Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a 2003 graduate of the Yale School of Drama. The Mystery Plays received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and premiered in a co-production between New York's Second Stage Theatre (where he was the playwright-in-residence through a grant from TCG/NEA) and Yale Repertory Theatre.
Zakiyyah Alexander
Zakiyyah Alexander is a writer and actor whose plays include SICK? (Summer Play Festival), THE ETYMOLOGY OF BIRD (Hip Hop Theater Festival, Providence Black Repertory Theatre), BLURRING SHINE (Market Theater, Johannesburg), SWEET MALADIES (Rucker Theatre), AFTER THE SHOW: A PLAY IN MASK, PRALYA, ELECTED, ghost (Keilworks Theater), and (900). She has received
J. Holtham
Mr. Holtham’s plays include Creative Writing, 11th Hour, Race Music, Splendid, Yet to Come and Daylight Savings (What Happens Now). His work has been seen at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Vital Theatre, New Dramatists, Broken Watch Theater Company and others. Several of his
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph’s play Animals Out of Paper will be produced this summer at Second Stage Theater in New York. His play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, will be produced by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles at the Kirk Douglas Theatre during the 2008-09 season. He was recently awarded the Paula Vogel Award by the Vineyard Theatre.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer/performer whose solo shows, Aliens in America and Bad Sex With Bud Kemp, were both produced by Second Stage Theatre. Other solo work includes Sugar Plum Fairy (the Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Rep and San Jose Rep), I Worry (Woolly Mammoth Theatre at the Kennedy Center, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Santa Fe Stages) and Mother on.
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage wrote Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which was originally commissioned and produced by Second Stage Theatre and has since had 30 productions throughout the country. Her other plays include the award-winning Intimate Apparel; Fabulation; Ruined; A Walk Through Time; Mud, River, Stone; and Por’knockers. Her work has been
Sung Rno
Sung Rno’s plays include wAve, Behind the Masq, Weather, Cleveland Raining, Gravity Falls From Trees, and Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen. Productions include: East West Players, Thick Description, Asian American Theater Company, Immigrants' Theater Project, Seoul International Theater Festival, NYC Fringe, Sanctuary, 2G, and Ma-Yi Theater
Betty Shamieh
Betty Shamieh is a playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Her plays include The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), Roar (The New Group), The Machine (Naked Angels), Chocolate in Heat (NYC Fringe) and Territories (Magic Theatre). She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Sundance Theatre Institute residency, New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship, Rockefeller
Cheryl L. West
Cheryl West was the librettist for Play On! (ran on Broadway and aired on PBS’s Great Performances) and the author of several plays including Holiday Heart, Birdie Blue, Jar the Floor and Before It Hits Home, (the latter three produced at Second Stage) In addition to Second Stage, her plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, in England, and in numerous regional theatres that include Seattle
Tracey Scott Wilson
Tracey Scott Wilson's current work includes THE STORY, produced at The Public Theater/NYSF. Additional productions include ORDER MY STEPS for Cornerstone Theater’s Black Faith/AIDS project in Los Angeles; and EXHIBIT #9, which was produced in New York City by New Perspectives Theatre and Theatre Outrageous; LEADER OF THE PEOPLE produced at New Georges Theatre; two
The Time Warner Commissioning Program at Second Stage Theatre will allow for new works "from a diverse range of artists over the next 2 to 5 years."
"Developing new plays by American writers is a cornerstone of the Second Stage Theatre mission and this program will allow us to work with both emerging and established playwrights in creating important new works for the American theatre," Second Stage artistic director Carole Rothman said in a release. "Time Warner understands that creating new plays is an ongoing process and through this partnership they are helping to support playwrights in each step of a play's creation – not only in commissioning, but by developing the play through readings and workshops, and finally, in presenting a fully realized world premiere production."
Among Second Stage Theatre's productions are works commissioned by the company, including Lynn Nottage's CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY, Lynda Barry's THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, Wendy Kesselman's THE NOTEBOOK, Michael John LaChiusa's LITTLE FISH, and Paul Weitz's PRIVILEGE.
The ten chosen scribes are Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Zakiyyah Alexander, J. Holtham, Rajiv Joseph, Sandra Tsing Loh, Lynn Nottage, Sung Rno, Betty Shamieh, Cheryl L. West and Tracey Scott Wilson.
To read daily accounts of what is happening at the Second Stage Theatre New Works Festival click here.
"Developing new plays by American writers is a cornerstone of the Second Stage Theatre mission and this program will allow us to work with both emerging and established playwrights in creating important new works for the American theatre," Second Stage artistic director Carole Rothman said in a release. "Time Warner understands that creating new plays is an ongoing process and through this partnership they are helping to support playwrights in each step of a play's creation – not only in commissioning, but by developing the play through readings and workshops, and finally, in presenting a fully realized world premiere production."
Among Second Stage Theatre's productions are works commissioned by the company, including Lynn Nottage's CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY, Lynda Barry's THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, Wendy Kesselman's THE NOTEBOOK, Michael John LaChiusa's LITTLE FISH, and Paul Weitz's PRIVILEGE.
The ten chosen scribes are Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Zakiyyah Alexander, J. Holtham, Rajiv Joseph, Sandra Tsing Loh, Lynn Nottage, Sung Rno, Betty Shamieh, Cheryl L. West and Tracey Scott Wilson.
To read daily accounts of what is happening at the Second Stage Theatre New Works Festival click here.
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