NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES

For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please join us!

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS:
Next Reading Monday, May 7that 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5

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The Lost Art of Conversation
by Ted Sod


This reading presentation is directed by Ted Sod

The Lost Art Of Conversation is a  witty comedy with dramatic undertones about seven disparate characters of various racial and ethnic backgrounds and the ways in which their lives intersect over a ten-year period circa 1994-2004.  

The cast includes: Kimiye Corwin, Antoinette Lavecchia, David Lavine, Kunal Prasad, Karen Tsen Lee, Jordan Mahome and Annie McGreevey.  Naomi Anhorn is the stage manager.

Bio

TED SOD (writer and director) is dramaturge for the education department at The Roundabout Theatre Company in NYC. ACTING: Urge for Going (Public Theatre); Bored To Death, Nurse Jackie, Ugly Betty; all three Law and Orders. Tour of Aftermath in Europe, US and Australia. DIRECTING: How To Be A Good Italian Daughter In Spite of Myself, (Cherry Lane Theatre); Blood Type: Ragu (Actors’ Playhouse); By Jupiter (York Theatre Co.); Agnes of God, A Night In Tunisia, Talley’s Folly, Wit and numerous touring productions (George Street Playhouse); Fitting In and Homecoming (Seattle Repertory Theatre). WRITING:  The Cousins Grimm (The Bailiwick Rep/Chicago; readings at NYMF, York Theatre and Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center); 27, Rue de Fleurus (Urban Stages, NYC/Published by Samuel French); Satan and Simon Desoto (Cal Arts Theatre School/Published by Heinemann/made into the film Crocodile Tears); The Lost Art of Conversation (Readings at Abingdon Theatre Company/NYC and Lavender Footlights/Miami). www.tedsod.com for more info.


FUTURE NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS :
The TNC selection process for 2011/2012 New City, New Blood readings season is ongoing.













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