Photo Coverage: Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows Present New Works!
By: Walter McBride Oct. 17, 2018
Last night, the 2017-2018 class of Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows presented excerpts of full length works at Playwrights Horizons at 7:00 PM. This presentation caps off a year spent working under the tutelage of Michael Korie (War Paint), Laurence O'Keefe (Heathers), Diana Son (Stop Kiss), and Sheri Wilner (Kingdom City).
Hosted by DGF Fellows alumni Deborah Zoe Laufer and Mark Sonnenblick, the event featured the work of the 2017-2018 class, including Keelay Gipson, the team of Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon, Morgan Gould, Riti Sachdeva, Oliver Houser, Sam Salmond, Jeremy J. King, Deborah Yarchun, and Eric Micha Holmes.
Directed by Laura Brandel with Music Direction by Josh Kight, the Presentation featured performances by Abubakr Ali, Ashlie Atkinson, Jen Blood, Jake Boyd, Jonathan Burke, Dyllon Burnside, Ansel Cohen, Kayley Anne Collins, Sonia Darmei Lopes, Sasha Diamond, Jessica Frances Dukes, Michael Elian, Michael French, Noah Hadland, Josh Kight, Arri Lawton Simon, Michael Linden, Jacob Morrell, Anna O'Donoghue, Joél Pérez, Preston Sadleir, Reema Sampat, Sharyone Sayegh, Michael Schantz, Jake Ezra Schwartz, Demone Seraphin, Omer Shaish, Hana Slevin, Peter Smith, Nicole Spiezio, Shea Vaughan-Gabor, Kuhoo Verma, and Zoe Wilson.
The Presentation also served as a welcome event for a new class of Fellows: Zack Zadek, Benjamin Velez and Aryanna Garber, Zeniba Britt and Jay Adana, Melissa Li and Kit Yan, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Charles Gershman, Nambi E. Kelley, Mathilde Dratwa, and Rae Binstock.
The Fellows program is a selective, year-long opportunity for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters to develop full-length pieces. The program provides talented writers access to industry professionals, resources, and opportunities to help them hone their process and their unique voice. The Fellows program is highly sought after for its uniquely successful format of partnering playwrights and musical theater writers together in the learning process.
Former Fellows include Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen, In Transit), Rajiv Joseph(Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen), Lauren Yee (King of the Yees), Max Vernon (K-Pop), Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop), Kyle Jarrow (Spongebob Squarepants) and many more.
For more information on the Fellows program, visit dgf.org/programs/#fellows
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Deborah Zoe Laufer and Mark Sonnenblick
Deborah Zoe Laufer and Mark Sonnenblick
Keelay Gipson Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Kelley Gipson Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Cast of Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Cast of Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Cast of Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Cast of Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Cast of Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Riti Sacheva Thank You, Doctor
Cast of Thank You, Doctor
Cast of Thank You, Doctor
Cast of Thank You, Doctor
Cast of Thank You, Doctor
Sam Salmond and Jeremy J. King Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Sam Salmond and Jeremy J. King Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Sam Salmond and Jeremy J. King Eighty-Sixed
Cast of Eighty-Sixed
Oliver Houser and Eric Micha Holmes
Eric Micha Holmes Mondo Tragic
Hunter Bird and Hunter Bird and Oliver Houser XY
Hunter Bird and Oliver Houser XY
Peter Smith with the cast of XY
Peter Smith with the cast of XY
Peter Smith with the cast of XY
Cast of XY
Peter Smith with the cast of XY
Peter Smith with the cast of XY
Cast of XY
Cast of XY
Cast of XY
Cast of XY
Deborah Yarchun The Calm Before
Deborah Yarchun The Calm Before
Deborah Yarchun The Calm Before
Deborah Yarchun with the Cast of The Calm Before
Cast of The Calm Before
Cast of The Calm Before
Cast of The Calm Before
Cast of The Calm Before
Morgan Gould Three Fat Sisters
Morgan Gould Three Fat Sisters
Ashlie Atkinson, Nicole Spiezio and Anna O'Donoghue Three Fat Sisters
Ashlie Atkinson, Nicole Spiezio and Anna O'Donoghue Three Fat Sisters
Ashlie Atkinson and Nicole Spiezio "hree Fat Sisters
Ashlie Atkinson and Nicole Spiezio Three Fat Sisters
Ashlie Atkinson and Nicole Spiezio Three Fat Sisters
Anna O'Donoghue Three Fat Sisters
Anna O'Donoghue Three Fat Sisters
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Borders
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon Borders
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon with the Cast of Borders
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon with the Cast of Borders
Joel Perez with the cast of Borders
Joel Perez Borders
Joel Perez with the cast of Borders
Omer Shaish Borders
Omer Shaish The Borders
Omer Shaish and Joel Perez with the cast of Borders
Cast of Borders
Omer Shaish and Joel Perez Borders
Deborah Zoe Laufer and Mark Sonnenblick
Deborah Zoe Laufer and Mark Sonnenblick
Michael Korie, Jeremy J. King, Sam Salmond and Laurence O'Keefe
Jeremy J. King and Sam Salmond
Michael Korie and Richard Maltby Jr.
Sheri Wilner and Laura Brandel
Sheri Wilner, Deborah Yarchun, Riti Sachdeva and Laura Brandel
Deborah Yarchun and Riti Sachdeva
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens, Sheri Wilner and Stephen Flaherty
Mark Sonnenblick and Deborah Zoe Laufer
Mark Sonnenblick and Deborah Zoe Laufer
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon
Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon
Barbara Olcott, Leonard Majzlin and Gretchen Cryer
Iris Rainer Dart, Stefanie Zadravec and Janis Purins
Kate Lumpkin and Laura Brandel
Ashlie Atkinson, Morgan Gould, Anna O'Donoghue and Nicole Spiezio
Anna O'Donoghue, Ashlie Atkinson, Morgan Gould and Nicole Spiezio
Riti Sacheva, Morgan Gould, Sam Salmond, Deborah Yarchun, Oliver Houser, Eric Micha Holmes, Janine McGuire, Hunter Bird, Jeremy J. King, Arri Lawton Simon and Keelay Gipson
Riti Sacheva, Morgan Gould, Sam Salmond, Deborah Yarchun, Oliver Houser, Eric Micha Holmes, Janine McGuire, Hunter Bird, Jeremy J. King, Arri Lawton Simon and Keelay Gipson
Sheri Wilner, Morgan Gould, Deborah Taychun, Eric Micha Holmes, Sam Salmond, Oliver Houser, Janine McGuire, Hunter Bird, Arri Lawton Simon, Jeremy J. King, Keelay Gipson and Riti Sachdeva with Laurence O'Keefe, Michael Korie and Diana Son
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