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NY Madness, “MadLab” in NYC this week featuring a play by Cecilia Copeland!

June 29, 2015
by catherineforever666
· New York · News

NY Madness grew out of Ohio University’s Madness class for MFA playwrights; and this summer they are having their first ever showcase of full length plays developed from madnesses. Alum Cecilia Copeland has her play “Dinner with Frenemies” this Friday, July 3rd at 8pm. The festival runs all this week and features some OU MFA as well as BFA actors! Go check it out!

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MadLab is a week-long festival of readings of full-length plays, one-acts, and screenings of short films that grew out of plays written for NY Madness!

June 30 through July 5
IRT Theater
154 Christopher Street
New York, NY

RESERVE NOW!

All Readings are FREE!

More about Cecilia

Cecilia Copeland’s plays have been Produced or Presented at the Culture Project, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studios Theatre, HERE Arts Center, INTAR Theatre, The Anarchist Theatre Festival of Montreal, Stage Left Productions, Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, Venus Theatre in MD, the Disreputables in DC, and IATI Theatre among others. She has developed work with TerraNOVA Collective and the Lark Play Development Center. Her Full Length, “The Wicked Son”was named one of the Top Three Best New Jewish Plays by the Jewish Plays Project. Other full length works include Light of Night Production at IATI Theatre, Tiene Duende (It Has Soul) semifinalist for MultiStages New Works Competition, COURTING semifinalist for The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, BIOLIFE semifinalist for The O’Neill Playwrights Conference and The Emerging Playwrights Prize The Marin Theatre as well as a Finalist for Mabou Mines Residency. Copeland was awarded a Special Effects Grant from Metro Screen Australia for her One Act that she adapted into a Screenplay, Amusement Bomber. Her short play, The Next Time has been produced all over the world and featured in the Gun Control Plays collection curated by Caridad Svich. Copeland is the recipient of the Lennis J. Holm Playwriting Scholarship from University of Iowa for her Honors Thesis, One Woman. She is a graduate of the Writers Workshops at University of Iowa BA with Honors and Ohio University MFA. Her works have been published by PM Press, The International Center for Women Playwrights, NoPassport Press, Amazon.com, and Indie Theater Now! She is an Alumna of the Women’s New Works Playlab at New Perspectives, a Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, The Cimientos Playlab at IATI Theatre, and The League of Professional Theatre Women. Before becoming a playwright Copeland toured as a Jr Company Member of Ballet Iowa in Cinderella and the Nutcracker and later she danced for MTV and VH1. In 2013 Cecilia Copeland was named an Indie Theatre Now Person of the Year!

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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 😉

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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.

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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.

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Cecilia Copeland’s play “R Culture” currently in NYC!

November 9, 2014
by catherineforever666
· Events · New York · News · Productions

OU Playwriting Alum Cecilia Copelands play about rape culture is currently in NYC! The play runs November 4th-24th at IRT. R Culture is a world premiere of a new edgy dark comedy by Cecilia Copeland and was commissioned by Producing Director Emily Lerer(also an OU alum) to raise awareness and open a platform for discussion of Rape Culture in Our Culture.

Click here for more info on the production; and read more about the play here.

Also check out Cecilia’s recent interview done by acclaimed playwright Adam Szymkowicz as part of his popular blog “I Interview Playwrights.”

DETAILS

PERFORMANCES: November 7, 8, 9 , 14, 15, 16 17, 20, 21, 22, 23
TIMES: 8pm
LENGTH OF SHOW: 1 HR 15 min.
PRICE:$18
At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)

About Cecilia:

Cecilia Copeland: Playwright, Screenwriter, and Founding Artistic Director New York Madness. Named Indie Theater Now’s “Person of the Year”, her plays have been presented at the Culture Project, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studios Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Anarchist Theatre Festival of Montreal, Venus Theatre, The Chain Theatre, New Perspectives, and IATI Theatre among others. She has developed work with the Lark Play Development Center and terraNOVA. She was awarded a Special Effects Grant from Metro Screen Australia for her screenplay, Amusement Bomber. Copeland is the winner of a Fine Arts Grant at Ohio University and the Lennis J. Holm Playwriting Scholarship from University of Iowa Writers Workshop, a semifinalist for The O’Neill Playwrights Conference and the David Callichio Emerging Playwrights Prize. Copeland is a Kilroy’s List Nominee, finalist for Mabou Mines Residency, and a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women

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Catherine Weingarten ’17 has short play in Halloween Play Festival in Binghamton!

October 8, 2014
by catherineforever666
· Current Students · New York · News · Productions

Catherine Weingarten, a first year MFA playwright, has a short play called “Halloween Marsha” debuting at Darkhorse Dramatists “Tales from The script” short play Halloween fest in Binghamton, NY during the weekend of October 17th. This is Catherine’s third collaboration with Dark Horse Dramatists and they remain one of her favorite companies.

More Info about the Upcoming Production:

We’re proud to debut a sweet new treat by Catherine Weingarten: “HALLOWEEN MARSHA”. Be careful whom you invite to your birthday party, especially if it should land on Halloween. Poor Marsha’s party is ruined by fit of teenage-angst! Don’t miss this cute & comical monologue! Directed by Pete Bowers and starring Adara Alston. Just 1 of 8 shorts featured in TALES FROM THE SCRIPT!

Darkhorse Dramatists, the little playwrights’ collective based in Binghamton, is bringing their collection of Halloween themed plays to the Roberson Museum this October: the 3rd annual “Tales from the Script”! Two playwrights in the local area will be debuting new work in the festival, both Mickey Ray, who is the author of the monologue, “The Next Time” and Shirley Goodman, who wrote a new drama entitled, “Ghost in My Eyes”. But this festival spans far away from Binghamton, with national playwrights from coast-to-coast. A grand total of eight short plays will be performed in a minimalist black box theatre setting. And while some venture into horror with occasional grizzly subject matter and adult language, you can still expect loads of laughter. The plays are being performed Friday and Saturday evening only October 17th and 18th at 8pm at Roberson Museum’s Ballroom. Tickets are $15 general admission or $10 for students or seniors; available online at www.roberson.org

More Info 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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OU Alum Chantal Bilodeau Visits MFA Playwrights

March 20, 2014
by rpdolan
· News

On Wednesday, OU alumnus Chantal Bilodeau (red scarf) talked to current Ohio University playwrights in their Seminar class. Bilodeau is writing a series of eight plays called “The Arctic Cycle.” Each play takes place in a different Arctic country, United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, and focuses “on the power of storytelling to investigate, and attempt to understand, the many challenges posed by climate change.”

Conversation topics covered a multitude of topics including developing voice, supporting oneself as a playwright, writing grants, the challenge of writing a series of plays on one particular theme and idea, and the similarities between Athens, Ohio and Manhattan (not really.)

The playwrights also read Chantal’s play, SILA, which is the first play of the Arctic Cycle and was commissioned by the Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company. It’s won a slew of awards:
Honorable Mention from the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition as part of their Collaboration Awards, 2011.
First Prize, Uprising National Playwriting Competition (Canada), 2011.
First Prize, Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival, 2012.
Woodward International Playwriting Prize, 2014

Sila has an upcoming production at the Underground Railway Theater in April 2014.

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