Our 2021 Playwrights will be announced soon
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Our 2020 Playwrights
MOSES
by Michele Lowe
directed by Daniella Topol
Fri & Sun – July 3 & 5 at 7:00 pm EST
Michele Lowe made her Broadway debut with The Smell of the Kill which generated hundreds of productions around the world. Artist in Residence at Sundance, a recipient of the Francesca Primus Prize and two Edgerton New Play Awards and a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, Michele is currently at work on the musical Split for Transport Group and The Greatest. Other plays include: Inana, String of Pearls, and Map of Heaven. Her essays often appear in The Dramatist. She coaches rabbis across the country on their writing and preaching. www.michelelowe.net
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THE HYSTERICALS
by Edith Freni
directed by Jessica Holt
Thu & Sat – July 9 & 11 at 7:00 pm EST
Edith Freni holds both her BFA and MFA from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing. Her work has been produced and developed nationally at theaters including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Profile Theatre Company in Portland, OR; EST, EST West, Labyrinth Theater Company, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actor’s Express, and City Theatre in Miami. Edith was a member of Youngblood, and is a member of Partial Comfort Productions, Ensemble Studio Theater, and the Dramatists Guild. She is an alum of the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Repertory Theater; the recipient of a New Territories Playwriting Residency at Serenbe Playhouse, and a fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Edith was the inaugural Emory University Playwriting Fellow from 2014-16 and served as the Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN from 2016-18. Most recently, she’s taught playwriting at UCSD and for the Dramatists Guild Institute. Her play The Hystericals was a finalist for the 2019 O’Neill Playwrights Conference and Happiest Family on the Block was selected for the 2020/21 Great Plains Theater Conference. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats, one gray and one orange. For all else: www.edithfreni.com
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BUST
by Zora Howard
Thu & Sat – July 16 & 18 at 7:00 pm EST
Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred writer and performer. Plays include STEW, AtGN, BUST, and GOOD FAITH. Her work has been developed by Page 73 Productions, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Pipeline Theatre Company, Yale University, and Collaborative Artists Bloc, among others. As a performer, she has appeared on HBO, PBS, NBC, and TV One. In 2019, her feature film Premature, which she co-wrote and starred in, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by IFC Films in 2020. She is a member of the 2019 Interstate 73 Writers Group and Pipeline PlayLab. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from UCSD.
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I, MY RUINATION
by Kevin Artigue
directed by Hal Brooks
Thu & Sat – July 23 & 25 at 7:00 pm EST
KEVIN ARTIGUE writes plays, TV, and film. He was raised in Redlands, CA and calls Brooklyn home. His play SHEEPDOG (published by Dramatist Play Service) was a recipient of an Edgerton New Play Award and a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association 2020 New Play Award. SHEEPDOG premiered at South Coast Repertory in 2019, and at Shattered Globe Theatre in Chicago earlier this year to critical acclaim.
Kevin recently joined the resident playwright company at New Dramatists, class of 2026. He’s also a current member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, and an alum of The Working Farm @ SPACE at Ryder Farm, Interstate 73, and the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. His plays have been performed and developed with South Coast Rep, Shattered Globe, Golden Thread, Page 73, The Public Theater, the National New Play Network, NYTW, Long Wharf Theater, Portland Center Stage, and the Playwrights’ Center. He received his MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
