Seattle Public Theater has selected my play as one of 30 semi-finalists from its pool of 350 submissions. Ultimately, five plays will be selected for its Distillery New Works Festival, a celebration of theater and an opportunity for playwrights to gain valuable feedback on new work. Each play in the festival receives a live reading by a cast of professional actors. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play with the playwright, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences and providing a platform for audiences to help shape new works in process.
"REALITY CHECK" MAKES SEMI-FINALIST ROUND AT SANTA MONICA, CA THEATER
As one of 30 semi-finalists, Reality Check was selected from over 400 submissions to the New Works Festival at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre. Since 1946, The Santa Monica Theatre Guild has been a source of entertainment, inspiration and education for residents of Santa Monica, the Westside and Los Angeles. The Guild offesr a full season of six musical and non-musical plays with a subscription series, single-show and group reservations available, as well as student and senior discounted admissions. The Santa Monica Theatre Guild is a 501(c)(3) [non-profit] organization and is the recipient of grants from the California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.
The goal of the Festival is to welcome a wide range of genres and styles of plays. The New Works Festival will occur September - October 2023. Playwrights whose works are selected will be offered optional opportunities to meet at informal Playwrights’ Gatherings to be held this summer prior to the festival.
I'm A Semi-Finalist with Left Edge Theatre
I’m a semi-finalist for Left Edge Theatre’s 2023 festival. Held in July each year in Santa Rosa, CA, the festival celebrates playwrights from around the world. In addition to the festival, Left Edge produces a year-round season of plays in its own Studio Theatre. Founded in 2015, the company distinguishes itself by producing contemporary plays written within the past decade - most of which are Sonoma County premieres.
I'm A Semi-Finalist with NYC-based Theater, Normal Ave
I’ve advanced to the semi-finalist round with Normal Ave for their festival of new plays, NAPseries. The festival will take place in October 2023 in NYC. Playwrights will receive a reading, rehearsal space, a creative team and cast. 550 plays were submitted and four will ultimately be selected.
Great Plains Theatre Conference Selects 12 Playwrights for 2023 Program
I’m delighted to a be one of twelve playwrights selected for The New Play Conference. Founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College, the Conference helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Conference, local and national playwrights, actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers and Omaha community members, share a week of stories, workshops, readings, meals, performances and celebrations. All public conference events are free to attend.
Theatre WorkShops, Luncheon Panels and daily PlayLab Series readings comprise the foundation of the Conference.
Dramaturgy is provided by national dramaturgs for each playwright, to providing support before, during and after the Conference
PlayFest is our season of new works and seeks to give voice to the stories that have the power to unite and inspire diverse audiences.
Design Wing brings five emerging designers from across the country to become immersed in the play development from a visual perspective.
Young Dramatists Fellowship Program provides local high school playwrights with access to some of the country’s top plays and playwrights.
GPTC invites and welcomes a number of distinguished and nationally known playwrights, directors and actors each year. These guest artists are in place to nurture and mentor new and emerging playwrights and Conference attendees through various workshops, PlayLab feedback sessions and seminars.
Signature Theatre Selects "Dharma" for 2023 Season
My play, Dharma, has been selected for Signature Theatre's 2023 season of SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings. Tickets can be reserved at SigTheatre.org starting 2 weeks prior to each reading.
"We had a record number of submissions for the SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings series this year, and I was blown away by the talent of the writers in the DMV area," said Anika Chapin, Signature's new Director of Artistic Development. "The three plays chosen are all gems - funny, moving, and unique - and I can't wait to share them with Signature audiences.
SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings is an opportunity for playwrights, actors, directors, and patrons to explore new plays in a fun and informal environment. Each reading will include a post-show Q&A with the playwright and director. Over the last six years, four plays developed as part of the SigWorks program have gone on to full productions at Signature Theatre.
"Dharma" WINS 2022 KUMU KAHUA THEATRE AWARD
My play “Dharna” received the 2022 Pacific/Rim Prize from the Kumu Kahua Theatre at the University of Hawaii in Manoa(UHM). Kumu Kahua Theatre is a non-profit theatre company that has presented original productions of special relevance to the people of Hawaii since 1971.
Each year, Kumu Kahua Theatre co-sponsors a playwriting contest with the UHM Theatre Department in its effort to bring new and exciting drama to the stage. For the Pacific/Rim Prize, which is open to residents and non-residents of Hawai‘i, the play must be set in or deal with the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim, or the Pacific/Asian American experience.
Previous winners include Susan Soon Ye Stanton.
Dharma to be featured as part of Studio Tenn's inaugural New Work Series
Studio Tenn is a professional regional theatre company and a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Franklin, Tennessee. Its programming centers around innovative, custom-designed presentations of classic plays and musicals as well as an original “Legacy” series of theatrical concerts celebrating the work of time-honored musicians.
The New Works Series intends to cultivate and nurture the talent of the next generation of Southern playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as we feel it is our responsibility to follow in the footsteps of great American Southern playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Beth Henley, and Wayne Kirkpatrick (among others). Furthermore, the Studio Tenn New Works Series strives to deconstruct the notion of what voices, themes, and stories historically come from the Southern region of the United States.
We are thrilled to showcase the work of the next generation of Southern playwrights and composers, and in doing so give our community the opportunity to witness how new theater is created. The series is designed to foster a working relationship between artists, the development process, the community, and Studio Tenn. The New Works Series accepts original and unpublished full-length plays from playwrights, composers, and lyricists that are either from or currently residing in the South. Such states are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Dharma will be performed February 6, 2023!
I'm a FIFE Fellow!
Bechdel Project, a feminist arts incubator, is launching its latest initiative, the FIFE Fellowship, a multi-year, artist-led fellowship for feminist writers that provides support to develop stories that have the power to change the world. The fellowship, Feminism Is For Everybody (FIFE), focuses on the concepts of intersectional feminism, building diverse community, and the wholistic integration of art into life. Throughout the fellowship, each writer will have access to Bechdel Project's studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to write, workshop, and present work along with guidance and support from the Bechdel Project staff. Fellows will be provided enrichment opportunities (such as retreats, guest speakers, and discussion groups), quarterly dinner parties and a virtual community hub, a yearly artist-led salon, and accommodations for out-of-town artists.
“At a time of diminishing opportunities for writers to develop work, we're excited to be making more space for feminist story-tellers," says co-creative director Jens Rasmussen "and as recent events in the US and around the world are showing, we need feminist stories now, more than ever."
The inaugural fellows are: Nayna Agrawal (Variety's "100 Writers to Watch"), Courtney Bailey (Immersion Play, SheNYC Arts), Imogen Grace (The Price of Perfection, Lifetime TV), MillerPrugh (You Will Never Read This, LadyFest - Immerwahr, Voyage Theater), arroyo monfiletto (My Mother The Sun, Echo Theater), Courtney Taylor (The Warren Commission Spectacular, Imaginarium Theatre), and Else Went (Oxford Man, MTC Sloan Commission.)
"Reality Check" is an Honorable Mention in Scriptwriters & Co initiative
My play, “Reality Check”, is an honorable mention with Scriptwriters & Co. Based in Bath, UK, Scriptwriters & Co brings writers (as well as actors and artists of other disciplines) together via script consulting, productions and readings, workshops and events.