Dael Orlandersmith has won a $50,000.00 prize from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
As a playwright, Dael is a Guggenheim, Pen/Laura Pels Foundation Award and Lucille Lortel Playwrights Fellowship winner, and a Pulitzer prize finalist; and, as an actor, a Drama Desk Award nominee.
Dael has been teaching a class in writing for solo performance at HB Studio. I've been to the class. She is informative, helpful, and encouraging.
Along with Dael, nine other writers received prizes for their work.
Congratulations:
Mischa Berlinski, fiction. His first novel, Fieldwork, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. He is at work on a second novel and living in Haiti.
Rick Hilles, poetry. His first collection, Brother Salvage, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is an assistant professor in the MFA Program at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Donovan Hohn, nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Agni, The Bedford Reader, and Internazionale. His first book will be published by Viking in 2010.
Douglas Kearney, poetry. He is the author of Fear, Some (Red Hen Press, 2006) and the forthcoming collection, The Black Automaton, which will be published by Fence Books in 2009. He has an MFA in writing from the California Institute of the Arts, where he now teaches.
Laleh Khadivi, fiction. Her first book, The Age of Orphans, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2009. She is currently the fiction fellow at Emory University in Atlanta.
Manuel Muñoz, fiction. He is the author of two collections of short stories, Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin Books, 2007). He lives in Tucson, where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
Dael Orlandersmith, plays. Her plays include Yellowman, The Gimmick and her Obie-Award winning Beauty’s Daughter, in which she also starred. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College, has been teaching at HB Studio, and is at work on a memoir..
Benjamin Percy, fiction. He is the author of two short story collections, The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006) and Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2008). He teaches in the MFA program at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Julie Sheehan, poetry. She is the author of two collections of poems, Thaw (Fordham University Press, 2001), and Orient Point (Norton, 2006). She teaches in the graduate Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton and lives in East Quogue, New York.
Lysley Tenorio, fiction. He has recently completed a collection of short stories and is working on a novel. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Coming: DUST
DUST -- A Thriller
By Billy Goda
Directed by Scott Zigler
Starring Emmy® Award nominee Richard Masur and Tony Award® nominee Hunter Foster.
DUST is a power play.
Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position.
Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, the battle of will begins over the most trivial of requests. And when Martin’s daughter Jenny becomes entangled in the situation, the stakes are raised even higher, escalating a war for respect into one for revenge and survival. Who will be standing when the dust settles?
Starring Emmy® Award nominee Richard Masur and Tony Award® nominee Hunter Foster:
Richard Masur (Martin) has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. Masur is also well-known to television audiences for his roles in "Rhoda," "One Day at a Time" and "All My Children." An Emmy® nominee for "The Burning Bed," his many Broadway and off-Broadway appearances include roles in "Democracy," "The Changing Room," "A Feminine Ending" and "Two Thousand Years."
Hunter Foster (Zeke) received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for his role in the original Broadway cast of "Urinetown" and Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award nominations for playing Seymour in the Broadway revival of "Little Shop of Horrors." He has also been seen on Broadway as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award® winning production of "The Producers."
TO ORDER:
Check for special offers: Special offers may be available from Telecharge.com.
1.
ONLINE. www.broadwayoffers.com.
2.
BY PHONE. Call 212-947-8844
3.
IN PERSON. Westside Theatre Box Office, 407 West 43rd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues). Box office open Mon.-Sun. noon – 6pm.
If you have any questions or comments, please send an e-mail to tickets@telecharge.com.
Discounts available for large groups at Telecharge.com/Groups.
By Billy Goda
Directed by Scott Zigler
Starring Emmy® Award nominee Richard Masur and Tony Award® nominee Hunter Foster.
DUST is a power play.
Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position.
Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, the battle of will begins over the most trivial of requests. And when Martin’s daughter Jenny becomes entangled in the situation, the stakes are raised even higher, escalating a war for respect into one for revenge and survival. Who will be standing when the dust settles?
