2024 National Showcase of New Plays Virtual Program
April 19-21, 2024 | Queens Theatre | Queens, NY
Thank You to Associate Member and Host QUEENS THEATRE
NNPN wants to recognize and thank the Queens Theatre staff, board, volunteers, and community for hosting the Network for our 2024 National Showcase of New Plays convening. We are so grateful for the work and care that everyone at Queens has put into this incredibly special weekend.
To learn more about Queens Theatre, visit queenstheatre.org.
Land Acknowledgement
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NNPN Mission, Vision, & Values
OUR MISSION
National New Play Network is an alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays.
OUR VISION
National New Play Network envisions a robust, equitable, and inclusive new play ecology that reflects a broad range of aesthetics.
OUR VALUES
National New Play Network believes:
Commitment to diverse stories, artists, audiences, institutions, and leadership is essential to an equitable new play field.
New plays are vital to our communities because they reflect, chronicle, and question the ideas, issues, and stories of our time.
Collaboration is indispensable to the success of new plays.
Showcase Schedule
Friday, April 19
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Location: Shulman Theatre
Welcome remarks featuring Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/Rappahannock), Director of Safe Harbors NYC.
What better way to get to know Showcase attendees than by learning about the plays that light them up? This dynamic opening session invites attendees to amplify a play near and dear to their hearts and to learn about what their peers are working on. (One pitch per Member Theater. Want to pitch more than one play? Add it to the Showcase Pitch Packet.)
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Location: Shulman Theater
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Location: Shulman Theatre
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Location: Nebula Lobby, Various Outdoor Spots
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Location: Shulman Theater
Saturday, April 20
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Location: Nebula Lobby
Grab your breakfast and dig deep with attendees from your region in spaces around Queens Theatre! This optional event is self-guided and self-driven, and you can put the call out on Mighty Networks to recruit other regional attendees to come together. We will post details of spaces available to eat together while making community connections and deepening relationships. Let's GO!
If you have specific requests or needs, please get in touch with Alex Meda, Impact Assessment Director at impact@nnpn.org.
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Location: The Cabaret
NNPN Member Theaters Required; closed to other Showcase attendees. Since October, six early and mid-career new play producers have gathered monthly to discuss their experiences participating in the inner workings of NNPN Core Member Theaters and to lift up, learn from, and vision with each other. This thoughtful conversation shares out with the Member Theaters the questions that have arisen from the producer residencies and the provocations that the PIRs offer to the field.
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Location: Shulman Theater
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Location: Available for Pickup in Nebula Lobby
Grab your lunch and join the BIPOC / Global Majority or White Affinity space to catch up, strategize, and connect with fellow attendees. At the top of the session, the BIPOC/Global Majority space will decide whether to stay as one larger group or break out into specific affinity spaces. These are non-facilitated, self-driven spaces. Details on breakout locations will be posted on Mighty Networks, so join the conversation there for all the details.
If you have specific requests or needs, please get in touch with Alex Meda, Impact Assessment Director at impact@nnpn.org.
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Location: Shulman Theater
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Location: Nebula Lobby
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Location: Shulman Theater
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Location: Various Spots, Buffet Dinner
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Location: Shulman Theater
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Location: Nebula Lobby
A celebration of the plays and people that have made the 2024 Showcase what it is.
Sunday, April 21
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Location: The Cabaret
Annual Membership Meeting of Core Theaters FY24
The Invisible Hand of God Touched Me in a Bad Place
By David Davila
Friday, April 19 | 4:30 PM ET
Introduced by Maria Patrice Amon
About the Play
When mid-level manager Jaime Ramirez gets the promotion of a lifetime, he’s sure moving his family to central Mexico will change their lives for the better. But his plans are turned on their head when he falls for his employee, a queer femme presenting non-binary AMAB person set on changing working conditions and extinguishing American capitalist ideals. Should he fire them and squash their labor rebellion, risking a sexual harassment suit in the process, or should he join the fight against his greedy employers and sacrifice the fortunes they’ve promised him? It's Boal meets Nottage in this interactive-hybrid-dramedy that casts the audience as the striking factory workers tasked with leveraging these characters' rights for a little piece of power. Choose your own adventure in this post-experimental satire packed with sexual tension you won't soon forget!
