| CHERRY LANE THEATRE ANNOUNCES PLAYWRIGHTS & MENTORS FOR THE OBIE AWARD-WINNING MENTOR PROJECT CELEBRATING ITS 20TH SEASON | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:58 am EST 12/05/17 | |
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| CHERRY LANE THEATRE ANNOUNCES PLAYWRIGHTS & MENTORS FOR THE OBIE AWARD-WINNING MENTOR PROJECT CELEBRATING ITS 20TH SEASON Playwrights include: KATE CORTESI & SAM CHANSE Mentors include: ANNE WASHBURN & MIGDALIA CRUZ at CHERRY LANE THEATRE February 28 – April 7, 2018 New York: December 4, 2017, Cherry Lane Theatre (Angelina Fiordellisi, Founder; Seri Lawrence, Janio Marrero, Co-Artistic Directors,) is proud to announce this year’s playwrights and mentors for the 20th season of their Obie Award-winning Mentor Project, culminating with fully-staged productions presented at Cherry Lane (38 Commerce St. in NYC) from February 28 to April 7, 2018. This year’s mentors include Mentor Project alumni, ANNE WASHBURN (Plays include: Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, The Communist and many more. Awards include: Guggenheim, a Whiting, an Alpert Award) and MIGDALIA CRUZ (Plays include: El Grito Del Bronx, Fur, and Another Part of the House. Awards include National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwriting Award and The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays). Ms. Washburn will mentor KATE CORTESI, whose play A PATRON OF THE ARTS will kick-off the Mentor Project, on February 28 – March 10, 2018. Ms. Cruz will mentor SAM CHANSE whose play THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION will be presented March 28 – April 7, 2018. A PATRON OF THE ARTS (February 28 – March 10) By Kate Cortesi, mentored by Anne Washburn When a high school drug dealer does a drop off at a new address, he’s unexpectedly reunited with the father of his childhood best friend. The laid-off father is holed up to re-start the painting career of his youth, and this young entrepreneur wants to help. So, they make an unusual arrangement. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION (March 28 – April 7) By Sam Chanse, mentored by Migdalia Cruz Mel and Arjun have embarked on a last-minute camping trip to take refuge from the brewing storm of their lives. Georgia is studying the impact of climate change on the imperiled Joshua tree. Navigating a world in crisis on multiple fronts, what does it mean to survive in the face of annihilation? Mentor Project Announcement Night Celebration will take place on Monday, December 4th at 7pm and will feature this year’s playwrights and their mentors reading selections from their work. This event is FREE and open to the public. Tickets must be reserved at www.cherrylantheatre.org. The Mentor Project – winner of an Obie Award for its dedication to helping young playwrights develop new work – each year partners an emerging author with a seasoned professional for a year of script work, rewrites, casting, rehearsals and a full production at Cherry Lane. Mentor Project is also the recipient of the James Kirkwood Award for American Playwrights. CHERRY LANE MENTOR PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT NIGHT is Monday, December 4, 2017 at Cherry Lane Theatre. Tickets are FREE and open to the public Reservations are required and are available at www.cherrylantheatre.org. A PATRON OF THE ARTS by Kate Cortesi, mentored by Anne Washburn Performances: February 28 – March 10, 2018 THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION by Sam Chanse, mentored by Migdalia Cruz Performances: March 28 – April 7, 2018 Single show tickets are $25, Mentor Project Membership $36 (before December 31st, 2017) and $40 (after January 1) and can be purchased by visiting www.cherrylanetheatre.org or call OvationTix at 866 811 4111. Tickets on sale December 4th, 2017 Cherry Lane Theatre is located at 38 Commerce Street, NYC BIOGRAPHIES KATE CORTESI (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Washington, D.C. Her plays include One More Less, A Patron of the Arts, Great Kills and Is Edward Snowden Single?. Her work has been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theatre, South Coast Rep, Colt Coeur, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, terraNOVA Collective, The Lark, New Dramatists, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Premiere Stages at Kean University. Awards and honors include: Cherry Lane Mentor Project playwright under mentor Anne Washburn (2018), O'Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist (2017), NYFA award (2016), Princess Grace Fellowship (2014-2015), Columbia University's Karen Brownstein Award, and Kilroy's List honorable mention (2016). Kate is a resident playwright at Colt Coeur (artistic director Adrienne Campbell-Holt) and at New Dramatists (2016-2023). She has taught writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Riker’s Island, and lots of places in between. SAM CHANSE’s (Playwright) plays include The Opportunities of Extinction (2017 Kilroys List, Rita Goldberg Playwrights Workshop at the Lark, Ars Nova Out Loud), The Other Instinct (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, Lark Playwrights’ Week, O’Neill Semifinalist, 2017 & 2016 Kilroys List Honorable Mention, StageLeft Leapfest), What You Are Now (EST/Sloan commission, Civilians R&D Group), Fruiting Bodies (2015 Kilroys List, Lark Studio Retreat, the Claque, Ma-Yi Labfest), Trigger (Leviathan Lab), and Lydia’s Funeral Video (Kaya Press, San Francisco Arts Commission). She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and Ars Nova’s Play Group. A former Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, Sundance/Ucross Playwright Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow at The Lark, she has also received residencies from Djerassi, Tofte Lake Center, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. Commissions include Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan, Ma-Yi/the Flea, Second Generation, Leviathan Lab and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her work has also been developed with The Civilians R&D Group, The Yale Institute of Musical Theatre, Labyrinth Theater, Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, Bindlestiff Studio, Asian American Theater Company, and the New York International Fringe Festival. more info: www.samchanse.com ANNE WASHBURN's (Mentor) plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil at Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, The Small and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been produced nationally and internationally and has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Honors include a Guggenheim, a Whiting, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for artist in mid-career, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Chochiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists. MIGDALIA CRUZ's (Mentor) works have been produced internationally at Ateneo Puertorriqueño (PR), National Theater of Greece (Athens), Foro Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico City), Vancouver Players (Vancouver, B.C.), the Old Red Lion Theatre (London), Miracle Theatre (Portland, Oregon), and Houston Grand Opera. Her work has been produced in New York City at Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines, Classic Stage Company, INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Monarch Theater, En-Garde Arts, HOME, Shaliko Company, New York Shakespeare Festival's Festival Latino, Theatre For The New City, and the W.O.W. Cafe. Cruz is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts playwriting fellowship (in 1991 and 1995), the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award, and Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays. Her over 50 plays include El Grito Del Bronx, Another Part of The House, The Have-little, and SALT. One of the most renowned theatres in the country, Cherry Lane Theatre has produced a large succession of plays by leading writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. Cherry Lane Theatre was founded by Angelina Fiordellisi in 1996, and remains devoted to developing and producing new works for the stage. Seri Lawrence and Janio Marrero are Co- Producing Artistic Directors, Diane Alianiello is General Manager, Hillary Cohen is Director of Individual and Institutional Giving and Reed Ridgley is Grants Manager. |
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