Tag: Madness

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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Home Cooked Madness

January 19, 2021
by John Hendel
· News

What does it mean if something is home cooked? Is it a comfort? A burden? Is it time well spent with the family and friends, or is it take out and TV? Are there specific rules that make something uniquely home cooked? Let’s find out! In this week’s Madness, we will combine 6 playwrights, a handful of creativity, a dash of ego, and a few sweet burns to explore what it means for something to be home cooked. Friday, 1/29 at 6:00 p.m. EST. Produced by 2nd-year playwright, Klae Bainter.

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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Madness is ALIVE!

August 31, 2020
by Erik Ramsey
· Madness · News

After a long, isolated break, Madness is ALIVE! To celebrate its return as a live Zoom-show this semester, OHIO’s MFA Playwriting Program will explore the things that make us feel alive — that remind us we live and breathe and exist despite a distanced society. Produced by 3rd-year playwright, John Hendel.

How to attend Madness this fall (2020):

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: 9/4, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13. Typically, Madness runs around 50 minutes in length.

More about Madness at https://ohioplaywriting.org/madness/.

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“CUNext Tuesday” Madness coming to you Friday!

April 3, 2017
by catherineforever666
· Current Students · Madness · News

The final madness of the semester will be produced by third year playwright, Rachel Bykowski! Her prompt is “C*U*N*extT*uesday” She wants to create: A night of awakenings. Celebrating women in all our forms. Taking back our bodies, sexualities, and identities, and defining them on our terms.

Show is April 7th, 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, check out our Madness page.

More about Rachel:

Rachel Bykowski, a Chicago native, writes plays to raise awareness about social issues. Specifically, much of her writing features women and analyzes gender roles, rape culture, and male privilege. Rachel’s full-length play TIGHT END was selected by the National New Play Network to be workshopped at the Kennedy Center for the MFA Playwrights’ Festival. TIGHT END will be receiving its world premiere production with 20% Theatre Company Chicago in May of 2017. Rachel was one of six graduate students at Ohio University to be awarded a Named Fellowship, The Trisolini. The Trisolini will allow Rachel to work with Ohio University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department to research violence against women perpetrated by male privilege for the 2016-2017 academic year. This research will be showcased in her thesis play VOODOO DOLL during the 2017 Seabury Quinn Playwrights’ Festival at Ohio University. Other playwriting credits include her full lengths: ORIGINAL RECIPE workshop production (DePaul University,) GOT TO KILL BITCH staged reading (Cock and Bull Theatre,) GLORY VS. THE WOLVES staged reading (20% Theatre Company and Women and Children First Bookstore,) and A GIRL NAMED CHARLIE staged reading (Ohio University). Rachel’s ten minute plays have been produced with various companies around Chicago and the Midwest including 20% Theatre Company, Fury Theatre, Commedia Beauregard, and Actors’ Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company. Rachel received her BFA in playwriting from the Theatre School of DePaul University and is currently attending Ohio University for her MFA in Playwriting. Rachel is a proud company member and Literary Manager for 20% Theatre Chicago. For more information, check out her website http://www.rachelbykowskiplays.com

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“American Girl Doll” Madness coming this Friday!

March 20, 2017
by catherineforever666
· Madness · News

The next madness of the semester will be produced by third year playwright, Catherine Weingarten! Her prompt is “American Girl Doll” and she has asked the playwrights to translate them! Feel free to bring your American girl doll to the the show!! The more the merrier!

Show is March 24th, 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, 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.” She recently graduated from Bennington College in Vermont where she studied playwriting(with the magical 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. Her short play, “You Looked Hot When You Stole that Dress From Walmart” was voted favorably in the NYC LGBTQ “Fresh Fruit Festival” 10 minute play contest and received a revival at The Wild Project this past July as part of the official festival. Catherine previously was a member of Abingdon Theater’s playwrights group as well as New Perspective Theater’s “Women’s Work” 2014 short play lab. She is currently the playwright in residence for “Realize Your Beauty Inc” which promotes positive body image for kids by way of theater arts. She wrote an educational play for them called “Bloom” about a chick getting kicked out of a yoga class for being not hot enough, which is geared for high school age kids. Catherine is thrilled to pursue her MFA at OU and thankful for the awesome opportunity for baller mentorship. catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com

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“Just Breathe” Calmness coming to you Friday!

