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“Partner” Madness coming Friday!

  • March 14, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Madness · News

Third Year MFA playwright, Aaron Johnson, shall be producing “Partner” Madness this week!!!!  He has assigned each playwright a partner and for them to also write about partners. The partners are Aaron and Rachel; Philana and Catherine; Cristina and Tyler; and Natasha and Ryan.

The Madness show is March 18th,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

More about Aaron

Aaron Johnson hails from the land of cheese in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  He received his Bachelor of the Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he majored in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing and in Theatre and Drama.  While not officially specializing in playwriting in his undergrad, Aaron took the only playwriting course offered twice and completed his creative writing thesis as a play instead of fiction or poetry writing which the school usually requires.  During his time at UW-Madison, Aaron completed three full length plays, multiple One-Acts, and numerous short plays which were all workshopped and some eventually produced at the university in staged readings.  In his Theatre and Drama major he specialized in props and was props master for a number of university shows including Ti-Jean and his Brothers and Eurydice.  Working his summers during college as a technical writer, Aaron decided to take a year off from school and work full time but the call of academia was too much for him to resist though as he is currently pursuing his MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.  Aaron’s writing tends to take the complex and unnoticed topics of today’s culture and bring them to light by using them to create dramatic conflict and then ultimate understanding.  Using these undiscovered topics and coupling them with a realistic style will grow people’s curiosity and actively induce them to gain knowledge about today’s world.  Aaron feels immensely privileged and grateful to be working towards his MFA in Playwriting at OU with such great and inspiring mentors, colleagues, and friends.

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Neal Adelmans new play “I, Custer”in New Mexico!

  • March 12, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · alumni · News · Productions

Recent OU Alum Neal Adelman has a new play at Las Cruces Community Theater in New Mexico.  “I, Custer” is a one woman play that deconstructs and wakes up Custers last stand.  The Las Cruces Sun News writes, “Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Mark Medoff, who selects and directs a student play each year at Las Cruces Community Theatre, chose Adelman’s work for the 2016 Mark Medoff Directorial Project Award.”

The review goes on to compliment the production, “Neal Adelman’s lyrical, poetic, “I, Custer” script brings to mind Greek odysseys and the evocative rhythms of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha.” And that’s quite a feat considering the play’s thoroughly modern, gender-bending millennial perspectives, and the often scatological, racist and sexist commentary from its controversial protagonist.  Check out the full review here

Congrats Neal on your awesome new play!

Go see it!

I, Custer” runs through March 20, with Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m.; Sunday performances at 2 p.m. at LCCT. For tickets, at $12, $11 for students, seniors and military, and $10 for children 6 and under and groups of 10 or more, visit lcctnm.org or call 575-523-1200.

If you go

What:  “I, Custer” by Neal Adelman

When:  Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through March 20

Where: Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St.

How much: $10 to $12

Info: lcctnm.org, 575-523-1200.

 

More about Neal

Neal Adelman was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He writes plays and short stories. His one act play TARRANT COUNTY received an NPP workshop and was a 2014 KCACTF John Cauble Outstanding Short Play National Finalist; his fiction has appeared in Puerto del Sol and Caldera Culture Review. When he’s not writing, he’s either fishing or trying to start a rock and roll band. He is a recent graduate of Ohio University and currently lives in New Mexico.

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Laura Jacqmin has play at the Humana fest!

  • March 9, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · alumni · News · Productions · world premiere

OU Alumni Laura Jacqmin’s new play Residence is apart of 40th annual Humana Fest season.  The festival runs March 2nd-April 10th in Louisville, Kentucky and features plays by such as playwrights as Stephen Dietz and Sarah Ruhl.

Here is a synopsis of Residence:

New mom Maggie returns to her medical sales job, checking into an extended-stay hotel in Arizona as she pursues the commission that will get her out of debt and back on track. When she befriends two hotel employees intent on making her visit a five-star experience, they discover that their lives are all on similarly shaky ground. A funny and sharply-observed play about hanging on when you’re at the end of your rope, and the times when letting go might be the most responsible thing to do.

Here is a nifty video about Laura’s new play!  Congrats Laura!!  Y’all check check it out if you’re in the area!

 

More info about the production

Dates-March 2 – April 10, 2016

by Laura Jacqmin
directed by Hal Brooks

316 West Main St. Louisville, KY 40202

Box Office: 502.584.1205 502.371.0956 TDD

Buy tickets here

 

More about Laura

Laura Jacqmin is a Chicago-based playwright, TV writer, and video game writer, originally from Cleveland. At Actors Theatre: Hero Dad. Regional: January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre); Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre); Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival, 16th Street Theater, Chicago Dramatists/At Play). Other theatre: A Third (Finborough Theatre, London); Look, We Are Breathing (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab); Do-Gooder (16th Street Theater); Ghost Bike (Buzz22 Chicago), and more. Jacqmin is the recipient of the Wasserstein Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grants, The Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, two MacDowell Fellowships, and an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. Television: Grace and Frankie (Netflix); Lucky 7 (ABC). Video games: Minecraft: Story Mode (Telltale Games). Jacqmin is a founding member of The Kilroys and holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Ohio University. Residence was developed by the Cape Cod Theatre Project.

