COSTA MESA, CALIF.: South Coast Repertory has introduced the lineup for the twenty sixth Pacific Playwrights Competition (PPF), which is able to happen Might 3-5. The annual showcase of recent works is a part of the theatre’s play improvement initiative, the Lab@SCR.

The 2024 competition will characteristic 5 staged readings: Assembly for Worship by Ana Nogueira on Might 3 at 1 p.m. on the Segerstrom Stage, The Brothers Play by Arya Shahi on Might 3 at 4 p.m. on the Julianne Argyros Stage, You Are Cordially Invited to the Finish of the World! by Keiko Inexperienced on Might 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. and Might 5 at 2:30 p.m. within the Nicholas Studio, Fremont Ave. by Reggie D. White on Might 4 at 10:30 a.m. on the Julianne Argyros Stage, and An Oxford Man by Else Went on Might 5 at 10:30 a.m. on the Segerstrom Stage. Single tickets and ticket packages for the competition can be found on SCR’s web site.

Anchoring the competition are the world premiere productions of Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical, with music by Daniel Messé, lyrics by Sean Hartley and Daniel Messé, guide by Craig Lucas (April 5-Might 4), and Galilee, 34 by Eleanor Burgess (April 21-Might 12). Each exhibits had been featured in earlier PPFs.

Previous to the 8 p.m. efficiency on Might 4 of Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical, the American Theatre Critics Affiliation will current the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Affiliation New Play Award. The weekend additionally features a free panel dialogue with this 12 months’s playwrights on Might 5 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

South Coast Repertory is an expert theatre firm devoted to exploring pressing human and social points and increasing the inventive potentialities of theatre. The corporate presents a mixture of traditional and trendy performs and musicals alongside its strong new-play improvement program.

LOS ANGELES: artEquity has introduced the inaugural recipients of its BIPOC Elders and Tradition Bearers Grants. The seventh spherical of funding to come back out of the Artist and Activist Neighborhood Fund, these grants supply $5,000 in unrestricted funds to visionary BIPOC elders and tradition bearers who’ve supported their group with a legacy of artwork and activism. The recipients are Frank Chin, Rhodessa Jones, Yary Livan, and Ramona Peters.

Frank Chin is an writer, playwright, and pioneer of Asian American theatre. He has advocated for redress and reparations for Japanese American WWII draft resisters and people in incarceration camps, and was a key half within the institution of the Day of Remembrance, which marks the signing of Govt Order 9066 that stripped the rights of Japanese Individuals.

Rhodessa Jones is an actress, instructor, director, and author, and serves because the co-artistic director of San Francisco’s Cultural Odyssey. She can also be the director of the Medea Challenge: Theater for Incarcerated Girls, a efficiency workshop designed to attain private and social transformation with incarcerated ladies and ladies dwelling with HIV.

Yary Livan is a grasp ceramicist, instructing new generations conventional Khmer pottery. Livan is acknowledged as considered one of solely three surviving masters of conventional Cambodian ceramics and kiln constructing, which date again to the sixth century.

Ramona Peters is a Mashpee Wampanoag potter who revived conventional Wampanoag clay kinds and is the founder and present president of the Native Land Conservancy. Most of Ramona’s work has centered on repatriation, Indigenous rights, land and cultural preservation, and plenty of different endeavors to broaden the Wampanoag id. She has been deemed a Wampanoag Tradition Keeper by her friends.

artEquity is a nonprofit that gives instruments, sources, and coaching on the intersection of artwork and activism. The group goals to construct a base of people and organizations with a shared evaluation to allow them to contribute successfully to organizational tradition change, sector change, and social change.

SAN FRANCISCO: PlayGround has introduced the 2024 cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. Launched in 2019, the annual program seeks to foster revolutionary new theatre corporations and productions with a powerful dedication to traditionally marginalized or excluded communities. The multi-year intensive incubator supplies rising theatre corporations with entry and alternative, together with monetary help, fiscal sponsorship, free and discounted efficiency and rehearsal house, and mentorship.

The 2024 cohort consists of two new additions, L.A.’s American Jewish Theatre and Home Theater, in addition to six returning corporations: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Firm, Latinx Mafia, Community Results Theater, Oakland Public Theater, and Poltergeist Theatre Challenge. Discover out extra about these rising corporations right here.

Taking part corporations will work to refine their organizational construction, strategize fundraising and budgeting, and hone their mission and imaginative and prescient statements. The method seeks to arrange them to proceed on as full fledged manufacturing organizations throughout the Bay Space and Los Angeles theatre scene. PlayGround will proceed to help and sponsor these corporations on an ongoing foundation, culminating within the season-ending Innovators Showcase Nov. 4-24.

PlayGround is a playwright incubator and theatre group hub primarily based within the Bay Space. The group seeks to help the event of great new native voices for the theatre and serving to to launch these writers onto the nationwide scene.

ATLANTA: Important Theatre has named Emily McClain its 2024 Playwrighting Award winner. Her play The Rock & The Arduous Place will obtain a full manufacturing through the Important Theatre Competition this summer season and McClain will probably be honored on the theatre’s Celebration of Georgia Playwrights on April 28. The award comes with a $1,000 money prize.

McClain is a playwright, theatre educator, and member of WriteStuffATL and the Dramatists Guild. Born in Tupelo, Miss., she at present resides in Atlanta, the place she teaches theatre at College of the Arts at Central Gwinnett Excessive College. That is McClain’s second Important Theatre Playwrighting Award, as her first full size play Slaying Holofernes was a co-winner in 2019. Since her first manufacturing with Important, her later performs have been produced and earned accolades regionally, nationally, and overseas. She acquired a Synchronicity Theatre Stripped Naked grant, was a semifinalist within the Danger Theatre Worldwide Competitors, and received the 2022 William Faulkner Literary Prize.

The Rock & The Arduous Place follows Elsie Tully as she is pushed to excessive lengths in her makes an attempt to exonerate her father on Dying Row, condemned to be executed for against the law she’s certain he didn’t commit.

Sponsored by May Be Fairly Cool, the annual Important Theatre Playwriting Competitors is devoted to recognizing the work of Georgia playwrights. The theatre is accepting submissions of beforehand unpublished performs by Georgia playwrights for the 2025 competitors via April 23.

Important Theatre is a performing arts group devoted to nurturing and producing new works by Georgia playwrights and enriching its viewers’s expertise by actively participating them within the course of.

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