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LIVE GIRLS! presents the annual Playwriting Lab

READINGS AND WORKSHOPS AND NEW COMMISSIONS OH MY!

 

Oct 19th-22nd

6 Different plays

Wed- Fri 8pm Sat 4pm and 8pm

At Live Girls! theater 2220 NW Market Lower Level in Ballard

Tickets $5 or $12 for an all festival pass.

Advance tickets available at

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2392

Or get em at the door!

 

So what exactly do you make in this lab?

The Playwriting Lab is Live Girls! annual series of new work readings. 

This hand picked crop of up and coming juicy new plays is an all you can eat buffet of exciting new theater. 

Last years participants moved on to full productions at Live Girls! and NEA/TCG grants.

  What will you be saying ÒI saw it at Live Girls! firstÓ for this year?  Get a special full festival pass

 for $12 and see all six plays for one low price and don't get left out of anything!

See the bottom of the schedule for special info about Dicky Nesenger's

10 minute play workshop being offered in conjunction with the playwriting lab.

 

The complete Schedule-

Wed. Oct 19th @ 8:00 pm

Jumping Cholla by Dorothy Lemoult

Thurs. Oct 20th @ 8:00 pm

The Language of Birds by Dicky Nesenger

Fri. Oct 21st @ 8:00 pm

An Evening of Body Parts by Kitty Chen

Sat 22nd @ 4:00 pm

Untold by Jacqueline Hamilton & Girls by Zoe Fitzgerald (as a double bill)

Sat Oct 22nd @ 8:00 pm

You Are Pretty by  Adrienne Dawes

 

Not included in the festival pass but part of the event, don't miss the workshop...

Sat Oct 22nd @ 11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Playwriting Workshop Creating the Ten-Minute Play

with Dickey Nesenger

Advance registration required.

Go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2393

 

The full details-

Jumping Cholla by Dorothy Lemoult, Directed by Joy McCullough-Carranza

MAC an orphan of Juarez finds Bob and Marta running a gas station in the desert just outside of El Paso

as the heat and the isolation coax out the secrets of how they all came to be there.

The Language of Birds by Dickey Nesenger, Directed by Sherrine Azab

Mary Kay Twist makes a commitment to two homeless teenagers she meets while bird watching in New YorkÕs Central Park.

An Evening of Body Parts by Kitty Chen, Directed by Brooke Cochran

Three short metaphorico-psycho-anatomical plays.

Untold by Jaqueline Hamilton,Directed by Mimi Katano

Cupid Morales: straight A student, cheerleader, popular, has an Untold secret that could ruin her senior year. Listen as this story plays out.

Girls by Zoe Fitgerald, Directed by Meghan Arnette

Girls is a new work commissioned by Live Girls! Artistic Director for our 2005 Playwriting Lab.

You Are Pretty by Adrienne Dawes, Directed by Peggy Gannon

A dark comedy about the demise of the Hippy Ho House: a brothel in rural Nevada.

 

 

More about the Playwrites-

Dorothy Lemoult is a native of Brittany, France.  Her play Proceed was recently produced in Live Girls! Quickies Vol. 6.  Dorothy is a graduate from Cornish Colllege of the Arts' Original Works program and is currently writing under the mentorship of Amy Wheeler in the Kick Ass WomenÕs Playwrights workshop. She is a proud company member of Live Girls! Theater.

Dickey Nesenger received her MFA in Creative Writing through Goddard College. She worked for seventeen years in Los Angeles as a script supervisor and screenwriting before turning her attention to theatre.  Her plays have been produced in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle.  This year, her short play, The Greenlake Monster was a finalist for the Theatre of LouisvilleÕs Heineman Award.

Kitty Chen was born in Shanghai, China and raised near Philadelphia. She is the recipient of playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Playwrights Award, amongst others. She is a member of Dramatists Guild, WomenÕs project and the three actorsÕ unions. Her plays have been produced by Playwrights Theater of NJ, WomenÕs Project, West Side Theater, QueenÕs Theater in the Park.

Jaqueline Hamilton is a Junior at Franklin High school, Seattle, and took part in ACTÕs Young PlaywrightÕs Program in 2004.

Zoe Fitzgerald is a native of New York. She is the Associate Artistic Director and Literary Manager for Live Girls! She created the script for Live Girls! educational tour and tribute Notorious Women. This winter she will be working with Babes Network a non-profit organization that provides support for HIV-positive women and Theater for Development teaching artist Caroline Brown to create an original performance piece.

Adrienne Dawes graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. She currently resides in Austin, and is an associate member of Austin Scriptworks. Her plays have been produced at Off My Back Theatre Productions; Revolving Stages; Riant Theatre's Strawberry One Act Festival; REJOTI Productions; American Repertory Theatre of London, Little Fish Theatre Company, Stormy Weather Players, New England Academy of Theater, and published by Playscripts, Inc and Smith + Kraus.

 

 

 

 

Live Girls! is a theater dedicated to producing and developing new works by women.