Starring Emmy® Award nominee Richard Masur and Tony Award® nominee Hunter Foster:
Richard Masur (Martin) has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. Masur is also well-known to television audiences for his roles in "Rhoda," "One Day at a Time" and "All My Children." An Emmy® nominee for "The Burning Bed," his many Broadway and off-Broadway appearances include roles in "Democracy," "The Changing Room," "A Feminine Ending" and "Two Thousand Years."
Hunter Foster (Zeke) received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for his role in the original Broadway cast of "Urinetown" and Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award nominations for playing Seymour in the Broadway revival of "Little Shop of Horrors." He has also been seen on Broadway as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award® winning production of "The Producers."
TO ORDER:
Check for special offers: Special offers may be available from Telecharge.com.
1.
ONLINE. www.broadwayoffers.com.
2.
BY PHONE. Call 212-947-8844
3.
IN PERSON. Westside Theatre Box Office, 407 West 43rd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues). Box office open Mon.-Sun. noon – 6pm.
If you have any questions or comments, please send an e-mail to tickets@telecharge.com.
Discounts available for large groups at Telecharge.com/Groups.
Friday, October 24, 2008
RED BULL READINGS: CENCI & MORE
RED BULL THEATER
presents
Monday October 27th 7pm
A STAGED READING OF
THE CENCI
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
featuring
Roger Rees • Lisa Harrow
Ezra Knight • Matthew Rauch
John Douglas Thompson • Sam Tsoutsouvas
Julie Jesneck • Peter Kim • Ben Rappaport
Emma Canalese • Vayu O'Donnell
Tyranny, incest, and assassination – a 16th century tragedy comes to vivid life in the hands of one of the great Romantic poets.
Adapted and Directed by
Eleanor Holdridge
www.redbulltheater.com
212.352.3101
REVELATION READINGS
OBIE AWARD-WINNING READING SERIES CONTINUES
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER READINGS
Monday November 17, 7pm
THE MALCONTENT
by John Marston
A truculent tragicomedy, this scathing attack on government corruption is timely, terrifying, and disconcertingly amusing.
Directed by Ethan McSweeny (The Persians, 1001)
Featuring Matthew Rauch (Revenger’s Tragedy)
Monday December 8, 7pm**
**(SEE NOTE BELOW FOR THEATER LOCATION)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Christopher Marlowe
Faustus sells his soul for knowledge – the classic tale, as only Marlowe could have told it!
Directed by Mark Lamos (Cymbeline)
DECEMBER 9, 2008 – JANUARY 5, 2009
A full production of
Thomas Middleton’s WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
Directed by Jesse Berger
2009 READINGS
Monday January 12, 7pm
ELECTRICIDAD: A Chicano take on the tragedy of Electra
by Luis Alfaro
Sophocles’ great classic re-imagined, set in a contemporary Los Angeles barrio.
Directed by Lisa Peterson
Monday February 23, 7pm
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
by Peter Shaffer
A modern epic about the conquest of Peru by Spain and the destruction of the Inca Empire.
Directed by Joe Hardy
Monday March 2, 7pm
THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA
by Miguel de Cervantes
A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.
Directed by Moisés Kaufman
LOCATION
Theater at St. Clement’s
423 West 46th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
Subway: A/C/E to 42nd Street, Exit on 44th Street
Parking: 415 West 45th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
**Note: Doctor Faustus on December 8th will be held at Theatre Row, 410 W 42ndSt.
TICKETS
$25 Adults
$10 Students/Industry*
$65+ Subscription Packages Available
Purchase at www.redbulltheater.com
or call 212-352-3101, or 866-811-4111 (toll-free)
*Valid ID required.
Red Bull Theater is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit company dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today’s theatergoers through language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories.
JESSE BERGER
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LONNIE COOPER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
RED BULL
PO BOX 250863
NEW YORK NY 10025
www.redbulltheater.com
212.414.5168
presents
Monday October 27th 7pm
A STAGED READING OF
THE CENCI
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
featuring
Roger Rees • Lisa Harrow
Ezra Knight • Matthew Rauch
John Douglas Thompson • Sam Tsoutsouvas
Julie Jesneck • Peter Kim • Ben Rappaport
Emma Canalese • Vayu O'Donnell
Tyranny, incest, and assassination – a 16th century tragedy comes to vivid life in the hands of one of the great Romantic poets.
