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SUMMARY:Before Play: Becoming Nancy
DESCRIPTION:Before Play: Becoming Nancy\nSeptember 17th 7:00pm – 7:20pm\nDelta Sky360 Club\nBefore seeing Becoming Nancy on Sept 17th join us for a special conversation with the Creative Team. They will share insights into the creation of the show and it’s journey to New York. This is a free event. To RSVP email jon.carr@alliancetheatre.org.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/before-play-becoming-nancy/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Palefsky Collision Project
DESCRIPTION:Summer 2019 Performances  \nThis summer’s Palefsky Collision Project ensemble will explore the themes from George Orwell’s classic text 1984. \nPerformances are free and open to the public. Performances are held in the Rich Theatre in the Memorial Arts Building\, Woodruff Arts Center – 1280 Peachtree Street NE\, Atlata\, GA 30309. RSVP for free tickets by clicking the link below. \nFriday\, July 26th\, 7 PM\nSaturday\, July 27th\, 3 PM \nIf you have any questions\, please contact Palefsky Collision Project producer\, Sarah Wallis at collision.project@alliancetheatre.org or 404.733.4732 \n  \nWHAT IS THE PALEFSKY COLLISION PROJECT?\nFor three weeks each summer\, the Alliance Theatre assembles a diverse group of 20 teenagers from metro Atlanta to explore and unpack a classic text under the guidance of a professional playwright and director. Through improvisational exercises\, oral history\, choreography\, the individual performing talents they possess\, and their writing\, the teenagers create a new piece inspired by the classic text but perceived through their own utterly unique and contemporary prism. The Palefsky Collision Project affords teens a unique theatrical experience and gives them ownership of a performance at the Alliance. It also gives students validity – confidence in their talents\, strength for the future\, and power in their decisions. \nThrough this dynamic project\, metro Atlanta teens create theater for and about themselves by “colliding” with a dramatic text\, reinforcing the idea that theater can address their particular ideas and feelings. \nThe Palefsky Collision Project is a fantastic way to become a part of the South’s premiere regional theater company\, meet and collaborate with professional theater artists\, participate in an innovative creative process\, and make great new friends from schools all over the metro area! The Palefsky Collision Project takes place with the support of the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program administered in partnership with Howlround. \nCorporate Sponsors:\n  
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/palefsky-collision-project-3/
LOCATION:Rich Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Palefsky Collision Project
DESCRIPTION:Summer 2019 Performances  \nThis summer’s Palefsky Collision Project ensemble will explore the themes from George Orwell’s classic text 1984. \nPerformances are free and open to the public. Performances are held in the Rich Theatre in the Memorial Arts Building\, Woodruff Arts Center – 1280 Peachtree Street NE\, Atlata\, GA 30309. RSVP for free tickets by clicking the link below. \nFriday\, July 26th\, 7 PM\nSaturday\, July 27th\, 3 PM \nIf you have any questions\, please contact Palefsky Collision Project producer\, Sarah Wallis at collision.project@alliancetheatre.org or 404.733.4732 \n  \nWHAT IS THE PALEFSKY COLLISION PROJECT?\nFor three weeks each summer\, the Alliance Theatre assembles a diverse group of 20 teenagers from metro Atlanta to explore and unpack a classic text under the guidance of a professional playwright and director. Through improvisational exercises\, oral history\, choreography\, the individual performing talents they possess\, and their writing\, the teenagers create a new piece inspired by the classic text but perceived through their own utterly unique and contemporary prism. The Palefsky Collision Project affords teens a unique theatrical experience and gives them ownership of a performance at the Alliance. It also gives students validity – confidence in their talents\, strength for the future\, and power in their decisions. \nThrough this dynamic project\, metro Atlanta teens create theater for and about themselves by “colliding” with a dramatic text\, reinforcing the idea that theater can address their particular ideas and feelings. \nThe Palefsky Collision Project is a fantastic way to become a part of the South’s premiere regional theater company\, meet and collaborate with professional theater artists\, participate in an innovative creative process\, and make great new friends from schools all over the metro area! The Palefsky Collision Project takes place with the support of the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program administered in partnership with Howlround. \nCorporate Sponsors:\n  
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/palefsky-collision-project-4/