About the Playwright
David Davila (any/all pronouns) is a writer, performer, director, comedian, and dramaturg from South Texas; where the border wall's been standing since the Bush administration. Winner of the National New Play Network Smith Prize for Political Theatre and the New American Voices National Playwriting Award, his work centers stories of queer-culture and mestizaje while questioning systems of power; ranging from plays and musicals, to poetry and stand-up comedy. His full-length works include Manuel Versus the Statue of Liberty (O'Neill Finalist, NAMT, NYMF, Gallery Players, Constellation Stage & Screen), Animal Husbandry (NY Fringe 2019, Barn Arts, Feast, Summer Fresh Festival), Aztec Pirates, A Latinx Fantasia on National Themes (San Diego Rep, Lone Star Media, PlayGround Experiment), Hotel Puerto Vallarta (Stages Houston, Chaos Theatre, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Egg and Spoon), Adan y Julio y La Frontera 2003 (O'Neill Semi-Finalist, Lone Star, Viva SA), Promèsa: A Mariachi Musical (Musical Theatre Factory), Vox Pop! A Post-Democratic Musical (Indiana University, Musical Theatre Factory, 54 Below New Musicals), PYRAMID (Lincoln Center, Across A Crowded Room), #52SONGS (Beechman, The West End, The Underground, The Triad), The Magic Time Machine (Beachman), Nash Potatoes & Davy (The West End, The Underground), Tales from Hwy 281 (Intar Theatre), The Piñata (Indiana University), The Mesquite Tree: An American Tragedy (Theatre Audaz, O'Neill Semi-finalist, Latinx Playwrights Circle), 1970’s College Sex Comedy (Indiana University), The Invisible Hand of God Touched Me in a Bad Place (Smith Prize for Political Theatre, Latinx Playwrights Circle), and more. His short plays have been featured by The PlayGround Experiment, NYMadness, Primary Stages, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Feast, ESPA, Second City Chicago, Prospect Theatre, Constellation Stage & Screen, and Lone Star Theatre. He studied vocal performance at the University of North Texas, Arts Administration at The University of Texas San Antonio, playwriting at Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of the Performing Arts, comedy writing at Second City Chicago, and received his MFA in playwriting from Indiana University. He is the founding Artistic Director of Lone Star Theatre Company, an avid sketch comedy and improv performer, a Rockwell Scholar, a Playwrights Horizons Artist Grant Recipient, a Roundabout Theatre Co SpaceJam resident, a Disney TV Fellowship semi-finalist, and a proud member of ASCAP, the Dramatist Guild, and LMDA.
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See playwright bio above!
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Bio coming soon!
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Alexandra Castro
Lillian Andrea De Leon
Samora la Perdida
Elizabeth Ramirez
Homeridae
By AZ Espinoza
Friday, April 19 | 5:30 PM ET
Introduced by Liz Engleman
About the Play
Mac, an adjunct lecturer, and Nessa, a freshman, have a lot in common. They’re slightly awkward, deeply passionate about Homer’s The Odyssey, and are African-Americans in a very white department at a very white school. They stumble upon the discovery that Homer himself came from Africa, and must figure out how best to honor this truth in the face of university administrators, overbearing older siblings, the Internet, and Homer himself. Homeridae is a play about who controls the narrative, and about finding your voice when it seems like no one is listening.
About the Playwright
AZ Espinoza (they/he) is an afro-futurist-trans-masculine-feminist making magic through theatre. Their play All My Mothers Dream in Spanish premiered at Azuka Theatre in 2023, and their play Homeridae has been developed nationally and was an Honorable Mention finalist for the Terrence McNally Award. Their adaptation of Anne Carson’s The Bakkai took place in a BIPOC mutual aid zoom room in 2020; and their adaptation of Shakespeare’s Pericles, Peril’s Island was performed outdoors while observing social distancing in 2021. Directing credits include classics and new plays, always with a radical bent and an arc towards empathetic community practice, and their performance praxis centers queer embodiments of joy. Recent work has been supported by Black Spatial Relics, Genderfunk Philly, and the Leeway Art and Social Change Grant. They are a theater educator for all ages, most recently at Temple University, and they are a student of liberation everywhere, and for everyone.
