Memberfest
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THE SPIRIT OF WORK IN PROGRESS IS WHAT EST IS ALL ABOUT.
Memberfest is the heartbeat of our process. Our membership of over 500 artists come together to present projects in development. This is a unique opportunity to come into EST’s famous creative gymnasium, to experience our members’ work – new and raw and always surprising – and to share in the spirit of The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
WINGWOMAN by Ken Jaworoski
Directed by Nick Leavens
Tuesday, May 22 @ 7pm
Initiated by member Julie Fitzpatrick*
Starring: Kelly Anne Burns, Julie Fitzpatrick*, Mike Smith Rivera, Nedra McClyde* & Joanie Schumacher
THE WAY OF WATER by Caridad Svich*
Directed by José Zayas*
Tuesday, May 29 at 7pm
The Way of Water is a play that pits the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico next to the lives of those directly affected by it. It’s a story about four people making do as best they can, living their lives, and trying to stay afloat in the land of many compromised dreams, as the devastation of a health and environmental crisis in the US Gulf is played out on a human scale. It’s a play about poverty in America, rumors and truth, what is said and what gets written, and the quest for an honorable life.
The Way of Water was developed at the 2011 Winter Writers Retreat, Roundtable Reading and 2012 Studio Retreat at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City.
The Way of Water has received multiple readings at venues across the US and abroad this spring as a NoPassport theatre alliance International Reading Scheme. Dramaturges: Heather Helinsky and R. Alex Davis. For more information please click here.
Admission to all events is FREE
*denotes EST Member
+denotes Prime File Writer