2018 - id Theater

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OF EVENTS HERE

Staged Readings

(A) NEW WORLD
by featured artist
James Still

AND THEN THE MOON SWALLOWED THE SKY
by Rachel Nelson

THE WAY NORTH
by Tira Palmquist

THE HANFORD INVASION!
by Matt Smith

The Playwrights Intensive

FROST IN KILLEEN
by Anne Adams

THE PEOPLE IN THE CABIN
by Nancy Bell

id-Residence

MONKEY IN THE SHADE
Steven Haworth

PLUS...
A Free Playwriting Workshop with featured artist James Still

Plays by McCall-Donnelly
High School Students

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FEATURED ARTIST
JAMES STILL
(a) new world

JAMES STILL's plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, China and Japan. His recent work includes a trilogy of linked-plays: The House That Jack Built (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Appoggiatura (Denver Center Theatre), and Miranda (Illusion Theater, Minneapolis). Also: April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How To Dream (Indiana Repertory Theatre); two plays about the Lincolns: The Widow Lincoln and The Heavens Are Hung In Black (both premiering at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.); a play for one actor about culinary icon James Beard called I Love To Eat (Portland Center Stage); a play for 57 actors called A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters (Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles); Looking Over The President’s Shoulder at theaters across the country; and And Then They Came For Me at theaters around the world. Still is an elected member of both the National Theatre Conference in New York and the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center. He received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the William Inge Festival and the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from Spoleto/Charleston. He is the Playwright in Residence at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artistic Affiliate at American Blues in Chicago, and lives in Los Angeles.

The 2018 Playwrights!

RACHEL NELSON
AND THEN THE MOON
SWALLOWED THE SKY

RACHEL NELSON is a playwright and performance maker from the mountains of Oregon. She works most often at the messy and complex intersections of identity and performance, on and off the stage. She is a professor at Hollins University in Virginia, and spends most of her time in New Orleans, where she lives with her partner and an old yellow lab named Jazz. Her work has been produced in various universities, theaters, and living rooms and backyards all across the country.

TIRA PALMQUIST
THE WAY NORTH

TIRA PALMQUIST’s plays include The Way North, Overburden, Two Degrees (Denver Center), Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (MadLab Theater, Tesseract),And Then They Fell (MadLab, Brimmer Street, New York Film Academy), This Floating World and others. Tira is currently working on Anyone’s Girl (working title), a commissioned play for the Lower Depth Theater Ensemble. The Way North was a finalist for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Two Degrees has been featured in numerous festivals (including the 11th Annual Denver Center New Play Summit, the New American Voices festival in the UK, the Caltech 2014 Mach 33 Festival and the 2014 Great Plains Theater Conference) and had its World Premiere in the Denver Center’s 2016/17 Season. Two Degrees was also listed in the Honorable Mention list for the 2016 Kilroys. Ten Mile Lake, which premiered in 2014 at Serenbe Playhouse just outside of Atlanta, GA, was developed and workshopped in 2012 at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and was a finalist for the 2015 Primus Prize. Age of Bees premiered at MadLab Theater in 2012 (and was named Best Original Work by the Other Papers "Best of 2012” list), and was subsequently produced in 2015 at the Tesseract Theater in St. Louis. Age of Bees is now available through Original Works Publishing. Her work has been developed by the Denver Center, Moving Arts Theater, Seven Devils, Inkwell, 9Thirty Theater, The Road Theater, EST-LA and the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings program. Tira teaches creative writing at the Orange County School of the Arts. She is a member of the Playwrights Union, the Anteaus Theater’s Playwrights Lab and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her work as a director and dramaturg includes several seasons at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the New Territories Playwriting Residency, a program she developed with Brian Clowdus at Serenbe Playhouse in Georgia. More info at www.tirapalmquist.com.

MATT SMITH
THE HANFORD INVASION!

MATT SMITH is a Seattle-based playwright whose plays have appeared at the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival, Balagan Theatre, Playlist Seattle, the Eclectic Theatre (Los Angeles), the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre, and 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival. His full-length plays Cork Dinosaur and March were performed at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In 2017, Macha Monkey featured The Hanford Invasion! as part of their Distillery reading series.

anne adams
FROST IN KILLEEN

ANNE ADAMS is a playwright and actor. Her play Strange Country was shortlisted with the BBC Writersroom in 2017, as well as the recipient of the New Light New Voices award in 2016 (as featured in American Theatre Magazine). It was produced by New Light Theater Project in NYC in July of 2016, directed by Jay Stull. In 2017, her second play Frost In Killeen was longlisted for the Papatango Playwright Competition, and also received a staged reading at Canal Cafe Theatre in London, as a part of The Playwrights Suite. The Lost Season, is the third play in A Lone Star Trilogy, a 3-play cycle set in her home state of Texas. In March, her latest play The Remains received a staged reading at Canal Café Theatre. As an actor, Anne has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago (Cherry Orchard and The Old Masters), Northlight Theater (Mauritius), Finborough Theatre (Footprints On The Moon), Arcola Theatre (Drones, Baby, Drones) and Theatre503 (Burning Bridges). She attended The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago in 2004 and holds a B.F.A in Acting from Emerson College.

steven haworth
MONKEY IN THE SHADE

STEVEN HAWORTH wrote Fernando which opened the Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival 2017 at the New Ohio Theatre (New York), and was also a winner of the Ashland New Play Festival, and the First Look Festival in Los Angeles. He was commissioned to write [home] or The Quest for the Lost Tablet of Ur for Zoo District in Los Angeles that received five LA Weekly, a Garland, and Ovation award nominations. Steven was also commissioned to freely adapt Mikail Bulgakov's Flight for the Open Fist Theatre. In New York Little Fishes was produced off-Broadway by Abingdon Theatre, Dark Age by Project III Ensemble Theatre, and The White Cave by Jesco Productions. Time and Tony Oliva, commissioned for the Seventh Inning Stretch at Mile Square Theatre, will appear in the Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017/18 published by Smith and Kraus. Two Tribes was performed in the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. In New Zealand he was one of four playwrights contributing to the Big Kahuna project directed by Christine Sang. Blue/Whitney was a winner of Stage Left Theatre’s 10th Leapfest New Play Festival in Chicago. Steven was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Project III Ensemble Theatre in residence at the Ohio Theatre, Soho, NYC, where he wrote Dark Age, directed The Grand Ceremonial, and performed in many productions. As an actor he has performed in New York, Los Angeles, and regional theatre. Recipient of the CMU WCDAC Michael Goldberg award. MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University. www.StevenHaworth.com.

nancy bell
THE PEOPLE IN THE CABIN

NANCY BELL's plays, Remember Me, The World Begun, Good in Everything, Old Hearts Fresh, and The New World were produced at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, where she served as Playwright-In-Residence for six years. She is also the author of Venus, finalist for the Next Generation New Play Prize, 2012, and co-author with novelist Peter Grandbois of the plays Mutual Consent, produced at California Repertory Theatre, and Present Tense, winner of the LaBute New Theatre Festival, 2013. Her play for families, Found at Sea was commissioned and performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Other theatre for youth plays include A Most Outrageous Fit of Madness, currently touring with Shakespeare Festival St. Louis’ education tour. As a performer, she has worked at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and many others. Television credits include Star Trek Voyager, Numbers, Medium, Law and Order, Mad About You, Newsradio and Law and Order: SVU. She is co-author of the film Loudmouth Soup, in which she also appears. Her new play, Blow Winds, is currently in pre-production at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, where it will be produced in June, 2018. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at Saint Louis University.