Matt M. Morrow Named Center REP Artistic Director
Morrow, who spent the last 8 years running San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre, will lead the company in residency at the East Bay’s Lesher Center for the Arts.
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Morrow, who spent the last 8 years running San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre, will lead the company in residency at the East Bay’s Lesher Center for the Arts.
Her 2022 play took home the $25,000 prize, while Madison Fiedler won the Osborn Prize and Suzan-Lori Parks and Rebecca Gilman received citations for their work.
The 12 teenage playwrights hail from 5 different states, and this year’s live presentations will be the first performed in person since 2019.
The artistic director’s departure caps a 4-year period of extraordinary promise, crisis, and controversy, while the festival seeks help with its next steps.
Honorees in 5 categories each receive a $75,000 unrestricted prize and a CalArts residency.
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The Magic Theatre artistic director is one of 4 fellows awarded an unrestricted grant of $100,000, as well as supplemental support.
This lifelong fixture of Off-Off-Broadway was singing songs and telling stories right up to the end.
The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
Filling a major vacancy at the helm of the three-theatre L.A. company, Desai comes to the job after 7 years leading East West Players.