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SUMMARY:Alliance Theatre Free Family Fun Day with UNICEF\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Alliance Theatre Free Family Day with UNICEF\, USA   \nSeptember 8\, 2019 – 1 – 4 PM \nThe Alliance Theatre joins forces with UNICEF USA to provide arts-based\, interactive workshops designed to raise awareness and improve the lives of children across the globe. Using storytelling and theatre\, families will work together to explore practical solutions to some of the world’s most vexing humanitarian problems. The event will culminate in a peaceful demonstration\, “Get Up Stand Up”\, to lift our voices against the injustices children face around the world.  \nRegister HERE » \nPlanned Activities:  \nChildren on the Move Simulation – Migrant/Refugee Boat Journey \nFamilies put themselves in the shoes of a refugee as they are walked through a simulation activity in which they make life changing decisions.  \nTrick-or-Treat with Alliance Theatre Teen Ensemble \nJoin the Alliance Theatre Teen Ensemble in an interactive performance to learn more about Trick or Treat for UNICEF.  \nInternational Dance Zone \nEngage in African Dance with Mama Yeye and Baba Tony while wearing a UNICEF Kid Power Band. Earn points by being active with your kid power band and start helping children in need. Experience the power of getting active and saving lives.  \nMachines in Motion \nIn this creative movement workshop\, families devise a solution to a global issue through improvisation and imagination.   \nGet Up\, Stand Up \nThrough story and facilitated conversation among families\, learn how to become an active citizen by participating in a peaceful demonstration on a topic related to kids’ well-being.   \nPhoto Station  \nWater Filtration Station \nMany children and families risk getting sick when they drink unsafe water. Learn how to build a portable filtration system which can be used in times when access to water is affected by natural disasters.  \nVirtual Reality Video \nExperience the life of a child on the move through their eyes in a virtual reality video.  \nSend a welcome letter to refugee family \nLearn about what it means to be a refugee and what UNICEF is doing to support children on the run. Color a picture or write a welcome letter to a refugee family who’s recently made a home in Atlanta.  \nLahza Exhibit \nExperience the lives of children through their own eyes by viewing an art display created by children in the Zatari refugee camp in Jordan. 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/alliance-theatre-free-family-fun-day-with-unicef-usa/
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SUMMARY:Broadway star Jessica Vosk in Concert
DESCRIPTION:  \n​ \n  \nPerforming songs from her first solo album\, “Wild and Free\,” leading lady Jessica Vosk (Wicked!) will entertain audiences with her eclectic mix of musical theater and pop\, drawn from her legendary solo shows plus new favorites\, including a selection from her role in the world premiere musical Becoming Nancy\, on stage now at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre through October 6.  The concert will also feature surprise guests\, special ticket discounts to see Becoming Nancy\, and an exclusive VIP post-show reception with Becoming Nancy ticket holders.   \nJessica Vosk just finished an acclaimed run as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway\, having played the role for two years. Vosk also recently starred in the NYC Ballet Jerome Robbins tribute Something to Dance About\, directed by Warren Carlyle and re-created the role of Fruma Sarah in the most recent revival of Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof. Other Broadway: Finding Neverland\, The Bridges of Madison County. She starred as Anita in the Grammy-nominated San Francisco Symphony’s West Side Story. Debut Solo Album “Wild and Free” available for purchase at www.jessicavosk.com. \nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/broadway-star-jessica-vosk-in-concert/
LOCATION:Eddie’s Attic\, 515 N McDonough St\, Decatur\, GA\, 30030\, United States
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SUMMARY:Becoming Nancy Play X Play Mixer
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, September 13\, at 6:00\, enjoy a happy hour with complimentary bites\, cocktails and a behind the scenes experience in the Alliance Theatre rehearsal hall and see the world premiere musical Becoming Nancy – all free with your membership. Members can reserve their tickets by calling the box office at 404-733-5000. Non members may purchase a ticket to the event for $50. See details below. \nNot a member yet? \nOur Play X Play membership gives patrons who are under 40 access to see every show in our season as many times as they want to see them plus free access to events each season (like this one) all for just $175. Purchase your Play X Play membership today for free access to Becoming Nancy on the new Coca-Cola Stage + a pre-show happy hour on September 13 in the Alliance Theatre rehearsal hall. Learn more and purchase here. \nNot sure you’re ready to become a member yet?  \nYou can still enjoy this event and show on September 13 for just $50. If you love the experience (and we know you will!)