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Go see Jeremy Sony’s play “The Last Queen of Wonderland” in Tennessee!

October 22, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni · News

OU Playwriting Alum Jeremy Sony has a new play called “The Last Queen of Wonderland” at Street Theater In Nashville, playing through this weekend! It was written for their youth program called ClassAct Dramatics and is his third collaboration with them!

Here’s a synopsis of the piece: A young woman discovers an impossible family secret…She travels to Wonderland, books in tow as her guide, in search of her sister who disappeared years ago. There, she meets a teenage boy named Charlie who’s been imprisoned by the Queen of Hearts. Now, Lacie must rescue Charlie and her sister, and find a way for all of them to escape through the looking glass back to where they belong. Otherwise, Charlie may never grow up to write the books, and without the clues they hold, Lacie and her sister may get trapped in Wonderland forever.

Check out some awesome production photos of the show and check the show out if you’re in the Nashville area!

Details

October 16-24, shows on Fridays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm & 7pm.

Performances at BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

2000 Greenwood Ave

Nashville, TN 37206

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can but seating is still reserved, so purchase tickets in advance at www.streettheatrecompany.org or call 615-554-7414.

Read more about Jeremy

Jeremy Sony is a Midwest-based writer and co-founder of Theatre Daedalus. His plays include: The Century Box (World Premiere, Little Theatre Off Broadway), Robin Hood and the Secret of Sherwood (Street Theatre Co., Class Act Dramatics); Sleepy Hollow: The Lost Chapter (STC., ClassAct Dramatics); The View at the End (Available Light 24 Hour Theatre); Parallaxis and Cuckold Walks Into A Bar (MadLab Theatre Roulette 2014); Advice to the Happy Couple (MadLab, Theatre Roulette 2013); and The Cosmonaut in Human Resources (Luna Theatre). Upcoming plays: The Last Queen of Wonderland (STC ClassAct Dramatics, October 2015). Other plays in active development include: Pathogenesis (Reading, Nashville Repertory Theatre) and Frackture (Workshop, TAGS New Play Project). Sony’s plays have also been seen and developed at Penobscot Theater, Curtain Players Theatre, Playhouse Nashville’s Ten Minute Playhouse, Western Michigan University, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Ohio University MFA Playwrights Workshop, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: 2013-2014 Ingram New Works Lab Residency (Nashville Repertory Theatre); Scott McPherson Playwriting Award (2012); 2012-2013 Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship; 2010 Heideman Award Finalist (Spin Cycle). FILM: The Last Con (Two Pop Productions); Separation Anxiety (Best Drama, 2012 Riverbend Film Festival; produced by Glass City Films, featuring Emmy-winner John Wesley Shipp and Drama Desk nominee Polly Adams). OTHER WRITING: “Hard Stop” (published by Outskirts Press under the pseudonym Jamie Rotham). Sony holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Ohio University and a B.A. in Film & Television from the University of Notre Dame. He has studied under playwrights Charles Smith, Erik Ramsey, Merri Biechler, Mark Pilkinton, Doug Wright, and Kara Lee Corthron. Sony lives in central Ohio with his wife and son, where they are slightly outnumbered by their cats. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, and many social media sites under the handle @JeremyWrites.

Short plays by OU playwrights being performed by Actors Theater of Lousiville Apprentice Company!

October 10, 2015
by catherineforever666
· Current Students · News

A few alumni from the Ohio MFA Acting program who are now Acting Apprentices at the Actors Theater of Louisville helped set up a night of short plays by Ohio MFA Playwrights. The whole evening is called “Spooky Old Lou” and is happening this Monday, October 19th in Louisville, Kentucky at 6pm. In this incredible 1 year acting intensive program through the prestigious Actors Theater of Louisville, actors are allowed to do their own independent projects.

The playwrights featured are a mix of alumni and current students: Rachel Bykowski(current second year), Jeffry Chastang(alum),Tyler Whidden(current third year), Catherine Weingarten(current second year), Bianca Sams(alum), and Sarah Bowden(alum)..

Come check out this awesome fun Halloween friendly OU friendly event if you are in the area!

