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Alumni Chanel Glover thesis play featured in Terranova Collective Reading Series in NYC!

  • April 13, 2015
  • by catherineforever666
  • · alumni · New York · News

Chanel Glover’s play How to Eat to an Oreo is having a reading April 23rd as part of the final presentations from the “Groundworks” Playwrights group through Terranova Collective in NYC.  This play was Chanel’s thesis play at OU and we are excited she is developing the script further with such an awesome and cutting edge theater group.  Go Chanel!!

If you are in New York, make sure to check it out!  The reading is free!

Blurb from website:

Every year, terraNOVA Collective presents the Groundworks New Play Series, staged readings of work developed through our Groundbreakers Playwrights Group.

The purpose of the New Play Series is to give playwrights an opportunity to have their work seen and heard by a larger audience. Each playwright works with a director and actors over a short rehearsal period to give further life to their work. 

Read more about the Reading Series

Go see it!  Here is more info:

HOW TO EAT AN OREO Written by CHANEL E. GLOVER Directed by JENNA WORSHAM Featuring KRISTIN CANTWELL, RACHEL CHRISTOPHER and ALEXANDER LAMBIE

In How to Eat an Oreo, two teen summer camps sit a stone’s throw away from one another. Fatima has fled the gay-to-straight conversion center, and is hiding out in Gideon’s room at weight loss camp. While Fatima awaits the sunset to make her official escape to Wal-Mart, she and Gideon navigate around one another, sometimes crashing into each other, as they both confront the ‘cruelties’ of how they believe the universe made them.

Thursday, April 23rd at 3pm 

 59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022

 

More about Chanel:

CHANEL GLOVER is a ‘trained’ lawyer who dabbles in playwriting, and desires most to be the first Black (Lesbian) Superwoman to rid the world of menacing stereotypes with just the stroke of her pencil. In May 2014, she completed an MFA in playwriting at Ohio University where her full-length plays How to Eat an Oreo, Black as the Dirt and They’re Not Rappers have received staged readings at Ohio University’s Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival in April 2014, April 2013 and June 2012, respectively. She can be found everywhere, as she is a superwoman in training, remember? And raised American nomadic. 

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2014 SEABURY QUINN, JR. PLAYWRIGHTS’ FESTIVAL

  • February 13, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · Festival · News

The annual festival runs from April 23 – April 26, 2014. For the full information and schedule, please visit the Festival 2014 page.

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Alum Cecilia Copeland News: Published Plays, Howlround, Awards & Productions

  • February 13, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Awards · Events · New York · News · Productions

OU Alum Cecilia Copeland has been very busy in New York.

She was named a “Person of the Year” for 2013 by Indie Theatre Now!  OU MFA Playwright, Qui Nguyen, also held this distinction in 2004.  (Link to Indie Theatre Now Announcement.)
Indie Theater Now has also published her play “Light of Night,” and it’s available to purchase. Other plays by OU Playwrights available on Indie Theater Now include: Jeni Mahoney and Qui Nguyen.
“Light of Night” will also be produced by Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD this coming spring.  It is the second production of this play that was first penned at OU and the first regional production.  (Youtube Promo Video.)
NoPassport’s 30/30 Scheme will have Cecilia’s play, “Tiene Duende (It Has Soul)” Read on March 31 in Texas, and it’s directed by OU MFA Director Vanessa Mercado-Taylor. ( Interview with NoPassport Press.)
Cecilia Copeland’s play, “Light of Night” was named one of the 101 Plays by the New Americas, Latino Plays in the American Cannon you should know on HowlRound, by Tlaloc Rivas. (HowRound Article.)
Her article “Contradiction & Compromise: My Uncle & The Next Time” was published in HowlRound in conjunction with her play, “The Next Time” in the Gun Control Plays Collection.  (HowlRound Article.)
She was Interviewed and Featured in the Huffington Post for her play, “The Next Time” along with Neil LaBute, Caridad Svich and others.  (Link to Huffington Post Article.)
Congrats Cecilia!

 

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Jeremy Sony Name Tenn Rep Ingram New Works Lab Playwright

  • August 20, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · News

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.

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Reginald Edmund nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award

  • August 8, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News

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!!

Read about it the Chicago Sun-Times.

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