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2016 Playwrights Festival

  • March 7, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · News

2016 OHIO UNIVERSITY SEABURY QUINN, JR. PLAYWRIGHTS’ FESTIVAL

More info coming soon including our lineup of exciting mentors including titles!  Get excitedddd!

 

FEATURED PRODUCTIONS*

Presented in the Forum Theater, RTV Building

Bait Shop
by Ryan Patrick Dolan
Directed by Rani Crewe
April 13th,  16th, 21st
& 22nd at 8:00pm
April 16th at 2:00pm

Occupation Dad
by Tyler Whidden
Directed by Brian Evans
April 14th, 15th, 20th & 23rd
at 8:00pm
April 23rd at 2:00pm

*Tickets for the Featured Productions are $5 general admission or FREE for OU Students (with valid student ID) through Arts for Ohio; available at the Templeton–Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium box office.

 

STAGED READINGS

Presented in the Elizabeth Baker Theater, Kantner Hall

Thursday, April 21st

Cristina Luzarraga
1:00 pm (Free admission)
Catherine Weingarten
4:00 pm (Free admission)
Aaron Johnson (thesis production)
8:00 pm (Free admission)

 

Friday, April 22nd
Natasha Smith
2:00 pm (Free admission)

 

Saturday, April 25th
Philana Omorotionmwan
1:00pm (Free admission)
Rachel Bykowski
4:00pm (Free admission)

 

 

                               Bait Shop

                                                    by Ryan Patrick Dolan
Directed by Rani Crewe

                                                     8:00 pm – April 13th, 16th, 21st & 22nd;
2:00 pm – April 16th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall

Tickets for the Featured Productions are $5 general admission or FREE for OU Students (with valid student ID) through Arts for Ohio; available at the Templeton–Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium box office.

                             Occupation Dad

                                                   by Tyler Whidden
Directed by Brian Evans

                                                      8:00 pm – April 14th, 15th 20th & 23rd;
2:00 pm – April 23rd, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall

Tickets for the Featured Productions are $5 general admission or FREE for OU Students (with valid student ID) through Arts for Ohio; available at the Templeton–Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium box office.

More Info to Follow

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“Taboo” Madness coming this Friday!

  • March 7, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · News

First year MFA playwright, Cristina Luzarraga, shall be producing “Taboo” Madness this week!!!!

The Madness show is March 11th,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

More about Cristina

Cristina Luzarraga was born and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, save for a few teenage years spent in London, England. She graduated in 2011 from Princeton University with B.A. in Comparative Literature. Subsequently, she moved to Chicago where she studied sketch writing and improvisation at iO Theatre and The Second City Conservatory and performed stand-up comedy at Zanies and elsewhere. Her full-length play Due Unto Others was produced by Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Her short plays Hippo Woman and Baker’s Three were produced at Greenhouse Theater in Chicago.

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“Farce:an evening of improbable situations” Madness coming this Friday!

  • February 8, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Madness · News

First year MFA playwright, Natasha Smith, shall be producing “Farce: an evening of improbable situations” Madness this week!!!!  She has assigned each playwright to write a short farce.

The Madness show is February 12th,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

More about Natasha

Natasha Smith’s play Catapult was a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and received a staged reading with Arizona Theatre Company in 2014, where she served as the Artistic Intern for two years. She has also worked with Horizon Theatre and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Natasha’s play In Her Place was produced at Amherst College, where she studied Theater/Dance and English, and won the Denis Johnston Playwriting Award from Smith College. She has taught creative writing in the US and in Kenya, and is a three-time recipient of the Roland Wood Fellowship from Amherst College.  www.natashawrites.com

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“Superpowers” Madness coming this Friday!

  • February 1, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Madness · News

First year MFA playwright, Philana Omorotionmwan, shall be producing “Superpowers” Madness this week!!!!  She has assigned each playwright a different super power to explore.

The Madness show is February 5th,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

 

More about Philana

Philana Omorotionmwan was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She uses writing to create images that explore the the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her short plays have been produced at Ensemble Studio Theater, Manhattan Theatre Source, and Berkeley Rep. Her poems have been published in New Delta Review and African American Review. Philana earned her BA from Stanford University and is excited to be pursing an MFA here at OU. You can find out more about her work at philanaplays.weebly.com.

