tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55722171051482825442024-03-07T15:59:58.984-08:00Playwrights Foundation BlogPlaywrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-36553090708855573152017-02-23T14:56:00.000-08:002017-02-23T15:06:17.926-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Novid Parsi<blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" type="cite">
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<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We caught up with playwright NOVID PARSI<b> </b>to ask some questions about his latest play, <a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/2016-plays/our-mothers-meal/"><b>Our Mother's Meal</b></a></span></span></i></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Calibri;">Your play explores
intersecting topics of the immigrant narrative, assimilation between different
generations, and patriarchy. Can you tell me about what drew you to these
topics and the significance of that narrative?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">I wanted to explore our narrative of American immigrant
success. The standard storyline goes: Immigrants move to the States for a
better life for themselves and their children. But as those children
successfully integrate into the adopted homeland, they also become foreigners
to their parents. Success comes with failure; the win comes with a loss. My
play looks at that through the lens of Iranian immigrants and their American
children. But I think it also speaks to the parent-child dynamic generally—how
children inevitably become strangers to their parents, and vice versa.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">The disconnect between generations—that’s one theme in the
play. Another is its opposite: generational repetition. Minu is a strong,
independent woman who balks at what she sees as her mother’s oppressive
marriage to her father. Yet Minu ends up repeating some of the same dynamics in
her own marriage. I find that parent-child experience—I’m not like you, I’ll
never be you, oh crap I am you—endlessly fascinating. It’s about parents and
children, but it’s also about how people define themselves in relation to one
another: an opposition that’s also a binding tie, a hate that’s also love.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri;">What was the writing
process like for you? Has the story changed when you first started writing it?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">It was similar to the process for all my plays, which isn’t
terribly exciting: I take notes about themes, characters, structure; I jot down
snippets of dialogue; I pose lots of what-if questions. Then I draft and
re-draft (and re-draft) until the play starts to appear. For the most part, I
find the writing process painful, and this play had some particularly difficult
passages to write, like the father’s moments of explosive anger or the impasse
between the mother and daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">In terms of what changed about the play, an early version
showed the mother’s mother in flashback scenes, but I thought that came off as
too formulaic. Like: In case you’re not getting the theme of generational
repetition—here it is again. I also decided against it because I wanted to convey
this immigrant family’s sense of isolation within a hostile, conservative
environment in the South. And the play’s classic structure—a single place on a
single day—helped do that.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri;">What are you looking
for or hoping to develop further with this reading?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">Since the characters have been inside my head for so long,
I’m eager to see who they become when the director and actors bring them alive.
That always leads to exciting discoveries about how to enrich the play.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri;">Shirin prides herself
in making a hearty home-cooked meal for her family, so what's your favorite
home-cooked meal?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";">My mother’s fesenjan, a Persian chicken dish with a
tart-sweet pomegranate and walnut sauce—but that was before I went vegetarian a
few years ago. Now it’s pesto I make from basil I get at my nearby farmer’s
market every summer. Hard to go back to the store-bought stuff once you’ve had
the homemade version—which, as Shirin would happily point out, is always true.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">With the challenges facing art this year, turn your passion into work and help us create more inclusive narratives and access for playwrights. </span><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/internships-and-fellowships/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Check out our current opportunities!</a></i></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spend your spring and/or summer as part of the Playwrights Foundation team! We generally operate on a 3-semester calendar: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fall</strong> (September through December), <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spring</strong> (January through May) and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summer</strong> (June through August).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/internships-and-fellowships/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applications are now open for our Spring and Summer 2017 cohorts.</strong> </a><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/internships-and-fellowships/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>We’re recruiting for several different positions, and a total of 10 spots.</b></a></span><span style="color: #666666;"> Six will be dedicated production interns for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival July 14-24, 2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our interns are an integral part of our close-knit team. Internships are for currently enrolled students in a degree program; fellowships are higher-level placements for candidates who have completed a degree, or seeking practical experience as a bridge to a career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All positions are designed for early career theater artists with an interest in the inner workings of a nonprofit playwright accelerator. Summer interns assist with all aspects of Festival production, including event planning, scheduling, development, social media, front of house, and production assistance, as well as some daily office tasks. Other roles work with year-round initiatives and projects. All require creative, thoughtful and extremely proactive individuals for whom no task is too small or too large, and who are willing to learn and stretch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All positions, while unpaid, provide active training, resume-building, and on-the-job experience. Most work takes place at our offices in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, with Production Interns/Fellows deploying to rehearsal spaces, theaters, and other venues during the Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to adding practical experience to your resume, interns enjoy these <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">benefits:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Passionate and enthusiastic volunteers are always welcome and deeply appreciated. </span><a href="mailto:lorenz@playwrightsfoundation.org" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Contact us</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> to find out about upcoming volunteer projects.</span></span></div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sponsorship Associate:</strong> We’re looking for an outgoing, friendly individual who will work closely with the General Manager willing to cold-call to solicit in-kind goods and services for Spring and Summer events as well as for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. This role can be mostly fulfilled remotely.</span></li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40th Anniversary Archive Associate:</strong> Is organization your thing? Is your sock drawer color-coded? We want to talk to <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you. </em>We’re currently gathering 40 years of archives in preparation for our 40th Anniversary Celebration. We’re looking for a research-minded individual to help us select the most wonderful images and content from four decades of archives and turn them into beautiful displays and materials.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Interested? Give Lorenz a call at 415.626.2176 or </span><a href="mailto:lorenz@playwrightsfoundation.org" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">email him</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">to sign up.</span></span></div>
