Los Angeles audiences may have the chance to expertise six model new performs—due to Heart Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop Competition which is able to happen Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2024, on the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Tickets are on sale beginning right now, December 19 at CenterTheatreGroup.org.
Since its inception in 2005, CTG has supported playwrights to writer new performs with the L.A. Writers’ Workshop on subjects as diverse as Los Angeles itself.
Higher Than Black Friday! With a $45 pageant move, all six performs may be seen for lower than the worth of three film tickets. Single tickets are $15. Heart Theatre Group subscribers and donors might take pleasure in two tickets free of charge as our visitors. Performs are absolutely forged with Fairness actors.
For one fun-filled, jam-packed pageant weekend in Culver Metropolis, six unique new performs exploring a broad vary of themes and topic issues might be learn and carried out from the Kirk Douglas Theatre stage. Do you keep in mind in the course of the pandemic when everybody began baking sourdough bread and rising houseplants? On-line remedy grew to become a giant enterprise factor too. There’s a play in there—as there’s when Tiffany turns into pregnant and her greatest pal Carolyn is making an attempt—and never succeeding—at being glad for her. In two extra performs, two very completely different units of siblings take care of the passage of time and the dying of a dad or mum. And at last, one play is a comedic absurdist have a look at an Italian Monastery and one other explores the price of making an attempt to be the best residing saint the world has ever identified.
“CTG has a protracted historical past of nurturing and supporting Los Angeles-based playwrights and performs,” stated Heart Theatre Group Creative Director Snehal Desai. “This 12 months, I’m significantly excited to incorporate the L.A. Writers’ Workshop Competition as a part of our CTG:FWD programming. Nice storytelling is simply as highly effective because the neighborhood surrounding it. And CTG:FWD is all about supporting and celebrating neighborhood. I hope you’ll be a part of us in January as we welcome six extraordinary playwrights into our area, and assist give breath to those unbelievable new works. There’s nothing fairly like being the primary to see the following hit play because it begins to take its first steps. We will’t wait to see you there.”
The six pageant performs and their playwrights are Alien Women by Amy Berryman; Pigeonhole by Jasmine Sharma; Assist, However Higher by Inda Craig-Galván; Brother Gary by Ramiz Monsef; malcreados by christopher oscar peña; and Teresa by Issac Gómez.
These pageant performances are made attainable partially by the Metropolis of Culver Metropolis and its Cultural Affairs Fee, with assist from Sony Footage Leisure. The L.A. Writers’ Workshop and new play growth at Heart Theatre Group are generously supported by an nameless donor.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Alien Women by Amy Berryman
Tiffany is pregnant. Her greatest pal, Carolyn, is making an attempt to be glad for her. When Carolyn’s true emotions develop into public within the type of an essay that goes viral, the fallout could also be irreparable. Time touring by means of a long time of friendship between two writers on the point of large life adjustments, Alien Women is a meta-theatrical darkish comedy in regards to the joys and challenges of making artwork and creating life.
Amy Berryman is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and educating artist initially from Seattle by means of West Texas. Her play Walden, produced by Sonia Friedman and directed by Ian Rickson, premiered on London’s West Finish in Might 2021. Walden was additionally produced at TheaterWorks in Hartford in August 2021, directed by Mei Ann Teo, and acquired a New York Occasions Critic’s Choose. Different full-length performs embody The New Galileos (O’Neill Finalist 2019); Three 12 months Summer time; and Epiphany, Or What Would You? (finalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, O’Neill Semi-Finalist 2020). Her work has been developed at Premiere Levels, Kitchen Canine, Caltech, East 15, Portland Stage, Nice Plains Theatre Convention, Valdez Final Frontier Theatre Convention, and AMiOS, amongst others. Amy has not too long ago acquired a fee from Manhattan Theatre Membership and is creating her pilot, Abstinence Solely, with Phenomenal Content material. amy-berryman.com.
Pigeonhole by Jasmine Sharma
Kaaya and Dev are siblings with nothing in frequent besides their childhood dwelling in New f..okay.n Jersey. Over fifty years on the day of Raksha Bandhan, or, Rakhi, two siblings performed by six actors attempt to shield one another from their previous flying by them in actual time. Jasmine Sharma’s Pigeonhole is a brand new play about an previous Massive Ask—are you able to construct a nest the place there was none?
