PLAYWRIGHTS'WEEK 2009
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Bekah Brunstetter (MISS LILY GETS BONED) is proud to be the 2009 playwright in residence at Ars Nova. She received her BA (Theater/Fiction Writing) from UNC Chapel Hill and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. Her plays include: OOHRAH! (Ars Nova outloud reading series, dir, Leigh Silverman; to premiere in London, the Finborough Theater, May 2009, The Atlantic Theater Stage 2, 2009), TO NINEVEH (NY Innovative Theater Award for Best new full length play, 2006) SICK (winner, Sam French short play festival 2006), GREEN (finalist, Alliance Theater's Kendeda Competition; national finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival; Semi-finalst, O'Neill 2007), SPACE (semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award 2007) I USED TO WRITE ON WALLS (published and licensed by Samuel French) FAT KIDS ON FIRE (licensed by Playscripts, Inc), YOU MAY GO NOW: A MARRIAGE PLAY (nominee, Cherry Lane Mentorship, 2008 semi-finalist O' Neill 2008, wiiner 2008 NYIT award for best new Full Length Play (Babel Theater Project), ARMS (Finalist, Heidemann Award, 2007; published by Smith and Krauss), LE FOU (The Atlantic Acting school), HAPPY BIRTHDAY/ I'M DEAD (Samuel French Short Play festival Finalist, 2007), MISS LILLY GETS BONED (nominee, 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award, Luna Stage Reading Series), CELEBRITY, TORCH NUMBER 2 (SOHO Think Tank.), and FUCKING ART (winner, Sam French Short play Festival 2008.) . Her plays have been read and produced by Luna Stage, the Babel Theatre Project, The Rattlestick Playwright' s Theater, the Ohio Theater (Think tank), New Georges, NYU, Centenary Stage, NC New Voices, The New School for Drama, Working Man's Clothes, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Phare Play Productions, Old Vic/ New Voices, Boston Theatre Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, SPF, The Alliance Theater, and The Atlantic. Her plays are published by Sam French, Playscripts, Original Works, and Smith and Krauss. She is a member of the Ars Nova play group, the Playwright's Center, At Play Productions, and the Dramatist's Guild. She is also a proud new member of the Women's Project writer's Lab and the Naked Angel's Naked Radio writing team. She is currently working a commission for the Roundabout Underground. www.bekahbrunstetter.com. |
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Chad Beckim (THAT MEN DO) is a New York City based playwright whose writing credits include …A MATTER OF CHOICE, `NAMI (which received its West Coast premiere at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles in October, 2007), LIGHTS RISE ON GRACE (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 NY Int’l. Fringe Festival; Finalist for the 2007 Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Ojai Playwrights’ Conference), the The Main(e) Play (Semi-Finalist, The O’Neill Festival), THAT MEN DO, and MERCY. He has also authored a number of shorts and one-acts, including THA BESS SHIT, ALEXANDER PAYS A VISIT, LAST FIRST KISS, BLAC(C)IDENT, and NIGHT, SHIFT. LAST FIRST KISS was adapted into a film and produced in July, 2008, and his cinematic adaptation of THE MAIN(E) PLAY (currently titled GOOD WINTER) is under option by Table Ten Films. Chad holds an MFA in Playwrighting from Mac Wellman’s Brooklyn College's Program, and in July of 2007 was named one of “50 Playwrights to Watch” by the Dramatists Guild. His work has been published by Playscripts, Smith & Krauss, and in the Plays and Playwrights 2007 collection by NYTE. He is a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of Partial Comfort Productions.
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Jennifer Fawcett(THE ATLAS OF MUD) was the winner of the 2008 National Science Playwriting Award for THE ATLAS OF MUD (previously called TWENTY MOMENTS IN THE SPACE BETWEEN) from the Kennedy Center ACTF. She was the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright-in-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in Denver for the 2008/09 Season. Her work has been produced in the US and Canada at the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), Halcyon Theatre's Alcyone Festival (Chicago), SummerWorks Theatre Festival (Toronto), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), Theatre Masters (Aspen/New York), the Hatchery Festival (Washington, DC), Mutton Busting Performance/Art Festival (Calgary, AB), the Blyth Festival (Blyth, ON) and the Waterfront Theatre (Vancouver). Her work has been developed and presented at the Kennedy Center, Cultural Conversations (Penn State), The New Bridges Fest (Theater Masters, Aspen; Palm Beach Dramaworks), the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays (Orlando), University of Kansas (American College Theatre Festival), Central Square Theatre (Boston), The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Boston), Curious Theatre Company and The Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland Stage Company, Portland, ME). Originally from Canada, she is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights' Workshop. |
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Laurel Haines (FUTURE ANXIETY) is the author of THE DIANALOGUES and GUN IN THE FUNNIES, among other plays. Her work is published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003 (Smith and Kraus) and One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century (Applause Books). Her plays have been produced at Stray Cat Theatre (AZ), the Bloomington Playwrights Project (IN), Progress Theatre (UK), Théâtre Bilingue de Montreal (QC), and other venues. She also writes book and lyrics for musicals, including BEACH WARS (co-written with Nan Hoffman and Howard Pfiefer), presented at Stages 2006 at Theatre Building Chicago. A native of the East Coast, Laurel now lives in the very interesting uptown neighborhood of Chicago. She has an MFA from Arizona State University and is a member of courier12collective and the Dramatists Guild.
