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Larissa Lury is a director, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, a deviser and a former acrobat. She loves artwork and experiences that open her to new ways of looking at the world around her, and strives to create those kinds of experiences for others. She aspires to be a part of a community of theatre-makers, cultivating practices, processes and structures for our field that are as innovative, equitable, inspiring, productively malleable, supportive and humane as an industry built on creativity warrants. She has directed and workshopped plays for companies including Cherry Lane, The Playwrights’ Center, Urbanite, Dorset Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, Southern Rep, InterAct, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Ma-Yi, New Jersey Rep, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, Curious Theatre Company, ASTC, and Passage Theatre. This year, she was granted a Next Stage Residency with The Drama League to develop an EST/Sloan commission with playwright L M Feldman, about thirteen women pilots who underwent testing to become astronauts in the earliest years of the space program. She was a National Directing Fellow, an LMCC Process Space Resident, a New Georges Audrey Resident, and a Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliate Artist. She received a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from UC San Diego.

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Ensemble Studio Theatre to Present FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL Beginning Tomorrow


Ensemble Studio Theatre (Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis, Co-Artistic Directors) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director) have announced the lineup for the 2023 First Light Festival, part of the EST/Sloan Project to develop plays exploring science and technology.  

American Shakespeare Center Summer 2022 Season To Include Antoinette Nwandu's PASS OVER


American Shakespeare Center continues its 2022 season with a summer slate of plays that explore the connections between Shakespeare classics and contemporary theatre. Added to the list of previously announced titles will be the Antoinette Nwandu's groundbreaking drama Pass Over, which thrilled audiences on Broadway in summer 2021.

Matthew Paul Olmos and Nehassaiu DeGannes Develop New Work In The Assembly's Deceleration Lab


The Assembly presents two new works developed by the resident artists of the Deceleration Lab, an initiative to foster new theatrical projects that use and experiment with multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary models of creation.

The Drama League Announces 2020 Directing Fellowships and Residencies


The Drama League has announced the eleven directors chosen for its Fellowships and Residencies in the 2020 Drama League Directors Project.

Ensemble Studio Theatre Has Released Details for the 2020 FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL


ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (EST) (William Carden, Artistic Director) and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Doron Weber, Vice-President, Programs) have announced details for the 2020 First Light Festival, part of the EST/Sloan Project to develop plays exploring science and technology.

Dorset Theatre Festival's Pipeline Series Of New Plays Continues With THREE GIRLS NEVER LEARNT THE WAY HOME


Dorset Theatre Festival, under the leadership of Artistic Director Dina Janis and Producing Director Will Rucker, will present Three Girls Never Learnt The Way Home by Matthew Paul Olmos on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. This is the second reading of the acclaimed Pipeline Series of three one-night-only presentations of new work. Three Girls was most recently read in New York City as part of the Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre in March 2019. Olmos is a three-time Sundance Institute FellowshipResidency recipient and his play so go the ghosts of mexico, part one was a New York Times Critic's Pick.

Photo Flash: The Making of MY FAIR LADY At NMSU Theatre Arts/American Southwest Theatre Company


Get an inside look at the making of My Fair Lady at NMSU Theatre Arts Department!

Cherry Lane Continues Mentor Project with THREE GIRLS NEVER LEARNT THE WAY HOME


Cherry Lane Theatre will continue its Obie Award-winning Mentor Project with three girls never learnt the way home, written by Matthew Paul Olmos.

Cherry Lane Continues Mentor Project with THREE GIRLS NEVER LEARNT THE WAY HOME


Cherry Lane Theatre will continue its Obie Award-winning Mentor Project with three girls never learnt the way home, written by Matthew Paul Olmos.

National Directors Fellowship Is Now Accepting Applications


The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National New Play Network, and Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation have announced open applications for the fifth round of fellows of the National Directors Fellowship (NDF). Applications from early-career professional directors will be accepted online January 14 at 11am EST to January 18 at 11:59EST at the O'Neill website (www.theoneill.org/ndf).

National Directors Fellowship Now Accepting Applications


The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National New Play Network, and Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation have announced open applications for a fourth round of fellows of the National Directors Fellowship (NDF).

BWW Review: GROUNDED at Southern Rep


What happens when a pilot has her wings clipped?

Southern Rep Theatre Extends Run of Critically Acclaimed GROUNDED


Southern Rep Theatre announces it will extend the run of its critically acclaimed current production, the Regional Premiere of George Brant's GROUNDED, at Lower Depths Theatre, Loyola University, New Orleans.

No Strings Theatre Company Announces May Events


No Strings Theatre Company, located at the Black Box Theatre in downtown Las Cruces, presents a madcap comedy by New York playwright Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club, as part of its 2015-6 season. The play opens on Friday, May 6 and runs through Sunday, May 22.

The Kennedy Center to Host 10th Annual MFA Playwrights' Workshop This Summer


The Kennedy Center, in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the National New Play Network (NNPN)-the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays-and with Stanford University's National Center for New Plays, will host more than 50 playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs from July 25 to August 2, 2015 as part of the 10th annual weeklong MFA Playwrights' Workshop featuring new works by MFA students from Columbia University, Northwestern University, Fordham University, Yale School of Drama, the Juilliard School, New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, University of California-San Diego, and the Juilliard School.

Five Selected for the O'Neill's 2015 National Directors Fellowship


The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, National New Play Network, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation jointly announce selections for the National Directors Fellowship.

Ensemble Studio Theatre Kicks Off 2013 Marathon of One-Acts


Previews began Saturday (May 18) for The Ensemble Studio Theatre's 45-year-old Marathon of One-Act Plays, the longest running, most acclaimed one-act play festival in the country. The theatre's artistic director, William Carden, has selected 16 plays to be presented on THREE separate programs for The Ensemble Studio Theatre's 2013 Marathon of One-Act Plays May 18 through June 29 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.

Ensemble Studio Theatre 2013 Marathon Playwrights Announced


After 34 years, The Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon of One-Act Plays is the longest running, most acclaimed one-act play festival in the country. The theatre's artistic director, William Carden, has selected 16 plays to be presented on THREE separate programs for The Ensemble Studio Theatre's 2013 Marathon of One-Act Plays May 18 through June 29 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.

Keen Company Announces 2013 Keen Teens Festival of New Work


Keen Teens, the educational theatre partnership between Off-Broadway's Keen Company and the theatrical publishing company Samuel French, has selected the writers for the program's seventh season: Jonathan Caren, Madeleine George, and Anna Moench, who have been commissioned to write thirty-minute, large cast plays, which will be produced with student actors Off-Broadway.

Photo Flash: Invited Dress Rehearsal of THE SOAP MYTH, Opening 7/13


DOG RUN REP at South Street Seaport (Deanna Henson, Producer), in association with Pat Blake, is pleased to announce the world premiere of The Soap Myth, a provocative new play about the Holocaust written by Jeff Cohen and directed by Larissa Lury.

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