Craig Wright To Be Part of Rattlestick Season

Rattlestick Theatre has announced the 2008/09 Season! This season will see four new plays, beginning with the return of Rattlestick alum Craig Wright and his new play Lady, which will be directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracey Letts' BUG).

Rattlestick will then be pleased to welcome Stephen Belber (Broadway's Match) to our stage for the first time with Geometry of Fire, which Lucie Tiberghien will direct (The Pavillion at Rattlestick).

Following our mission to support emerging playwrights, Rattlestick will present Sheila Callaghan and her play That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play to our audience. Kip Fagan directs .

Finally, in the spring of 2009, the stageFARM will present Mark Shultz's The Gingerbread House at Rattlestick. Rattlestick alum and stageFARM artistic director Alex Kilgore directs.

RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER is a multi-award-winning organization and recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Obie Award, which recognized us for work and our mission: developing and producing innovative new plays.

Rattlestick’s core operations are composed of its mainstage Off-Broadway productions (three to four per year), Playwright Mentoring Project (where a playwright is paired with an experienced playwright or director on the Advisory Board who guides them through the process from early reading to mounted production), ongoing developmental work (50-60 staged readings per year, followed by notes sessions) and our “Dirty Works Series” (a two to three week festival of publics readings of new work, culminating in larger workshops of work under development at Rattlestick).

We have produced over thirty-eight world premieres in the past twelve years. Now in our 13th season, Rattlestick has introduced new writers and received critical acclaim for its innovative work. Rattlestick’s Advisory Board participates in The Emerging Playwrights Project, which matches a new playwright with an established artist for an experienced eye and creative support. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman and Adam Rapp. Previous plays include, among others: Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man (Obie award), A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick’s Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed (Obie award), Neil’s Garden, Faster, The Last Sunday in June (GLAAD Award-nomination), St. Crispin’s Day, Where We’re Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, The Pavilion (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005) God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny (Drama Desk Award nomination), Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, and American Sligo

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