Adapted and Directed by
Eleanor Holdridge
www.redbulltheater.com
212.352.3101
REVELATION READINGS
OBIE AWARD-WINNING READING SERIES CONTINUES
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER READINGS
Monday November 17, 7pm
THE MALCONTENT
by John Marston
A truculent tragicomedy, this scathing attack on government corruption is timely, terrifying, and disconcertingly amusing.
Directed by Ethan McSweeny (The Persians, 1001)
Featuring Matthew Rauch (Revenger’s Tragedy)
Monday December 8, 7pm**
**(SEE NOTE BELOW FOR THEATER LOCATION)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Christopher Marlowe
Faustus sells his soul for knowledge – the classic tale, as only Marlowe could have told it!
Directed by Mark Lamos (Cymbeline)
DECEMBER 9, 2008 – JANUARY 5, 2009
A full production of
Thomas Middleton’s WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
Directed by Jesse Berger
2009 READINGS
Monday January 12, 7pm
ELECTRICIDAD: A Chicano take on the tragedy of Electra
by Luis Alfaro
Sophocles’ great classic re-imagined, set in a contemporary Los Angeles barrio.
Directed by Lisa Peterson
Monday February 23, 7pm
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
by Peter Shaffer
A modern epic about the conquest of Peru by Spain and the destruction of the Inca Empire.
Directed by Joe Hardy
Monday March 2, 7pm
THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA
by Miguel de Cervantes
A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.
Directed by Moisés Kaufman
LOCATION
Theater at St. Clement’s
423 West 46th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
Subway: A/C/E to 42nd Street, Exit on 44th Street
Parking: 415 West 45th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
**Note: Doctor Faustus on December 8th will be held at Theatre Row, 410 W 42ndSt.
TICKETS
$25 Adults
$10 Students/Industry*
$65+ Subscription Packages Available
Purchase at www.redbulltheater.com
or call 212-352-3101, or 866-811-4111 (toll-free)
*Valid ID required.
Red Bull Theater is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit company dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today’s theatergoers through language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories.
JESSE BERGER
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LONNIE COOPER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
RED BULL
PO BOX 250863
NEW YORK NY 10025
www.redbulltheater.com
212.414.5168
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
FREE NIGHT NYC -- FREE THEATER !!!
Free Night NYC invites you to GET LIVE!
(Note -- Sep 29, 2010 -- This post below was written in 2008. For 2010 information -- and there is free theater again -- try freenightnyc.net. -- which might be overloaded -- or try Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Night-NYC/149701913952 )
"Free Night NYC is offering 5,000 tickets to over 100 theaters across the city. Tickets will be offered to performances from October 16th, 2008 through October 30th, 2008 and can be reserved beginning October 1st at 10:00am on freenightnyc.net.
"Tickets are limited, first come, first served, but check back because more tickets may be added throughout October. In the event that tickets sell out in one day, a special group of tickets will be released Oct. 2nd to accommodate potential post Rosh Hashanah audience.
"On the national day of Free Night of Theater — Thursday October 16th 2008— we'll also be hosting a kick-off event in Union Square and an all city theater rocks party at Element, a club on the Lower East Side.
"Join us for a full day of celebrating the amazing diversity of New York theater! "
(Note -- Sep 29, 2010 -- This post below was written in 2008. For 2010 information -- and there is free theater again -- try freenightnyc.net. -- which might be overloaded -- or try Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Night-NYC/149701913952 )
"Free Night NYC is offering 5,000 tickets to over 100 theaters across the city. Tickets will be offered to performances from October 16th, 2008 through October 30th, 2008 and can be reserved beginning October 1st at 10:00am on freenightnyc.net.
"Tickets are limited, first come, first served, but check back because more tickets may be added throughout October. In the event that tickets sell out in one day, a special group of tickets will be released Oct. 2nd to accommodate potential post Rosh Hashanah audience.
"On the national day of Free Night of Theater — Thursday October 16th 2008— we'll also be hosting a kick-off event in Union Square and an all city theater rocks party at Element, a club on the Lower East Side.
"Join us for a full day of celebrating the amazing diversity of New York theater! "
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