Jasmine Sharma (she/her) is a South Asian-American actor/author/activist primarily based in Los Angeles. She goals to focus her work on the intersection of race, femininity, and Americanness. Bonus factors if it’s neighborhood pushed. And if we’re paying all people. Performs embody Radial Gradient (world premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre, Eugene O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist, Kennedy Heart ACTF, Lime Arts Productions, Samuel-Lancaster Productions, Avalanche Theatre Firm at The Den Theatre, Mad Cow Theatre, NextStage Theatre Firm, Permafrost Theatre Collective), For Your Consideration (Moxie Arts NYC), Cancelled/Cancel Me (The Highway Theatre, Ashland New Performs Competition), VIRGINS: A Madonna Bootcamp (Jackalope Theatre Firm), Children Membership/Membership Children (SERIALS by The Fled Collective), Intestine Punch (AlterTheater Ensemble First Acts fee), Leaving Wonderland (Entry Theater NYC, American Blues Theater Finalist, The Athena Challenge Semi-Finalist, Aston Rep), and Scorching Canines And Feminism (Mayo Performing Arts Heart, The Valdez Final Frontier Theatre Convention), amongst others.
Latest performing credit embody Wives (Aurora Theatre Firm) and The Wolves (McCarter Theatre Heart). Upcoming credit embody Calvin Berger (The Colony Theatre Burbank). Jasmine has additionally contributed to @iWeigh, and labored with the @24HourPlays, each as an actor and a author. Generally, she Script PAs Broadway musicals. 2022-2023 Reel Sisters Fellow, creating PEACHY: a sorta Chekhovian traumedy, with The IAMA Rising Playwrights Lab 2022-2023, and thrilled to be a part of the 2023 Heart Theatre Group L.A. Writers’ Workshop! Northwestern College. jasminesharma.org | @jasminesharmaa
Assist, However Higher by Inda Craig-Galván
You know the way all people began baking sourdough bread and rising houseplants in the course of the pandemic? In addition they went arduous on on-line remedy as a result of we had been in the midst of a fucking pandemic. Assist, However Higher is the story of a web-based therapist who’s overworked and wishes some assist of her personal to take care of private losses amid the nonstop forms of corporate-run remedy.
Inda Craig-Galván is a Los Angeles-based author. Her work usually explores conflicts and politics inside the African-American neighborhood, grounded in actuality–with a contact of magical realism. Inda’s performs embody The Nice Jheri Curl Debate, successful canine will holler, Black Tremendous Hero Magic Mama, and A Leaping-Off Level which may have its world premiere at Spherical Home Theatre in 2024. Inda is Co-Govt Producer on ABC’s Will Trent. MFA in Dramatic Writing, College of Southern California.
Brother Gary by Ramiz Monsef
Welcome to Tuscany, land of fantastic meals, wine, tradition, romance, and Diane Lane films. Sure, it’s stunning right here however on the Tuscan church of San Giovanni, issues haven’t been going effectively. Tourism is dwindling, individuals are stealing their copper rain gutters, there’s even a hornets nest, and now, in an effort to diversify their ranks, they’ve employed Brother Gary, an American, to ring their bells. However Gary is just not certified for the job, and Brother Mauro, who has grown up within the church of San Giovanni has made it his mission to indicate the powers that be, that HE is who they need to have provided that job to. Variety be damned.
Ramiz Monsef is an alumni of The EPG at Circle X in addition to The Writers’ Room on the Geffen Playhouse, the place his play The Ants was developed and might be produced later this 12 months. It additionally was developed at The Ojai Playwrights Convention in 2021. Ramiz is co-author of the musical The Unfortunates produced on the Oregon Shakespeare Competition and ACT in San Francisco. He wrote that present’s accompanying graphic novel as effectively. He additionally co-wrote The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield, which premiered within the 2017 Humana Competition at Actors Theatre of Louisville. His play 3 Farids was a part of The Bushwick Starr studying collection and chosen to be within the New Works Competition at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the DNA New Work Sequence at La Jolla Playhouse, and at Playwrights Horizons. Ramiz is an actor and has appeared in main theatres throughout the nation, most not too long ago taking part in the title position in Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh Off-Broadway at SecondStage, quite a few tv collection together with NCIS, SWAT, SEAL Staff, Kidding, Shameless, Trendy Household, and Younger Sheldon. He’s additionally within the movie SYNCHRONIC.
malcreados by christopher oscar peña
Julian and Erick are estranged brothers reuniting of their not too long ago deceased mom’s dwelling. They don’t know easy methods to talk with one another and can’t see something from the opposite’s perspective. Previous wounds are rehashed as they argue over their mom’s property and the place her ashes are supposed to belong, and the place their dwelling actually
Christopher Oscar Peña is a storyteller initially from California, now splitting his time between New York and L.A. In 2019, with Sean Daniels’ he co-directed the world premiere of Daniels’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “misplaced novel” The Haunted Life at Merrimack Rep. The manufacturing marked the primary time the Kerouac Property had ever sanctioned an official theatrical adaptation of Kerouac’s work and solidified the inventive partnership between peña and Daniels. Shortly after, Daniels was appointed inventive director of Arizona Theatre Firm, the place he invited Peña to develop into a creative affiliate, as his first rent. As a playwright, the Clarence Brown Theatre commissioned and produced the world premiere of his play The Strangers. In New York, the Flea Theatre produced the world premiere of his play, a cautionary tail. He collaborated with actress Solea Pfeiffer on her solo present You Are Right here which was commissioned by Audible, and performed to sold-out acclaim on the Minetta Lane Theatre Off-Broadway, and is now accessible on Audible. Most not too long ago, his critically acclaimed play, easy methods to make an American Son had its world premiere at Arizona Theatre Firm.