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Born and raised in the Philly area, Cat Ramirez (they/he/she) is a director and producer who loves logistical puzzles, community meals, and bisexual lighting. Some of their favorite projects include Space Opera with Obvious Agency, Everybody with Temple University, She Was a Conquistawhore with Rachel O’Hanlon Rodriguez, Today Is My Birthday with Theatre Exile, Late Night Snacks with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Letters to the Moon with Mel Hsu, Philly Asian Histories with Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, and Meet Murasaki Shikibu with Tiny Dynamite.
They are the Creative Director for Philly Asian Performing Artists (PAPA) – a grassroots, membership-based collective that exists to build community among, and address the lack of economic and artistic opportunities for people of Pan-Asian descent involved in the performing arts in the Philadelphia region – and the Cooperative Operations Manager for Obvious Agency – a worker-owned cooperative and performance company dedicated to the creation of an engaging, democratic, and just cultural ecosystem.
They are an alumni of the NNPN Producer in Residency Program.
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Bio coming soon!
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Léoh Hailu-Ghermay
Starr Kirkland
Kevin Smith Kirkwood
Close to Home
By Sharifa Yasmin
Friday, April 19 | 8:00 PM ET
Introduced by Kathleen Culebro
About the Play
Three southerners explore whether the second chances they are desperately seeking might be found with one another. Witty and resilient teenage trans femme Zara, rough-edged builder Colt, and protective Muslim immigrant Kaysar are each on their own journeys through landscapes of hope, survival, trauma, and the persistent call of joy. When their paths intertwine, new possibilities emerge for what the trio might mean to each other in this fresh, deeply felt comedic drama about belonging.
About the Playwright
Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Arab-American director, actor, and playwright. She has completed directing fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and was a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Yasmin’s playwriting focuses on the intersection of Queer and Arab identities. Her plays have been produced with the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Amphibian Stage, Uprising Theatre, Trans Theatre Fest, Women’s Theatre Festival, and American Blues Theatre, published in Overheard, a collection of monologues by and for TNB2S+ artist and The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. Her play Close to Home was distinguished by the American Theatre Wing at the annual Antoinette Gala and was recently included on the 2023 Kilroy’s list. Yasmin was also honored as the inaugural recipient of the SCDF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021 for her work in directing. She currently serves as a member of The Drama League's Directors Council, and is completing her MFA in Directing with Brown/Trinity Rep in May 2024. sharifayasmin.com
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Dana Brooke
Ahmad Maksoud
Bubba Weiler
fire work
By Mary Glen Fredrick
Saturday, April 20 | 11:00 AM ET
Introduced by Cynthia Levin
About the Play
Eleanor and Bartholomew work at the glass factory by day and set off fireworks by night. But when a new labor bill threatens to destroy their status quo and a group of revolutionaries come calling, they must decide just how much they’re willing to sacrifice in order to preserve the life that’s slowly killing them. A contemporarily old-timey, tragicomic heist play about labor, exploitation, and our inexplicable addiction to capitalism.
About the Playwright
Mary Glen Fredrick (they/them) is a New York-based writer, actor, and video editor, hailing mostly from Kansas.
A writer for both theatre and film, Mary Glen creates kinetic, femme-centric stories that dance with the absurd, the imaginative, and the dystopian. Their play Edit Annie premiered at The Vortex in 2022, followed by the West Coast Premiere at Crowded Fire Theatre, which was on multiple Best SF Theatre of 2023 lists, and hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “genius,” a “triumph,” and “Bay Area theater’s biggest surprise this season.” Other plays include fire work (2024 NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, 2024 O’Neill semifinalist), ANARCHY (New Perspectives Theatre), These Violent Delights (LOM Ensemble Playwright Lab), and What’s Up With The Dads (work in progress).
Mary Glen’s writing has been supported, developed, and produced by: Tribeca x Chanel THL, NNPN, Venturous Theater Fund, Pano Network, Fresh Ground Pepper, Eastern Frontier Residency, and Filmshop, among others.
