Playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett on RADIO HOUR EPISODE 13: TROLL
… with TROLL I’ve latched onto sexism in particular and written a story about an internet troll who – presto chango – becomes a real troll. To free himself, he has to convince a feminist to fall in love with him. At the holidays.
read moreMexican playwright Iris Salazar on creating “American Pride” for …OF COLOR
… on a personal level, it was a way for me to work through my emotions surrounding our current political state.
read morePersian/Japanese playwright Bijan Hosseini on creating “The Frailest Thing” for …OF COLOR
I have no idea what I’m doing. Several people much smarter than me who do have all told me that this is okay.
read moreLatina playwright Olivia Custodio on creating “Drivers License, Please” for …OF COLOR
Writing a play is weird. Seriously weird.
read morePlaywright Elaine Jarvik on AN EVENING WITH TWO AWFUL MEN
“How would you like to write a play about our first gay president?”
read moreAfrican American playwright Darryl Stamp on creating “Roar” for …OF COLOR
The stand-up comedy writing process, the stress associated with entertaining audiences despite what’s going on in your personal life, and the exhilarating feeling you get when you hear audiences laugh is the inspiration for “Roar.”
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read moreFrom the Artistic Director
We feel a responsibilty as a company to reflect the community in which we live. And yet I’ve been asking myself: with all that is happening, does attending the theatre even matter?
read moreAustin Archer on being the entire cast of GOOD STANDING
It’s brought up a lot of things for me and sparked many good discussions in the rehearsal room, meaning it’s probably the kind of script that will inspire similar discussions on the car ride home for you after you see it, meaning it’s probably a pretty damn effective bit of storytelling.
read moreJenifer Nii on her play-in-progress DONNA, opening the 2018/19 Script-In-Hand Series
And there, off in the grey-matter distance, a little whisper. Something about that goofy Don Quixote…
read moreRachel Bublitz on creating THE FINAL DEBATE for ROSE EXPOSED: BREAKING NEWS
“Breaking News” could mean up-to-the-minute information on huge events happening locally and globally, but it can also be a small and personal event; essential information being passed from one human to another…
read morePlaywright Jennifer A. Kokai on creating ZOMBIE THOUGHTS
Hard things are easier if you laugh.
read more11-year-old playwright Oliver Kokai-Means on creating ZOMBIE THOUGHTS
I gave my Mom the ideas and the characters and she wrote the words.
read moreAnnouncing the 2018/19 Script-In-Hand Series
As the only professional theatre company in the United States producing full seasons of new work by local playwrights, we invite you to join us for three public readings of plays-in-progress.
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A season exploring how truth finds us and what we do with it once it does. A season about sexuality, race and privilege. A season about us, here, now.
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