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Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-39268018547882675212017-01-20T11:29:00.002-08:002017-01-20T11:29:44.342-08:00What We Fight For<br />
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High School's production of <i style="font-weight: bold;">six/eleven</i>, written by PF Resident Playwright <b>E. Hunter Spreen</b> and directed by UHS Theater
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stage in San Francisco tonight Friday, January 20, and play again on the 21st. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tickets are available </span><a href="https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=69398" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">With Rhodessa Jones, Annemaria Rajala*, John R. Lewis*, Sarita Ocon*, Indiia Wilmott, Krista DeNio, Anthony Frederick Aranda </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>*AEA</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;">Min's enjoying several premieres of his plays this spring. <b><i>Bad Kitty</i></b> has its New York Premiere at TYKEs, JCC Rochester, January 14-22. Tickets at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://tykestheatre.org/">tykestheatre.org</a></span></span></span></div>
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systemic bias, and of the invisible structures around us – be they race,
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: normal;">Shape-shifters, time-travelers, and rebellious </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: normal;">take the stage in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2755662&source=gmail&ust=1484951085847000&usg=AFQjCNFkwCdhDNiXiaHY9TWpah_RvR0iiw" href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2755662" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><i>ESCAPE VELOCITY</i></b></a>, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">a collection of fantastical new short plays by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victoria Chong Der,</b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Genevieve Jessee, Carol S. Lashof, and Madeline Puccioni. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1470163965" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">February 17-25</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> at Temescal Art Center. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Choose your own price for all performances: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thosewomenproductions.com/&source=gmail&ust=1484951085847000&usg=AFQjCNHM5a_Gei1vzXe0Msgzt6R2rYSbuA" href="http://www.thosewomenproductions.com/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.thos<wbr></wbr>ewomenproductions.com/</a></span></div>
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Artmakers and storytellers - write books, draw comics, paint paintings, do stand-up, code video games, make movies, become a YouTube sensation, craft poetry, animate short-films, make documentaries, design fashion, sing original songs, choreograph a number, create theatre!<br /><br />Make us laugh. Help us grieve, heal, and breathe. <br />Challenge our notions. Engage us in social dialogue. <br />Teach us to be kind and empathetic. Remind us who we are. <br />Show us who we can be. <br /><br />Let's keep inundating our culture with our varying narratives and perspectives. We're playing a cultural long-game here - centuries in the making. We can be influencing tomorrow's voters in profound ways today. There are short-term horrors to be concerned and grappled with to be sure, but never doubt the power of your craft to shape the country in the long-run.<br /><br />(Oh, and do drag! Lots and lots of drag!)</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">This piece brings together some threads that I've been knocking around for awhile, but the catalyst was an invitation to write and record a guided meditation for </span><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" style="color: #222222;">Crash Symbols (</i><span style="color: #222222;">a label that I released </span><a class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/wish&source=gmail&ust=1484767927369000&usg=AFQjCNE2MDP-cInttIsu3rKQaZ7e9Rcc8A" href="https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/wish" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">an album</a><span style="color: #222222;"> with in 2013). We discussed whether they wanted a traditional situation - to help people quit smoking or lose weight - or if it could be more of a creative prompt. Thankfully, the latter.</span><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Tell us a little more about your play. What is the "Order of the Moonwalk?"</span></i><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><span style="color: #222222;">Along the lines of horoscopes and weather reports, I understand that we want to know what we are getting into before we get into it, but as with several of my plays, figuring out exactly what is going on is a significant part of this journey. I've already said more than I should. My safety has been compromised.</span><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg"><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><span style="color: #3d85c6;">In addition to be playwright, you're also a musician and an interdisciplinary artist. How does having experience in multiple fields influence the work that you do?</span></i><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><span style="color: #222222;">My mind is a three-party system. Language, music and video all vie for influence. One party might gain dominance for a period of time, but never for long. Unlike most political situations, they do their best to cut deals with one another. Even work together at times. </span><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Since most of your work tends to be interactive and site-specific, how do you approach playwriting? Does it differ at all from a more traditional two/three-act structure?</span></i><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><span style="color: #222222;">What I love most are compelling stories. I've written some plays with traditional structures, but what I'm drawn to as a storyteller is the multi-party approach I alluded to above. Even before I had the skills to work in an interdisciplinary manner, I felt that I was wired to create and communicate that way. I think that the physical space is a major voice in any performance. In theater, the director and the set designer are usually the main artists to address this, but when given the opportunity, I love incorporating a space directly into the story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Hearing the play in real time and space. By design, </span><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" style="color: #222222;">Third Eye Moonwalk</i><span style="color: #222222;"> is open to interpretation. I'm looking forward to seeing what Director Jon Tracy and this talented cast decide to explore and emphasize. The reading will allow us to focus on the story, intention, language and the potential for physicality. </span><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><br class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg" /><i class="m_-5965952955866273032gmail_msg"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">What are the future plans for Third Eye Moonwalk? You mentioned that there is a commissioned audio recording of the piece. Would it be possible to get a snippet of it to share?</span></i></div>