\, we can apply your $50 ticket purchase towards the purchase of your Play X Play membership ($125 for Becoming Nancy mixer attendees only!) \nUse promo code PLAYBN50 for $50* tickets to the show and happy hour. Happy hour includes complimentary light bites and drinks in the Alliance theatre rehearsal hall\, and a ticket to Becoming Nancy on the Coca-Cola Stage at 8:00 p.m.  \nThis offer is only available by using promo code PLAYBN50.   \nAbout BECOMING NANCY \nIt’s 1979 in the south London suburb of East Dulwich and David Starr is unquestionably one of the smartest\, most talented kids in the 12th grade – he’s got a wild imagination\, a vocal range to die for\, and a bedroom plastered with posters of his beloved pop idols: Blondie\, Sting\, and Kate Bush.  But smarts\, talent\, and great taste in music may not be enough to get him through secondary school\, where\, to his great surprise\, he’s just been given the female lead in the school play. The unconventional casting sends shockwaves through David’s small town\, first with David\, and then with his parents\, his aunt\, and his classmates.  Before long\, it seems like everybody has an opinion on whether David should go on with the show\, inspiring him to turn to his no-nonsense best friend Frances and his unlikely co-star Maxie\, the enigmatic captain of the football team.  Becoming Nancy is the huge-hearted new musical that weaves a story of family bonds\, first loves\, and the courage it takes to find your own spotlight.  Based on the best-selling British novel by Terry Ronald\, this world premiere musical boasts an exciting international creative team\, with direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots\, Hairspray)\, a book by Elliot Davis (Peter Pan\, Loserville)\, and a score by the songwriting team of George Stiles (Music) and Anthony Drewe (Lyrics) (Mary Poppins\, Peter Pan\, Honk!).   \n*Valid for 9/13/19 performance only. Limit 4 tickets per order. Not to be combined with other offers. Offer based upon availability and not valid on previously purchased tickets. Includes tax and fees. Offer only available online or by calling the box office at 404.733.5000.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/becoming-nancy-play-x-play-mixer/
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SUMMARY:No Place for Hate Night
DESCRIPTION:No Place For Hate Night\nThe Alliance Theatre is proud to partner with the Anti Defamation League on a night celebrating the No Place For Hate program. \nNo Place for Hate® is an initiative of the Anti-Defamation League offered free to schools. With public displays of hate on the rise\, it is more important than ever for schools to commit to programs that clearly define expectations in behavior for all members of the community. Whether you are a student\, educator\, or family member\, you have a role to play in combating bias and bullying as a means to stop the escalation of hate. \nThe initiative is designed to rally the entire school around the goal of creating a welcoming community committed to stopping all forms of bias and bullying. \nNPFH school partners will receive a special discount code for the Oct 1st performance of Becoming Nancy. \n#youmatter
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/no-place-for-hate-night/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Festival of Wellness at the Alliance Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Festival of Wellness at the Alliance Theatre\nSaturday\, October 5\nFREE\nIn celebration of the Alliance’s upcoming production of Small Mouth Sounds\, which takes place at a silence wellness retreat\, the Alliance will host a health and wellness festival on the campus of the Woodruff Arts Center on October 5. Activities will include yoga\, meditation\, conversations with specialists from Emory\, and more. Attendees will also receive a special discount for tickets to see Small Mouth Sounds\, Oct 4 – 27\, 2019. \nRSVP for Free \nEvents:\nQi Gong\nQi Gong can be described as a mind-body-spirit practice that improves one’s mental and physical health by integrating posture\, movement\, breathing technique\, self-massage\, sound\, and focused intent.\n9-10am\nPiazza\nCarissa Kubitz from Decatur Healing Arts \nQueer Yoga Deep Stretch\n10-11am\nSouth Alcove\nPatrick Joseph Boston (he/she/they) \nHip Hop Yoga\n10-11am\nRehearsal Hall 3\nJaimee Ratliff \nPower Yoga\nBreak a sweat\, pulse deeper\, and burn more!\n10:30-11:30am\nSifley Piazza\nHannah Rose Broom\nFrom Exhale Atlanta \nSexify-Sensual Dancing\nPerforming sensual movements can make women feel more attractive and confident. Who doesn’t want to feel sexy from the inside out? Not to mention exercising with sexy music and fun people around is an even more effective way to deal with stress. This specialized movement embraces the curves of the female anatomy. It truly is a journey through your body that captures the true essence of who you are as a woman.\n11:00am-12:00pm\nRich Theatre Stage\nRoula Roulette\nFrom Metropolitan Studios \nSensual Yoga\nThis practice is an acknowledgment of a deep and abiding acceptance of your body\, your mind\, and your spirit. You will be utilizing alignment-based\, all levels yoga\, combined with positive affirmations and aromatherapy to pull you into a stronger\, more sensual sense of self! This class can stand on its own or be a fantastic way to get warmed up and pliable for the level 2 class to follow. Be ready to feel connected\, sensual and most of all\, SEXY!