2017 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
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Modern Slave
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ELAINE ROMERO has had her plays presented at the Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Kennedy Center, across the U.S. and abroad. Recent commissions include Modern Slave (Ford's Theatre), Title IX (Arizona Theatre Company), and A Work of Art (Goodman Theatre). Publishers: Samuel French, Playscripts, and Vintage Books. Graveyard of Empires (Blue Ink Playwriting Award) premiered at 16th Street Theater alongside A Work of Art which premiered at Chicago Dramatists in conjunction with the Goodman Theatre. The upcoming Rain of Ruin will complete her war trilogy. Her Arizona/Mexican border trilogy includes Wetback, Mother of Exiles, and Title IX. Modern Slave was given staged readings at Victory Gardens Theater and at the Road Theatre in LA in 2016. Title IX, which looks at the insidious nature of sexual inequality, will be featured at the 2017 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Romero is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. She holds her MFA from UC Davis. She is an Assistant Professor in School of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of Arizona.
Drift
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PATRICK GABRIDGE writes plays, novels, screenplays, and radio plays. His stage plays include Lab Rats, Distant Neighbors, Blood on the Snow, and Reading the Mind of God, and dozens of short plays which have been staged in theaters around the world. His novels are Steering to Freedom, Moving (a life in boxes) and Tornado Siren. He co-founded Boston's Rhombus playwright’s group, the publication Market InSight... for Playwrights, and the on-line Playwrights' Submission Binge. His plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, Original Works Publishers, and YouthPlays. He’s been a fellow with New Rep and with the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston and is the co-founder and coordinator of the New England New Play Alliance. In his spare time, he likes to farm and fix up old houses. Drift was inspired by the two years he spent running a small organic farm in Massachusetts.
Flee
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STEPH DEL ROSSO is a playwright and educator currently pursuing her MFA at UC-San Diego, where she studies with Naomi Iizuka. Her work has been developed or presented with Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, New York Stage and Film, Colt Coeur, Judson Memorial Church, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Caldera Arts, the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and others. She is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, a two-time semi-finalist for both the National Playwrights’ Conference and Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Her play Are You There? will premiere at UCSD’s Wagner New Play Festival and Machinalia, her adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, will be produced by the Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland, CA (May/June 2017).
The Secretary
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KYLE JOHN SCHMIDT is a writer from Montezuma, Iowa. His plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville (Take 10 Apprentice Showcase and the Humana Festival), Crashbox Theatre, the Kid Magicians, Play-in-a-Bar, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, University of Texas New Theatre, and the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival. His full-length plays have received readings at Capital Stage, Stage West, and Nashville Repertory Theatre, and have been finalists for the Humana Festival, PlayPenn, the Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, and the Princess Grace Award. Furthermore, Kyle was co-winner of the 2010 Heideman Award and is a former member of the Ingram New Play Lab. He received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers.
Horizon Three
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Isabella D’Esposito is a New York based playwright, composer and lyricist. As a playwright, her works have been produced and read by Carnegie Mellon University, Red Theater Purchase, The FIVE Collective, ARTS Tristate and the Horizon Theater. She was a semi-finalist for the Downstage Left residency with her play People for the Ethical Treatment of the Undead, and was selected for an apprenticeship with New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater, a residency at SUNY Stonybrook’s International Theater Festival, and was accepted into the New South Young Playwright’s Festival at the Horizon Theater. She recently completed her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the recipient of the Jean and Samuel Elgart Legacy Fellowship.
Stroke
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Manuel Zarate is a playwright, director, photographer, poet, and entrepreneur who has bridged the gap between the arts and the business world. He founded the non-profit HBMG Foundation which integrates theater, technology and business, and currently serves as Artistic Director for the Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat in Colorado. With over 20 years experience in theater, Manuel has served as Artist-in-Education for the State of Oregon and Director of Arts for the Washington Institute for Leadership. He has served as a National Juror for the American Multicultural Festival and as Artistic Director for several theaters. He’s honored to be a member of Actors Equity, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and Dramatists Guild.
The Burnouts
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Dayna Smith is a graduate of Boise State University, holding a BA in Theatre Arts, Dramatic Writing, and currently works as an Artistic and Membership Intern for The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dayna recently worked with The Kennedy Center as a selected finalist for their inaugural Undergraduate Playwrights Conference and the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference as an intern. Her work has been seen at Boise State University Theatre Majors' Association; HomeGrown Theater; and Boise Contemporary Theater. Additionally, she is the Artistic Director of Boise's Campfire Theatre Festival, which will take place in September 2017.
Rabbit/Moon
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The Student PlaysMr. Happy
By Kyanne McLaughlin The Couple By Kobi Windmiller Rose Tinted- Glasses By Hannah Baker Three Blind and Mice By Kailey Linden Dirty Work By Nic Morin Trust Me By Rylie Speirs The Bro Code By Sierra Lewis Obsessed By Chloe Hansen |
Student Playwrights: Rylie Speirs, Kobi Windmiller, Kailey Linden, Sierra Lewis, Nic Moran, Hannah Baker, Chloe Hanson and Kyanne McLaughlin
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Check out the 2017 Conference Press Page HERE.
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