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June 22, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 200: Delaney Britt Brewer
Delaney Britt Brewer
Hometown: I don't really have one. I moved around a lot as a kid. But, now one set of folks lives in Fayetteville, NC and the other re-located to Birmingham, AL.
Current Town: New York City.
Q: Tell me about Wolves:
A: Wolves is a project I've been working on and adding to for the past three years. It started with a one act I wrote when I was at home for Christmas and tipsy off of some deadly mixture of Diet Coke and Godiva liquor – basically any old thing I could scroung...
June 20, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 199: Alice Tuan
Alice Tuan
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Current Town: Valencia, CA
Q: What are you working on now?
A: COCKS CROW is a play I wrote the first draft of in Shanghai...Americans trying to do business in China but not understanding how Chinese business 'practices' work...shrinking superpower entitlement.
Q: What was Shanghai like?
A: Infinitely interesting...a great place from which to think about the 21st century. It made me realize what I love about the U.S., namely psychic freedom and the...
June 19, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 198: Alice Austen
Alice Austen
Hometown: I moved around as a kid and spent a lot of time in the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. I went to high school in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, a rural community near Eugene -which happened to be where Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, Jerry Garcia and a lot of the Dead lived. So my first writing teacher was actually Ken Kesey.
Current Town: I'm a Chicago playwright. I live in Milwaukee.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I took a couple years off from playwriting to ...
June 18, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 197: Jeffrey Sweet
Photo: Jeff in green sweater surrounded by New York cast of BLUFF.
Jeffrey Sweet
Hometown: Chicago
Current Town: New York
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm fiddling with re-writes on a play about Lyndon Johnson and how his greatest political accomplishment was accomplished by one of his greatest personal betrayals. It's called TEXAS BOOT. And I'm researching and writing notes for a play set in Provincetown about two people who can't be married but can't not be.
Q: Tell me about Vict...
June 17, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 196: Dan LeFranc
Dan LeFranc
Hometown: Dana Point, CA
Current Town: Brooklyn, NY
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm working on commissions for Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep as well as adapting my play Night Surf into a rock musical in collaboration with Nathan Allen, artistic director of The House Theater of Chicago. Meanwhile, I'm gearing up for a production of my latest play The Big Meal at American Theatre Company in Chicago, directed by Dexter Bullard. So I'm doing a lot of work in Chicago at the moment w...
June 16, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 195: Andrew Hinderaker
Andrew Hinderaker
Hometown: Madison, WI
Current Town: Chicago
Q: Tell me please about your play at the Gift.
A: "Suicide, Incorporated" is set inside a company that edits its clients' suicide notes. The company's boss, seeking to expand and ultimately franchise his business, targets the male demographic (since men ultimately complete 80% of all suicides). So he hires a hotshot male writer, straight out of Hallmark, to be his star employee. But from the get go, it's clear that the new hire has ...
June 15, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 194: Brett Neveu
Brett Neveu
Hometown: I grew up in Newton, Iowa, but spent most of my adulthood in Chicago.
Current Town: Los Angeles, California
Q: Tell me please about your play coming up at the Royal Court.
A: RED BUD is about a group of forty-somethings on their annual trip to "Red Bud," a championship motocross race. The group has nearly rung their mutual friendship dry and use the overnight camping party to relive past glories, play asinine games and beat the holy hell out of each other. The fly in t...
June 14, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 193: Christine Evans
Christine Evans
Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Current Town:Providence, RI
Q: What are you working on now?
A: THE UNDERPASS-- a live-virtual script about a haunted rehabilitation center. It's a collaboration with a director and interactive media designer.
Q: Tell me about Trojan Barbie.
A: Basically it collides the storyline of the Euripides' play with the misadventures of a lost tourist in contemporary Troy, who repairs dolls. There's a kind of double-vision throughout the play between dolls ...
June 10, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 192: Jon Tuttle
Jon Tuttle
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah. Go Utes.
Current town: Florence, SC.
Q: Tell me please about Holy Ghost now at Theater of Note in LA.
A: A very strong production--which actually just closed. It's about German (some Nazi) prisoners of war kept in a camp in SC--which actually happened. It's about the varous camps into which we separate ourselves according to nationality, race, religion and language, and how we are therefore not a melting pot at all. It's about the idea of "volk....
June 9, 2010
I Interview Playwrights Part 191: Nikole Beckwith
Nikole Beckwith
Hometown: Newburyport Massachusetts
Current Town: Brooklyn
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Well, I am working on my third full length play over at The Public, as a member of their Emerging Writers Group (which is an amazing amazing group, I feel very lucky) I'd tell you about the play but, I can never really talk about a play before it's done. I can say it's darker than my other two full lengths, in a good way. I can also say that half way through act one I realized it w...
