Sit In!
The Sit In! came about as a natural extension from our yearly Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. We offer artists who have worked with us a venue to hear rewrites, polish up old plays or hear their newest work for the first time.
Our NYC Sit In! takes place monthly in the magical and intimate atmosphere of Jimmy’s No. 43 Downstairs - and you’re invited! Seating is limited, but standing room is always available, and frankly, once you’ve sampled one of Jimmy’s delicious locally brewed hand crafted beers and heard what our playwrights are offering, you’ll come even if it means standing on your head!
UPCOMING READINGS!
April 16, 2012 - Ariel on the Train by Dano Madden
Who is the mysterious woman Bob met on the train? Will the memory of this first meeting destroy any chance he has of future happiness? A play about fidelity, friendship and two couples attempting to navigate through their broken marriages.
DANO MADDEN grew up in Boise, Idaho. His new play, Leaving IKEA is going to
be produced in June by The Artful Conspirators in Brooklyn. Dano's play, Beautiful
American Soldier, was a finalist for the National New Play Network's 2010 Smith Prize.
His plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Source Festival,
Mile Square Theatre, Burnt Studio Productions, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Idaho
Theatre for Youth, Kitchen Theatre Company, and The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway
Festival, among others. Dano's plays have received readings and/or development at
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Seven Devils Playwrights
Conference, Boise Contemporary Theater and Boston Theatre Works. He is a three time
Heideman Award finalist. Dano's Kennedy Center awards include: the 2007 National Student Playwriting Award for In the Sawtooths; and the 1997 National Short Play
Award for Drop. Published works include: In the Sawtooths and Drop (Samuel French,
Inc.), Ella (Best American Short Plays 2009-2010), Beautiful American Soldier (Part I,
Best American Short Plays 2005-2006), The Save (Playscripts, Inc.), The Soft Sand and Survival (Northwest Playwrights Alliance), and monologues in The Best Men's Stage
Monologues and Scenes 2010 (Smith & Kraus) and Exceptional Monologues 2 For Men
and Women (Samuel French, Inc.). He was the recipient of the 2001 Idaho Commission
on the Arts Fellowship in playwriting. In 2007, Dano was named one of "50 Playwrights
to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine. Dano was the 2008-2009 National New Play
Network playwright-in-residence at Interact Theatre Company in Philadelphia. He
received his BA from Boise State University and his MFA from Rutgers University. He
is an adjunct professor of playwriting at NYU. Dano lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with
his favorite person, Lauren, and their cat Beth.
May 21 - TBA
June 11-23 - Seven Devils Playrwights Conference in McCall, Idaho
September 17 - id-iots at play - selections from our writers groups
October 15 - Veils by Tom Coash
Intisar, a veiled African-American Muslim student, thought she might finally fit in when she enrolled for a year abroad at the American Egyptian University in Cairo. Samar, her Egyptian, non-veiled roommate, enlists Intisar's help in creating an internet blog about the controversial practice of wearing veils..or not and hopefully helping to bridge the gap between the West and the Middle-East. They and their project, however, are overtaken and in danger of being overwhelmed by events leading up to and including the beginnings of the recent Egyptian revolution. In struggling with events such as a university ban on wearing burkas, an anti-American protest/riot, and Samar's arrest and forced virginity test, Intisar and Samar are surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of a bitter cultural divide. It is a play about faith, women's rights, revolution, and above all, is friendship and understanding possible between people from two such very different cultures.
TOM COASH A New Haven, Ct. playwright and director, Mr. Coash also worked as the Director of New Play Development at Stageworks/Hudson for several years. Prior to New Haven, he spent three years in Bermuda and four years teaching playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash was a Co-founder of the Offstage Theatre in Charlottesville, VA and has worked for such theatres as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Actors Theatre of Louisville. His plays have been produced around the world and have won numerous playwriting awards. Coash was also the recipient of a CT. State Artist Fellowship and was recently named the Winner of the Middle-Eastern Playwriting Competition from the American University of Sharja, United Arab Emirates.
November 26 - Good by James McLindon
What if all you wanted to do with your life was to make the world a better place? What if,
to get the job that would let you do that, you had to get straight A's? What if you had to
work two jobs and graduate in three years because your parents were out of work and no
one had ever left you a trust fund? What if most of your fellow students seemed to have
been given every unfair advantage and yet only cared about making money or spending
it? What if the only way you could beat them was to cheat? Would you still play by the
rules?
Are you sure?
JAMES MCLINDON is a Playwriting Fellow with the New Repertory Theatre in Boston. His play, Comes a Faery, was developed at the 2010 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and is a finalist for the 2012 Humana Festival. His play, Salvation was produced by Hudson Stage Company last fall to critical acclaim in the New York Times. Distant Music was produced most recently at the Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre in Omaha last winter. Dead and Buried will be produced by the Detroit Rep next spring. His plays have been developed and/or produced at theaters such as the Abingdon, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, Samuel French Festival, PlayPenn, Victory Gardens, Lyric Stage, Boston Playwrights, Detroit Rep, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Seven Devils. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Level 4 Press.
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