| The Farm Theater to present Livesteam of Judith Leora's The Hierarchy of Fish on 4/19 | |
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| WRITTEN BY JUDITH LEORA DIRECTED BY SCOTT HUDSON PERFORMED BY STUDENTS AT SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY SUNDAY, APRIL 19 @ 7PM The Farm Theater will present a livestream performance of The Hierarchy of Fish written by Judith Leora and directed by Scott Hudson as part of The Farm's College Collaboration Project with Shenandoah University . The livestream will be presented on Sunday, April 19 at 7pm on The Farm Theater's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/thefarmtheater6/. When a prominent professor at a liberal arts college refuses to use a student's preferred pronoun, it unleashes an intense battle over political correctness. A slur is painted on a door, a Slushie is hurled into a professor's face and the students struggle to find the line between freedom of speech and the freedom to be their authentic selves. The College Collaboration Project has multiple schools commission an early career playwright to write a play that each school will independently produce throughout the academic year. The faculty, students, and playwright collaborate throughout the year in the development of the text. The script will be a full-length play with a minimum of five characters. The majority of the characters will be under thirty years of age so that undergraduate actors can successfully play the roles. The play will reflect the students' thoughts on the theme suggested by the playwright. Judith Leora (Playwright) Productions: Showpony (The Victory Theatre Center, Burbank, CA/LA Times Critics Choice), Elijah (Bristol Valley Theatre, Naples, NY), Gideon (Ego Actus Productions/Paradise Factory, NYC), The Cookie Fight (BVT), Gideon (University of Massachusetts at Lowell (commission) and Weird About the Baby/NYC Icon Plays (Ego Actus Productions); Workshops: Painting with Lulu (MadLab Reading, The Kraine Theatre, NYC), Showpony (The Livingroom Series, The Blank Theatre, Hollywood, CA), The Cookie Fight (Last Frontier Theatre Conference), The X and the Y (New Play reading series, Bristol Valley Theatre), The Raven (co- librettist) Emerging Actors Theatre Notes From a Page and Heart-Shaped Uterus (MadLab Readings, IRT Theatre). Numerous short plays produced in New York, including multiple plays with the ESPA Detention series, New York Madness, One Minute Play Festival (5x), Pussyfest, Stampede Lab, etc. www.judithleora.com Scott Hudson (Director) Chair of Acting at Shenandoah University. Scott is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and educator specializing in the Meisner Technique. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from Florida State University, and a Master of Fine Arts in acting from Rutgers University. As a director, he originated the production of John Patrick Shanley's short one act, Banshee, at The New Ohio Theatre, and Stephen Adly Guirgis's first public workshop reading of Between Riverside and Crazy with the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning script. He has directed several original plays as a collegiate collaborator with The Farm Theater. He enjoys performing and directing the classics of Shakespeare, Moliere and great American dramas. While an actor in New York, Hudson originated roles in Stephen Adly Guirgis's Our Lady of 121st Street, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at Union Square Theatre, Julia Chow's BFE, directed by Gordon Edelstein at Playwrights Horizons and Robert Glaudini's Dutch Heart of Man directed by Charles Goforth at The Public. He has performed at The Long Wharf Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse. Hudson is also a playwright. His play Sweet Storm was produced off-Broadway and is published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. The play continues to be produced in regional and college theatres. He is the recipient of Broadway producer Daryl Roth's Creative Spirit Award. Hudson is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. The Farm Theater The name is inspired by the "farm" system of baseball whose role is to provide experience and training for developing players. The Farm Theater develops early career artists that may not have the support system afforded others, through workshops, productions, and mentoring. The centerpiece of our programming is The College Collaboration Project. This program is in its seventh year and has commissioned eight female playwrights. We have worked in collaboration with seventeen colleges. Lindsay Joy's In The Event of My Death, which was developed in the first year of the program was produced Off-Broadway by Stable Cable and had a sold out run. The 2017/18 collaboration commission, In the Cotton by Morgan McGuire was awarded the Mark David Cohen National Playwriting Award by the Kennedy Center. This year Kimberly Belflower's play John Proctor is the Villain was featured on The Kilroy's List. The College Collaboration Project has been featured in American Theater Magazine and on HowlRound. The Farm Theater has produced numerous solo shows, including Artist Director Padraic Lillis' show on suicide awareness Hope You Get To Eleven or What are we going to do about Sally? which was awarded Best Solo Show and Planet Advocate Award at the Planet Connections Theatre Festival. In 2017 The Farm Theater partnered with Planet Connections Theatre Festival to produce Alex Riad's The Floor Is Lava. The play was awarded Best New Play and Best Production of a New Play and The Farm Theater was awarded The Planet Advocate Award for raising money and awareness for Girls Who Code. The Farm Theater hosts a podcast The Bullpen Sessions which features working artists talking about how they built their careers. |
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