Congratulations to Susan Faust for CONFABULOUS and Rich Rubin for DESCENT FROM THE ANDES, both finalists for the 2020 Portland Civic Theatre Guild New Play Award.
PHAME students create and perform rock opera
LineStorm can’t wait to start collaborating with PHAME on writing projects!
Hear more about their current opera on Think Out Loud.
Read more at The Oregonian and Oregon ArtsWatch.
E. M. Lewis joins OSF’s American Revolutions!
Lewis is one of six playwrights given a commission to develop new plays about moments of change in U.S. history. Read more at American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle.
PICASSO IN PARIS…in Naples!
Rich Rubin’s PICASSO IN PARIS is one of three winners of Gulfshore Playhouse’s New Works Festival, with a public reading in Naples, Florida, on September 15, 2019. Read an interview with Rubin about the inspiration for the project here. And a piece in Florida Weekly here.
Wondering what’s FOR RENT in Los Angeles?
Lolly Ward’s play FOR RENT will be in the Short+Sweet Hollywood festival, running Sept. 24-Oct. 28, 2019.
Welcome to our newest member, Holly Richards!
Check out her bio and website through our Playwrights page, and be sure to say hello at our next meeting or reading.
Barrett to get MFA from UCLA
Congratulations to Brianna Barrett, one of the few, the proud accepted to the UCLA Department of Theater’s Playwriting program!
Let the LIGHT in with E. M. Lewis in Los Angeles
Lewis’s play HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN is receiving its world premiere at Boston Court Pasadena, September 19-October 27, 2019.
Rubin’s STOP/FRISK included in inaugural WeFEST in NY
Rebel Theater and Triskelion Arts have selected STOP/FRISK for their festival: August 2-4, 2019, in Brooklyn. Cultural, artistic and political activist icon Harry Belafonte will be honored at the August 4 event.
Brianna Barrett shows SLIPPER TONGUE in Chicago
Barrett’s Cinderella parody, SLIPPER TONGUE, is in Otherworld Theatre’s Violet Surprise: FemSlash Fest, August 9-11, 2019.