Here is more info on the current Apprentice actors including Ohio Alums Lisa Bol and Mbali Guliwe

More Info on Event

Facebook Event

Monday October 19th at 6pm,

Location: 1023 S. 3rd St., Louisville, KY

HOW TO ATTEND:
To attend this event, YOU MUST FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING FORM: http://doodle.com/poll/47twm955sz4xfmdf
Sign up for ONE slot only. Please be prepared to enter the venue at the EXACT time you have requested.

IMPORTANT:
The show requires walking, standing, and three flights of stairs. If you have any difficulty with stairs or standing for approximately one hour, please use your best judgement regarding your attendance.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. However, we will be accepting donations on behalf of the Acting Apprentice Company to help raise money for our Showcase at the end of the year.

PARKING:
Free street parking will be readily available.

Bianca Sams reading in Chicago this weekend!

September 24, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni · Chicago · News

A Reading of Bianca Sams thesis play “Rust on Bone” will be presented this Sunday, September 27th at noon with Babes with Blade Theater in Chicago! Bianca’s script has been part of their “Fighting Words” New Play Development series for female writers and this is the final reading of her play. Go check it out if you’re in Chicago!!

More info

. The reading will take place at the Heartland Studio space located at 7016 N. Glenwood in Chicago at 12pm. Keep your eyes peeled on our Fighting Words page for future readings. As always: Free food! Free drink! Free theatre!

More about Bianca

As a female playwright of color, she is drawn to stories that question the roles of women, ethnicity, and family in modern society, that deal with the search for self in the collective identity and which explore underlying connective threads of mankind. Bianca weaves hot button social issues into her work because growing up in the politically active San Francisco Bay Area instilled a drive to create art that “holds as it ‘twere a mirror up to nature”. She hopes that through watching a dynamic dramatization of these issues unfold before their eyes, she will engage the audience in a visceral manner that convicts them to do something about it. You can see the fingerprints of her approach in her full length plays, At The Rivers End, Battle Cry, Rust On Bone, Black. Irish., Just Porgy, Rise Phoenix Rise and Summer Nights & Fireflies.

Awards and honors include KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry (2nd place), Rosa Parks Award (2nd place), Kennedy Center/Eugene O’Neill New Play Conference fellow, Jane Chambers Student Playwright Award/Athe (2nd Place), Scott McPherson Playwright Award, The Playwright Center Core Apprentice (2014), Playwright Foundation BAPF (finalist), Eugene O’Neill NPC (semi-finalist), TRI Research Fellowship at Ohio State University, Nashville Rep/Ingram New Works Lab Playwright-in-residence , Warner Brothers TV Writers Workshop, and T. S. Eliot Acting Fellowship.

Laura Jacqmin nominated for Jeff Award in Chicago!

August 23, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni · Chicago · News

Playwriting alum Laura Jacqmin’s play ” Look, we are breathing ” which was done at Rivendell Theater Ensemble the spring of 2015, has just been nominated for a Jeff award!! The Joseph Jefferson Awards (The Jeff Awards) are given annually by a volunteer non-profit committee to acknowledge excellence in theatre in the Chicago area. Founded in 1968, the awards are given in tribute to actor Joseph Jefferson.

From press release: “The list comprises 187 nominations in 36 categories, representing 34 theaters that opened productions between between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015. The 47th annual Equity Jeff Awards will be presented Monday, October 5 at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace.”

Here’s a brief synopsis of Laura’s play: “Those who die young are mourned for their lost potential. But what if Mike, a high school hockey player killed while driving drunk, never really showed much potential? In this searing world premiere, Chicago playwright Laura Jacqmin turns her unblinking eye on the grieving process, as three women in Mike’s life realize that in order to move on, they first have to confront some hard truths about themselves.

Congrats Laura and we hope you win!! You on fire, gurl!

More about Laura

Laura Jacqmin is a Chicago-based playwright and television writer, originally from Cleveland. She’s the winner of the Wasserstein Prize, two NEA Art Works Grants, the Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Award, two MacDowell Fellowships, an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and has been a finalist for the Heideman Award, the Laurents/Hatcher Prize, the BBC International Playwriting Competition, and the Princess Grace Award. Her play Dental Society Midwinter Meeting was named one of New City Stage’s Top Five Plays of 2010, as well as TimeOut Chicago’s Honorable Mentions: Best Theater of 2010. Her television work includes the forthcoming series “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix) and “Lucky 7” (ABC). She received her BA from Yale University, and earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.

