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20 YEARS OF ‘FACING EAST’
Some theatre is good drama.
Some drama is good theatre.
FACING EAST is both.”
– Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
Melissa Leilani Larson on creating ‘SNAIL MAIL’ for students in grades 4-6
One of the things I love about theatre is how well it can mimic, even mirror, our everyday lives.
Read MoreDarryl Stamp on Creating ‘DUMBED DOWN’
Without a bachelor’s degree, I worked as a line cook, waiter, insurance investigator, standup comedian, a Kansas Department of Corrections halfway house employee, and an actor. Eventually, I earned a graduate degree in education and became a teacher myself.
Read MorePlaywright Matthew Ivan Bennett on Co-Creating ‘JUST ADD WATER’
Sometimes I feel like there’s so little I can do, but in this case I knew exactly what I could do: write. Write the most passionate and informed play possible about how we save the lake. Draw on the work of scientists and journalists and activists and inspire people by showing them what we can and must do in defense of our home.
Read MorePlaywrights Matthew Ivan Bennett & Elaine Jarvik on Co-Creating ‘JUST ADD WATER’
Artistic Director Jerry Rapier asked playwrights Matthew Ivan Bennett & Elaine Jarvik to share the process of co-creating JUST ADD WATER.
Read MorePlaywright Elaine Jarvik on Creating ‘EB & FLO’
It’s my hope that, after seeing EB & FLO, students will have conversations with their grown-ups and will grow up trying to keep the lake alive.
Read MoreArtistic Director Jerry Rapier on Asking Playwright Elaine Jarvik to Write About Great Salt Lake for K-3 Students
That Christmas, one of our family gifts was a world atlas. I pored over it, memorizing each page. I couldn’t get enough of Japan (where my birth family is from), Peru (my mom lived there in fourth grade), and Great Salt Lake (dominating the western half of the U.S. map). To a fourth grader who had never been to Utah, it was Utah.
Read MorePlaywright Pedro Flores on Creating ‘JUAN JOSE AND THE DEATHLY VATOS’
Juan Jose is an amalgamation of myself as a kid, my critiques of Harry Potter as an adult, and boosting my culture and background, combining them to create a ridiculous yet hilarious narrative.
Read MoreThe Utah Review’s ‘Top 10 Moments of the Utah Enlightenment’ (2015-Present)
The Utah Review’s year-end “Top 10 Moments of the Utah Enlightenment” has included a Plan-B Production every year since the list began in 2015.
Read MorePlaywright Janine Sobeck Knighton on creating ‘THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY’
“I kept circling around this moment in 1882, the first time that she stayed in the land that would become her eventual home. She was only 16 and I knew in my gut that this moment helped define her as a person, as a writer, as an artist, and as an activist. I wanted to explore this younger Beatrix – before she became the Beatrix Potter we all know. But it wasn’t until I discovered Edith Rawnsley that the story clicked into place.”
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