| Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation - NYC Public High School Student Playwriting Fellowship | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:25 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
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| LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE ANNOUNCES NYC PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRITING FELLOWSHIP & INAUGURAL FELLOWS 10-minute Plays Directed by Kimille Howard to be Presented March 24 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre New York, NY (February 12, 2020) –The Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation is pleased to announce the NYC Public High School Student Playwriting Fellowship, created as an opportunity for young writers citywide to get unparalleled access to New York City professional artists for mentoring. The inaugural Lortel student Fellows and finalists – representing every Borough, as well as D75 and D79 school districts – submitted original 10-minute one-act plays and were selected by a panel of playwrights, directors, and literary managers including Kareem Fahmy, Seri Lawrence, Cori Thomas, Mark Wade, and Cary Wong. Fellows will meet with a playwright mentor to discuss their play and learn more about playwriting as a career. Playwright mentors for this group of teen playwrights are Joshua Harmon, Kait Kerrigan, Sylvia Khoury, and Rehana Lew Mirza. All plays will be presented in a special one-night-only performance at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) on March 24, 2020. Kimille Howard will direct. Fellows will meet twice with their playwright mentor and then with Ms. Howard to learn what a director does and how they collaborate with a playwright. In addition to the unique opportunity to see their plays brought to life on stage, a collection of all seven plays will be published by the Lucille Lortel Theatre and distributed to the student playwrights. To foster a sense of fellowship between the students, they will go to dinner and a show together and be invited to events at the Lortel. Participation in the program was free and sponsored by the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation. “We are tremendously excited to launch this program, encouraging young artists to share their voices with their city,” said George Forbes, Executive Director of the Lortel Theatre Foundation. “We are also extremely grateful to Peter Avery and the NYC Department of Education for all their assistance in helping us launch this initiative.” “The future is bright. How inspiring to have a new dedicated NYC Festival invested in the next generation of diverse playwrights with insights to share – encouraging our public high school students to unleash their creative voices,” remarked Peter Avery, Director of Theater for the NYC Department of Education. “On behalf of the Chancellor and our DoE Arts Office, we applaud the Lortel Foundation’s vision to encourage seven NYC teen playwrights of all abilities with professional mentorship and the gift to see their work realized in a professionally staged reading at the Lortel Theater.” This Year's Fellows: Joseph Di Girolamo P721K D75, Brooklyn I Have A Dream Anya Jiminez Professional Performing Arts School Manhattan Divination Zanieka Nembhard Pathways to Graduation D79, Brooklyn The Interview of Wyetta Sims Helene Quinola The Queens School of Inquiry Queens The Love I Meant to Say Marcus Rosario World View High School Bronx Circumstances Rommy Sasson Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn Caught in a Storm Katherine Sciortino Susan E. Wagner High School Staten Island Snowed In This Year’s Finalists: Marlyatou Barry NYC iSchool Brooklyn The Gold Necklace Markel Davis P23Q D75, Queens Casey Jones's Redemption Katie Heintz Susan E. Wagner High School Staten Island Room, Waiting Joseph Hernandez Bronx High School for Medical Science Bronx Traicionado Maja Ivaskeviciute Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts Manhattan Summer of Winter Guadalupe Vazquez William C. Bryant High School Queens ROE ABOUT THE NYC PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PLAYWRITING FELLOWSHIP The Lucille Lortel Theatre, in collaboration with the Department of Education Arts Office Theater Program, created the NYC Public High School Student Playwriting Fellowship as an opportunity for young writers citywide to get unparalleled access to NYC professional artists for mentoring. Funded entirely by the Lucille Lortel Theatre, this innovative theater education program sends a high-profile message of inclusivity and artistry to both the educational and professional worlds. The program engages public school teens of all levels of ability who devise an original evening of one-act plays. Master theater artists from across the professional theatre community and who represent the diverse continuum of the participating students will participate in the program, mentoring and directing the students to create fully realized plays based on their collective experiences and imagination. The free program provides approximately two months for students to write and submit their plays. Fellows then have another two months of play development culminating with a performance on the stage of the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The opportunities provided by this program encourage NYC public high school students to become the next generation of playwrights. For more information, visit https://www.lortel.org/hspf. ABOUT THE LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION Lucille Lortel was known as the Queen of Off-Broadway. The Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation continues her mission of sustaining and advancing Off-Broadway theatre by enhancing the public's awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway through production, preservation and promotion; encouraging the continued growth of Off-Broadway through fostering new artists and new works; developing and implementing new technologies increasing access to or improving the theatre-going experience; creating, improving and increasing theatrical infrastructure and capacity building, fostering excellence and diversity in the theatre, and; faithfully preserving the rich history and support the continued prosperity of Off-Broadway. The Foundation has several major programs, including the Lucille Lortel Awards, Internet Off-Broadway Data Base (IOBDB.com), Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services, Live at the Lortel podcast, NYC High School Playwriting Fellowship, and Subsidized Theatre Space. For a listing of all the Foundation’s programs, previous Lortel Award nominees and recipients, information on the Lucille Lortel Theatre and Playwrights’ Sidewalk, and much more, please visit www.lortel.org. ABOUT The New York City Department of Education The NYC Department of Education is the largest system of public schools in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in approximately 1,800 schools. The Department of Education supports universal access to arts education through the ArtsCount initiative, which tracks and reports student participation in arts education and tracks progress at the school and city-wide levels for meeting New York State Instructional Requirements for the Arts. For more information, visit NYC DOE Office of Arts and Special Projects. |
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