NNPN Rolling World Premiere Of ANNIE JUMP AND THE LIBRARY OF HEAVEN Begins This Week In Milwaukee

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 88th Rolling World Premiere (RWP): Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven by Reina Hardy. The Roll begins tonight in Milwaukee, WI at Renaissance Theaterworks (March 29 - April 21, 2019). Next, it will head to Washington, D.C. and Rorschach Theatre (April 19 - May 19, 2019), then to Austin, TX and The VORTEX (April 2020), before concluding in Ridgefield, CT at Thrown Stone (July 2020).

An NNPN Rolling World Premiere (RWP) models a process for developing and producing new plays that results in stronger work overall and the momentum needed for a play to join the repertoire of frequently produced new American works. Each Rolling World Premiere connects three or more NNPN Member Theaters that choose to mount the same new play within a 12-month period, allowing the playwright to develop the work with a new creative team in each theater's community. To date, NNPN has championed RWPs with over one million dollars in financial support. Alumni plays have received hundreds of subsequent productions, recognition in markets across the world, been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won Steinberg/ATCA, Stavis, PEN and Blackburn awards, and been adapted into feature films.

Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven playwright Reina Hardy ABOUT ANNIE JUMP AND THE LIBRARY OF HEAVEN

Annie Jump is a 13-year-old science genius whose alien-obsessed father is the laughingstock of Strawberry, KS. One night in August, a meteor falls, and Annie meets Althea, an intergalactic supercomputer that manifests itself in the form of a mean girl with really great hair. Althea's here to help Annie take humanity from the earth to the stars, but being the Chosen One isn't all glory. What is Althea hiding? And what will Annie have to sacrifice to fulfill her destiny? A play for all audiences about finding your place in the universe, and intelligent life in your neighborhood.

ABOUT REINA HARDY
Reina Hardy's plays, which usually contain magic and sometimes contain science, have been produced in Chicago, NYC, London, Austin, and DC. They include Glassheart (Rorschach Theater and the Shrewds), Changelings, (The Vortex), and A Map to Somewhere Else (Everyday Inferno, NYC). Honors include: Michener Fellowship, National New Play Network New Play Showcase, Source Festival, Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, Interact 20/20 Commission, Kennedy Center ACTF TYA PRIZE. In the 2018-19 season: the world premiere of Fanatical, in London, new productions of Stargazers in Michigan and Australia, the second production of Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride in Cincinnati, and the rolling world premiere of Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven. MFA: Michener Center at UT Austin. reinahardy.com

ABOUT RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS
Located in Milwaukee's historic Third Ward, Renaissance Theaterworks's (RTW's) mission is to create moving theater that connects with our shared sense of being human. We are dedicated to promoting the work of women onstage and off. The company's founders recognized a gender imbalance within professional theater and sought to correct it by producing excellent theatrical work while actively promoting the careers of other women in professional theater. r-t-w.com ABOUT NNPN
National New Play Network is the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has supported more than 250 productions nationwide through its innovative National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, which provides playwright and production support for new works at its Member Theaters. Additional programs - its annual National Conference, National Showcase of New Plays, and MFA Playwrights Workshop; the NNPN Annual and Smith Prize commissions; its residencies for playwrights, producers and directors; and the organization's member-accessed online information sessions, Collaboration, Festival, and Travel banks - have helped cement the Network's position as a vital force in the new play landscape. Its most recent project, the New Play Exchange, is changing the way playwrights share their work and others discover it by providing immediate access to information on more than 23,000 new plays by living writers. NNPN's 32 Core and 88 Associate Members - along with the nearly 300 affiliated artists who are its alumni, the thousands of artists and artisans employed annually by its member theaters, and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who see its supported works each year - are creating the new American theater. nnpn.org | newplayexchange.org Copyright © 2019 National New Play Network, All rights reserved.

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