Playwrights’ Center Names McKnight Awardees
Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
After a COVID hiatus, the award recognizing art and social impact will give be given to 3 recipients for the years 2021-2023.
The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
Reilly and Santory will receive both private and public readings of their work.
A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of ‘An American Tail’ opening at Children’s Theatre Company.
The theatre says they’ll announce a 2023-24 season soon, though summer programming is off and the resident acting company will go back to show-to-show hiring.
Rest Up, the first in a series of planned gatherings in a national initiative to advance a more equitable theatre ecology, will be held April 27-28.
Yasmina Reza’s popular play makes a belated Off-Broadway debut in a kinetic new production by Theatre Breaking Through Barriers.
This 4-month state-wide celebration of theatrical abundance is already strengthening bonds among artists and audiences, all while keeping the focus on new writing.