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<b>Lydia Garcia</b> joined Marin Theatre Company as the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg in April 2016. Before becoming a member of the MTC team, she was the Resident Dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she dramaturged more than 20 plays in 8 seasons including the world premieres of Sean Graney’s <i>The Yeomen of the Guard</i>, Alexa Junge’s <i>Fingersmith,</i> Tracy Young and Oded Gross’s <i>The Imaginary Invalid</i> and <i>The</i> <i>Servant of Two Masters</i>, and Octavio Solis’s <i>Quixote</i>. Garcia is a current Executive Committee member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). In addition to her dramaturgical work, she is a trained staff facilitator for issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and a proud member of the artEquity facilitator team led by Carmen Morgan. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.<br />
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Lisa Marie Rollins <span style="font-weight: normal;">is a freelance director, playwright, and dramaturg. She dramaturged for Playwrights Foundation’s 2015 BAPF with Tearrance Chisholm’s <i>Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies</i>, and for Crowded Fire Theater on Dipika Guha’s world premiere <i>Mechanics of Love.</i> As a playwright she was a featured artist in Just Theater’s 2015-16 Play Lab where she developed her play <i>Token</i>. She has been a CALLALOO London Writing Fellow, and is an alumnus of the VONA Writing Workshop. She is currently a 2016 Writing Resident at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. She holds degrees from Claremont Graduate University and the University of California, Berkeley. She is Lecturer in the Race and Resistance Studies Dept at SFSU. She is currently developing her new play <i>Token</i> and finishing her first manuscript of poems. Look for her directing work fall 2016 on young jean lee’s <i>The Shipment </i>with Crowded Fire Theater.</span></h4>
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<i>Sycamore</i></h4>
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Mame Hunt <span style="font-weight: normal;">has worked in new play development for a very long
time. She has been an Associate Artist with the Sundance Theatre Lab since
2000. In the Bay Area, she was artistic
director of the Magic Theatre 1993-98 and of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival
1991-95. She’s happy to be back.</span></h4>
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In addition to the featured events below, we're REALLY looking forward to:<br />
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<b><i>Re-envisioning the Theatre Experience</i></b><br />
conversation and lunch with E. Hunter Spreen, Jon Bernson, and Sango Tajima (7/16 at 2:30PM)<br />
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brunch and conversation with Mina Morita and Jon Tracy (7/17 at 11AM).<br />
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Here's a sampling of some of the many special events we've got lined up for you - check out the entire event schedule <a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/special-events/" target="_blank">HERE!</a><br />
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Join us before the reading of <i>Sycamore</i> for brunch and conversation with playwright Sarah Sander on finding artistic authenticity in the prescribed roles and expectations of the modern Midwest.<br />
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Shylah Pacheco Hamilton is an AfroSurrealist artist and writer living in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MA in Philosophy and Religion from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her experimental films have exhibited internationally and recently she was featured in the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation exhibition entitled, <i>Power, Protest & Resistance: The Art of Revolution</i> in NYC. Her latest works can been seen through August at SomArts in San Francisco as part of <i>The Black Woman Is God</i> and <i>Night Light </i>exhibitions.<br />
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Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-59875455051402580682016-07-07T12:35:00.000-07:002016-07-07T13:01:04.394-07:00A Window to the Soul: Getting Intimate with the Global in an Election Year At Georgetown University in 2009, then-Secretary Hillary Clinton was asked by an undergraduate playwright how she viewed the role of artists in helping to promote human rights and amplify policy. Her answer?<br />
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"I think artists are one of our most effective tools in reaching beyond and through repressive regimes, in giving hope to people…I think that artists both individually and through their works can illustrate better than any speech I can give or any government policy we can promulgate that the spirit that lives within each of us, the right to think and dream and expand our boundaries, is not confined,no matter how hard they try, by any regime anywhere in the world. There is no way that you can deprive people from feeling those stirrings inside their soul.”<br />
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To us, it was no coincidence that the question was posed by a fierce and passionate young playwright. Live story-making – playwriting - is a powerful and immediate artistic tool that reaches inside the intimacy of the human psyche to evoke insight, perspective, emotional connection and, ultimately, change. And that is why, at Playwrights Foundation, we remain deeply dedicated to advancing and amplifying diverse emerging voices.<br />
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Each of the six plays of the #BAPF2016 festival reveal the many dangers that individuals and members of targeted groups face in their struggle to expand beyond boundaries imposed on them, and so doing tap our hearts and create a “window into the soul.” From many dots across the globe – and from points inside our imagination – Korea, Peru, Japan, an urban future, and a suburban Middle America, to the fantastical world of gaming, and the hedonistic world of Las Vegas, these six writers “illustrate the spirit that lives within each of us,…to think and dream and expand our boundaries.”<br />
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At this #BAPF2016 – six vital plays will take shape. Our audiences are in for a meaningful and delightful ride. This year’s crop topples convention, defies definition, and most importantly, will find their way to our theaters and to the lives of thousands of audiences. You are a critical part of their journey to completion. So many of our past BAPF plays and play-wrights have landed full productions all over the U.S. and the globe, in no small part due to the work we are doing here together: rebuilding and revolutionizing our theater, telling our stories, and revealing our very lives to us.<br />
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Naturally, the festival would not be complete without some brainy fun. <a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/" target="_blank">We invite you to all the festival</a> has to offer: discussions on alternate theater forms, topical experts, parties, panels and catered lunches! <br />
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We are so thrilled to share these six visionary works with you.<br />
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Artistic DirectorPlaywrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-64987895135726814672016-07-07T12:21:00.000-07:002016-07-07T12:35:51.142-07:00Interview with a Playwright: Sarah Sander<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;">Our next interview is with playwright Sarah Sander. We caught up with her to ask some questions about her <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;">poignant, sexy, and darkly funny</span> play <i><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/2016-plays/sycamore/" target="_blank">Sycamore: </a></i></span><br />
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SS: For a handful of reasons. Sycamores are commonly found in the Midwest and the word, sycamore, is often employed in naming suburban streets or parks. For me, the title evokes tree-lined cul-de-sacs.
There’s also this: the branches of sycamores are particularly twisted, as the trees age, the trunks hollow out to provide homes for various animals and the sycamore has bark that peels off and sheds (for a play dealing with a lot of physical transformation, it’s an easy metaphor).
