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I Interview Playwrights Part 260: Sibyl Kempson

Sibyl Kempson

Hometown: Stockholm. NJ

Current Town: NYC and Tannersville, PA

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  Grant applications

Q:  Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.

A:  I heard something in my dad's basement one night. It kept me up all night. I was a little kid. It was a like banging, which happened at intervals and culminated in a terrible grinding sound. It scared the living shit out of me. I never found out what it was....

I Interview Playwrights Part 259: Gary Garrison

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Gary Garrison

Hometown: Orange, Texas

Current Town: Westport, Connecticut

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  For work (at the Dramatists Guild), the first national conference for playwrights scheduled for next June in Fairfax, Virginia. Can't wait. How c...

I Interview Playwrights Part 258: Saviana Stanescu

Saviana Stanescu

Hometown: Bucharest, Romania?

Hmm, Bucharest is actually my birth-town, I kinda hesitate to still consider it my hometown after almost 10 years of living in NYC… a hometown should be a town/city where you feel at home, where you pay rent to have a home :), where you struggle to pay that rent, and that's New York for me now…

Plus, over there in Romania I spent my childhood raised by my grandparents in Curtea-de-Arges (Arges-Court, the first capital of Walachia), then my parents...

I Interview Playwrights Part 257: Brian Bauman

Brian Bauman

Hometown:
I was born in a naval hospital in Groton, Connecticut. My family relocated often in my early childhood. My father was a supply officer on a nuclear submarine and the family would trail him as he moved from port to port.. I spent the longest part of my childhood in Burnt Hills, New York.

Current Town:
New York City

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I am writing a new play called A CRUCIBLE which is a riff on Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE. The play's structure is a 9-mo...

upcoming this month part 2

oh, also this:

The 4th Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival 80+Plays. 40+ Playwrights. 30+Actors. 7 Directors. 1 Minute. At the Astoria Performing Arts CenterGood Shepherd United Methodist 30-44 Crescent St (@30th Rd)Astoria, NY, 11102 September 25th & 26th, 2010, 8:00 PMTickets are $18/ $12 Seniors & Studentsfor tickets and info visit: www.apacny.org It's theater boiled down to its essence. Sixty Seconds from lights up to lights down. The much-anticipated short-form theatre festival r...

upcoming, this month

1.

Reading of Hearts Like Fists 
at Flux Theater Ensemble's Food:Soul


8pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square Park (Corner of Thompson Street) New York, NYFood:Soul features good food, good company, and a fully staged reading of a play Flux is passionate about developing and sharing with you - all for free!



The Play: HEARTS LIKE FISTS by Adam Szymkowicz

The Director: Keith Powell

 ...Dinner is at 7:30pm and the stage reading starts at 8:00pm (play runs 90min)
If some of you are itching...

I Interview Playwrights Part 256: Mark Harvey Levine

Mark Harvey Levine

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Current Town: Pasadena, CA

Q: Tell me about "Cabfare For The Common Man"

A: It's kind of like my first "album". I took a bunch of ten minute plays that I had written, and picked out the very best. The last play has the same title as the whole collection -- I really did want it to be like a record album. Er, CD. I mean a collection of mp3s. Anyway, it's an evening of romantic comedies. Some are naturalistic, some more stylized. Not every play is abo...

I Interview Playwrights Part 255: Lisa Soland

Lisa Soland

Hometown:  I grew up in a small town of only 350 people, but still knew the horses and the woods better than the individuals who lived there – Northern, Illinois.

Current Town:  Los Angeles.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  Last week the director Charles R. Miller and I cast an evening of works of mine entitled "MEET CUTE," which is a collection of six short plays on the topic of "boy meets girl" in a unique and cute fashion, and then hopefully falling in love. It opens at Pel...

I Interview Playwrights Part 254: Sigrid Gilmer

Sigrid Gilmer

Hometown:  Pittsburg, California.

Current Town:  Pasadena, California

Q:  Tell me about your show with Cornerstone.

A:  It's All Bueno was written for Cornerstone's 7th Summer Institute that was stationed in Pacoima, California. The Institute is a program where theatre makers, social activist and students come, hang out, learn the Cornerstone methodology and help make a play. Based on Candide, It's All Bueno was inspired by the two diametrically opposed ideas that I kept running ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 253: Anthony Weigh

Anthony Weigh

Hometown: Brisbane, Australia.

Current Town: New York.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: New commissions for The National Theatre, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre. Hopefully they won't all end up as one big really awful play.

Q: What was it like being in residence at the National?

A: Absolutely terrific. I was writer in residence at the NT for a year. I learnt a huge amount. Part of the position requires that you sit on the associ...