tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41044640658010634432024-02-20T11:23:54.376-08:00NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL 27Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869663322178170995noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104464065801063443.post-33444120647663716202009-03-24T15:24:00.000-07:002009-03-24T15:32:28.361-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9ZcFbmUe_Z0/Scle0sqNHwI/AAAAAAAAABs/MZLL8DdImdY/s1600-h/npf2_v1d2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9ZcFbmUe_Z0/Scle0sqNHwI/AAAAAAAAABs/MZLL8DdImdY/s400/npf2_v1d2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316885094521970434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869663322178170995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104464065801063443.post-88253793233754972782009-03-24T14:36:00.000-07:002009-03-24T15:00:44.597-07:00Announcing...<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:210;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:210%;">NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL 27.2</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" >April 15th – 19th, 2009</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >McCormack Family Theater</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">70 Brown Street<br />Providence, RI 02912</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PROVIDENCE, RI</span> – The Brown University Literary Arts Program and the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium are pleased to announce the second installment of the 27th annual <span style="font-style: italic;">NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL</span>. A celebration of the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices, the <span style="font-style: italic;">NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL</span> has been instrumental in bringing the work of America’s finest emerging playwrights to life for nearly three decades. Alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning Nilo Cruz (<span style="font-style: italic;">Anna in the Tropics</span>), Pulitzer-nominated and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Sarah Ruhl (<span style="font-style: italic;">In the Next Room, The Clean House</span>), and Pulitzer and Tony-nominated Quiara Alegría Hudes (<span style="font-style: italic;">In the Heights, Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue</span>).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">This second installment of the festival features world-premiere plays by MFA-candidate playwrights Mallery Avidon and Joe Waechter, directed by MFA-candidate directors Mia Rovegno and Jesse Geiger, respectively. The plays run in repertory at the McCormack Family Theater (70 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912) from Wednesday to Sunday. This year’s festival also features an assortment of special events, including a a panel discussion of Avidon and Waechter’s work with Brown faculty and special guests, a reading of in-progress work by fellow MFA-candidate writers Mia Chung and Jackie Sibblies (whose work was featured in the first installment of the festival in February), and the late night “Smoke and Mirrors Cabaret” of new music, fiction, poetry, photography, and playwriting. All additional events, with the exception of the late night Cabaret, will also take place in the McCormack Family Theatre.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">The NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL is organized and presented by the Brown University Graduate Program in Literary Arts in conjunction with the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. Working under the direction of Lisa D’Amour (Head of MFA Playwriting), Curt Columbus (Artistic Director, Trinity Rep), Stephen Berenson (Chair, MFA Programs), and Beth Milles (Head of MFA Directing), MFA-candidate playwrights, directors, and actors unite with professional artists and the greater Brown and Providence communities to collaborate on this stimulating weekend of theater. Artistic Director Nadia Mahdi and Production Coordinator Rob Jarbadan helm the festival. Other artistic and production staff include set designer Andrew Evans, costume designer Jessie Darrell, lighting designer Jen Rock, sound designer Peter Wood, technical director Eric Rudisaile, properties master Kristina Brown, props artist Nicole LeDuc, production stage manager Sarah Perlin, stage manager Valerie Halstead, and sound operator Stephen Hebson. The acting company includes David Cipoletti, Paul Cooper, Nate Dendy, Craig Divino, Doug Eacho, Lynette Freeman, Anthony Goes, Paola Grande, Dennis Kozee, Parker Leventer, Elise Morrison, Greg Moss, Andrew Oates, Michael Propster, John Racioppo, Aaron Rossini, Russ Salmon, Jude Sandy, Joe Short, Angela Thomas, Hans Vermy, and Leandro Zaneti.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Tickets are </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >FREE</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> and available on a </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >first-come, first-served</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> basis.<br />For reservations, visit <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://mf.students.brown.edu/boxoffice"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://mf.students.brown.edu/boxoffice/ </span></a></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Once reserved, tickets will be available for pick-up in the lobby of the McCormack Family Theater 45 minutes before each respective performance. Unclaimed tickets will be released 10 minutes prior to curtain. If the performance is sold out, please contact NPF271@gmail.com to add your name to a wait-list.</span><br /></div><br /><div face="georgia" style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">---<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SCHEDULE OF EVENTS...</span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" >fracture/mechanics</span><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: georgia;">by Mallery Avidon, directed by Mia Rovegno<br /></div><br /><div face="georgia" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">WEDNESDAY, April 15th & FRIDAY, April 17th at 8 PM<br />SATURDAY, April 18th at 2 PM<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;">Does our accumulation of lovers define who we are? In this episodic collage, a woman struggling to understand her intimate relationships stumbles upon confronting herself. <span style="font-style: italic;">fracture/mechanics</span> is a play about sex, love and how things break.<br /></div><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MALLERY AVIDON</span> (Playwright). Mallery’s plays have been developed or produced in New York by Target Margin Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Little Theater @ The New Dixon Place, ART/NY, Bee Sting Theater Company; in Chicago by The Pavement Group; and in Seattle by Live Girls! Theater, angry blvd, Strike Anywhere Productions, and Cornish College of the Arts. She was a member of the 2007/2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts, and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Brown University. She has also worked in various capacities for the Empty Space Theater, Intiman Theatre Company, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Lark Play Development Center, Jake Hooker & Grammar School and PL115.