For the following two years, Profile Theatre in Portland, Oregon, will produce a season of his work: the second manufacturing of easy methods to make an American Son, the world premiere of his Goodman Theatre commissioned play awe/struck, and the world premiere of a brand new Profile Theatre fee. His work has been developed by Playwrights Horizons, the Goodman Theatre, Public Theater, Two River Theater, INTAR, Ontological Hysteric Incubator, Playwrights Realm, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Previous Vic, Orchard Challenge, Bare Angels, and New York Theatre Workshop, amongst many others. A two-time Sundance Institute Theater Fellow, he has additionally held fellowships with the Lark Play Growth Heart, was a recipient of the Latino Playwrights Award, an Rising Artist Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and was part of the US/UK Alternate (Previous Vic New Voices).
A proud member of New Dramatists, he was named certainly one of “The first Annual Future Broadway Energy Checklist” by Backstage and has been printed by Methuen, No Passport Press, and Smith and Krauss. He has an in depth relationship with the 24-Hour performs the place he has written for his or her performs on Broadway and Musical Advantages, and written viral monologues for Hugh Dancy, Bonnie Milligan, Cory Michael Smith, John Gallagher Jr., Raviv Ullman, Evan Jonigkeit, and lots of extra.
In tv, he was a author on the Golden Globe-nominated debut season of the CW present Jane the Virgin, the critically-acclaimed HBO present Insecure (through which he additionally appeared because the character Gary), in addition to the STARZ present Sweetbitter, Motherland: Fort Salem on Freeform, and the ABC/Hulu collection Promised Land. He produced the BET+ vacation movie A Jenkins Household Christmas and co-wrote this 12 months’s BET+ vacation movie The Cookoff. He’s at the moment a Supervising Producer on an upcoming Disney + present, and creating unique collection for HBO (with filmmaker Crystal Moselle and artist Derrick B. Harden), and STX (with Omar Sharif Jr.). He acquired his BA from UC Santa Barbara and his MFA from NYU’s Tisch Faculty of the Arts.
Teresa by Issac Gómez
“Love, to be actual, has to harm.” Following the dying of one of the vital iconic girls in historical past, the nuns she left behind battle to maintain her legacy alive with out destroying every part she’s constructed to get them there. One half ghost story, one other half femme fatale, Teresa is a meditation on sin, penance, and the nice price of making an attempt (and failing) at being the best residing saint the world has ever identified.
Isaac Gómez (they/them) is an award-winning Chicago and Los Angeles-based playwright and screenwriter initially from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They determine as na’wi–the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican Indigenous neighborhood in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. They’re at the moment below fee with LCT3, Steppenwolf Theater Firm, South Coast Repertory, Denver Heart for the Performing Arts, and IAMA Theatre Firm. Their performs have been produced by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Firm, Main Levels, Oregon Shakespeare Competition, Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Seattle Rep, and lots of others. Their tv credit embody the Netflix Unique Sequence Narcos: Mexico, the upcoming Apple TV+ Restricted Sequence The Final Factor He Instructed Me, the second season of Paramount TV+’s Joe Picket, amongst others. They at the moment have a collection in growth with Stacey Sher and FX in addition to a full-length function in growth with Focus Options.
The L.A. Writers’ Workshop is designed to foster essential voices, encourage playwrights to create their greatest work, encourage daring writing, and construct relationships amongst native playwrights, Heart Theatre Group, and the L.A. theatre neighborhood.
Heart Theatre Group, one of many nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ main not-for-profit theatre firm, which, below the management of Creative Director Snehal Desai, Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman, and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker, applications seasons on the Mark Taper Discussion board and Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Heart in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver Metropolis. Along with presenting and producing the broadest vary of theatrical leisure within the nation, Heart Theatre Group is among the nation’s main producers of bold new works by means of commissions and world premiere productions and a pacesetter in interactive neighborhood engagement and education schemes that attain throughout generations, demographics, and circumstances to serve Los Angeles. Heart Theatre Group has produced greater than 700 productions throughout its three levels, together with such iconic reveals as “Zoot Swimsuit;” “Angels in America;” “The Kentucky Cycle;” “Biloxi Blues;” “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992;” “Kids of a Lesser God;” “Curtains;” “The Drowsy Chaperone;” “9 to five: The Musical;” and “Bengal Tiger on the Baghdad Zoo.” CenterTheatreGroup.org
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