March 13, 2017
by catherineforever666
· Events · Madness · News

Second year MFA playwright, Philana Omorotionmwan, shall be producing “Just Breathe” Calmness(not madness) this week!!!! Philana writes in her prompt, “This week, I am asking you write a 3-5 minute play in which you don’t take the breath for granted. Instead, I want you to pay very close attention to the breath.”

The Madness show is March 17th, 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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“Party Game” Madness coming this Friday!

February 20, 2017
by catherineforever666
· Madness

The next madness of the school year will be produced by second year playwright, Cristina Luzarraga! Her prompt is “Party Game” Madness! For her madness, she has asked the playwrights to explore characters who are strangers onstage.

Here is an excerpt from the prompt:

For this Madness I want you to explore the intersection of party games and personal confrontation and/or revelation. You will each be assigned a specific party game, and you are tasked with using that game as a means to express your characters’ truths and desires. I am interested in how games figure into everyday life and how we use them for more than just having fun. What are your characters’ ulterior motives? Why are they playing this game in particular? Are they playing a game or are they for real, and is there a difference?

The show is Friday, February 24th, 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 the fall 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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“Paper Moon” Madness coming this Friday!

January 30, 2017
by catherineforever666
· Madness · News

Second year MFA playwright, Natasha Smith, shall be producing “Paper Moon” Madness this week!!!! She has assigned each playwright to write a short farce.

Here’s an except from her prompt:

“Can love and belief transform a paper moon, or is it always a deception? Why do we believe in comforting things, and what do we find comforting in hard times?

Listen to the song here

The Madness show is February 3rd, 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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“Post Truth” Madness coming this Friday!

January 23, 2017
by catherineforever666
· News

“Post Truth” Madness will be coming this Friday to the Hahne! It will be produced by first year playwright, Katherine Varga!

Here is an excerpt from her prompt:

This week, I want you to explore these questions by translating out of the idea of “fake news.” Part of why 2016 was the “post-truth” year was due to its prevalence of false news articles and conspiracy theories that started online and had very real-world effects (ie Pizzagate). Using these current events as a starting off point, I’m encouraging you to think more broadly about what it means to live in a post-truth world. How does fake news (which can encompass news that is fake: gossip, lies) manifest itself in our communities, within our families, within ourselves?

The show is Friday, January 27th, 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 the fall semester, check out our Madness page.

M0re about Katherine

Katherine Varga is a freelance writer and playwright originally from New Britain, CT. She recently received her B.A. English from the University of Rochester, where she was awarded a Take Five scholarship to study urbanization and the arts. Her plays have been developed at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York and Curious Theatre in Denver, Colorado, and read at the 2015 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.

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“Sequels” Madness coming this Friday!

January 17, 2017
by catherineforever666
· News

The next madness of the school year will be produced by first playwright, Trip Venturella! His prompt is “Sequels” Madness! He has asked the playwrights to explore change and succession. Here is an excerpt from his prompt:

Actually, I want to you to investigate sequels, successors, and seconds, to “translate”ideas that include passing the torch or carrying on a legacy. When you have two different things that occupy the same identity, one after the other, doesn’t that create conflict? What is the ripple effect when people encounter the sequel

The show is Friday, January 20th, 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 and seating is very limited this week again because of space limitations.

For more information about Madness the fall semester, check out our Madness page.

More about Trip:

Trip Venturella is a graduate of Colby College with a degree in Religious Studies. He has worked with Colby College’s Theater and Dance Department, the human rights group ANHAD: Kashmir, Delhi University in New Delhi, Floating Space Theatre Company in Sri Lanka, and many, many groups in the Boston area. He has done field work on Chams Dance in Sikkim and studied Chhau Dance in Delhi. He currently serves as the Development and Outreach Director of Apollinaire Theatre Company in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he has overseen the conception of, fundraising for, and buildout of the Riseman Family Theatre and the Chelsea Blackbox Theatre, as well as the production of three years of Apollinaire in the Park: a free, outdoor, bilingual summer theatre production. His original musical “Killer Maples: The Musical!,” a collaboration with the composer Andres Ramos, was produced by Yelling Man Theatre in June of 2016.

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