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PLAYTIME DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIO
New Dramatists presents the 10th annual PlayTime, a 2-week developmental lab for five plays-in-progress designed to give playwrights the time and space needed to explore, workshop, rethink, and revise ambitious new work in a collaborative company of directors, actors, other writers and New Dramatists staff. PlayTime offers our writers one of the most extended, intensive developmental processes available within our year-round artistic programming. This year’s writers are Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley, Rob Handel, Dan LeFranc, and Chiori Miyagawa.
PlayTime will begin with two days of play readings and preparatory discussion between the five playwrights, their collaborators, and ND’s artistic staff, including resource playwright Sharon Bridgforth. A company of actors will join the lab, and the five projects will rehearse on a rotating schedule, with time off for rewrites. Surrounding the rehearsals, there will be group events – meals, yoga classes, collaboration meetings, and tea-time – to foster collaboration and exchange.
The Projects:
Untitled New Play by Tanya Barfield
directed by GT Upchurch
The House that will not Stand by Marcus Gardley
directed by Patricia Mcgregor
Untitled New Play by Rob Handel
directed by May Adrales
Untitled New Play by Dan LeFranc
Directed by Kip Fagan
I came to look for you on Tuesday; I'll come back again in two days(working title)
by Chiori Miyagawa
directed by Alice Reagan
Final presentations will be held December 15 through December 17. Some readings may be open to the public. Please call for the schedule of readings, as reservations will be required.
terraNOVA Collective's GROUNDBREAKERS is an annual developmental playwrighting lab, in which 6 playwrights receive the unique opportunity to work on a specific project with the goal of creating a completed draft. Each playwright brings in their play 3 times over 18 weeks for a round-table reading with professional actors, receiving feedback from the Groundbreakers playwrights group and special guests, along with the artistic staff of terraNOVA Collective. terraNOVA assembles a diverse group devoted to creating theatrical, original, innovative, socially relevant new work for the stage and welcomes submissions of new plays and solo shows in various stages of development that will benefit from collective feedback and further terraNOVA Collective's artistic mission. They are especially interested in playwrights who, in addition to working on their own play, have an interest in attending weekly workshops to give other playwrights in the group feedback.
You can meet the 2012 Groundbreaker playwrights here: http://www.terranovacollective.org/2012-season.html
