MCC Theater Announces Spring 2010 Playlab Readings
By: Gabrielle Sierra Feb. 11, 2010
MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced the line-up for their Spring 2010 PlayLab play readings of new plays by three members of the company's Playwrights' Coalition: Steven Levenson, Alex Lewin and Ashlin Halfnight, to be held on March 8th, March 22nd and April 5th, 2010. The Monday night series will offer a special opportunity to experience works in development by some of New York's most exciting playwrights. As an added bonus, audience members will be invited to mingle with the artists at post-performance receptions to be held each night. MCC's commitment to new work extends beyond its Mainstage. Now in its ninth year, the Playwrights' Coalition is a diverse group of some of the most talented, exciting playwrights working today. The Coalition's programs give writers the resources and support to generate, develop and showcase new work.
Through intensive work and roundtable readings, member playwrights develop dynamic and challenging new plays, and twice-a-year PlayLab readings put these plays in front of an audience, providing a showcase and celebration of the writers' work. Plays developed through the Playwrights' Coalition have gone on to production at MCC and other notable theaters in the U.S. and abroad.
All readings will take place at the Baruch Performing Arts Center (25th St. between Lexington and Third Avenue.) at 7:00 p.m. The series is offered free of charge, but reservations are recommended. Reservations can be made by phoning 212-727-7722 ext. 244 or at www.mcctheater.org.
2010 Spring PlayLab Readings
March 8th, 2010
A Hard Wall at High Speed
Written by Ashlin Halfnight
Directed by Josh Hecht
Rudy was just an ordinary flight instructor in the Florida Keys, teaching people how to fly planes. But hi marriage, his family, and everything dear to him are threatened when an unexpected burst of media attention begins to turn an uneasy nation against him.
March 22nd, 2010
Girls Day
Directed by Evan Cabnet
In this hilarious imagining of The Day Britney Shaved Her Head, the pop diva (fresh from re-hab) screams, rages, drinks, drugs, viciously lashes out, and generally runs riot through the whole world that created her and carelessly tossed her aside.
April 5th, 2010
See You Later
By Alex Lewin
Director TBA
Since College days, Tom and Andrew have successfully navigated the dangerous twists and turns that twenty years of friendship can bring. But after all this time of growing together, they may be realizing an opposite and sad truth: just how far they have drifted apart.
Casting to be announced.
MCC Theater is one of New York City's leading Off Broadway theater companies, committed to presenting New York and world premieres each season. When MCC Theater was founded in 1986, its mission was simple: to bring new theatrical voices to theater-going audiences. MCC Theater continues to accomplish this yearly through presentation of its mainstage works; its Literary Program, which actively seeks and develops new and emerging writers and its Education & Outreach Program, allowing more than 1,200 students yearly to experience theater, increase literacy and discover their own voices in the arts. Notable MCC Theater highlights include: the 2008 Tony Award-nominated reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute, last season's Fifty Words, the 2004 Tony-winning production of Bryony Lavery's Frozen; Neil LaBute's Fat Pig; Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living; Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue; Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit; Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone and Alan Bowne's Beirut. Over the years, the dedication to the work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards. The company's current production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride with Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough, and Adam James is now in currently in performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) through March 20th.
About the Authors
Ashlin Halfnight's plays include Balaton, Good Pictures (Outstanding New Play - Summer 2008 - Talkin' Broadway), God's Waiting Room (Best Play, 2005 NYFringe Festival), Diving Normal (Plays and Playwrights 2007), and Artifacts of Consequence. He is a Fulbright Award winner, and is the recipient of a TCG Travel Grant, a Ludwig Volgelstein Artist Grant, and the Howard Stein Playwriting Fellowship. He was an artist in residence at the National Theater of Hungary in 2005/2006, was member of The Royal Court's New York Residency, and is a member of MCC's Playwrights' Coalition. Ashlin received a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Columbia. He is currently the Artistic Director of the award-winning theater company, Electric Pear Productions.
Steven Levenson's plays include The Language of Trees (Roundabout Underground, published by Dramatists Play Services), Seven Minutes In Heaven, Almost Stuck, and Girls Day. His work has been seen and developed by Roundabout, Lincoln Center Theater, MCC, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Dramatists, and Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. A graduate oF Brown University and the 2010 Artist in Residence at Ars Nova, Steven is currently working on new play commissions for Roundabout, Lincoln Center, and Ars Nova.
Alex Lewin's plays have been developed at Arena Stage, GeVa Theatre Center, MCC, The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Lark, Emigrant Theatre (Minneapolis), Bailiwick Rep (Chicago), and New York Theatre Workshop, where he is an Artistic Associate. He is the recipient of the Ted & Adele Shank Professional Playwriting Fellowship, and a commission from Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and he's been a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Alex has held residencies at EST's Lexington Center for the Arts, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Chautauqua Theatre Company, and New York Theatre Workshop's summer development program at Dartmouth College. Alex holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of California at San Diego. He is 2009-10 Playwrights Realm writing fellow, and a member of the 09-10 Interstate 73 writers group, the MCC Playwrights' Coalition, and the Dramatists Guild. He lives in Manhattan with his cat, Charlie Chaplin.
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