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LOCAL LAB Festival of New American Plays
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 23 - 25, MARCH 23, 2012, 07:00 PM
Chautauqua Community House
3-day Festival Pass: $50 ($40) includes all three plays and Festival reception on Saturday
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Join us for our inaugural weekend festival of new American plays featuring three playwrights, three plays, three performances, and a special opportunity for audiences to do some writing.
Presented by the LOCAL Theater Company, LOCAL LAB, A Festival of New American Plays spotlights the hottest voices in theater from around the country as they tackle issues weighing on the American consciousness.
Throughout the weekend of March 23rd-25th, see three professionally staged readings and afterward be a part of the play development process by sharing your insights at an audience-focused talkback. One play from the festival will be selected for a world-premiere production at the Dairy Center for Performing Arts in Boulder during the fall of 2012.
The three featured plays are Lila Rose Kaplan’s 100 Planes, presented Friday, March 23 at 7pm; Michael Mitnick’s Elijah, on Saturday, March 24 at 6pm; and David Myers’s Small Prophecies, performed on Sunday, March 25 at 2pm. Each reading will be followed by a facilitated conversation with the audience and author. A Master Playwriting Class will also be offered on Sunday, March 25, from 10am - 1pm. No experience necessary.
Two and three night Festival Lodging Packages available. Click here for more details.
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LOCAL LAB Festival of New American Plays
100 Planes by Lila Rose Kaplan
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012, 07:01 PM
Chautauqua Community House
$20 ($15 CCA Member, Colorado Theater Guild, student, and senior) 3-day Festival Pass: $50 ($40) includes all three plays and Festival reception on Saturday
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Join us for the first night of our inaugural weekend festival of new American plays, presenting 100 Planes by Lila Rose Kaplan.
Synopsis: Lieutenant Kay McClure, a hotshot pilot, meets her match in Major Anne Clarkson. As Anne pushes Kay harder and harder, questions arise. What exactly is Anne training Kay to do?
About the playwright
Lila Rose Kaplan's plays include Entangled, We All Fall Down, 100 Planes, Wildflower, Bureau of Missing Persons, Tink, Catching Flight, and Biography of a Constellation. Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Vic, Chalk Rep, Perishable Theatre, The Camden Fringe Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and Launchpad at UCSB. Her plays have been developed by Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theatreworks, Mixed Blood, New Dramatists, PlayPenn, and The Lark among others. Lila Rose is the recipient of The Kennedy Center's National Science Award in Playwriting, The Shank Playwriting Fellowship, an EST/Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting. Dramatists Play Service published Lila Rose's Off-Broadway debut Wildflower. In 2009, Lila Rose was in residence at Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles. In 2010, she was the first Playwright-in-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2011, Lila Rose was one of a few playwrights chosen to participate in the Old Vic/New Voices T. S. Eliot Exchange. Lila Rose teaches and is an Artist-in-Residence at UC Santa Barbara and Westmont College. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she studied with Sarah Ruhl and she received her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego, where she studied with Naomi Iizuka. She belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights Center. Lila Rose is a proud founding member of The Playwrights Union in Los Angeles. www.lilarose.org
Two and three night Festival Lodging Packages available. Click here for more details.
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LOCAL LAB Festival of New American Plays
Elijah by Michael Mitnick
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012, 06:00 PM
Chautauqua Community House
$20 ($15 CCA Member, Colorado Theater Guild, student, and senior)
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Join us for the second night of our inaugural weekend festival of new American plays, presenting Elijah by Michael Mitnick, followed by a wine and cheese reception from 8-10 pm.
Synopsis: 1922: Elijah, a broke student from Brooklyn, arrives in Paris and becomes an accidental Don Juan overnight. While hunting his idol, a reclusive composer of ballets, Elijah is swept into a life-changing summer of sex, opium, and blackmail.
About the playwright
Michael Mitnick’s recent works include Fly By Night (World Premiere at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, developed at Playwrights Horizons and Ars Nova); Sex Lives of Our Parents (World Premiere at Second Stage Uptown, developed at The Kennedy Center, included in Best Scenes and Monologues published by Smith & Kraus 2011); Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (developed by The Lark and Studio 42); and Babs the Dodo (Premiered by W.E.T. in Seattle). Michael is working on commissions from The Denver Center Theatre Company and Manhattan Theatre Club and has an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
Two and three night Festival Lodging Packages available. Click here for more details.
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Master Playwriting Class
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012, 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Chautauqua Community House
$25 ($22 CCA Member)
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Taught by one of LOCAL LAB’S professional playwright-in-residence, learn the tools to begin telling your own story. No experience necessary. Bring an idea, a willingness to participate, and a desire to begin writing. Tickets sold separately to this event.
More information will be announced January 2012.
Two and three night Festival Lodging Packages available. Click here for more details.
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LOCAL LAB Festival of New American Plays
Small Prophecies by David Myers
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012, 02:00 PM
Chautauqua Community House
$20 ($15 CCA Member, Colorado Theater Guild, student, and senior)
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Join us for the final performance of our inaugural weekend festival of new American plays presenting Small Prophecies by David Myers.
Synopsis: A first kiss. A prank turned ugly. A moment of truth between father and son. How does a boy become a man? How do you stop your child from becoming something terrifying? A story about the myths we tell ourselves and how they shape the people we become.
About the playwright
David Myers’s plays include: Muzungu, Small Prophecies, Babyhead, 1800 Acres, Body Parts and The Arvesto Parasite. His work has been developed with Labyrinth Theater Company, The Old Vic, The Royal Court, Cornerstone Theater Company, The Lark, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, About Face Theatre, Doorway Arts, Chalk Rep, Moving Arts LA and Mixed Phoenix Rep. David’s screenplay Heart of a Shepherd was developed at IFP’s Independent Film Week and was recently purchased by Tashtego Films in New York. He has been commissioned by Berkeley Rep School of Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse.
David served as the Literary Associate at The Public Theater under Artistic Directors George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis. He studied under writers Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, Ntozake Shange, David Eldridge and Naomi Iizuka. David was also the National Coordinator of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays Festival and spent time in rural Rwanda, where he helped to develop Mumugi Watchu – a play designed to stimulate discussion on AIDS prevention and sexual health. David is a graduate of Brown University and holds and MFA from UCSD. He is originally from Houston, Texas, the son of a first generation Russian Jew from Brighton Beach and a Navy man from Louisiana.
Two and three night Festival Lodging Packages available. Click here for more details.
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