Congratulations to one of our newest alums, Jeremy Sony; he was recently announced as one of the four 2013-2014 Ingram New Works Lab Playwrights at Tennessee Repertory Theatre! The program consists of monthly workshops, a lab symposium with this year’s Ingram New Works Fellow, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright, as well as a new works festival in May.
Jeremy Sony Name Tenn Rep Ingram New Works Lab Playwright
Prof Erik Ramsey’s Latest Post on Plotwrench
“How much do your characters talk about themselves?” asks Erik Ramsey in his latest post at plotwrench. Research shows that we, as people, talk about ourselves more than we think. How does this translate to our characters and how can we use this knowledge to shape our fictions?
Reginald Edmund nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award
Reginald Edmund has been nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award for writing, for REGINALD EDMUND’S SOUTHBRIDGE, produced earlier this year at Chicago Dramatists. The play, originally developed at OU was the National Runner-up for the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry and the Rosa Parks Awards in 2009, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2011, and the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award Winner in 2013. Congratulations!!
Fiona Kyle’s “I Will Not Let You Go” gets Chicago Reading
N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago seems to be a hotspot for OU alums. Fiona Kyle’s I WILL NOT LET YOU GO is being presented Monday, August 5th as part of a night of new works as part of Something Incredibly Marvelous Happens, A Festival of Magical Realism. More details available at http://somethingmarvelous.org/#events
Aaron Carter’s Play Debuts in Steppenwolf’s First Look.
This month, alum Aaron Carter’s THE GOSPEL OF FRANKLIN can be see at Steppenwolf (starting tonight!). Aaron’s play is part of Steppenwolf’s First Look Season. OU’s own Associate Professor of Playwriting Erik Ramsey is on board as the dramaturg. Break legs to all involved! Congratulations, Aaron! Visit the link to find all performance dates and to purchase tickets.
For more information check out the play’s page on Steppenwolf’s website.
Dana Lynn Formby Reading At Silent Theatre in Chicago
This Sunday, August 4th, in Chicago, alumna Dana Lynn Formby has a reading of her new comedy UNTIL DEATH at Silent Theatre new HQ space, 1914 N. Milwaukee, 3rd floor at 5:00 PM. It’s FREE. Fine spirits will be available for a suggested donation. Until Death is part of the American Demigods Local Heroes reading series, running every Sunday in August.
J. Merrill Motz Opens New Play at Minnesota Fringe Festival
This Friday, BOXCUTTER HARMONICA by alum J. Merrill Motz opens at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. BOXCUTTER HARMONICA is a collaboration between the Minneapolis-based playwright and his longtime friend, Chicago playwright Randall Colburn, shedding light on obsession, greed, greatness, and the devil’s singular fascination with collecting souls.
Erik Ramsey’s New Post Advocates Computer-Aided Play Development
Digital dramaturgy? Film Crit HULK smashes it, and rightly so. But plotwrench.org makes a case for computer-aided play development:
WOUB & OU Media Highlight 3rd Year Thesis Play
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When the third-year MFA candidates were pitching their thesis plays last year, there was one word on the front page every day in Athens: fracking. Hydraulic-fracturing, which is a way to extract natural gas from underground deposits, has become an international debate — but most people outside of the ‘frack zones’ haven’t been exposed to the onslaught of pro- and anti-fracking sentiments. With Athens County and Eastern Ohio sitting atop a large expanse of natural gas, Sony — like many Athens residents — decided to research the topic for himself.
From that research, an idea formed that would develop into his thesis play, FRACKTURE, and become the basis for his winning Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship proposal.
Sony sat down with Taylor Evans from Ohio University Research Communications to talk about FRACKTURE, his work, and how a story about fracking was right up his alley.
The story was first published by Research Communications and subsequently picked up and released by WOUB Public Media. You can read the full story at WOUB or you can find the original article on the Ohio University website. The story is currently being highlighted on the Ohio University home page.
Sony’s plays have been staged at Luna Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, Curtain Players, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and Ohio University. His screenplay, Separation Anxiety, was produced by Glass City Films and he is published by Outskirts Press under the pseudonym Jamie Rotham. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Film & Television from the University of Notre Dame and is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild. Sony is the recipient of the 2012-2013 Ohio University Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship and the 2012 Scott McPherson Playwriting Award. You can follow his projects at jeremysony.com.
Eric Coble Takes ‘Velocity’ to Broadway
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Eric Coble, OU alum, is heading to Broadway in 2013 with his play THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN. Led by director Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington, DC, the play marks the Broadway debut for the Ohio-based writer. Featuring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony winner Stephen Spinella, the 90-minute dramatic comedy bows in Spring 2013.
Read the Playbill.com article for more details.
OU was thrilled to welcome Eric as a guest artistic mentor during the 2012 Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights Festival. His play have been produced Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at Manhattan Class Company, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, the Denver Center, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Florida Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Curious Theatre, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Oregon Children’s Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Company, Stages Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and The Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
Learn more about Eric at ericcoble.com.
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