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As for John, his “taking” pictures functions differently. It’s his means of disappearing. It’s a defensive technique. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>BAPF: </b>Thanks so much Philana! We look forward to seeing <i>Before Evening Comes </i>July 16 at 8 pm and July 24 at 2 pm!</span></span></div>
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Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-61921859589614074682016-06-23T14:19:00.000-07:002016-06-23T18:06:39.515-07:00Writer's Block?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another thing that was in my mind as I wrote were pictures of </span><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/MutilatedChildrenFromCongo.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">slaves who'd had their hands and feet cut off as punishment</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , both here in America and the Congo.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My theatrical heroes are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Albee</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl_Churchill" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Churchill</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pinter:</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brutally elegant all. </span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I attended the syncretic indigenous-Catholic ceremonies of la Virgen Del Carmen in the village of</span><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/4_-_Paucartambo_-_Ao%C3%BBt_2008.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Paucartambo</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, near Cusco, and la Virgen de la Candelaria, in the town of </span><a href="https://somethingfortheeyes.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/puno-skyline-and-lake-titicaca-t.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Puno</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, on Lake Titicaca. </span></div>
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Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-5365175153020063882016-06-21T15:17:00.002-07:002016-06-21T15:17:37.302-07:00Meet The 2016 Festival Directors<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jade King Carroll (Director, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before Evening Comes) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The daughter of the trumpeter and composer Baikida Carroll, as a child accompanied her father to the Public Theater in Manhattan, where he scored Lois Elaine Griffith’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White Sirens</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the request of Joseph Papp, and to the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., where he wrote, with Emily Mann and Ntozake Shange, and scored the musical </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Betsey Brown</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. After graduating from SUNY-New Paltz, where she majored in theater directing, she moved to New York City and quickly won an internship with the Women’s Project. Since then, she has compiled credits with the McCarter, New Dramatists, Primary Stages, Playwrights Realm, 24 Hour Plays, and New Jersey Rep. In 2010, she served as artistic associate at Second Stage Theater. Jade recently directed Emily Mann's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having Our Say </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the Long Wharf Theatre, and will be directing the development of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running on Fire </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Aurin Squire at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference prior to her work with BAPF.</span><br />
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Directing: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Little Mermaid</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Marin Theatre Company), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water by the Spoonful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Dirty Hands), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Firefly Project</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Magic Theatre), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Year of the Rooster</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Impact Theatre), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dark play or stories for boys</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Do It Live), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inay's Wedding Dress, Nanay's Lullaby</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Bindlestiff Studio), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Origins of Love</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (USF Mainstage), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chatroom, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Dog Sees God, Milk Like Sugar</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Maze</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Theatre Battery). Former Artistic Direction Apprentice at Magic Theatre, BA, Drama from Ithaca College. </span></div>
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She is thrilled to return to the Bay Area, where she served as the Artistic Director of the Bay One Acts Festival and as an artistic associate at the Magic Theatre. Directing credits include: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bright Half Life</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Magic Theatre), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lily's Revenge, Act 5</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Magic Theatre), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We Are Proud To Present...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Yale Summer Cabaret), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why Torture Is Wrong…</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Yale Summer Cabaret), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have I None </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Yale Cabaret), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Seagull</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Yale School of Drama), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twelfth Night</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Yale School of Drama), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Children</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Yale School of Drama). New play development at: Alliance Theatre, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Theater Emory, Playwrights Foundation, Cutting Ball Theater, New Conservatory Theater Center, Piano Fight. Upcoming: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ugly Lies the Bone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Lindsey Ferrentino (Alliance Theatre). 2015-2016 Phil Kent Directing Fellow, Alliance Theatre. 2016 National Directors Fellowship. MFA: Yale School of Drama.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-569d3c4f-74f6-a53d-5dbb-0ee02792411f" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-569d3c4f-74f6-a53d-5dbb-0ee02792411f" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-569d3c4f-74f7-2446-6d5b-7a3fa75b3ea7" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Christine Young </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">(Director, Wild Goose Dreams)</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">is an Associate Professor at University of San Francisco and a free-lance director specializing in new plays about social issues affecting women’s lives. From 2000-2006, she was Literary Manager and Artistic Associate at Playwrights Foundation. She has directed and taught for Tenderloin Opera Company, Crowded Fire, Lunatique Fantastique, Shotgun Players, California Shakespeare Theater, Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks, San Francisco Shakespeare, Golden Thread Productions and Just Theater. Christine curates </span><a href="http://worksbywomensf.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Works by Women San Francisco</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</span><a href="http://worksbywomensf.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">worksbywomensf.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">) a blog that spotlights the work of Bay Area women theater artists. She is a member of Theatre Bay Area’s Gender Parity Advisory Committee and serves on the board of WomenArts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">member of Theatre Bay Area’s Gender Parity Advisory Committee and serves on the board of WomenArts.