Mary Glen received a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University, and an MFA in Acting from UC San Diego. heymaryglen.com
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Amissa Miller (she/her) is a dramaturg, playwright, director, educator, and facilitator. Her most recent dramaturgy credits include Mary Glen Frederick’s Edit Annie at Crowded Fire Theater and Jacqueline Woodson’s The Day You Begin at The Kennedy Center. Her new work directing credits include developmental readings for Crowded Fire Theater’s Matchbox Series, SFBATCO’s Creators Lab, and 3GirlsTheatre’s LezWritesBTQ Cohort. Her play Her Own Things was published in the Fall 2019 African Voices Magazine tribute issue honoring Ntozake Shange. Other plays include Breaths (Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco Best Plays of 2019), Refusal of the Call (PlayGround SF 2020 Reading Series), and Heart Like an Ocean (Pear Theatre’s 2021 Fresh Baked Pears Festival). Amissa has taught at institutions including Emerson College, The University of Texas at Austin, and Saint Mary's College of California, and co-facilitated political education offerings as a member of Anticapitalism for Artists.
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Kevin Jinghong Zhu (he/him) is a New York-based stage manager. Selected Off-Broadway credits: Between Two Knees (PAC NYC); Salesman Zhisi (Yangtze Rep); A Delicate Balance (Transport Group & NAATCO); Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO); Public Obscenities (Soho Rep & NAATCO); Asilomar (MTC); It’s a Wonderful Life (Transport Group). Selected Regional credits: Scrooge! (Arizona Theatre Company); Between Two Knees (Seattle Rep & McCarter); Dial M for Murder, Kim’s Convenience, As Bees in Honey Drown, and Tribes (Westport Country Playhouse); Today is My Birthday, A Raisin in the Sun, El Huracan (Yale Rep); Dream Hou$e (Long Wharf); To The Moon and Back (Chester Theatre Company); Bright Half Life (WAM). Other credits include: Ten Brave Seconds (Foresight Theatrical); Shedding Load (The Varsity Theatre Company); Criminal Queerness Festival, and PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (National Queer Theater). Proud member of Equity. bit.ly/kjzsm
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Jada Alston Owens
Seth Clayton
DeLeon Dallas
Francesca Fernandez
Omalolu Fiki
Ellie Gravitte
Nadel Henville
Ren King
The World to Come
By Ali Viterbi
Originally developed in The Writers' Room at the Geffen Playhouse
Saturday, April 20 | 2:00 PM ET
Introduced by Howard Shalwitz
About the Play
Every night at the SeaBreeze Hebrew Home for the Aging, Fanny, Barbara, Ruth, and Hal gather for their nightly “Supper Club” meeting. Over scrabble and charades, the Supper Club gang compete, fight, fall in love, and break each others hearts. But as the world crumbles around them, they are forced to contend with questions of aging, legacy, and survival. A coming-of-age story set in a nursing home, THE WORLD TO COME asks how do we as a society care for our elders? And can you still come-of-age at the end of your life?
About the Playwright
Ali Viterbi (she/her) is a playwright, television writer, and educator. Her play In Every Generation received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in 2022 and its west coast premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2023. Ali’s work has been developed and/or commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center/NNPN, La Jolla Playhouse, Round House Theatre, San Diego REP, Carthage College, HERE Arts Center, The Barrow Group, and North Coast Repertory Theatre, among others. Ali won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and has developed projects in TV. She was a member of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room and was the associate artistic director of the annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival. Ali received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from UC San Diego.
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Avital Shira (she/her) is particularly drawn to language-rich, ensemble-driven work that encourages us to embrace the cultural traditions that preceded us, while crafting art that speaks to the here and now.
Avital graduated from the MFA Directing and Arts Management certificate programs at Boston University, where she was also a Spark Grant award winner. At Boston University, Avital taught undergraduate courses in Public Speaking and Acting, and served as a teaching assistant for two theatre history courses. Training included study of dramaturgy, film directing, movement direction, new play development, and design. Directing credits at BU included her thesis production of Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler, Everything That Never Happened by Sarah B. Mantell, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, and Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage.