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Ethan Lipton (LUTHER) is a winner of a 2008 NYFA grant for playwriting and a member of the Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2008). His play GOODBYE APRIL, HELLO MAY was produced at HERE Center for the Arts, and his play MEAT has been produced in New York, Edinburgh and Los Angeles, where it earned a Drama-Logue Award for playwriting. Other productions include ONE HUNDRED ASPECTS OF THE MOON for Clubbed Thumb and HOPE ON THE RANGE for Buffalo Nights. A reading of his play-for-computers, THE BARBER AND THE FARMER, was recently presented at 3LD Center for Arts and Technology. Ethan has been a writer in residence with New York Stage & Film and the resident playwright for Buffalo Nights. This year, Ethan was commissioned by True Love Productions to write the book and songs for an original musical. His band, Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra, has been featured on National Public Radio and was named "Best Lounge Act of 2009" by New York Magazine. |
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Natalia Naman (THE OLD SHIP OF ZION)
was born in New York and raised largely in Columbus, Georgia. THE OLD SHIP OF ZION originated as Natalia's senior thesis at Princeton University, where it received a production in January 2008. Her short play, CROSSING OVER, participated in the 2007 Estrogenius Festival and is being featured in EST's Going to the River Festival this September. One of her newest plays, DROUGHT, was chosen to participate in NYU's Festival of New Works this past March. A dancer, singer, and songwriter as well, Natalia is putting all of her passions to work in an untitled musical that she is currently writing. Natalia is a second year MFA candidate in Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School for the Arts.
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Jen Silverman (NILA) has been on the move for as long as she can remember, living and traveling in America, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, and North Africa. She is currently a second year MFA candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and she received her BA from Brown University in 2006. Her plays include: LIZARDSKIN, developed with New Georges in NYC, New York Stage & Film/ Powerhouse Theatre Company at Vassar College, and produced in the NYC International Fringe Festival in 2006; THE EDUCATION OF MACOLOCO, produced by FUSION Theatre Company in New Mexico, LiveGirls! in Seattle, Circus Theatricals in LA, and a 2009 winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, to be published in “Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th Series”; and CRANE STORY, developed with New Georges, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in San Francisco, 2009 HotINK International Festival in NYC, and currently under option with The Playwrights Realm in NYC for production in 2010. Jen was a 2009 playwright in residence at the Hedgebrook International Women’s Writers Residency. Jen believes in thin lines and dangerous transformations. Sometimes she gets confused and conjugates the right verbs in the wrong language. |
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Stephanie Timm (SWEET NOTHING: A GRIM (FAIRY) TALE) most recent play ON THE NATURE OF DUST was workshopped at Portland Center Stage’s JAW Playwrights Festival and the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival. Her play A CURE FOR PAIN premiered at the Baldwin New Play Festival, and was also produced by Boots Up Stage Company. CRUMBS ARE ALSO BREAD was commissioned and produced by the Washington Ensemble Theatre and will be published in the upcoming Rain City Project’s Manifest Series, edited by Steven Dietz. W(H)ACKED: AN IMMORTALITY PLAY premiered at Live Girls! Theatre, and was subsequently produced by Willamette University Theatre. Stephanie wrote the script for FRANKENOCCHIO, created by Brian Kooser, produced by the Empty Space Theatre, and was also produced by Monkey Wrench Theatre, directed by Andrew Kim. ROCKY ROAD was a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, and will be produced through Theatre Masters in Colorado and New York, directed by Pesha Rudnick. LI'L HEROES was a finalist the Heideman Award, a finalist for the University of Maryland 10-minute play contest, and won Best Show Award during the Looking Glass Theatre’s Summer Play Forum in 2007. She is a founding member of New Century Theatre Company, and a collaborative member of Washington Ensemble Theatre. Stephanie was recently a playwriting fellow at the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference and is currently getting her MFA in Playwriting at the University of California, San Diego. She’s a Seattle native, where she lives with her husband Paul, newborn son, Hayes, and dog Frieda.
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