Los Angeles New Play Project Names 2nd Annual Grant Recipients
The grant will allocate $20,000 to selected playwrights and an additional $20,000 to theatres that have agreed to produce the plays.
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents 2022 New Works Festival
The festival will feature works by Jonathon Larson Grant Winners Danny Haengil Larsen and Michelle Elliott, Obie award-winning playwright Christopher Chen, and Kleban award-winning playwright Rehana Lew Mirza.
Managing Director Michael Bateman to Leave A Noise Within
Bateman will step down after a nine-year tenure, handing over the reins to interim managing director, Maryellen Gleason, while the theatre conducts a national search for his successor.
Joan Hotchkis: From Actors Studio to the TV Studio, Then to Performance Art
The writer-performer of ‘Tearsheets’ and ‘Elements of Flesh’ left behind a career in TV and film after surviving a brain tumor, turning her focus and activism to the stage.
Zharia O’Neal Is Sound Theatre’s First William S. Yellow Robe Playwright
O’Neal will receive a $10,000 stipend, travel and housing reimbursement, and will teach a playwriting course and develop a comedy about black women in reality television; Finalists of the residency will receive honaria
Octavio Solis, in the Company of His Characters
The playwright talks with director Chi-wang Yang about his new play ‘Scene With Cranes,’ about making theatre in a bar, and about the unacknowledged grief of the world.
3 Portland, Ore. Companies Join to Form Cuomo Theatre Collaborative
Named for Coho Productions’ late artistic director, Philip Cuomo, the new collective also includes Third Rail Rep and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble.
David Ellenstein Named Interim Artistic Director of Laguna Playhouse
Currently artistic director of North Coast Rep in nearby Solano Beach, Ellenstein will also fill in at the Playhouse until they find a permanent replacement for Anne E. Wareham.
Jeanette Harrison Named New Artistic Director of Artists Rep
Harrison will succeed Dámaso Rodríguez at the Oregon LORT theatre after serving 17 years as co-founder and artistic director of California’s AlterTheater.
An America of Color and Complication in ‘The Great Jheri Curl Debate’ and ‘Mushroom’
New plays at East West Players and People’s Light illuminate the collisions, and occasional solidarity, among people of color in a white-dominated culture.
