Now in its seventh season of supporting emerging female writers The Farm Theater has awarded their 2020/21 College Collaboration Project Commission to playwright Lia Romeo (The Forest, featured on The Kilroys' List; NYIT Award nominee for Connected at 59E59). Ms. Romeo will collaborate with Centre College in Danville, KY (fall 2020) and Wells College in Aurora, NY (spring 2020). This will be Centre College's fourth time participating in The Farm Theater's College Collaboration Project.
The NOW Collective and Michael DiMino will present the World Premiere of The Wild Parrots of Campbell, written by Alex Riad (The Floor is Lava at La MaMa/Best Play at the 2017 Planet Connections Festival) and directed by Padraic Lillis (NYIT Outstanding Director Award for Lindsay Joy's play Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen) at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014), December 4-21.
The Farm Theater (Padraic Lillis, Founding Artistic Director) will launch season one of their new Bullpen Sessions Podcast on Thursday, March 28. This ten-episode series, hosted by Padraic Lillis and Lee J. Kaplan, will be available worldwide on all major podcast distributors.
Now in its sixth season of supporting emerging female writers The Farm Theater has awarded their 2019/20 College Collaboration Project Commission to playwright Judith Leora. Ms. Leora will collaborate with Hillsborough Community College in Hillsborough, FL (fall 2019), Birmingham Southern College in Birmingham, AL (winter 2020), and Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA (spring 2020). This will be Birmingham Southern College's second time participating in The Farm Theater's College Collaboration Project.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to Dance Naked Production's Come Inside Festival in October, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds to become cancer-free. She is thrilled to debut her show in Portland after just returning from a successful European tour: The Pink Hulk received The WOW Award from Sweden's Gothenburg Fringe Festival. And in September, her inspiring play was a finalist in the New York New Works Festival on Theatre Row.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to Dance Naked Production's Come Inside Festival in October, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds to become cancer-free. She is thrilled to debut her show in Portland after just returning from a successful European tour: The Pink Hulk received The WOW Award from Sweden's Gothenburg Fringe Festival. And in September, her inspiring play was a finalist in the New York New Works Festival on Theatre Row.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to the Lahti Fringe Festival in Finland, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers. She is thrilled to be performing her show globally for the first time after touring the U.S. for the past two years, and The Pink Hulk just received The WOW Award from Sweden's Gothenburg Fringe Festival.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to the Lahti Fringe Festival in Finland, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers. She is thrilled to be performing her show globally for the first time after touring the U.S. for the past two years, and The Pink Hulk just received The WOW Award from Sweden's Gothenburg Fringe Festival.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to the Gothenburg Fringe Festival in August, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers. She is thrilled to be performing her show globally for the first time after touring the U.S. for the past two years.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to the Gothenburg Fringe Festival in August, which details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers. She is thrilled to be performing her show globally for the first time after touring the U.S. for the past two years.
Award-winning actor, playwright and two-time cancer survivor Valerie David is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within to Gullivers Northern Quarter in Manchester this August. The Pink Hulk, being hosted by Thought Plane Theatre, details Ms. David's battle with cancer and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers.
City Theatre, now in its 23rd season, is the only professional theater in the country that produces 10 minute plays and musicals in a variety of year-round programming. The City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest furthers the Company's mission to identify, acknowledge and award excellence in dramatic writing. City Theatre Artistic Director Margaret M. Ledford said, "This year's Winner and Finalists were selected from a fierce pool of over 800 talented writers from around the country. The plays are an exciting mix of dramatic storytelling, some of which are plays we are already producing, or we will be presenting as readings, that we will recommend to our arts partners, and otherwise promote to bring visibility to the writers and this uniquely theatrical and versatile genre."
New Light Theater Project is thrilled to announce that Jacob Perkins has been tapped as Literary Manager. This newly formed position leads the company into its 5th Season.
Manhattan-based Actor and Playwright Valerie David, who is a JMU graduate and Virginia native, is bringing her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show to the Shenandoah Fringe in Staunton, Va. The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within is about Valerie becoming a two-time cancer survivor, and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers.
Sanguine Theatre Company has invited five playwrights to participate in its first annual Sanguine Spring Break: Playwrights' Week. Each playwright is granted space and collaborators for a one-day workshop of a piece of their choosing, with each night culminating in a public presentation at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington, 10014).
Now in its fifth season of supporting emerging female writers The Farm Theater will present their 2018/19 College Collaboration Project with playwrights Kimberly Belflower and Erin Malon. The projects will kick-off in February when each playwright will have an opportunity to converse with groups of students from each of the partner schools via video, to discuss the theme they are writing about and shape the direction of their individual pieces. Each of the plays will have a three-day workshop, cast with professional actors, in NYC in August 2018. The projects will each culminate in a public reading in NYC in June 2019 with a cast made up of students from each school along side professional actors.
Cherry Lane Theatre's Tongues Reading Series will present a staged reading of Dad Might've Killed That Girl, a new play by Lindsay Joy (The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen), December 11th on the MainStage at The Cherry Lane Theatre.
The Farm Theater in association with Stable Cable Lab Co. will present the Solo Show Festival: Three Award-Winning Solo Performances in residence at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington, third floor) from tonight, November 29, through December 10.
Stable Cable Lab Co. will present LiveWire Holiday Edition: MERRY AF, a holiday-themed festival of new short plays, on Monday, December 11th at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street #3B, NYC, 10014).
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