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Two Ohio Alumni Named to Playwrights’ Center Core Playwriting Program

  • May 28, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · alumni · News

The Playwrights’ Center (PWC) announced this year’s core writer’s and Jerome Fellowship recipients last week. Qui Nguyen was named a Core Writer, and Bianca Sams was named a Core Apprentice.

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Qui Nguyen

Nguyen was one of eight new writers to join the group of 25 Core Writers. “The Core Writer program brings a diverse range of playwrights to the Center for play development workshops in collaboration with prom is the Co-Artistic Director of the Nguyen is an OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys of NYC. His plays include “She Kills Monsters,” “Soul Samurai,” “Alice in Slasherland,” “The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,” and the musicals “Krunk Fu Battle Battle,” “War is F**king Awesome” and “Samantha Rai and the Shogun of Fear.” He is a proud member of The Playwrights’ Center, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Ma-Yi Writers Lab. His company, Vampire Cowboys, often considered the pioneers of “Geek Theater,” holds the unique distinction of being the first and only professional theater organization to be sponsored by NY Comic Con.inent directors, actors, dramaturgs and designers. Over the three-year term with the Playwrights’ Center as an artistic home, selected work by Core Writers is showcased in the community through the PlayLabs festival and the Ruth Easton New Play Series.”

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Bianca Sams

Sams, a MFA graduate this year, was one of five playwrights named a Core Apprentice. That program”pairs student playwrights with a mentor and offers play development support.”

Sams is an Actor/Writer/Producer based in New York City. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School, where she earned the distinction of being Tisch’s first ever Triple Major (Acting, Dramatic Writing, Africana Studies). At NYU she studied acting through the Strasberg Film Institute and Royal Academy Dramatic Arts (RADA) London, England. Her writing mentors at NYU included Richard Wesley, Beth Turner, George Malko, John Guerre (Honors), Kenneth Lonergan (Honors) and Daniel Goldfarb. Since graduating her work has been seen at Karamu House, Cleveland Public Theater, Old Vic Theater London and Public Theater in New York. She has performed as an actor at Cleveland Public Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Old Vic London, Public Theater NY, and can be seen on film in Rent directed by Chris Columbus. She is a full member of the Old Vic New Voices Network New York under Artistic Director Kevin Spacey. She has produced several ten minute play festivals in New York and Los Angeles, and is moving into full length off broadway theater. She is recent graudate from the MFA in Playwrighting at Ohio University with Charles Smith. For more information go to www.biancasams.com.

The Playwrights’ Center is “one of the nation’s most generous and well-respected theater organizations, the Playwrights’ Center focuses on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters across the country. The Center has helped launch the careers of numerous nationally recognized artists, notably August Wilson, Lee Blessing, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jordan Harrison, Carlyle Brown, Craig Lucas, Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, and Kira Obolensky. Work developed through Center programs has been seen nationwide on such stages as the Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie, Goodman, and many others.”

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Chrisler’s “Worse Than Tigers” Reading at Stella Adler Studio Tonight

  • March 24, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · New York · News · Reading

Alum Mark Chrisler has a reading of his play “Worse Than Tigers” at the Stella Alder Studio tonight in NYC at 7pm. It’s at 31 W. 27th Street, New York, NY.

It’s part of “The First Breath Play Reading Festival” taking place all week at the studio.

(In Ohio, nothing is worse than Kamchatka. It’s better to be in NYC to see this reading. )

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OU Alum Chantal Bilodeau Visits MFA Playwrights

  • March 20, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · News

Chantal BilodeauOn 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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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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Alum Mark Chrisler’s “Worse Than Tigers” Garners Two Accolades.

  • February 12, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Festival · New York · News · Reading

MFA Alum, Mark Chrisler‘s play WORSE THAN TIGERS has garnered two accolades. It’s been selected for The Stella Adler Studio’s First Breath Festival in New York. (The site for the festival isn’t full operational yet, but the link is to the main site.)

The play was also semi-finalist for The New American Voices Festival put on by the The Landing Theater in Houston!

 

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Nick Sgouros New One-Act goes up at Toronto’s “Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival”

  • February 4, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Festival · News · Productions
MFA alum Nick Sgouros’s one-act play “Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House” will be presented in Toronto at the Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival March 12 – 16th.
Click here for more information.

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Third-Year Playwright Bianca Sams Giving a Lecture Thursday at OSU.

  • January 29, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · News

biancasamsThird-year MFA playwright, Bianca Sams, is giving a lecture at Ohio State University Thursday, January 30th at 4pm. It’s titled “Creative Playwriting: Using ‘Found Stories’ as Inspiration.” It’s at the Thurber Theatre at the Drake Performance and Event Center.

For more information, please click: Bianca Sams’ Lecture at Ohio State.

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Laura Jacqmin’s “Do-Gooder” is “Recommended” by Chicago Reader

  • January 28, 2014
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Press · Productions

Laura Jacqmin’s Do-Gooder was “Recommended” in this weeks’ review by the Chicago Reader.

Jack Helbig writes Do-Gooder is “a remarkable, slyly told meditation on gender and racial politics, and how genuinely hard it is to really make a difference.”

Read the entire review here.

Learn more about Laura from her website http://www.laurajacqmin.com/

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Jeremy Sony Interviewed on “Inexplicable Dumb Show” Podcast

  • October 30, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · News · podcast · Productions

Theatre podcast “The Inexplicable Dumb Show” interviewed alum Jeremy Sony this week about his play “Ichabod: Missing in Sleepy Hollow” playing at Street Theatre Company. Sony talks about his take on the classic Sleepy Hollow legend and his work with Tennessee Repertory Theatre and their Ingram New Works Lab.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

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Prof Erik Ramsey’s Latest Post on Plotwrench

  • August 14, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Faculty

“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?

Read the entry here.

 

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