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Slut has been selected as part of the Fall Staged Reading Series with Broads' World Ensemble, an LA-based theatre collective which is geared toward providing substantive, creative opportunities for women in theatre as performers, directors, writers, producers, and all other aspects of the craft. I'll be paired with a female director and Slut will receive two performances in October 2017 at the Flight Theater at the Complex. To learn more, please visit: www.BroadsWordEnsemble.com
My half-hour comedy about a financial analyst who chucks it all to start at the bottom of Hollywood is a semi-finalist for the Screenwriters Colony 2017 Episodic Comedy Colony! Ultimately, three writers will be invited to Nantucket to participate in a two-week long intensive in June where the selected writers will meet with showrunners, agents and executives.
The Colonial Players, an Annapolis-based theater company, has selected Dharma as one of sixteen finalists from over 200 submissions to their annual Promising Playwrights Contest. The winning script and playwright receives $1,000 and a script workshop weekend in summer 2017. The workshop will culminate in a rehearsed public reading of the script at the theater.
My full-length play, Dharma, is a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2017 National Playwrights Conference. Each year a community of professionals gathers in the serene setting of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in order to support playwrights and new works for the theater. During the Conference, playwrights live on the grounds of the O'Neill for one month and each engages in a week-long process of rehearsals culminating in two script-in-hand public readings. Up to eight playwrights are selected for this intensive laboratory each summer. Virtually every major American playwright has been part of the Conference, including Julia Cho, Rebecca Gilman, Regina Taylor, John Guare, Israel Horovitz, David Henry Hwang, David Lindsay-Abaire, Adam Rapp, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and August Wilson.
In collaboration with the Future Is Female Festival, Dark Matter Productions presents SMASH!, a night of short plays written by female playwrights and led by female directors. My play, Reality Check, will be featured as one of seven, 10-minute pieces.
When: Friday, March 17th @ 7pm
Where: La Maison d’Art (259 W 132nd St. in Manhattan)
Tickets: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11358
Moving Arts marks the fourth cycle of our Moving Arts Development Lab (MADlab). This year, Moving Arts received more applications than ever before. We are proud to announce the 2017 MADlab writers: Nayna Agrawal, Makeda Declet, Chloé Hung and Jennie Webb. They will be working with dramaturgs, directors and actors as they craft brand-new plays over the next nine months, culminating in the First Look Reading Series in October, 2017.
To learn more about this opportunity and our playwrights, please visit: http://movingarts.org/madlab-2017-writers/
Trap Street Theatre Los Angeles invites you to an evening of partying like it's all comin' to an end....
Beginning January 22nd, the Iron Triangle Brewery will host our immersive theatrical experience, Nautapocalypse, for audience members and patrons to experience an evening of vignettes which flutters our hearts, tickles our funny bones and tests your nerves. Audience members will be drawn into a world where a submarine has inexplicably appeared in Echo Lake, causing panic and widespread mayhem that the end of the world is imminent.
Get your tickets at trapstreet.la
My 10-minute play, Slut, is a semi-finalist for the Ivoryton Playhouse’s inaugural Women Playwright’s Initiative. It is one of fourteen semi-finalists selected from 183 submissions. Based in Connecticut, The Ivoryton Playhouse is committed to providing exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the Shoreline region and beyond.
My tale of international aid, espionage, love and yes, Tuberculosis, has been selected for performance at the Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica. SHINE is presented by Storey Productions in association with Santa Monica Repertory Theater and UCLArts and Healing. Hosted by Alan Aymie (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival selection, "Child's Play"), the event will take place on Sunday, October 16th at 8 p.m.; tickets can be purchased at storeyproductions.com. Please join us!
East West Players, LA's premiere pan-Asian theater company, has awarded me a spot in and scholarship for their new playwrights' program. This 13-week workshop gives playwrights the opportunity to work intensively on revising a full-length play to submit to theaters, festivals, and contests. The workshop focuses on different aspects of the rewriting process, reading assignments of relevant plays, and group outings to play productions. Each playwright will have class time dedicated to receiving notes on two different drafts of his or her play.
