Jessi D. Hill News

Chicago Dramatists is having an extraordinary and memorable 2009. In addition to the success of A Steady Rain opening on Broadway this fall, starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, Chicago Dramatists enters its 31st season with the honor of the TCG New Generations/Future Leaders grant, the announcement of four new resident playwrights and a new associate artistic director, and its selection as only one of four theatres to be included as part of the inaugural Millennium Park 'In The Works' Theatre Lab Project this spring.

terraNOVA Collective is thrilled to announce the new members of its Groundbreakers Playwrights Group. Groundbreakers is a six month long program in which playwrights work on a specific project with the intent to create a completed draft.

The soloNOVA Arts Festival presents Creating Illusion written and performed by Jeff Grow, directed by Jessi D. Hill

Astoria Perfoming Arts Center presents THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, written by LILLIAN HELLMAN The insidious power of a lie takes center stage at the Wright-Dobie School for Girls in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.

soloNOVA Arts Festival May 6-30 @ DR2 Theatre & D-Lounge, 103 East 15 Street, East of Union Square Tickets, $20 general admission, $15 students/seniors, and Festival Passes ($100 for all shows) may be purchased online at www.terranovacollective.org or at the DR2 Box Office.

Following the success of their acclaimed production of Ragtime this winter, Astoria Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce the production of Lillian Hellman?s THE CHILDREN?S HOUR, directed by Jessi D. Hill, 75 years after its premiere on Broadway.. THE CHILDREN?S HOUR will play a 3-week limited engagement at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church (30-44 Crescent St, Astoria, NY 11102. Entrance on 30th Road.)

POETIC LARCENY is a staged reading series inspired by the themes of Flux Theatre Ensemble's spring production of Adam Szymkowicz's PRETTY THEFT. Playwrights steal three things from the playwright before them, only to have three things stolen from them by the next shifty scribe. Because inspiration is the sincerest form of larceny...

Flux Theatre Ensemble concludes its 2008 Season of Transformation with the world premiere of Johnna Adams' epic Angel Eaters Trilogy. The Trilogy follows three generations of a family cursed with the gift of raising people from the dead. The three plays of the Trilogy, Angel Eaters, Rattlers, and 8 Little Antichrists, will run in rep beginning November 3 at The Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher Street. The production will run through November 22. On Saturdays, intrepid audiences will be able to catch all three shows in chronological order.

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Wojtunik as Artistic Director. Wojtunik, who last year directed Proof for APAC, brings a wealth of talent and experience plus an influx of humor, passion for storytelling, generosity and inspiration to the new season line-up.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation is proud to announce the recipient of the 2008 Denham Fellowship. The Denham Committee, comprised of board members Edie Cowan, Tisa Chang, Paul Lazarus, Sharon Ott and Mary Robinson, decided to name director Jessi D. Hill as the second Denham Fellow and award her $3,000 in support of her production of Angel Eaters at Flux Theatre Ensemble in New York, New York.

DCT GREEN ROOM 2008 presents Cassandra Medley's DAUGHTER, Kristine M. Reyes's QUARTER CENTURY BABY, and Lydia Stryk's THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER. Featuring Drama Desk Nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine) at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Andrew Bergh's KISSES Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes, directed by Steven Ditmyer and Maxine Kern's EMILY'S WILL Will Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park), directed by Obie Award Winner Ching Valdes Aran will both play at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

The Yale School of Drama, under the leadership of James Bundy, Dean, and Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, will present the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 11 - 20.