Monday, June 17, 3pm
by Meghan Endres Brown
A darkly funny high-stakes suspense play about sibling rivalry, quantum physics, and the terrifying power of a good story.
Meghan Endres Brown writes plays and screenplays about dangerous women. She does not believe in Bigfoot. Or does she? Check out www.MeghanBrown.net to find out.
Thursday, June 13, 3pm
by Karina Billini
When a humble neighbor, Andrea, and a high-strung influencer, Belinda, arrive as patients for their post-BBL recovery, Apple Bottom Spa struggles to keep both women afloat.
Karina Billini is a Dominican-American playwright, poet, and educator from Brooklyn. She is a first-year playwright in the Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American playwriting program. She is a current member of the Public Theater's 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group. She is a proud alum of the New Harmony Project Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, Pipeline PlayLab, Gingold Theatrical Group's Speaker's Corner, among others. Her plays have been workshopped and/or produced at La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Harmony Project, Fault Line Theatre, Teatro Vivo, among others. Her play, Apple Bottom, is a recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission. MFA: The New School for Drama, BA: Marymount Manhattan College.
Thursday, June 6, 3pm
by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif
A homage to the "Granny" midwives.
Sandra Daley-Sharif is an Afro-Caribbean writer for Theater and TV living in Savannah, GA. She is a Professor of Dramatic Writing at SCAD University. Sandra is also a highly sought after dramaturg and collaborative deviser of new works. She is an OBIE Award winner and a recipient of the Josephine Abady Award, commending her for her contribution, as a producer, of Diversity to the American theater landscape. Two of her plays made it to the Kilroys List.
https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/12/06/a-harlem-renaissance/
Thursday, May 16, 3pm
by Melisa Tien
In the male-dominated tech arena, two women join forces to create a brand-new app—one that tracks the menstrual cycle—and form a partnership that is tested to its limits.
Melisa Tien is a playwright and librettist invested in making formally unconventional, socially relevant, and emotionally evocative work. A resident of New Dramatists, she is the author of the plays Best Life (JACK, 2021), Yellow Card, Red Card (Ice Factory, 2017), Refrain (Wild Project, 2011), The Boyd Show, and Familium Vulgare; librettist of the operas Forever (Washington National Opera, 2024), The Big Swim (Houston Grand Opera/Asia Society Texas Center, 2024), Family Heirloom (Experiments in Opera, 2024), Song of the Nightingale (On Site Opera/Arts Brookfield, 2023), and The Beehive (University of Northern Iowa, 2023), lyricist for the song cycles Swell (HERE, 2021) and Daylight Saving, co-creator of the podcast/auditory experience Active Listening, and creator of the theatrical experiences Untitled Landscape and Community Forest. She has been published in the anthologies Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater (Tripwire Harlot Press, 2020) and Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs (North Star Music, 2021), and has authored essays for New Music USA and Innovations in Socially Distant Performance. She is currently a librettist for the American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice program, and a recent member of Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor Residency Lab, Experiments in Opera’s Writers’ Room, and The Assembly Theater Project’s Deceleration Lab. She earned a BA in English from UCLA, and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. More at www.melisatien.com.
Thursday, May 16, 3pm
by Jacquelyn Reingold
When a woman with no fear, meets a neuroscientist studying fear, an investigation begins. Fear, fearlessness, friendship, and the crazy struggle to survive.
Jacquelyn Reingold is a playwright, TV writer, teacher, and advocate. Her plays have been seen in New York at EST, MCC, Naked Angels, at Actors Theater Louisville, Portland Center Stage, PlayLabs Minneapolis, at other theaters across the country, and in London, Dublin, Berlin, Belgrade, and Lima. Honors include: a Lilly Award, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, EST/Sloan Foundation Commissions, MacDowell Fellowships, and a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist. She’s published in Women Playwrights: Best Plays, several Best American Short Plays, by DPS, French, Smith & Kraus, and a collection of her one-acts called Things Between Us. Several short plays have been recorded for podcast/radio by Playing-on-Air. TV credits include "The Good Fight," "Grace and Frankie" and "In Treatment." Jacquelyn is a member of EST, an alum of New Dramatists, and a founding member of Honor Roll, an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40, whose goal is inclusion in theater. She developed this play in the EST Playwrights Unit, and worked on it at The Hermitage Artists Retreat. www.jacquelynreingold.com
Thursday, April 25, 3pm
by Jacob Marx Rice
Four high schoolers trapped in a study group quickly discover that science is the least of their problems as they fight to survive the emotional hurricane of being seventeen.
Jacob Marx Rice is a playwright and screenwriter based in Queens, New York, whose plays have been seen at theaters around the world in over a dozen cities on three continents. He has been produced and developed by theaters including Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Finborough Theatre in London, The New Ohio, The Flea Theater, Atlantic Theatre Stage 2, and others. He has won the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Faculty Award from NYU/Tisch, and a Sloan Commission from the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Jacob was a Playwright Observer at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He has also been a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark Playwrights Week, and the Princess Grace Award and his plays have been nominated for four of London’s prestigious Off-West End Awards.
A free-wheeling, far-ranging discussion between scientists and playwrights about science, story-telling, and what makes plays work. Our annual Artist Cultivation Event is a great opportunity for any playwright interested in developing a play about science & technology.
This year's panelists include Nelson Diaz-Marcano, Mandë Holford, Daniela Schiller, and Anna Ziegler, and will be moderated by Naomi Lorrain.