Plays include Ghost Bike (Buzz22 Chicago), Do-Gooder (16th Street Theater), January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre), Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre), Look, We Are Breathing (Sundance Theater Lab), Two Lakes, Two Rivers (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency), and Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Chicago Dramatists/At Play, remounted 16th Street Theater and Theater on the Lake). Her short play Hero Dad premiered in the 2012 Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Her work has been produced and developed by Atlantic Theater Company, Old Vic New Voices, Roundabout Underground, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Ars Nova, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Second Stage Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, The 24 Hour Plays Off-Broadway, and the inaugural NNPN University Playwrights Workshop at Stanford University, among others.

Ira Gammerman’s short play featured in Sam French OOB Fest in NYC this week!

August 1, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni · Festival · New York · News

Playwriting alum Ira Gammerman’s hilarious and dark short play “Billy Bitchass” will be apart of the 40th Annual Sam French OOB short play fest in NYC. This is a highly prestigious short play fest and out of thousands of scripts, only 30 were selected. The plays will be performed in NYC in front of an industry panel and the top plays will be published with Sam French. Ira’s play will be done this Wednesday, August 5th at 8pm at 13th street theater; it also features an Ohio MFA actress alum, Marissa Wolf!

Check it out of you’re in NY! Ira’s writing is way too funny to exist!

Click here for tickets

More about Ira

Ira Gamerman is an Award-Winning AustraliAmerican PodcastPlaywright. He creates sound and songs using affected electric mandolin and guitar with Anonymous In The Clouds, Battler, and Pronouns. His Dramatic work has been produced by The Kennedy Center, Collaboraction, Short & Sweet Sydney, Source Festival, and The Chicago New Media Summit. In 2006, City Paper voted Ira “Best Playwright Of Baltimore” and in 2009, he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for best short play. As a Podcaster, Ira writes for Radiotopia’s THE TRUTH (featured on This American Life) where his Collaborative Audio-Play “Biological Clock” won a 2013 Mark Time Award from the Fire Sign Theater for Best Science Fiction Audio Production of the Year. He also co-created and co-hosts DANGEROUSLY UNQUALIFIED: A PODCAST ABOUT LOVE with EST/Youngblood Alumni Playwright Ryan Dowler through BSD MEDIA. Internationally, Ira is Co-Creative Artistic Director of AUSTRALIAMERICAN THEATER CONGLOMORATE: EVERYTHING IS EVERYWHERE (2 Americans 2 Aussies 2 Gals 2 Dudes 2 Goys 2 Jews 2 Legit 2 Quit) with Jessica Bellamy, David Finnigan, and Siobhan O’loughlin. Ira holds a BA in Theater from Towson University, an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, and studied Devised theater at the (now defunct) Dartington College Of Art in the UK. As an educator, Ira has taught undergraduate theater at Ohio University and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn in addition to playwright-mentoring Young Playwrights Festivals at Atlanta’s Horizon Theater and Baltimore’s Center Stage. As a journalist, Ira has been published by Consequence Of Sound, Eleven Magazine in St. Louis (even though he has never actually visited St. Louis), and HowlRound. He was also an extra in Season 3 of The Wire and has the screenshot to prove it if you don’t believe him.

Playwriting Alum Reginald Edmund chosen as part of new Patriot Program!

July 31, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni

Ohio alum Reginald Edmund was just selected as an affiliated artist of Merrimack Repertory Theater in Lowell, MA! With the arrival of a new artistic director, Sean Daniels, comes this new exciting affiliated artists “Patriot Program” which has been created to serve over 50 theater artists of all kinds to create new work for the American theater.

Here’s an excerpt from the press release:

Daniels aims to put Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Lowell on the national radar by originating work here that goes onto to have future life in the American Theatre. Part of that means attracting artists to MRT so that it is one of the first places they think of when they have a new project. According to Daniels, “We’re building a national theatre for our town and a local home for these national artists.”

“As we talked to these artists – we kept hearing ‘I’d love to just have a place to come write’, or ‘I’d love to be writing when other writers are there so we gather for dinner for each night and compare notes’ or ‘I’d love to just start with some designers and dream up a project’. This program aims to provide those generative opportunities. As we grow, and have more to offer, these will be the artists we reach out to first.” Read full press release here

Congrats Reginald on this awesome prestigious opportunity! Watch this cool interview with Reginald to find out more about him and his work.

