by Janine Sobeck
So, did you see the front page of the Washington Post this morning??? We have officially announced the rest of our Resident Playwrights! Joining Karen Zacarias (who started in January) is:
Lisa Kron (In the Wake, Well (two Tony nominations) and 2.5 Minute Ride)
Katori Hall (Hoodoo Love, Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday
Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop (2010 Olivier Winner for Best New
Play), WHADDABLOODCLOT!?!?, The Hope Well and Pussy
Valley)
Amy Freed (Restoration Comedy, The Beard of Avon, Freedomland,
Safe in Hell, The Psychic Life of Savages)
and
Charles Randolph Wright (Blue, Cuttin' Up, The Night Is
a Child and recent director of Arena's Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies)
Karen Zacarias, Lisa Kron, Katori Hall, Amy Freed and Charles Randolph Wright
As you can probably guess, we're more than just a little thrilled to have these great playwrights join us as the first Resident Playwrights of the American Voices New Play Institute.
And...just to make it even better...the Resident Playwrights will be joined by two Project Residents:
Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of
Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined.)
and
David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly (Tony Award for Best Play, Pulitzer Finalist),
Yellow Face (Obie Award, Pulitzer finalist),
Golden Child (Obie Award, Tony nomination),
FOB (Obie Award) and The Dance and the Railroad)
Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang
Awesome.
You can learn all about the Institute and the Residencies...on the front page.