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ANNOUNCEMENTS

2012 VAN LIER FELLOWS
ANNOUNCED!

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Our U.S./México Playwright Exchange featured in in
TCG's Circle!

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CHECK IT OUT

Katori Hall's article in the
New York Times!
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Lark featured in the
Wall Street Journal
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Our U.S./MÉXICO
Play Library
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LARK-DEVELOPED WORK

Jacqueline Goldfinger’s SLIP/SHOT is currently running at Flashpoint Theatre Company in Philadelphia through May 5. For more information: flashpointtheatre.org.

Jeanne Sakata's HOLD THESE TRUTHS (formerly DAWN'S LIGHT: THE JOURNEY OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI) is having a Prototype Production with the Epic Theatre Ensemble on May 20 and 21, directed by Lisa Rothe and featuring Joel de la Fuente. For more information: epictheatreensemble.org.

Caridad Svich's THE WAY OF WATER will be read at English Theatre Berlin on May 13, Rosemary Branch Theatre in London on May 13, and Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York on May 29. For more information: etberlin.de, rosemarybranch.co.uk, ensemblestudiotheatre.org.
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6th ANNUAL PLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP READINGS
new works-in-progress

Monday, May 14 @ 7pm

THE WAY WEST
by Mona Mansour
directed by Giovanna Sardelli

In a modern-day, falling-apart California town, Mom shares with her two squabbling daughters death-defying tales of pioneer crossings as she waits for her bankruptcy to come through. Stories are stretched, songs are broken into, and checks are forged as Mom and her grown girls scrape for survival.
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Tue, May 15 @ 7pm
THE HOURS ARE FEMININE
by José Rivera

1960. Long Island. Two families -- Italian-Americans in one house, Puerto Ricans newly arrived in the other house. Sex, longing, nationality, birth control, the Mafia, and apples ... this and more is the world of "The Hours are Feminine."

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Thu, May 17 @ 7pm

AND RIGHT NOW
by A. Rey Pamatmat
(online RSVPs full, wait list 1 hour before curtain)
Bookstore owner Linda and her new employee Daniel develop a strong bond after they discover the calamitous significance bullying has played in both their pasts. But commiseration that should bring them together soon threatens to tear them apart when they confront the pernicious feelings and actions they thought were so carefully secreted away
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Friday, May 18 @ 7pm
UNTITLED
by Rajiv Joseph

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Monday, May 21 @ 7pm
SUNSET BABY
by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Kamilah Forbes
(online RSVPs full, wait list 1 hour before curtain)

When former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner Kenyatta Shakur reaches out to his estranged daughter Nina shortly after her mother’s passing, he has high hopes of reuniting and burying the wounds of the past. What he finds instead is a vengeful daughter who embodies everything contrary to the movement he fought in. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile the past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all--- fatherhood.

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THE OREGON TRAIL
by Bekah Brunstetter

The Oregon Trail Computer game collides with the actual historical event in this theatrical exploration of depression - then and now, through a young girl in 1847, 1997 and present day.

May 23 - 24
@ 7pm