Professional directing credits include Winter People by Laura Neill (Boston Playwrights Theatre), Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney (Corrib Theatre), Between Friends by Danielle Frimer (Sycamore Theatre Co @ The Brick), and Love’s Labours Lost (Post 5). Avital also has a strong interest in developing new work, both as a dramaturg and as a director. Recently, she directed development workshops of Sarah Mantell's Fight Call and Dan Kitrosser's Why This Night, and dramaturged Elise Thoron's translation of Merchant of Venice for Play On Shakespeare.
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Sheldon Rogers (he/him) is a North Carolina native with a B.A. in Musical Theatre from Catawba College. After a long hiatus from creative work, he has recently returned to the stage as part of the March cast of the monthly Bound for Broadway showcase at the Triad Theatre in Manhattan. The NNPN National Showcase of New Plays marks Sheldon's first professional endeavor into stage management and he is excited and honored to be a part of this year's showcase. Thanks to Robby Lutfy, Ali Viterbi, and Avital Shira for their trust and support!
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Laura Esterman
Angelina Fiordellisi
Gina Fonseca
Philip Hoffman
Derek Kolluri
Elana Polin
Nerve
By Minita Gandhi
Saturday, April 20 | 5:45 PM ET
Introduced by Catherine Randazzo
About the Play
Jyoti, a recent widow with ailing health, finds the future of her well-being in her daughters’ hands. A multigenerational and multicultural journey that explores the love language of food, the deep wounds of sibling rivalry, and how a family moves through grief - Nerve asks what our legacy is and that we truly leave behind.
About the Playwright
Minita Gandhi (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based multi-hyphenate who was born in Mumbai, India. They love magic realism, dark comedy and exploring multi-genre, multi-cultural, and multi-generational stories as a medium for healing. They are a 2022 NYSAF Pfaelzer Award finalist, and currently working on an opera commission as a member of Minnesota Opera Company’s New Works cohort. Their newest play, Nerve, has been workshopped and developed at the Theatreworks Silicon Valley New Works Festival 2023 and began with the support of The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2022; additional support from the Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Alcove New Play development program in 2023.
Their critically acclaimed solo-show Muthaland, was Jeff Recommended for best new work and solo-performance, an official selection of the Ignition Festival, NNPN’s Women in Playwrighting Festival at Florida Studio Theater, The Anne Frank Social Justice Festival, and has toured nationally. Gandhi is a lyricist for Rising Tide, a choral-orchestral piece on climate change. Their work has been featured by NBC News and The Atlantic.
Select Stage: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Lookingglass Theater. Select TV: Swimming with Sharks, NBC Chicago Fire, Disney’s Mixed-Up Adventures.
A keynote speaker for Commit2Change, KCATF, and Imagine Talks, Gandhi is passionate about community. Guest speaking credits include: Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference, Brighthouse Networks Women’s Leadership Conference, and CapGemini in India for International Women’s Day. You can spot Gandhi the new Onyx/Hulu TV show Deli Boys. They are currently working on the screenplay for Muthaland, and an upcoming documentary with Cura Creative.
Minita is a proud member of The Playwright’s Union, The Dramatist’s Guild, NNPN, SAG/AFTRA, and AEA. Representation: Manager: Maritza Cabrera at Limitless Management. Theatrical Agent: Zach Gray at Gray Talent Group. minitagandhi.com
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Mina Morita (she/her) is a celebrated new plays director, who has worked at: The Guthrie Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, Center REPertory Company, Campo Santo, Shotgun Players, Playwrights Foundation, TheatreFirst, Ferocious Lotus, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Berkeley Playhouse, and Crowded Fire with such creators as Susan Soon He Stanton, Qui Nguyen, Anna Deavere Smith, Sanaz Toossi, Star Finch, Dipika Guha, J.C. Lee, Christopher Chen, Lauren Gunderson, Isaac Gomez, Philip Kan Gotanda, Young Jean Lee, Idris Goodwin, Lloyd Suh, Dave Harris, Adam Chanzit, Sean San Jose, Min Kahng, Wes Nisker, and Dustin Chinn. Upcoming, she will be directing Stefani Kuo’s Pearl’s Beauty Salon at Yale DGSD and Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play at Australia’s National Theatre of Parramatta and La Boite Theatre.