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Qui Nguyen is finalist for Edward M. Kennedy Prize

  • January 28, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · alumni · Awards · News

OU Alumni Qui Nguyen is one of the finalists for the prestigious award given to plays in conversation with history.  Qui’s play “Vietgone”which was produced by South Coast Repertory is the piece that was recognized.  Here is a podcast about the piece from American theater

The Edward M. Kennedy Prize is given annually through Columbia University to a new play or musical that, in the words of the Prize’s mission statement, “…enlists theater’s power to explore the past of the United States, to participate meaningfully in the great issues of our day through the public conversation, grounded in historical understanding, that is essential to the functioning of a democracy.”

Congrats Qui!!

 

More about Qui

Qui Nguyen is a playwright, TV writer, and Co-Founder of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company of NYC. He and his work, known for its innovative use of pop-culture, stage violence, puppetry, and multimedia, has been called “Culturally Savvy Comedy” by The New York Times, “Tour de Force Theatre” by Time Out New York, and “Infectious Fun” by Variety.

Scripts include Vietgone (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Manhattan Theatre Club), She Kills Monsters (The Flea, Buzz22 Chicago/Steppenwolf, Company One); War is F**king Awesome (developed in the Sundance Theatre Lab); Krunk Fu Battle Battle (East West Players); Bike Wreck (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Trial By Water (Ma-Yi Theater); Aliens Versus Cheerleaders (Keen Teens); Soul Samurai; The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (Ma-Yi Theater & Vampire Cowboys); and the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys productions of Alice in Slasherland; Fight Girl Battle World; Men of Steel; and Living Dead in Denmark.

His scripts are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, and Broadway Play Publishing.

Recent honors include the 2015 NY Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2015 Frederick Loewe Award (War is F**king Awesome), 2014 Sundance Institute/Time Warner Fellowship;  a 2014 McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman Fellow; 2013 Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow; 2013 AATE Distinguished Play Award (She Kills Monsters); 2012 TCG Young Leader of Color; and 2012 & 2009 GLAAD Media Award nominations for his plays She Kills Monsters and Soul Samurai.

He is a proud resident artist at New Dramatists, a core member of The Playwrights’ Center, an alumnus of Youngblood, and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

 

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“Death of America” Madness coming this Friday!

  • January 25, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Current Students · Madness · News

Third year MFA playwright, Ryan Patrick Dolan, shall be producing “The Death of America” Madness this week!!!!

The Madness show is January 29th,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

 

More about Ryan Patrick Dolan

Ryan Patrick Dolan writes dark, comedic plays that explore love and loss, passion and destruction. Stylistically influenced by his years of improvisation, acting, and the Chicago Storefront aesthetic, he challenges the American stereotypes of gender, race, and sexuality. He has a B.A. in playwriting from Columbia College Chicago, and is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf acting conservatory. Dolan produced 10-4: THE TRUCK STOP PLAYS at CIC Theater in Chicago, which consisted of his one-act play, BURGER KING, and three other one-acts written by his fellow Ohio playwrights. He assisted director Tina Landau for Steppenwolf Theater’s production of Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s “The Brother/Sister Plays.” Ryan was the dramaturg at RedTwist theater for Kimberly Senior’s production of “The Pillowman,” and Keira Fromm’s production of “The Lobby Hero.” Both were nominated for Jeff Awards for “Best Play” and “Best Director.” Ryan is also a 11-year veteran of the Chicago improv scene. He has primarily performed at iO and Annoyance Theaters, but also has performed and taught workshops at numerous festivals and universities around the country with his groups Revolver and Pudding-Thank-You. Ryan also taught, and co-wrote and performed four Mainstage shows at Boston’s Improv Asylum. ryanpatrickdolan.com

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“Daddy Issues” Madness coming this Friday!

  • January 18, 2016
  • by catherineforever666
  • · Current Students · Madness · News

Second-year MFA playwright, Catherine Weingarten, shall be producing “Daddy Issues” Madness this week!!!! 😉  In her prompt she ask many questions like “why this term is so catchy” and “Can your parents really screw you up for life or just a little, like in a sexually appealing way?”

The Madness show is January 22nd,  11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.  She also says bring a date cause it’s probably gunna be a sexy night of theaterrr 🙂

For more information about Madness this spring semester, check out our Madness page.

 

More about Catherine

Catherine Weingarten hails from Ardmore, PA also known as the area that inspired the preppy sexy TV show “Pretty Little Liars.” Catherine’s comedic plays delve into the societal pressure placed on young women to be both impossibly good looking as well as ridiculously intellectual, humble, kind as can be but sexy.  Her plays usually include some hot fantasy sequences which helps attract the common man into the theater!   She recently graduated from Bennington College in Vermont where she studied playwriting(with Sherry Kramer) as well as gender, mediation and environmental studies.  Her short plays have been done at such theaters as Ugly Rhino Productions, Fresh Ground Pepper, Wishbone Theater Collective and Nylon Fusion Collective.  She is currently the playwright in residence for “Realize Your Beauty Inc” which promotes positive body image for kids by way of theater arts.   Catherine is thrilled to pursue her MFA at OU and thankful for the awesome opportunity for baller mentorship.

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