Emerging Playwrights Program: Season 1
The Attic's Emerging Playwrights Program produces three staged readings of unpublished plays by emerging playwrights each season. We seek to collaborate with writers that demonstrate rigorous commitment to their craft, and cultivate the American classics of tomorrow. Our primary goal is to give writers the chance to hear their work aloud, read by professional actors and matched with directors we believe will further the development of the piece. Previous writers have included Jonathan Larson Grant Award Winners, graduates from acclaimed MFA programs, writers for The Daily Show, and many other talented artists. All EPP works are considered for both workshops and full productions with The Attic.
Mary Kate Olsen Falls in Love by Mallery Avidon
Directed by Tamara Fisch
Presented at The Tank, October 2, 2010
Featuring Ted Caine, Sam Gooley, Monica Hammond, Brit Whittle*, Michael Weiser, Jehan Young, Gina Marie Jamieson, Amy Sheehan, Siho Ellsmore, Kate Kuen, Alison Yates, Claire Natale and Mallory Portnoy
Mallery Avidon's plays have been developed or produced in New York by Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Little Theater @ The New Dixon Place, ART/NY, Bee Sting Theater Company; in Chicago by The Pavement Group; and in Seattle by Live Girls! Theater, angry blvd, Strike Anywhere Productions, and Cornish College of the Arts. She was a member of the 2007/2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab & holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts. She has also worked in various capacities for the Empty Space Theater, Intiman Theatre Company, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Lark Play Development Center, The Chocolate Factory Theatre, Jake Hooker & Grammar School and PL115.
Presented at The Tank, October 2, 2010
Featuring Ted Caine, Sam Gooley, Monica Hammond, Brit Whittle*, Michael Weiser, Jehan Young, Gina Marie Jamieson, Amy Sheehan, Siho Ellsmore, Kate Kuen, Alison Yates, Claire Natale and Mallory Portnoy
Mallery Avidon's plays have been developed or produced in New York by Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Little Theater @ The New Dixon Place, ART/NY, Bee Sting Theater Company; in Chicago by The Pavement Group; and in Seattle by Live Girls! Theater, angry blvd, Strike Anywhere Productions, and Cornish College of the Arts. She was a member of the 2007/2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab & holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts. She has also worked in various capacities for the Empty Space Theater, Intiman Theatre Company, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Lark Play Development Center, The Chocolate Factory Theatre, Jake Hooker & Grammar School and PL115.
Grace, or the Art of Climbing by Lauren Feldman
Directed by Laura Braza
Presented at The Tank, January 8, 2011
Featuring Ioana Alfonso, Nick Choksi*, Mary Christopher, Sam Gooley, Monica Hammond, Thomas Matthews, Ronald Peet, Brit Whittle*
LAUREN FELDMAN is an itinerant playwright who hails from Miami, Florida; lived in 6 different cities last year; and has recently settled into a nook in Brooklyn. Her plays include a People; The Egg-Layers; Grace, or the Art of Climbing; Fill Our Mouths; and her current works-in-progressSyzygy, or As a Form in Wax and Quinn and also The Mooncalves; as well as a dozen short plays; the solo piece Funny Story; and several collaborative/devised works, including The Life and Acts of Jesus Christ as Told by the Heretics. Her plays have been seen throughout the U.S. and in London, Canada, and Australia. She has been an artist-in-residence at Tofte Lake Center, Montana Artists Refuge, Cornell University, The Missoula Colony/Montana Rep, Sewanee University of the South, and Theater Emory/Brave New Works Festival. Most recently, she received the Agnes Ranjo Capps Award for an Emerging Female Playwright, and her play Grace, or the Art of Climbing received nominations for the 2009 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award and the 2010 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. She is published by Applause Books and Broadway Play Publishing. M.F.A. Playwriting, Yale School of Drama; B.A. English, Cornell University; Alumna of The Shakespeare Programme, British-American Drama Academy/ Skidmore College.
Presented at The Tank, January 8, 2011
Featuring Ioana Alfonso, Nick Choksi*, Mary Christopher, Sam Gooley, Monica Hammond, Thomas Matthews, Ronald Peet, Brit Whittle*
LAUREN FELDMAN is an itinerant playwright who hails from Miami, Florida; lived in 6 different cities last year; and has recently settled into a nook in Brooklyn. Her plays include a People; The Egg-Layers; Grace, or the Art of Climbing; Fill Our Mouths; and her current works-in-progressSyzygy, or As a Form in Wax and Quinn and also The Mooncalves; as well as a dozen short plays; the solo piece Funny Story; and several collaborative/devised works, including The Life and Acts of Jesus Christ as Told by the Heretics. Her plays have been seen throughout the U.S. and in London, Canada, and Australia. She has been an artist-in-residence at Tofte Lake Center, Montana Artists Refuge, Cornell University, The Missoula Colony/Montana Rep, Sewanee University of the South, and Theater Emory/Brave New Works Festival. Most recently, she received the Agnes Ranjo Capps Award for an Emerging Female Playwright, and her play Grace, or the Art of Climbing received nominations for the 2009 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award and the 2010 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. She is published by Applause Books and Broadway Play Publishing. M.F.A. Playwriting, Yale School of Drama; B.A. English, Cornell University; Alumna of The Shakespeare Programme, British-American Drama Academy/ Skidmore College.
Pamela Precious: A Balls-Out Love Story by Matt Moses
Directed by Justin Waldman
Presented at The Tank, April 23, 2011
Featuring John Bass, Ted Caine, Sam Gooley, and Monica Hammond
Matt Moses is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he was a recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship and won the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting. He's worked at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MTV's Made, Vh1's Best Week Ever and other programs on Bravo and Nickelodeon.
Presented at The Tank, April 23, 2011
Featuring John Bass, Ted Caine, Sam Gooley, and Monica Hammond
Matt Moses is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he was a recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship and won the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting. He's worked at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MTV's Made, Vh1's Best Week Ever and other programs on Bravo and Nickelodeon.