</span>Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-24167127062765332792016-06-15T09:39:00.002-07:002016-06-21T12:04:24.159-07:00Interview With A Playwright: Jonathan Spector<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preparations for the 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival continue with a fresh set of new plays still in development. Our next interview is with playwright <u><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/2016-plays/good-better-best-bested/" target="_blank">Jonathan Spector</a></u>. We were fortunate enough to be able to ask him some questions </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> his hilarious (and at times disturbing) play <u><a href="http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/2016-plays/good-better-best-bested/" target="_blank">Good, Better, Best, Bested</a></u> about war, intimacy, and cultural consumption:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #222222;">As far as gaming culture is concerned, I've always followed it avidly, but from a bit of a tangential position. A combination of personal finance limitations and parents who actually wanted me to see the sun occasionally when I was growing up meant that I never had the most up-to-date gaming consoles or computers, and so I had to spend a lot of time playing games that were a couple years out-of-date. When new ones that I was excited about would come out, I would play them at my friends' houses, or (and I actually did do this) force my friends to describe them to me, at length, with much detail. My inability to play most games when they came out didn't stop me from staying up-to-the-minute on all of the various news and developments and new releases, and that's continued into my adult life even though I still have to be very choosy about the games that I spend my time with. I've spent a lot of time learning and reading about games that I'll never actually get to play, covetously. It's my own special brand of masochism, I guess.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">As far as what made me want to address gaming and games culture in a play...I tend to play around a fair amount with genres of all kinds in my plays. I have a comic book-style play, and a spy play, and a post-apocalypse play, etc. It's never a really conscious decision to write things that way, but given my interest base and my desire to play around with what's possible theatrically, it just kind of pans out. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">So I'd been thinking for a while about what a play about video games could look like on stage, and then gaming had a sort of cultural flashpoint moment a few years back, with the #gamergate "movement" flaring up and exposing a lot of the massive obstacles that women in the games industry and gaming culture face on a daily basis. It's really not much different at its core than the issues women and minorities face all over in society, but when it happens in the sphere of gaming culture it tends to mostly happen online, which means there's no real filter and there's a lot more...I guess "passion," would be the word? No, wait. Not passion. "Awfulness." That's a better word. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Anyway, when GamerGate was really heating up, I just remember being riveted to my computer, following the whole horrific mess of it all, and feeling like it was finally time to write a play about video games, because I finally knew what the conversation I wanted to have about them was. I wanted to talk to audiences about the very real and pertinent cultural issues that are present in the world of video games, but also show them why so many people from all different walks of life love games to start with, and want to fix them.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>BAPF: </b>In gamer parlance, non-player characters can be unknown or an "agent" in the game. Did this "otherness" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The trouble really arises when you factor in that gaming is pretty much the only art form that actually started off as a competitive medium. The only reason that Jumpman is rescuing a princess from a gorilla in <i>Donkey Kong</i> is because the programmers needed a thing for players to look at while they scored points. The stories serve the competition, and the medium is the message, and so for a lot of people who play games, there is no "gaming culture" without a competitive drive. That can translate into a constant need to be THE BEST at everything about a game, from the playing of the game to the consumption of the game ("I'm gonna get the best version of this game and the best system to play it on and I'm gonna buy them all on the day they come out before anybody else and that means that I'm winning!!!!!"). For people with that mindset, the inclusion of more and different types of players and stories can be perceived as an honest-to-God threat, and that can cause some really ugly pushback. That fact was very much on my mind as I started in on writing the play, and it found its way into the title.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a big fan of plays that invite the production team, directors, designers, and everybody else in on the world-building, and provide a lot of opportunities to create something new and fun and exciting that nobody's seen before. The specific style is always going to change to fit the story, because at the end of the day, that's all you're doing: you're telling a story with everybody involved all at once. It was easy to get that kind of imagination and sense of play into <i>NPC</i>, because video games inherently have that to start with, so it was really just a matter of figuring out what's possible and what isn't in a real, physical space. I'm sure that there's plenty of calibration left to do in rehearsal, so that I can really make sure I got the math right.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b> BAPF: </b>Walt, thank you so much! This was fascinating.</span></span>Playwrights Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487152211469747285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-77356854758482119402016-03-08T14:05:00.000-08:002016-03-08T14:05:51.420-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Steve Yockey<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The 2016 Season of Rough Readings continues with a fresh set of new plays still in development. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The March Rough Readings features</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"> <i>Mercury</i> from playwright Steve Yockey. We were fortunate enough to ask him some questions about this delightfully dark comedy:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Steve Yockey:</b> I love when anyone says “surrealism.” It’s sexy. But as alluring as that label sounds, I honestly can’t own it. Sure, the mythic qualities are definitely there, the unexpected punctures in the natural world, but all of my work adheres to a pretty strict internal logic. There are rules; we’re driving towards something. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I guess for all intents and purposes, it’s really just dark realism with some pretty grand theatrical gestures. I’ve always been fascinated by taking these intimate, very human stories and placing them right at the edge of something epic in size or unknown. Seeing the scale of those two things create friction. That’s where most of my plays live. <i>Mercury</i> takes something simple and familiar like failing relationships and casts them against the literally immense and horrifying mechanics of a vengeful universe. It’s fun. Or at least it should be fun. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b>Because underneath all of those more “mythic” details, the play really is about some deeply dysfunctional relationships. How do you want the audience so feel about relationships when they come away from the play? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>SY: </b>Amused by the terrible choices? Although I’m betting some people will leave identifying with the terrible choices, which would also be pretty great. It’s essentially a dark comedy and only one character of the seven in the play is anywhere even close to being a “good” person. So it’s tricky. Maybe I’d like the audience to come away hoping these characters will become better people. I want to say it’s never too late for anyone, but the play doesn’t really make that case. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b>Why do you use so much overlapping speech in <i>Mercury</i>? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>SY: </b>Oh, that’s something I use in all of my plays. In real life we don’t wait for other people to finish speaking, especially in heated exchanges. And it’s also a way of tuning rhythms and builds, like in a piece of music. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b>You write for several different forms of media, including for comics and TV -- how does that compare to playwriting? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>SY: </b>Playwriting lets you be a little bit more ambitious with storytelling. I think that’s the best way to say it. In theatre we ask audiences to suspend their disbelief and imagine a lot more. That means we can take bigger swings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF:</b> That's the beauty of it. Thanks again for your time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Rough Reading Series is Pay What You Can. The 2016 series continues with "Mercury" by Steve Yockey, playing </i></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Monday, March 14th, 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University </b>and<b> </b></i></span><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Tuesday, March 15th, 2pm at Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco.</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "Mercury", Steve Yockey, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>. </b></i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-12276959374248773432016-02-11T15:12:00.000-08:002016-02-11T15:12:50.074-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Kevin Artigue<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The 2016 Season of Rough Readings continues with a fresh set of new plays still in development. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Late February Rough Readings features</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> <i>The Most Dangerous Highway in the World</i> from playwright Kevin Artigue. We were fortunate enough to ask him some questions about this work and the Producing Partnership with Golden Thread Productions:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Kevin Artigue:</b> I can’t exactly remember! I think I first saw a picture in an old library book researching a different play (also set in Afghanistan). But it was a series of articles by the journalist Dexter Filkins that sparked the first images for the play. What stuck with me was the idea that these drivers were purposefully risking their lives, driving way too fast, taking stupid risks - and why? The mystery of their death wish stuck with me. And in the middle of the exhaust and chaos was a charming, hopeful little boy eking out a living. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The image of a car soaring over his head while he directs traffic – I wanted to see that on stage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b>How did you come to know the characters you feature in the play?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>KA: </b>I’m not from Afghanistan so I had lots of homework to do – which continues to this day. The process of getting to know my characters starts with a superficial first draft that slowly gets better, becomes more grounded, moving outside in. But the key to my understanding of my characters and the world of the play is thanks to the faith of Golden Thread. They have provided me with moral and creative support for the last three years, including vital introductions to the Afghan community. These contacts and conversations have enriched and transformed not only my play, but my life. Writing this far outside my experience has been tough, but I believe worth the extra effort.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So, what is your connection</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> to Golden Threads Productions and their New Threads </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Staged Reading Series? How are you collaborating them to bring your vision to life?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>KA: </b>My collaboration with Golden Thread began three years ago with a staged reading of an early draft, and has continued to this day. They have championed this play and supported its development. Together, we took the play to the National New Play Showcase in 2014, and out of that successful week we hatched plans for a production. In preparation for production in May, Golden Thread has provided me with all the dramaturgical love a playwright can ask for, including access to experts and cultural consultants. As the first writer of non-Middle Eastern descent to be produced on their mainstage, I feel honored and humbled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF: </b>The play has a beautiful dreamlike repetition to it - what was the driving force behind that use of language?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>KA: </b>Some of the characters in the play are caught in a literal limbo, wandering off after their car accidents in a state of amnesia. Slowly, in pieces, they begin to remember what happened. As memories come back to them, the language circles and builds until it clarifies and makes more sense.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>RF:</b> And to close up, is there anything you'd like the audience to keep in mind going into the reading?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>KA: </b>I’d like them to know something that took me a while to really see: that Afghanistan is more than a war torn “graveyard of empires”. We’re bombarded with depressing images and stories of war, trauma, and suffering. While these images of Afghanistan are mostly accurate, they are biased, and override the simultaneous bigger story of the vast majority of Afghans who manage through hope, perseverance, religion, and humor to create meaning and order in their day-to-day lives. A need for meaning and order we can easily recognize in ourselves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Rough Reading Series is Pay What You Can. The 2016 series begins with "The Most Dangerous Highway in the World" by Kevin Artigue, playing </i></span><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sunday, February 21st, 5:00pm at Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco</b> and </span><b style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, February 22nd, 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University.</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "The Most Dangerous Highway in the World", Kevin Artigue, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>. </b></i></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-72095792026536733342016-01-29T13:37:00.000-08:002016-01-29T13:37:21.561-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Christina Gorman<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The 2016 Season of Rough Readings is beginning, and with it a fresh set of new plays still in development. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Early February Rough Readings features</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> <i>Fidelis</i>, a brilliant new work by playwright Christina Gorman. We were able to speak with her about her work and process, and she's shared some wonderful insight below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Christina Gorman:</b> Growing up, the Marine Corps was revered in my household. My father served in Vietnam, so he experienced the absolute worst of what it means to serve. He would also say he experienced the best: the discipline, the camaraderie, the self-confidence. His time as a Marine was a double edged sword for him, and I wanted to capture that by showing the positive effects being in the armed forces can have on one's character.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>CG: </b>I'm glad it feels that way. In constructing the play, I wanted to keep the audience as close to Nick's journey as possible. I wanted to keep us inside his head, so we experience the world through his eyes and experience the emotions he feels. So I did a lot of research. And, as I said, I'm the daughter of a former Marine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>RF:</b> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The play jumps around in time - why did you choose that method of storytelling?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>CG:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nick's past and present are so closely tied together, it's almost all one moment, so I chose to have the play unfold in a way that, at least on a subconscious level, reflects that. The play spills out the way our thoughts do when we are at a critical point in our lives and we ask ourselves, "How the hell did I get here?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Rough Reading Series is Pay What You Can. The 2016 series begins with "Fidelis" by Christina Gorman, playing </i><b>Monday, February 1st, 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University </b>and <b>Tuesday, February 2nd, 1:30pm at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco</b><i><b>.</b> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "Fidelis", Christina Gorman, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>. </b></i></span><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;">Save a Seat with an RSVP! Email </span><a href="mailto:rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org" style="color: #0091ac; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;" target="_blank">rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;"> or call 415.626.2176.</span></span></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-2843366307539613732015-11-13T12:01:00.001-08:002015-11-13T12:03:09.297-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Dipika Guha<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Rough Readings Series is </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wrapping</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> up for the year with </span></span><i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53#Lifted" target="_blank">Lifted</a></i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53#Lifted" target="_blank"> by Dipika Guha</a>! </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had the chance to interview Dipika Guha on her process, motivation, and experience as a Resident Playwright at PF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I think tragicomedy in particular strikes me ... of life being both things simultaneously, that speaks to me as being true...There something in that multi-genre device that is thorny and poses th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e question rather than a simple solution."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "Lifted", Dipika Guha, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>.</b></i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-82394279289323706662015-05-07T15:23:00.002-07:002015-05-07T15:23:36.991-07:00Interview with a Playwright: Lauren Gunderson<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The 2015 Season of Rough Readings </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">has brought us readings of four remarkable new plays in draft form, and is coming to a close this month with </span><i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The Revolutionists</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> by playwright Lauren Gunderson. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-76833696457368096992015-03-31T14:48:00.000-07:002015-03-31T15:05:44.016-07:00Interview with a Playwright: Lauren Yee<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The 2015 Season of Rough Readings is now in full swing, granting audiences the rare chance to see up-close and personal readings of new plays in early draft form. We're continuing with</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> <i>King of the Yees</i>, a brilliant new work by playwright Lauren Yee. We were able to speak with her about her work and process, and she's shared some wonderful insight below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>LY:</b> Because </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">King of the Yees</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> is set in San Francisco Chinatown and is very much a local story, I really wanted to find different ways of introducing </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">King of the Yees</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> to the Bay Area, and I'd heard great things from other playwrights about working with Berkeley's Contemporary Drama Working Group.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>RF: </b>This play deals with a lot of surrealism and completely obliterates the fourth wall in the process -- what got you going in this direction?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>LY: </b>For me, </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">King of the Yees</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> starts from a very real, grounded place and explodes outwards as we and our protagonist go through the journey of the play. I love asking the question of "how is this theatrical?" It also reflects a general trajectory in my writing thus far--when I first began writing, I started from a place of heightened realism, big farce, and have gradually continued my exploration of what it means to be big and theatrical and formally inventive. I want to write plays that surprise me as I'm writing them, and hopefully that translates to a satisfying experience for an audience, too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>LY: </b>Absolutely none! Though he definitely did have a lot of ideas about what the play should be about, which was particularly interesting when he suggested things that had actually made their way into the play already. And I think I'm a writer who's deeply invested in strong character voices, so hearing a strong voice for this play really helped me to jumpstart it more quickly than usual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>RF:</b> It really shows in the work. Thank you so much for sharing, Lauren!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "King of the Yees", Lauren Yee, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>. </b></i></span><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;">Save a Seat with an RSVP! Email </span><a href="mailto:rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org" style="color: #0091ac; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;" target="_blank">rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;"> or call 415.626.2176.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Read more about "The Lady Onstage", Erin Bregman, and the Rough Reading Series at <b><a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53">Playwrightsfoundation.org</a>. </b></i></span></span><i style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;">Save a Seat with an RSVP! Email </span><a href="mailto:rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org" style="color: #0091ac; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.4000015258789px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rsvp@playwrightsfoundation.org</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.4000015258789px;"> or call 415.626.2176.</span></span></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572217105148282544.post-22594042833139349192015-02-20T12:11:00.000-08:002015-02-20T12:11:32.802-08:00Interview with a Playwright: Marcus Gardley<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playwrights Foundation alumni Marcus Gardley has won the prestigious Glickman Award for his play <i>The House that will not Stand</i>, produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2014. The play takes place in 1836 New Orleans, following a period of French rule that permitted common-law marriages between free women of color and white men. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The historical drama centers around the recently widowed Beartrice Albans and her struggle to keep her home and maintain the welfare of her three unwed daughters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The work is both witty and poetic; brilliantly illustrating Gardley's unique talent and cementing his position as one of the most compelling young playwrights in the country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was fortunate enough to get an interview with Gardley, who shared some insight into his process, inspiration, and how</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> his time at Playwrights Foundation impacted him as a playwright.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rachel Finkelstein:</b> Thank you for speaking with me, and congratulations on the Glickman Award! I know that you're fascinated with parts of American history that tend to drift away from common discourse, and this work definitely calls to that. How did you come upon this subject, and what drove you to write on it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Marcus Gardley: </b>My first introduction to this period and the system of placage In New Orleans occurred when I read the book and saw the movie<i> Feast of all Saints</i> by Anne Rice. I was fascinated by the role the African-American women played in society and wondered if they had any connection to the Civil Rights movement. I knew that Homer Plessy (of Plessy v Ferguson) was Creole and born in New Orleans and so I immediately wondered if these women were his grandmothers and therefore apart of the beginning lineage of civil rights in this country. What I discovered once I read several history books was that these women fought for their own rights as free colored women as well. Many of them were very wealthy, powerful and controlled much of New Orleans at the time. What drove me to write about them was the fact that so few people had heard about them or knew anything about this period. I wanted to give audiences a glimpse into this pivotal moment in our country's history in which racial dynamics, class and gender were just the opposite as most people would assume. This to me, is a prime example of how histories have been take from people and buried. My passion is for the stage and for archeology. We need to know our histories and we need to embrace our past in order to understand who we are as citizens of the United States. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF:</b> In what ways did you go about researching and understanding the environment of New Orleans following the period of French rule?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MG:</b> I read every book I could get my hands on but I also spent a lot of time in New Orleans. One of the most incredible things about this city is that the inhabitants know, cherish and revel in their history. All of the questions that I needed answered were there. A lot of the buildings from the period were still standing, even Katrina could not wash away the indelible marker of history in a city so grand, so proud that it reeks of the past. I visited several mom and pop book stores in the French Quarter and befriend the owners and they shared 'books from the back room.' They gave me the 'real' history, which is what I put on stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF: </b>I love that you're striving to produce more roles for African American women -- you've mentioned elsewhere that this play is the beginning of your work to do that. Do you have anything in the works that you would be willing to share?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MG: </b>I am working on a musical that has an entirely African American cast. I can't tell you what its about because its still cooking and a good cook won't tell you what's in their food until they've tasted it. But I will tell you the piece is about African Queens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF: </b>Thanks for the sneak peek! You've had multiple plays developed in Bay Area Playwrights Festival and some of our other programs -- how did your experience here impact your work and process as a playwright?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MG: </b>I actually can't imagine my career at all without the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Amy Mueller and Playwrights Foundation gave me my first shot as a writer, while I was still in grad school and since that time I have developed most of my work here. I consider myself a Bay Area playwright. I will always be a Bay Area playwright. I learned a lot about craft, process and collaboration by working with the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and many of their programs such as Rough Reading Series, Des Voix Festival and the New Play Institute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF: </b>We are proud to count you as an alumni! Overall, what most influences you as a writer?