Cape Cod Theatre Project to Develop New Work by Sharr White, Lucy Alibar and More

By: Apr. 17, 2013
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Artistic Director Hal Brooks has announced the 2013 season for Cape Cod Theatre Project, featuring staged readings of new work by Sharr White, Heidi Schreck, Rinne Groff and JC Lee. They will be joined in Falmouth, Massachusetts by writers-in-residence Jackie Sibblies Drury, Andrew Dolan, Halley Feiffer and Academy Award nominee Lucy Alibar.

Sharr White (The Other Place, MTC on Broadway), a 2012 writer-in-residence, will return with The Snow Geese, to be directed by CCTP Artistic Director Hal Brooks. Performances are on July 11, 12 and 13. As previously announced, The Snow Geese is Broadway-bound, opening in October 2013, to be co-produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater.

Obie winner Rinne Groff (Compulsion, The Ruby Sunrise) opens the season withSchooner, directed by Trip Cullman (Lonely, I'm Not; Murder Ballad). Staged readings for Schooner are on July 4, 5, and 6.

Obie winner and Page 73 Fellowship recipient Heidi Schreck (There Are No More Big Secrets) presents Grand Concourse, directed by Kip Fagan (The Revisionist, Asuncion). Performances of Grand Concourse are on July 18, 19 and 20.

JC Lee (graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Program at the Juilliard School) returns to CCTP to develop Luce directed by May Adrales (The Dance and the Railroad; The Bereaved). Lee previously developed Pookie Goes Grenading at CCTP in 2011. Luce performs on July 25, 26 and 27.

The 2013 writers-in-residence are Academy Award nominee Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) as well as Jackie Sibblies Drury (We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., Soho Rep), Andrew Dolan (Ovation Award winner) and Halley Feiffer (He's Way More Famous Than You). Director Shira Milikowsky (artistic associate at ART) will be collaborating with Sibblies Drury.

All presentations of staged readings are at 8 p.m. at Falmouth Academy in Falmouth, Mass. Tickets (suggested donation of $20 each or a season subscriptions for $70) may be purchased by calling the box office at (508) 457-4242 or online at www.capecodtheatreproject.org

For the past 18 years, The Cape Cod Theatre Project has brought top theater artists together to present staged readings to help develop the best new American plays and playwrights in the country. Of the 64 plays developed, 46 have gone on to Broadway, off-Broadway, to the country's finest regional theaters and to other theaters around the world. Plays developed at The Cape Cod Theatre Project have later been produced at Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Theater Company, Daryl Roth Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, and many, many others.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project consistently hosts topflight theater artists, including Bill Pullman, Anna Paquin (Academy Award winner), Amy Ryan (Academy Award nominee), Neil LaBute, Lanford Wilson (Pulitzer Prize winner), Frank Wood (Tony Award winner), Rip Torn, Lois Smith, Jimmy Breslin (Pulitzer Prize winner), Didi O'Connell (Obie winner), JohAnna Day (Tony Award nominee), Josh Hamilton, Mike Daisey, Christopher Ashley, Pam MacKinnon, Marshall Mason (five-time Tony nominee, Obie Award winner), Adam Rapp (Pulitzer Prize runner up in 2006), Annie Baker (Obie Award winner) and many others.

For more information, please take a look at our website atwww.capecodtheatreproject.org


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