Lark Appoints Lloyd Suh As Director of Onsite Programs

The Lark Play Development Center today named award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh its Director of Onsite Programs, effective immediately. Suh first came to the Lark in 2006 as a member of the company's renowned Playwrights' Workshop, led by Arthur Kopit, and is familiar with the gamut of the company's programs. He was the inaugural playwright in the Lark's pilot round of Launching New Plays into the Repertoire, an initiative designed to promote national collaborations around worthy new plays by unheard voices that is supported by a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His plays include American Hwangap, The Children of Vonderly, Happy End of the World, Jesus in India, and Great Wall Story.

Suh succeeds May Adrales in a position that she helped to create as part Lark's strategic plan to expand its artistic team to more effectively oversee a growing portfolio of programs and fellowships at its new home on 43rd Street. Adrales, a longstanding member of Lark's artist community, leaves to pursue a freelance directing career, but will continue to spearhead selected projects and programs at the Lark. Funds to launch the Director of Onsite Programs position have been provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Artistic Director John Clinton Eisner said, "I take great pride that all our programs are designed and led by the artists who use them. That's why it makes perfect sense that Lloyd-who has test-driven many of our programs and been a part of our Artistic Advisory Committee-should assume this important leadership position."

Suh's work has been produced by Ma-Yi Theater Compay, The Play Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Magic Theatre (San Francisco), East West Players (Los Angeles), and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He was a participant in the National Endowment for the Arts Arena Stage New Play Development program, and has received fellowships and commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, and the Dramatists Guild. He has previously served as Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab (2006-2010) and Artistic Director of Second Generation (2005-2009), and is currently a member of the Soho Writer Director Lab. He received a BA from Indiana University and an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.

THE LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, which recently moved to a new facility at 311 West 43rd Street in New York City, is a laboratory for playwrights and their collaborators to develop new works for the theater. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Artistic Director John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director Michael Robertson.

For more information on Lark programming and upcoming events, please visit www.larktheatre.org.

 

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