Prime.

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1st-Year MFA Eryn McVay at KCACTF

  • February 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

First-year MFA Playwright Eryn Elyse McVay’s new short play The Weight of It All will be performed TONIGHT as a “splash” piece at the 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 7. A “splash” piece has the actors rehearse the play separately from each other and then not meet each other until the performance! The event begins at 11pm EST, click here to watch: https://youtu.be/xjAtElTfOG0

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MFA Alumni Update: Catherine Weingarten

  • February 17, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · alumni · News

Catherine Weingarten (’17) recently wrote for the Bennington College 24-Hour Play Festival 2021. In the past several months, Catherine co-taught a workshop on play development etiquette for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and had a virtual residency with Bethany Arts.

You can follow all of Catherine’s updates on her playwriting and humor writing at her website: https://catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com/

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The Laughing Madness

  • February 8, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

This week’s Madness asks why we laugh. Friday, February 12, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. EST. Produced by 2nd-year playwright Ivan Mosley.

How to attend Madness this spring (2021):

Virtual seating for the Zoom-show will be limited; as always, admittance is first come, first served.
The show starts at 6:00 pm, and the Madness Zoom-link will be posted on relevant Fridays between 5:50 and 6:00 pm via the OHIO School of Theater Facebook page and Twitter.
To make sure you get admitted, watch for the Zoom-link to appear on Facebook or Twitter and click through to enter the lobby immediately. Your Zoom-link is specific to you — sharing with others means you won’t be able to see the show.
Shows are planned for the following Fridays: 1/29, 2/12, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/9. Typically, Madness runs around 50 minutes in length.
More about Madness at https://ohioplaywriting.org/madness/.

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Mid-Year Update: Skye Robinson Hillis

  • February 1, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

MID-YEAR UPDATE
In July, 2020, Third-Year MFA Playwright Skye Robinson Hillis‘ play Bury the Rest was performed on the podcast Unstaged, hosted by Jenna VanWeelden. The episodes are linked below, or you can listen to Unstaged on most major podcast platforms.

Act I: https://anchor.fm/unstagedpod/episodes/Bury-The-Rest-by-Skye-Robinson-Hillis–Act-1-eg15pm
Act II: https://anchor.fm/unstagedpod/episodes/Bury-The-Rest-by-Skye-Robinson-Hillis–Act-2-ege78v

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Mid-Year Update: Steven Strafford

  • January 29, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

MID-YEAR UPDATE
First-Year MFA Playwright Steven Strafford’s play Safe was workshopped at the 16th Street Theater (August, 2020) and is currently a semifinalist of both the 2021 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the 2021 New American Voices Playwriting Festival. Safe was also selected by Tantrum East for an October, 2021 workshop.

In addition, Steven’s short play Use Your Noodles was produced at Middlesex College.

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Mid-Year Update: Eryn Elyse McVay

  • January 28, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · News

MID-YEAR UPDATE
First-year MFA Playwright Eryn Elyse McVay’s new short play The Weight of It All will be performed as a “splash” piece at the 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 7. A “splash” piece has the actors rehearse the play separately from each other and then not meet each other until the performance! The Region 7 festival runs February 17-20, 2021.

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Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award Winners

  • January 27, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · alumni · News

As the call for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award goes out for 2021, we’re reminded that the pandemic preempted a post about 2020 MFA alum Olivia Matthews, whose play Absentia was the 2020 student award winner. Furthermore, current third-year MFA Skye Robinson Hillis‘s play Bury the Rest was runner up in the 2020 competition. Congratulations to both!

STUDENT CONTEST WINNER 2020

ABSENTIA by Olivia Matthews: After living in the secluded Florida woods for eight years with only her overprotective father and pet rabbit Robyn, 20-year-old Esther Harris longs to be reunited with her long-lost mother. Meanwhile, only miles away, Diana Baines gathers with her community to mourn the loss of her young daughter, Neoma. When Esther’s father kills her beloved Robyn, she flees from their cabin and returns to her hometown, turning Diana’s grief on its head. Soon, their lives collide as Esther learns more and more of how everyone around her has moved on in her absence. And as she is haunted by a mysterious death from her path, Esther must fight to reclaim her space and identity in her old home.

STUDENT HONORABLE MENTION

BURY THE REST by Skye Robinson Hillis: Following the death of their 17-year-old daughter Lucy in a mass high school shooting, friendly exes Margot and Colin find themselves at a moral impasse. Colin’s position as a Republican U.S. Senator makes it difficult for Margot and the rest of the family to reconcile the root of their grief with his continued support of the NRA. As Margot and Colin intertwine themselves during the grieving process, their relationship takes a dark turn that leaves Colin’s new wife Laura on the outside and their remaining daughter Samantha to navigate this brave new world on her own. Each member of the family tumbles deeper into the cavernous rabbit hole of devastation, loneliness, and anger while Lucy, inexplicably caught between the living and the dead, must confront the truths of her short life while facing the terrifying looming reality that is her death. As they navigate the intimacies of their reforged relationship and rebuild themselves as a family, it may in fact be Lucy who decides their fate.

THE JANE CHAMBERS AWARD recognizes new feminist plays and performance texts created by women and genderqueer writers for the stage that present a feminist perspective and contain significant opportunities for female performers. We welcome plays that experiment with form and/or that feature non-binary characters. This annual award, established in 1984, is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers who, through her plays A Late Snow, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, My Blue Heaven, Kudzu, & The Quintessential Image, became a major feminist voice in American theatre. Sponsored by the Women and Theatre Program (WTP) with the Association for Theater in Higher Education, the Jane Chambers winner receives $250 and a
reading at the WTP Conference.

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