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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, June 7, 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5
The Naked Side of Grace by Lucile Scott
The Naked Side of Grace tells the story of Grace, a young burlesque performer, as she tries to reconnect with her family, navigate a bumpy relationship with another burlesque performer named Violet and to discover how, as she says, burlesque and "titties in motion" can save the world.
This New City, New Blood presentation is directed by Jesse Geiger.
Bio
LUCILE BAKER SCOTT is a New York City-based writer and director and an executive member of Mighty Little Productions, an award winning collaboration based theater company (http://www.mighty-little.com/). Her work has been featured around town at many a venue including The Cherry Lane Studio, WOW Cafe Theater, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Workshop Theater, The Red Room, The Kraine and the American Theater of Actors. Many of the productions have even won awards in festivals. She is also a court reporter and a freelance journalist and has traveled to destinations including Jamaica and India to report on the global AIDS epidemic. A native Kentuckian, she moved to New York after graduating from Northwestern University. She also really likes her dog Vinni, falafel and scarves.
Jesse Geiger is a freelance director living in Brooklyn. Most recently, he directed THORNWILDE for Fordham University. Last summer he completed a residency as an artistic director of the Hangar Theatre’s Lab Company, where he directed THE BACCHAE, BUSYTOWN, and MILITARY 4 PLAY. He comes to the East Coast from Chicago, where he directed NEW KID (selected for the 2005 Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival) and co-directed the world premiere of FUNERAL WEDDING: THE ALVIN PLAY (Chicago Tribune best of, On the Fringe 2006). In May 2009, he finished his graduate training at the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium, where he directed FULL CIRCLE, THE LEARNED LADIES, and ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA as well as workshop productions of GRAND MOTHERLAND and THE STRANGLER for the Brown New Plays Festival and Ann Marie Healy’s THE GENTLEMAN CALLER for the Empire Street Lab. He has developed work with the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, the American Repertory Theatre Institute/Brown University Bake-off, The Brown New Plays Festival, and the Metropolis Performing Arts Center.
From 2003-2006, Jesse was the associate artistic director of the Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences (CTYA), where he ran their New Play Workshop. As an actor, he has performed with such companies as Steppenwolf Theatre and Redmoon. As an assistant director, he has worked with Steppenwolf, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Writers’ Theatre, Northlight, and About Face Theatre. In the summer of 2007, he attended the 8th Annual LaMaMa International Symposium for Directors in Umbria, Italy. Jesse was a 2009 Drama League Directing Fellow.
Please rsvp to: literary@theaterforthenewcity.net
FUTURE NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS :
The TNC selection process for 2010/2011 New City, New Blood readings season is ongoing. |
