THREE QUARTERS AN INCH OF THE SKY Set for Dorset Theatre Festival's New Play Reading Series

July 18, 7 PM, as part of their nationally renowned New Play Readings Series, Dorset Theatre Festival presents a reading of playwright Sherry Kramer's new play Three Quarters an Inch of the Sky; a play about how we carry our memories. Following the reading the audience is invited to stay for a discussion with the playwright.

Sherry Kramer's recent plays are about repair of the world-How Water Behaves and The Bay of Fundy (Dorset Theatre Festival New Play Series and Williamstown Theatre Festival Reading) and are part of her ongoing conversation with America about what money means and the shape of charity in the modern world. Other plays include When Something Ends, produced at Dorset Theatre Festival in 2010, and (premiere: Humana Festival, The Wall of Water (premiere: Yale Repertory Theatre), David's RedHaired Death (premiere: Woolly Mammoth Theatre), What a Man Weighs (premiere: Second Stage), The World at Absolute Zero (premiere: EST Marathon), and Things that Break (premiere: Theatre of the First Amendment). She's been commissioned by the Audrey Skiball-Kenis Foundation, and most recently by the Moscow Art Theatre/Iowa International Writing Program. She has been awarded NEA, NYFA, McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Award, a New York Drama League Award, and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. She teaches playwriting at Bennington College and often at the MFA programs of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she was head of the workshop, and The Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin. She was the first national member of New Dramatists, and is a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center.

New plays begin their lives at Dorset Theatre Festival, and a new generation of playwrights tests their voices there before having their plays produced on Broadway and beyond. The Festival has hosted over 70 playwrights in the past 6 years, developing over 90 new works, 18 of which have gone on to receive full productions or further development at some of the most prestigious venues in the country; redefining the landscape of regional theatre.

The Dorset Theatre Festival creates bold and innovative theatre that engages a diverse, multi-generational community, enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring its audience through the celebration of great plays produced with the highest degree of artistry. For more information on this program as well as the Festival in general, please go to dorsettheatrefestival.org or call (802) 867-2223.