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I Interview Playwrights Part 171: Gary Sunshine

Gary Sunshine

Hometown: Seaford, New York

Current Town: New York, NY

Q:  What are you working on now?

A: I've been in LA since November working as a staff writer on HBO's "Hung." Right before I left home, I did a workshop of my new play at New Dramatists called GOOD DEEDS FOR A WEARY WORLD, and it was recently workshopped again at Theatre of NOTE in LA. And I just finished up a screenplay for Starry Night Entertainment called MOSCOWS, about a secretly wealthy young librarian and her obsessi...

I Interview Playwrights Part 170: Emily DeVoti

Emily DeVoti

Hometown: Sheffield, Massachusetts

Current Town: Brooklyn, NY



Q:  Tell me please about your play currently running at New Georges.


A:  It runs through May 22nd!  The play is called MILK, and it's set on a dairy farm in rural Massachusetts in 1984, on the cusp of Reagan's second election.  It's about a couple about to lose their family farm, when a wealthy NYC businessman offers them an obscene amount of money for the right to bring his family there and "teach them values."  It's a...

I Interview Playwrights Part 169: Kenny Finkle

Kenny Finkle


Hometown:  Miami, Florida


Current Town:  New York City


Q:  Tell me please about your play now being performed at the Old Globe.

A:  The play that was at the Old Globe is called "Alive and Well" and is a two-character comedy about a Civil War re-enactor and a Reporter who get lost in the Virginia wilderness together while looking for The Lonesome Soldier – a Confederate Soldier that some locals have sighted and believe to be the real deal… It's ultimately about America's love/hate...

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I Interview Playwrights Part 168: Kate Moira Ryan

Kate Moira Ryan

Hometown:

My hometown is Yonkers, New York.

Current Town:

Currently I live in Brooklyn Heights section of NYC.

Q: Tell me about Bass For Picasso.

A: In Bass for Picasso a food writer for The New York Times throws a dinner party for her friends recreating recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. The guest list includes Pilar, her multilingual art detective lover, who has spent time in Guantanamo for visa problems; Bricka Matson, a lesbian widow with a small child and Republi...

I Interview Playwrights Part 167: Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter

Hometown: A town called Moscow in northern Idaho.

Current Town: New York.

Q:  Tell me about the play you have coming up with P73.

A:  It's a play that for a long time was called GOD OF MEAT—now it's called JACK'S PRECIOUS MOMENT (I seem to frequently do this thing where I have an initial title which is replaced by a better one later on). It was the first play that I wrote during my PONY Fellowship year with the Lark, and I developed it in the Lark Playwrights Workshop and with th...

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I Interview Playwrights Part 166: Johnna Adams

Johnna Adams


Hometown: Austin, TX

Current Town: Astoria, NY

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I have several plays jockeying around in my head, vying for attention. The one that is actually getting written at the moment is a two-person 90 minute play that I am tentatively calling Nurture. It is my first boy-meets-girl kind of script, although my boy and my girl are so seriously screwed up, it is also a satire and black comedy—not at all a (shudder) romance. In addition to that I have an amb...

I Interview Playwrights Part 165: Katharine Clark Gray

Katharine Clark Gray

Hometown: Syracuse, NY

Current town: Philadelphia, PA

Q:  Tell me please about your play 516 going up in Philly.

A:  It's a 3-handed revenge romance set in academia: a term paper ghostwriter falls in lust with a client as he uses her to advance his thesis work. When she rats him out to a hated professor, the true machinations begin. The upcoming production at Philadelphia Theatre Workshop marks its official World Premiere, but an earlier version was workshopped at the NY Fr...

I Interview Playwrights Part 164: Laura Eason

Laura Eason

Hometown: Evanston, IL

Current Town: Brooklyn, NY. I lived in Chicago for a long time and still frequently work at Lookingglass Theatre (where I am a company member) and Steppenwolf Theatre so people often think I still live there but I've lived in New York for almost five years now. I go where the work is and much of it still happens to still be in Chicago, which is fine with me!

Q:  Tell me please about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer now at Hartford Stage.

A:  Hartford Stage com...