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MG: </b>I think my major influence as a writer would be nature. There is so much to learn from the land which nurtures us. There is wisdom in the wind, true serenity beneath trees, and healing in the water. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF: </b>Beautiful. Finally, Is there anything you've always wanted to discuss in an interview that you haven't had a chance to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF:</b> Glad to hear! Thank you so much for your time, and congratulations again on the award!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gardley joins Aaron Loeb and Christopher Chen as the third consecutive </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playwrights Foundation Alumni</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to win the Glickman Award. New PF Resident Playwright Kate E. Ryan's play <i>Hundred Days</i> was also a runner-up for this year's Glickman!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">March 7</b><span style="background-color: white;"> at the San Francisco Playhouse - it first debuted at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">"An unexpected knock at the door turns a family upside-down. In this story of beginnings and endings, betrayal and love, three generations twist and grow in astonishing ways. And where their roots meet may surprise you."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sfplayhouse.org/sfph/tree/?gclid=COqh593By8MCFYOUfgodHhYAcw" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Learn more and purchase your tickets here!</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Lauren Yee's</span></b><b> </b><i>Samsara</i> opens Friday at Victory Gardens Theater - it first debuted at the 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">"Americans Katie and Craig are having a baby with Suraiya, a surrogate from India. As all three 'parents' anxiously await the baby’s due date, Katie and Suraiya are attacked by flights of their imagination."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">See the world premier of Yee's new comedy from </span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">February 6 - March 8.</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://victorygardens.org/our-season/samsara/" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Learn more and purchase your tickets here!</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Want to see more Yee? Come to PF's <a href="http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=53#King%20of%20the%20Yees" target="_blank">April Rough Readings</a> to see Yee's new play <i>King of the Yees</i></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Jackie Sibblies Drury's</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> play </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We Are Proud to Present...</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> runs this Friday, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February 7 - March 7</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> at Just Theater </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- it first debuted at the 2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">"We Are Proud to Present...is a hilarious, imaginative and incendiary exploration of race, power and narrative in America. A play within a play, six idealistic young actors - three white and three black - attempt to create a theater piece about a little known genocide in the early 20th century."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://justtheater.org/" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Learn more and purchase your tickets here!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rachel Finkelstein: </b>Thank you for <span style="background-color: white;">coming in</span>! I know this play is a commission from The Apothetae theater company in New York -- how did you get involved with the group? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mike Lew: </b>"Teenage Dick" is the product of an almost decade-long conversation I've been having with Gregg Mozgala, one of my favorite actors. Gregg has cerebral palsy, and he founded <a href="http://www.theapothetae.org/" target="_blank">The Apothetae</a> out of the desire to mount plays that explore and illuminate "the Disabled Experience."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've often felt a kinship with Gregg in terms of our mutual goal of wanting to broaden the range of perspectives being presented onstage. In 2006 I wrote a piece for <a href="http://inclusioninthearts.org/projects/national-diversity-forum/opinion-pieces/michael-lew/" target="_blank">Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts</a> where I said that as a writer I'm not as interested in exploring diversity as an end in itself (although diversity is often a byproduct), whereas as a director/producer I'm more invested in "nontraditional casting" as a means for balancing the inequity of representation I'd observed in the industry. Since then, my politics on the writing side have shifted. I've come to recognize that I have to build diversity into my storytelling or it might not happen downstream. So my hopes for this play are multiform: to re-examine tired tropes about the disabled, create stories for people we're not otherwise seeing, hire more disabled artists, and carry out a ground-up reconsideration of how theaters embrace the mantle of inclusion (not just in terms of the art but the very physical plant).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ML: </b>My understanding is still evolving and I don't presume it will ever be fully complete given that everyone's experiences are different. To be clear, this isn't a research piece exploring the physical reality of a specific affliction (though it is mentioned that Richard's character has CP and that his best friend Buck is a wheelchair user from an unspecified etiology). Instead, this play is more about clocking social dynamics - the way we tend to project assumptions onto people rather than taking them in. Under Elizabethan conventions, Richard is evil because he's disabled. Today, we tend to think of the disabled as sainted just because they're disabled. Both of these constructs are traps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That said, it's still my responsibility to play-test this work with as wide an audience as possible. I'm writing about an experience that isn't my own, so part of this workshop process is making myself accountable to people whose experiences run deeper than mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF: </b>That's definitely important to keep in mind. When reading the play, I've noticed that it has quite a bit of distinct stage direction, such as the lighting direction and set design. Do you usually have such a clear vision for the look of the performance?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ML: </b>As playwrights we have to think in three dimensions; I'm sick of plays destined for a life on music stands only. And as theater-makers we've GOT to get out of photo-realistic-NYC-loft mode and really transport the audience - put their imaginations to work. My play "Tiger Style!" requires set pieces that can double as locations in both Irvine and Shenzen, so as to portray the locales as two sides of the same coin. "Bike America" requires a set where the actors can go cross-country biking in motion onstage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this play specifically, I wanted to create a stark distinction between Richard's mental space and his reality. That distinction manifests itself through set pieces that seemingly coalesce around him, and in stark lighting contrasts, and also in Richard's use of language (which is more elevated and arcane in his head and more pedestrian out in the world). In that way the acting and design are meant to reinforce each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a big fan of playing with the actors - of getting in a room and adjusting the script based on the actors' impulses. That sense of play extends to designers as well. I wanted to give the designers a strong starting point in terms of the physical space, if anything just so we can all start riffing. I'm totally fascinated with designers; just like the actors, they've got a skill set I'll never possess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RF:</b> It's refreshing to see! Finally, I have to ask what drew you to choose which aspects of Shakespeare's Richard III you wanted to stay more faithful to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ML: </b>I really don't feel a particular reverence for staying true to the source material. If you want to see a faithful production of Richard III it's not going to be too hard to find it elsewhere. But what I did want to do is faithfully recreate Richard's spirit - his silver-tongued eloquence, his ambitions, his sense of injustice - all within a decidedly modern context (and in high school!). And then on top of that I layered in a bunch of cheeky winking references for anyone who cares to go digging.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RF:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'll be sure to keep an eye out. Thank you for your time! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Rough Reading Series is Pay What You Can, and continues with<span style="background-color: white;"> "Teenage Dick" by Mike Lew, playing <b>February 9th at 7:30pm at Roble Hall, Stanford University</b>, and <b>February 10th at 7pm at the Tides Theatre, San Francisco.</b> </span></i></span></span><br />
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