More about Reginald

Reginald Edmund, is a resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists, he was previously a 2009-2010, 2010-2011 Many Voices Fellow playwright. Originally from Houston, Texas, he served Artistic Director for the Silver House Theatre, as well as the founder and producer for the Silver House Playwrights Festival and the Houston Urban Theatre Series. Reggie was the inaugural recipient of the Kennedy Center Fellowship at Soul Mountain Retreat as well as the 2009 National Runner-up for the Lorraine Hansberry and Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, and most recently winner of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for his play ‘SouthBridge’. He received his BFA in Theatre-Performance from Texas Southern University, and his MFA in playwriting at Ohio University under the guidance of Charles Smith.

Check out Playwriting Alum Jeremy Motz’s show in the Minnesota Fringe this August!

July 28, 2015
by catherineforever666
· News · Productions

This summer our alumni are up to some fun fun projects! Jeremy Motz’s new original one man show “DING DONG SING SONG” will be having five performances as part of the MN fringe, throughout the month of August! The show is about a failing singing telegram performer, convinced his awful song and dance butchering of “ironic” karaoke hits in ill-fitting costumes is considered “outsider art”.

This will be his third consecutive year writing and performing original solo shows for the MN Fringe; in 2013, his show BOXCUTTER HARMONICA sold out its final performance, and last year’s REWIND-A-BUDDY received positive reviews.

Check out his show if you’re in Minnesota! Sounds a bit too fun to exist 😉

Click here for additional show information, performance times, and ticket information.

More about JeremyJ. Merrill Motz, or Jeremy Motz, or just Motz (rhymes with boats) recently earned a graduate degree in Ohio University’s Professional Playwriting Program, after having spent four years in Minneapolis, where he moved after graduating from Central Michigan University with a BFA in acting. While in the Twin Cities, he acted for Chameleon Theatre Circle, Workhouse, took classes at the Playwright’s Center and The Loft, and appeared as Saul in the original production of Table 12 in the 2010 Minnesota Fringe.

At CMU, his plays Ain’t That A Kick in the Head, Just One, Nobody Flinched Down By The Arcade, and The Roommate were produced by the Alpha Psi Omega one-act festival, with Ain’t That A Kick in the Head and The Roommate selected to be performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2006 and 2007. The Roommate was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin Fon du Lac to be developed into a full-length production for their 2008 main stage season. His last full-length script, All Gonna Go, received a reading from Swandive Theatre in Minneapolis in 2010. This Spring, his latest (in-progress) script, Reinforce Sincerity, received a reading at the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwright’s Festival in Athens, OH. Motz was published in the online crime fiction magazine Plots With Guns in March 2010, and hopes to dabble some more in crime fiction if he can ever find the time.

Motz has performed with Freshwater in the original production of Table 12, Sky Fleeting (as part of both runs of our Dirty Girls Come Clean festival) and Going Down on the Queen of Minneapolis. Motz wrote, produced and performed in Boxcutter Harmonica, a one man show, during the 2013 Fringe, and recently wrote The Beacon From Belle Isle, a modern-day fairy tale about Michigan, which opened our 2013-2014 mainstage season.

Ohio Alum John Hendel will appear on Jeopardy tomorrow!

July 14, 2015
by catherineforever666
· Events · News

So I recently chatted with a friendly Ohio alum who is about to make his jeopardy debut!! John Hendel is a talented actor/playwright whose work always has a fun sense of humor and probing trashy questions about the world. Let’s learn a little bit about him and then WATCH HIM ON JEOPARDY! Woot woot!!

What made you interested in OU’s playwriting program?

I didn’t realize I was a playwright until I went to OU. I originally went for Theater Performance, getting into the BFA studio. Meanwhile, I took prerequisite playwriting classes, enjoyed them, found that I had a talent for it, and joined the BFA playwriting program as well. Erik was very open to training me on my time, understanding my focus was elsewhere. But as I went through the Performance program, I grew less and less enchanted with acting as a career. What I was in reality was a writer, not an actor. I don’t know if I would have come to that conclusion so quickly and so thoroughly had I not been at a school so inclusive with its playwriting program and with such strong ties between the actors (both BFA and MFA) and the playwrights (both BFA and MFA).