Previously, she served as the Leader of Artistic Curation & Strategy as part of the Shared Leadership Team these last two years and Artistic Director from 2015-2022 at Crowded Fire Theater Company. She is thrilled that CFT is part of Mellon Foundation's Future of American Theatre Cohort with: Cleveland Public Theatre in Ohio, Company One in Massachusetts, Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C., and Perseverance Theatre in Alaska. From 2011-2015, she was the Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and its center for the creation and development of new work, The Ground Floor.
Mina is a recipient of the inaugural FrontOffice Mid-Career Director’s Award. In 2016, TBA awarded her the 40@40 distinction for her impact on Bay Area Theater. In 2015, Mina was honored to share her story on TEDx, and in 2016, she was chosen as one of the YBCA100, for "asking questions and making provocations that will shape the future of culture."
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Bio coming soon!
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Ranjita Chakravarty
Minita Gandhi
Shonita Joshi
Mahira Kakkar
Rachna Khatau
Isuri Wijesundara
Bad Books
By Sharyn Rothstein
Saturday, April 20 | 8:00 PM ET
Introduced by Ryan Rilette
About the Play
A worried mother comes to the library for what she thinks will be a reasonable, polite discussion about which books are appropriate for her teenage son. But her confrontation with the town librarian, a woman who cares deeply about her job and her community, sparks a chain reaction of consequences no one expected. Equal parts heartbreakingly poignant and absurdly funny, Bad Books leaves audiences wondering what it truly means to care for our children. A raucous and brash debate in the quietest place in America... the library.
About the Playwright
Sharyn Rothstein (she/her) is an award-winning playwright and television writer. Sharyn’s plays and musicals have been called “a force of nature” by Time Out and “gutsy, incisive and sharp-toothed” by The Chicago Tribune. Her adaptation of the film Hester Street will premiere at D.C.’s Theater J this Spring, followed by the premiere of her drama Bad Books at Round House Theatre in 2025. Her play By the Water, about a family dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, was produced by Manhattan Theater Club and Ars Nova, and was the recipient of the American Theater Critic's Association Francesca Primus Prize. Her family comedy All the Days was produced at the McCarter Theater Center. Her technology drama, Right to Be Forgotten, premiered at Arena Stage, and was produced in Chicago at the Raven Theater in 2023, and has been heralded by technology columnist Kara Swisher as "the best dramatic depiction about tech and its power over our world." Her audio drama, Deep Fake, a modern update of the My Fair Lady story and an unsparing (and hilarious) look at America’s capitalist tech culture is available on Audible.
Sharyn has been a member of EST's Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Playgroup, the WP Theatre Lab and the New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. She is a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow, a four-time winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a recipient of the Vrandenburg Jewish Play Prize. Her plays have been published by DPS, Samuel French, Playscripts and others. She is currently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Orphan Black: Echoes, the spin-off of the sci-fi hit Orphan Black, soon to be on AMC. She was a writer/producer for the legal drama SUITS for five seasons, and has developed shows for Apple TV+, AMC and Bravo. Sharyn holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Master’s in Public Health from Hunter College. She teaches television writing at NYU.
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Ryan Rilette (he/him) is in his 12th season as Artistic Director of Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, where he started the Equal Play Commissioning Program and The National Capital New Play Festival. Prior to joining Round House, Ryan served as Producing Director of Marin Theatre Company, Producing Artistic Director of Southern Rep Theatre, and as co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Rude Mechanicals. He was on NNPN's Executive Committee for six years, including serving as President from 2010-2012.
Rilette has produced more than 150 professional productions in Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans. As a producer, director, and actor, his work has been recognized by the Drama Desk Awards, Helen Hayes Awards, San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle, and The Big Easy Entertainment Awards.
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Merrick A.B. Williams (he/him) Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. NY City Center: Call Me Madam (Encores). Off-Broadway: Sanctuary City, Othello, Dreaming Zenzile, An Ordinary Muslim (NYTW); Good Enemy (Minetta Lane); The Apiary, Somebody’s Daughter, The Layover, Invisible Thread, The Other Thing (Second Stage); Gently Down The Stream, Sweat Mobile National, Measure for Measure Mobile (The Public); Daphne’s Dive (Signature). Regional: Cambodian Rock Band (Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, ACT Seattle); Seder (Hartford Stage); 10x10 2016 (Barrington Stage); On the Town (Boston Pops).
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