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30 years of developing playwrights and new plays
TEN CENT NIGHT
by Resident Playwright Marisa Wegrzyn - Directed by Associate Artist Richard Shavzin
September 18 - October 26, 2008
Dad's shot himself in the head and failed musician Roby Finley is on her way home to Burkeville, TX, with a suitcase full of stolen cash to save her heart-sick sister. A family comedy from a time when a dime could buy you a phone call home.
Marisa Wegrzyn'sThe Butcher of Baraboo was produced in Steppenwolf Theatre's First Look Repertory in 2006, premiered Off Broadway at Second Stage in 2007, and will be published in the Smith & Kraus anthology New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008. Her plays Diversey Harbor and Killing Women were produced by Theatre Seven of Chicago, where she's a founding member. Other theatres that have presented her work include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rivendell Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Chicago Dramatists, Lucid by Proxy, Washington University in St Louis, Hotcity Theatre, Nice People Theatre Company, The Hourglass Group, Baltimore Centerstage, and The Magic Theatre. She is currently working on commissions from Steppenwolf and Yale Rep, and her writing was cited in The Chicago Reader's list, "Best of Chicago 2008."
HOW I BECAME AN INTERESTING PERSON
by Resident Playwright Will Dunne - Directed by Artistic Director Russ Tutterow
January 15 - February 22, 2009
According to Wayne Drabowski, he is what the Neandrathals evolved into. His room is what caves evolved into. And his isolation is what life evolved into at the end of a 20th century where no one really knows what’s happening on the other side of the wall. In a struggle to escape his isolation, Wayne finds himself more and more entangled with his elderly landlady, Mrs. Walker, and three unusual boarders with whom he shares the bathroom and refrigerator. Love surfaces where he least thought he would find it and leads him to discover the unexpected in himself, his neighbors, and a boarding house born out of the mysterious and violent death of an Army Colonel seven years ago.
Will Dunne has been selected three times by the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center to present work at the US National Playwrights Conference. His plays Hotel Desperado, Love and Drowning, and How I Became an Interesting Person generated a Charles MacArthur Fellowship for comedy, translations into two other languages, and staging and guest attendance at the National Playwrights Conferences of Russia, Australia, and Croatia. His play The Ascension of Carlotta is being produced this spring by the 16th Street Theatre in Berwyn, Illinois (2008). In partnership with Chicago Dramatists, Deep Gardens was produced at Chicago's Second City. Moonrise and Good Morning, Romeo were finalists for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. West Coast productions of Eleventh Hour, I Married a Werewolf, The Bridge, and Between Quakes received four Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards, and a Best-of-Year mention from the San Francisco Examiner.
HOPE VI
by Resident Playwright Nambi E. Kelley - Directed by Associate Artist Ilesa Duncan
April 23 - May 31, 2009
Hope VI tells the story of Hope Graves, 6, a high spirited and funny young girl who has become strangely quiet since her mother beat her in the head with a steel-toed boot. A scar covers the length of her face, but she escapes the pain of her dreary life into the world of TV. Hope VI is the journey of her dream and her family’s struggle to survive after the wrecking ball hits the Robert Taylor homes on Chicago’s Southside.
Nambi E. Kelley is an award-winning, published and produced playwright. Her work has included projects for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. Honors have included: 2004-05 TCG Candidate for Playwriting, Goodman Theatre, Chicago; 2004 O’Neill Playwrights Conference nomination; 2004 Finalist, Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, Paramount Studios; three children’s play commissions for Unibooks in Seoul, Korea, 2004. Her plays have been produced in Chicago at MPAACT and Prop Thtr..
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September 18, 2008 - May 31, 2009
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