What kind of stories are you drawn to?

I like stories about stupid people, sort of like the old joke, “If sense were really common, everyone would have some.” I’m most fascinated by characters who make it through their days and lives behaving illogically and irrationally. My BFA final project about two married murderers came from watching too much Fox News, for instance. I also enjoy the Kitestab style of storytelling. A Kitestab is the combination of a written monologue and archival video footage, the two of which are completely unrelated, the combination of which is is it’s own separate entity. It is a very cool experiment I suggest for all writers.

3.What was the transition from OU to real life like?

Transitioning out of OU was/is finding where my place is in the world as a playwright. The general notion of College was that I take that degree and I make a career out of it, but that’s not how playwriting has worked for me. Instead, it’s about living and being a playwright. It was about accepting that my career and my wages don’t have to go hand in hand. Playwriting became more of a reality, like death or taxes, something inescapable.

What’s your fave candy and what do you think that says about you(as a writer or person or both)

Gummi Worms, sour ones if I’m feeling indulgent. Such a unique idea, such an odd evolution. Edible bears are bit strange to begin with, but how did worms come from that? It would seem almost lazy, like a mistake in the factory, but clearly some thought goes into it, splitting the gummi worms into two alternating flavors. Worms? Worms. (side note: while I was at OU, the best sour gummi worms were to be found at the Court St. BP station).

Can you tell me a little bit about your upcoming Jeopardy appearance and how you got involved?

I’ve been a Jeopardy fan all of my life, and have been applying to be a contestant ever since my first year at OU. It’s an online test and they will never tell you how you did. The only thing you know is if they contact you. They contacted me last year for an in-person audition. Few months later, I get called in as a Southern California alternate (since we don’t have to travel, we get brought on as alternate candidates). I didn’t make it that time, but I was guaranteed a spot. I returned to the studio in April and it was a dream come true. Alex Trebek actually saying my name, getting to buzz in, getting things right, getting things wrong. It really is a blur. The hardest part has been keeping the secret of how I did, but it’s been fun misdirecting people into guessing how I did.

Do you have any tips for OU theater students on things to take advantage of in the program?

Take advantage of the free facilities at OU and create your own work. When you’re surrounded by eager artists and simply need to sign up for a space, create and produce. Self-production is such a huge part of the theater world, there’s no good reason to not take advantage of facilities when they’re right in front of you.

Tune in Wednesday night to see John!! Click Here for more Jeopardy info. Also while you are waiting to watch him on Jeopardy, read a little of his work!! This is an excerpt from his short play “Why Leopards Whittle”

A tree, stage right. Seated on a rock, stage left, is GUS, a leper. He is whittling. Another leper in the colony, JAMES enters. They are both wrapped in tatters, more Ben-Hur than Molokai.

JAMES

What are you doing?!

GUS

Whittling. Don’t think we’ve met. I’m Gus.

JAMES

Where did you get that wood?!

GUS

That tree over there.

JAMES

You tore from The Savior!

GUS

That tree?

JAMES

Stop it! That’s our sustenance! Do you see anything else

living?? Do you think we get water from these rocks??

GUS

No, but I can’t believe we get water from a tree.

JAMES

We do! Stop whittling, you fool!

GUS

Do you know how long it took me to fashion a blade out of this

rock?

JAMES

I don’t care! Stop blaspheming.

GUS cuts off his finger.

GUS

Aw, dammit to fuck!

JAMES

You see? You are being punished.

GUS

Fucking hell, do you have a spare rag, friend?

JAMES

Serves you right.

GUS

This is a lot more painful than it looks. Can you please help?

JAMES

Maybe it’s a sacrifice.

GUS

Are you even listening?

JAMES puts his foot on GUS’s finger.

JAMES

You have cursed yourself. The Savior is angry.

GUS

“The Savior” is a tree that doesn’t grow leaves even though it’sJuly. Can you please get my finger?? Is anyone here a surgeon?

End of Excerpt!

More about John

John Hendel is a playwright out of Los Angeles. His plays have been seen in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and the NY Artists, Unlimited International CringeFest. He is a multi-time participant at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, AK, as both a playwright and an actor. He writes online at offthehendel.com, where he also practices the art of the Kitestab.

