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I Interview Playwrights Part 208: Kevin R. Free

Kevin R. Free

Hometown:
Greensboro, North Carolina, though I am officially an army brat. My family lived in Texas, Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, and North Carolina all before I turned 6. But I lived most of my life in North Carolina.

Current Town:
New York City

Q:  Tell me about the play you're putting up in this year's NY Fringe.

A;  A Raisin in the Salad: Black Plays for White People is a sketch show about culture and how it's created. Or, rather, WHO creates it… I think my goal is ...

I Interview Playwrights Part 207: Ken Weitzman

Ken Weitzman

Hometown:
Great Neck, NY. I'm a Great Necker.

Current Town:
Bloomington, Indiana. I teach at IU.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I'm working on an adaptation of a non-fiction book by Lars Anderson. It's called Carlisle vs. Army. It's about a 1912 football game between the Carlisle Industrial Indian School and the Cadets at West Point. Barely 20 years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, Native Americans and the US Army were squaring off on the football field. Jim Thorpe...

I Interview Playwrights Part 206: Michael Golamco

Michael Golamco

Hometown:
The San Francisco Bay Area from the peninsula to Marin County to all points in between.

Current Town:
Los Angeles! As a Northern Californian I used to hate on LA, but I have to say that this city's really grown on me.

Q:  Tell me about Year Zero that went up recently at Second Stage and Victory Gardens.

A:  Year Zero is a play about a sixteen year old kid that loves Dungeons and Dragons, hip hop, and talking to a skull. It's a dramatic comedy about the Cambodian Genocide,...

I Interview Playwrights Part 205: J. C. Lee

J. C. Lee

Hometown: New York City, NY

Current Town: Berkeley, California

Q:  Tell me about your trilogy that Sleepwalkers is producing this year.

A:  The trilogy is called This World and After and consists of 3 plays, all of which will be opening in San Francisco in 2010-11. The first is This World Is Good, followed by Into the Clear Blue Sky and The Nature Line.It all started sometime in 2006 when I was writing a new play for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's leapFROG program and found myself...

I Interview Playwrights Part 204: Ruth Margraff

photo:  David Little-Smith.com

Ruth Margraff

Hometown:

I grew up all over Ohio and Michigan staring up at my Dad preaching brimstone in tiny churches full of grieving widows. Mrs. Aho for example. Was an Ishpeming widow who screwed the piano stool up too high for me to reach the pedals when I played the ofratory in 2nd grade. So she landed in my play THE CRY PITCH CARROLLS which is a nativity set in a nostalgic nuclear winter. Spent my 20s as a New Yorker, trying to hustle through the skyscrape...

I Interview Playwrights Part 203: Kirk Lynn

Kirk Lynn

Hometown: San Antonio, TX.

Current Town: Austin, TX.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  Focus. Patience. Prayer. Magic. Honesty. Sobriety. Being a good husband. Being a good friend. Reducing the amount of time between my mistakes and my apologies. Calmness. Anger management. Time management. Reading. Staying ignorant.

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH is a commission I'm working on with my friend and longtime collaborator, Melanie Joseph at the Foundry Theatre. It's intended to be a performance con...

The Moment I Knew

A great new blog from Andrea Ciannavei in which she asks theater artists to


Describe the moment you knew you were meant to work in theater.

She asked me first.  You can read it here:

http://themomentiknew.tumblr.com/

I Interview Playwrights Part 202: Tanya Saracho

Tanya Saracho

Hometown:

This is a tough one. In my heart; in my tongue; and when it comes to those memory clips in my head (which are now starting to skip because I play them so much) my hometown is Los Mochis, Sinaloa in the Northwest of Mexico. Los Mochis means land of the terrestrial turtles. I don't remember seeing many turtles in Mochis but I've always imagined turtles when I think of that place…(ok, my eyes just started watering which is telling me I need to go home and see my grandpar...

I Interview Playwrights Part 201: Daria Polatin

Daria Polatin

Hometown: Brookline, Massachusetts

Current Town: Brooklyn and Los Angeles

Q:  Tell me about the play you have coming up at Cape Cod Theater Project.

A:  GUIDANCE is a play about a new high school guidance counselor who becomes obsessed with helping his students. He also gets involved with one of the parents, the 'no child left behind'-like politics at the school, and has an Advil addiction. The play is a comedy on the surface, but is also about people struggling with loss and diving...

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