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From the Lark Play Development's BareBones® Program that supported Katori Hall's THE MOUNTAINTOP and Rajiv Joseph's BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, the Lark announces a BareBones® presentation of NIGHT OVER ERZINGA by Adriana Sevahn Nichols, directed by Daniella Topol.

IMMIGRANT ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN NEW YORK (IASNY) LAUNCH EVENT held at Nuyorican Poets Café

IMMIGRANT ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN NEW YORK (IASNY) LAUNCH EVENT held at Nuyorican Poets Café

The Lark Play Development Center today announced the launching of "New Voices/New York," a fellowship program for local playwrights to develop new work with an eye towards production.

Playwright Susan Soon He Stanton and stage director Reginald Douglas were each appointed to a one year residency at the Lark Play Development Center as inaugural fellows in the company's brand-new Van Lier Fellowship Program.

hotINK at the LARK will showcase work by nine playwrights from outside the United States in afternoon and evening readings.

hotINK at the LARK will showcase work by nine playwrights from outside the United States in afternoon and evening readings.

Seattle-based playwright Yussef El Guindi, author of numerous plays including Our Enemies (Osborn Award), Back of the Throat, and Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, has been selected to receive the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. Honorable mentions went to playwrights Nastaran Ahmadi, Denmo Ibrahim, Ken Kaisser, Mona Mansour, and Heather Raffo. The prize, which is granted every other year to an American writer of a Middle Eastern background by a consortium composed of San Francisco's Golden Thread Productions, New York's Lark Play Development Center, and Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project, comes with a $10,000 commission to write a new play of the author's choice, artistic development support for two years and possible productions at both Silk Road and Golden Thread.

The Lark Play Development Center today named award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh its Director of Onsite Programs, effective immediately.

The Lark Play Development Center in collaboration with Mexico's Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) is pleased to announce The U.S./Mexico Playwright Exchange Program.

The Lark Play Development Center in collaboration with Mexico's Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) is pleased to announce The U.S./Mexico Playwright Exchange Program.

The Lark Play Development Center, a leading research and development laboratory for playwrights and the American theater, broke ground this month on expanded office and studio performance space in the heart of Manhattan's theater district.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce the selections for Playwrights' Week 2010. Eight plays were chosen from over 500 submissions. The playwrights will spend a weeklong residency at the Lark developing their work with professional actors, a director, and Lark staff; each will then present that work as a public reading October 18 - 23.

The Lark Play Development Center is pleased to host Belarus Free Theatre for a public reading of Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin, directed by Lisa Rothe, with original translation by Yuriy Koliada and Rory Mullarky and dramaturgical and translation assistance by Erik Ehn. The reading takes place at 7pm on Wednesday, September 22 at the Lark Studio.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce the selections for Playwrights' Week 2010. Eight plays were chosen from over 500 submissions. The playwrights will spend a weeklong residency at the Lark developing their work with professional actors, a director, and Lark staff; each will then present that work as a public reading October 18 - 23.

The Lark Play Development Center is pleased to host Belarus Free Theatre for a public reading of Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin, directed by Lisa Rothe, with original translation by Yuriy Koliada and Rory Mullarky and dramaturgical and translation assistance by Erik Ehn. The reading takes place at 7pm on Wednesday, September 22 at the Lark Studio.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce the 2010-11 Playwrights Workshop Fellows, which include Neena Beber (Jump/Cut), Carla Ching (2G Artistic Director), Greg Kotis (Urinetown), Tommy Smith (P73 Fellow, Lark PONY Fellow), and Playwright-in-Residence Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife).

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to present two free staged readings of LOVE KILLS, book, music & lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, on Friday, July 30 at 4pm & Monday, August 2 at 7pm in the Lark Studio.