Mark Witteveen’s The American Bar is at Stage Werx in San Francisco from April 3rd to the 26th. For more info: visit sfgate.com here, or the Stage Werx web site here.
Category: News
Recent Grad’s Play in San Francisco:
Recent Graduate’s Play at Atlantic Theater:
Laura Jacqmin’s ten-minute play, Space, premiered at the Atlantic Theater in New York on March 17th in a co-production between The 24 Hour Play Company and At Play Productions (as a benefit for Working Playground), starring Zoe Perry, Sarah Bisman, and Jessica Walter (a.k.a. Lucille Bluth, from “Arrested Development”. See photo at right).
OU Alums’ Vampire Cowboys in the New York Times:
Vampire Cowboys, a product of OU MFA alums Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker, have produced a new show reviewed in the NYT: click here.
Recent Grad Teaches Workshop with Former Poet Laureate:
Merri Biechler taught her “Character Voice” workshop at the 10th Annual Douglas Anderson Writers’ Festival in Jacksonville, FL on March 15, 2008. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins spoke about his writing process, and “People Magazine” journalist Anne Driscoll discussed the interview process.
Recent Graduate’s Play a National Finalist for KC/ACTF:
Laura Jacqmin’s 10-minute play Parkersburg has been selected as one of the top five 10-minute plays in the nation and will be featured on the Kennedy Center stage in Washington D.C. on April 18th.
1st Year’s National Kennedy Center Award Winning Play On Tour:
Ryan Dowler’s play Mammals, which won the Kennedy Center’s National 10-minute Play Contest and was featured at the Kennedy Center last year, has been on tour around the country (co-sponsored by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Western Washington University). The slate of productions began in early January and will culminate in March with a production in Chacombe, England (about an hour and half northeast of London). Northwest Playwrights Alliance also featured Mammals as an informal reading on December 8, 2007, in Tacoma, WA, as part of NPA’s monthly reading series, and plans to publish the play in the third edition of their anthology of ten-minute plays, “NorthNorthwest,” co-produced by NPA and Western Washington University.
2nd Year MFA Play at ATHE:
Kara Dunn’s short play, The Risque Root has been selected to receive a staged reading at the Association for Theater in Higher Education conference in Denver, Colorado this coming July.
2nd Year MFA Plays at MATC in Kansas City:
Kara Dunn’s ten-minute, The Risque Root, and Reginald Edmund’s Goldielocks received staged readings at the Mid-America Theater Conference in Kansas City.
2nd Year MFA Play in Evanston:
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in Evanston, IL will perform a staged reading of Reginald Edmund’s Juneteenth Street on Saturday, March 8th. From the press release: “Starting March 8, FJT invites you to join us for our series of theatrical readings by professional Evanston and Chicago playwrights every second Saturday of the month.All performances will take place at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Avenue, at 3:00 p.m.”
Recent Alum’s Award Winning Play In Production:
Laura Jacqmin’s “Parkersburg”, winner of the Kennedy Center Region III 10-minute play competition, will be produced in Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 8 this May 15-June 15 in the Steppenwolf Garage; and her play “Released” will be produced in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival in NYC this April.
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