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MIA ROVEGNO</span> (Director) is a director, actor, playwright, and puppeteer. She is the founding artistic director of HummingbirdWORKS Multimedia_Performance_Project and a company member with foolsFURY in San Francisco. She has directed and performed with The Bread and Puppet Theater, Redmoon Theater, Shadowlight Productions, Perishable Theater, and Intersection for the Arts, among others. Her plays have been developed by the foolsFURY Incubator, Fury Factory, the Page 73 Yale Summer Residency and the Empire Street Lab at Perishable Theater. Mia has developed work for the Brown University/A.R.T. Institute Bakeoff, the Harvard Playwrights Festival, and the Brown Summer Playwrights Rep. She received her BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern, and is a candidate for the MFA in Directing at the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium (’09). Consortium productions include: <span style="font-style: italic;">Polaroid Stories, Elektra, 365Days/365Plays, Inked Baby, Some of the Rooms, Diagram of a Kidnapping, </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Maids</span>. Former adjunct faculty at New College of California's Experimental Performance Institute, she currently teaches acting and directing to undergraduates at Brown University.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">---<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" >The Strangler</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">by Joe Waechter, directed by Jesse Geiger</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;">THURSDAY, April 16th & SATURDAY, April 18th at 8 PM<br />SUNDAY, April 19th at 2 PM<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;">Somewhere in a small suburban town, a storm is gathering and a killer is on the loose. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson settle in for a normal night at home, until someone knocks on their front door...and it's not their daughter.<br /></div><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div face="georgia" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">JOE WAECHTER</span> (Playwright). Joe’s plays have been developed or produced by Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, McCarter Theatre, Electric Pear Productions, 24Seven Lab, Kids With Guns, and the A.R.T. Insitute. He is the recipient of a 2008-9 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, the Kennedy Center/ACTF National 10 Minute Play Award, and an ACTF Short Play Award. His play <span style="font-style: italic;">Dragonflies</span> is available from Dramatic Publishing, and his articles have appeared in The Dramatist magazine. Joe is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Brown University.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">JESSE GEIGER</span> (Director) most recently directed<span style="font-style: italic;"> Full Circle, The Learned Ladies</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Angels in America: Perestroika</span> for the Brown/Trinity Consortium, as well as workshop productions of <span style="font-style: italic;">Grand Motherland</span> for the Brown New Plays Festival and Ann Marie Healy's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Gentleman Caller</span> for The Empire Street Lab. Jesse comes to Providence from Chicago, where he directed <span style="font-style: italic;">New Kid</span> (Selected for the 2005 Chicago Children's Humanities Festival) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Cyrano</span> for CTYA and co-directed the world premiere of <span style="font-style: italic;">Funeral Wedding: The Alvin Play</span> for The Strange Tree Group (Chicago Tribune best of “On The Fringe 2006”). He has developed new work for the Brown University/ART Institute Bake-off and The Metropolis Performing Arts Center. From 2003-2006, Jesse was the Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences (CTYA), where he ran their New Play Workshop. He has also worked or performed with The Public Theatre/NYSF, Northlight, Redmoon, Writers’ Theatre, Steppenwolf and About Face Theatres. Jesse received a B.S. in Theatre and Certificate in Musical Theatre Performance from Northwestern University and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in Directing in the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium class of '09.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">---<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Smoke and Mirrors Cabaret</span></span><br /><br /><div face="georgia" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Late-night! </span> FRIDAY, April 17th at 11 PM<br />(Location TBD)<br /></div><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Following its unprecedented success at NPF27.1, the Smoke and Mirrors Cabaret returns for a second NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL appearance. Enjoy new music, fiction, poetry, photography and playwriting converge alongside artists from every corner of the Brown/RISD community. Curated by Ryan Hartigan, Elise Morrison, and Jackie Sibblies. (No ticket reservation required)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">---<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >First Look: Plays-in-Progress</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Readings of new work by Mia Chung and Jackie Sibblies</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">SATURDAY, April 18th from 5 – 6 PM<br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >MFA-candidate playwrights Mia Chung and Jackie Sibblies, whose work was previously seen in the first installment of the festival in February, present excerpts from their more recent work. A fantastic opportunity to preview what’s in store from the writers of <span style="font-style: italic;">Exquisite Corpse</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Mo’Reece and the Girls</span>. (No ticket reservation required)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">---<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part Two: a Panel Discussion</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">SUNDAY, April 19th from 11 AM – 12 NOON<br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Join Brown faculty and special guests from the theater community as they discuss the world-premiere plays of Mallery Avidon and Joe Waechter featured in this second half of the festival. (No ticket reservation required)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">---</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">NPF 27.1 is made possible through support from an endowed fund for the<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Adele Kellenberg Seaver ’49 Professorship in Literary Arts</span></span><br /><br /></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869663322178170995noreply@blogger.com0