Jacob Juntunen has short play at City Theater of Independence in Missouri this July!

June 30, 2015
by catherineforever666
· News

Jacob Juntunen is having a busy summer! His play “Hath Taken Away” was recently read at Chicago Dramatists as well as the Last Frontier Theater Conference and now he has a short play called “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be” being performed at City Theater of Independence in Kansas City Missouri July 9th through the 12! Congrats Jacob! Check it out if you’re in the area(The title is cool!!)

More Details

Dates for show: July 9th,10th,11th at 8pm

July 12th at 2pm

Address: City Theatre of Independence Banquet

Sermon Center

201 N. Dodgion

Independence, MO 64050

More about Jacob

Jacob Juntunen is a playwright and theatre scholar whose work focuses on people who struggle against society’s boundaries.

His playwriting stems from a mix of scholarship and social responsibility. Therefore, his playwriting and academic writing are a constant symbiosis. Both focus on understanding the political function of theatre, and this focus is demonstrated in his plays, which, overall, are meant for those “who want to leave the theatre changed and moved,” as one Chicago critic described. He recently wrote See Him? to participate in the Belarusian Dream Theater, a consortium of 18 theaters in 13 countries simultaneously producing plays to raise awareness about human rights violations in Belarus. His latest play, Hath Taken Away, was an O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, and has had readings at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK) and as part of the Saturday Series at Chicago Dramatists. His previous full-length play, In The Shadow Of his Language, was an Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Contest Finalist; an O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist; an AACT New Play Contest Finalist; and a Princess Grace Fellowship Semi-Finalist. It was read at Chicago Dramatists, as part of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs “In the Works” series, at the Alliance Theatre, and workshopped off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. His play Saddam’s Lions—published in Plays for Two (Vintage)—examines the disquieting memories of an African-American female Iraq War veteran and her struggles to come to terms with war-time trauma. Jacob based this play on interviews with a veteran. This process combined his desire for politically relevant work, his dedication to diverse casting opportunities, and his scholarship about the politics of performance. He hopes to inspire in students a similar yearning for intellectual curiosity, social activism, collaboration, and playwriting.

Alumni Sarah Bowden has short play at Nylon Fusion Theater Company tonight at 7 in NYC!

June 28, 2015
by catherineforever666
· alumni · News

Alumni Sarah Bowden’s short play Batter Up: a Play about Basketball or Baking” is featured tonight at Nylon Fusion Theater Company’s “This Rounds On Us” Short Play fest. This year each of their short play fests are “Time Travel Themed” and aligned with two decades in U.s History. The June short play fest is 1930s/40s themed. Congrats Sarah! If you are in NYC go check it out! They give you free Sangria with your ticket 😉

More Info

TONIGHT!

7pm, Gene Frankel Theater-24 Bond Street NY. Get tickets here

More about Sarah

Sarah Bowden is a playwright, raised right, who writes about kryptonite. Her full-length The Magnificent Masked Hearing Aid was staged at Ohio University in 2012, and was listed as a semi-finalist in the 2013 Capital Repertory Next Act! New Play Summit and the 2013 Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte’s nuVoices Festival. Her short play Captain Incredible Vs. The Girlfriend was produced internationally by Monkeyman Productions in 2012, and her five-minute script Batter Up: A Play About Baseball Or Baking was produced by Nylon Fusion Theatre in 2015. Her full-length Lively Stones received a reading at the Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre in 2011, and her one-act Two Sides of a River was read at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia in 2009. Sarah has completed internships with Chicago Dramatists, Arden Theatre Company, the Wilma Theater, Northlight Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the Adirondack Theatre Festival. She received Honorable Mention in the American Blues Theater’s 2013 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, and was listed as a semi-finalist in the 2015 Activate Midwest New Play Festival, the 2014 Elgin Cultural Commission Page to Stage Program, and the Stage Left Theatre Playwright Residency. She won the 2005 White-Howells English Prize for Drama and the 2003 Margaret W. Baker Prize for Fiction. In 2002, she was a finalist in the 2002 International Thespian Festival’s Playworks program. Sarah holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Ohio University and B.A. in directing and creative writing from Beloit College.