Now in its 6th year, the Curious New Voices Summer Playwrighting Intensive takes place at Curious Theatre Company from July 6 – July 31, 2009, with a public Performance Festival July 31-August 2, 2009. An engaging four-week playwriting intensive, the program provides emerging playwrights, ages 15-21, the opportunity work with a team of instructors as well as nationally renowned playwrights, to cultivate a short play, produced in a three-day staged reading festival featuring professional actors and directors.
Led by Curious Theatre Artistic Company Member, Dee Covington, the program is focused on providing young writers the opportunity to use their voices to define the next generation of American theatre. The Curious New Voice program is unique in that it is focused in equal parts on both the development of new plays and the playwrights own skill set as well as in leading the emerging playwrights through the process of working with professional actors and directors in the production of their own work.
Over the course of the month, three nationally recognized playwrights participate in daylong master classes, offering the students the opportunity to learn from the leading voices in American theatre in an intimate setting. Past playwrights include: Elaine Romero, Bridget Carpenter, Steven Sapp, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Dan Dietz, and Jordan Harrison.
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2009 Guest Playwrights:
· Eisa Davis
Eisa Davis was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play BULRUSHER. Other plays include: THE HISTORY OF LIGHT, PAPER ARMOR, UMKOVU, SIX MINUTES, WARRIORS DON’T CRY, and HIP HOP ANASI. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
Adam Bock
Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. He is an artistic associate of the Shotgun Players in San Francisco. He won a 2006 Obie award for his play THE THUGS. During the 2007-2008 New York theatrical season, two plays by Bock were produced Off Broadway: THE RECEPTIONIST at Manhattan Theatre Club and THE DRUNKEN CITY, originally commissioned by the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, New York, at Playwrights Horizons. Bock was nominated for two 2007-2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Both THE RECEPTIONIST and THE DRUNKEN CITY were nominated for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play.
Allison Moore
Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis, where she is a Core Member of The Playwrights' Center. Her plays include HAZARD COUNTY, EIGHTEEN, URGENT FURY, THE STRANGE MISADVENTURES OF PATTY, COWTOWN, and AMERICAM KLEPTO. Her work has been developed or read at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, InterAct Theatre, and Manhattan Theatre Club; and produced at the Cherry Lane Alternative, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Actor's Express, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and The Playwrights' Center, among others. Ms. Moore has received two Jerome Fellowships, a McKnight Advancement Grant, and the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, and received her MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
The 2009 Curious New Voices Festival Performances are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 31, August 1 and 2, at 7:00p.m., at Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma, Denver. Tickets: No admission charge, suggested donation at the door, reservations not required. For more information visit www.curioustheatre.org