\n11:00am-12:00pm\nNorth Alcove\nMegan Kibby\nFrom Metropolitan Studios \nMeditation\n11:30am-12:30pm\nSouth Alcove\nBrenda Collins & Geoffrey Warren from People of Color Sangha \nHappy Seed on “Eating for the Planet”\n11:30am-12:30pm\nRehearsal Hall 3\nReid Trapani from Happy Seed Kitchen \nPranic Healing\n12:30-1:30pm\nRich Theatre\nUrsula Lentine from Decatur Healing Arts \nWhat is Wellness and How Do I Work to Achieve It?\nAn informative presentation including tips and tricks to improve your balance\, happiness\, & sustainability through wellness practices.\n1-2pm\nRehearsal Hall 3\nExecutive Wellness Coach & Blogger\, Danielle Reardon of thewellintended.com \nGentle Yoga\n1-2pm\nNorth Alcove\nBobbye Brown from Decatur Healing Arts \nYin Yoga With Storytelling\n2:30-3:30pm\nCenter Space\nLeigh Anne Neal from Nirvana Yoga \nSound Therapy\n3-4pm\nRehearsal Hall 3\nDanielle Hall from SoundEmbrace \nReiki Meditation\n3-4pm\nRich Theatre\nJenn Bailey Streck\nFrom Full Circle Studio \nMindfulness Meditation\n4-5pm\nCenter Space\nDr. Monika Stojek from Emory Healthcare Veterans Program Department of Psychiatry at Emory University of Medicine \nB.A.L.A.N.C.E.’d Wellness”: Mindfulness\, Movement\, and Lifestyle\nA collective discussion about practical and sustainable ways to experience balance in your personal adventures of mindfulness\, movement\, and lifestyle management.\n4:30-5:30pm\nRehearsal Hall 3\nAnthony Strayhorn \nMore Events & Schedule Coming Soon. \nRSVP for Free \nRSVP on Facebook and Share with Friends! \nPlease be advised: Building Implosion to disrupt MARTA service Saturday
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/festival-of-wellness-at-the-alliance-theatre/
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SUMMARY:Talk-Backs for Small Mouth Sounds
DESCRIPTION:Stick around after each performance for a discussion about the play—these discussions are an integral part of the experience of Small Mouth Sounds. In partnership with Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. \n\nWednesday\, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. \nWednesday\, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. \nFriday\, October 25 at 8:00 p.m.\n\nFACILITATORS \n\nJon Carr\, Alliance Theatre Audience Development Manager\nHershey Millner\, Alliance Theatre Casting & Engagement Associate
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/talk-backs-for-small-mouth-sounds-3/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk-Backs for Small Mouth Sounds
DESCRIPTION:Stick around after each performance for a discussion about the play—these discussions are an integral part of the experience of Small Mouth Sounds. In partnership with Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. \n\nWednesday\, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. \nWednesday\, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. \nFriday\, October 25 at 8:00 p.m.\n\nFACILITATORS \n\nJon Carr\, Alliance Theatre Audience Development Manager\nHershey Millner\, Alliance Theatre Casting & Engagement Associate
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SUMMARY:Talk-Backs for Small Mouth Sounds
DESCRIPTION:Stick around after each performance for a discussion about the play—these discussions are an integral part of the experience of Small Mouth Sounds. In partnership with Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. \n\nWednesday\, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. \nWednesday\, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. \nFriday\, October 25 at 8:00 p.m.\n\nFACILITATORS \n\nJon Carr\, Alliance Theatre Audience Development Manager\nHershey Millner\, Alliance Theatre Casting & Engagement Associate
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/talk-backs-for-small-mouth-sounds-2/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Aligning with Nature: Tu B'Shevat Lessons That Connect Us with the Earth
DESCRIPTION:Tasty bite-sized portions of delicious culture. FREE. Each lunchtime culture event pairs two Midtown arts and culture organizations for a conversation\, performance\, or tour experience from a fresh perspective. Programs begin at 12:30\, are FREE\, and last approximately 30 minutes with time to explore the venue. \nJAN 17\, 2020\nAligning with Nature: Tu B’Shevat Lessons That Connect Us with the Earth\nPresented by The Breman Museum at the Atlanta Botanical Garden (1345 Piedmont Ave NE)\nRabbi Joseph Prass of the Breman Museum shares a taste of the rich and beautiful history of Tu B’Shevat – the Jewish Holiday that celebrates trees and nature. Join us to taste delicious fruits of nature as we learn about this sweet yearly celebration. Enjoy a stroll through the woods after the talk. *No outside food allowed at the Garden. Longleaf Restaurant has a quick serve counter. \nLunch is not included with programs. Please visit Midtown dining options near each venue. \n​ \n​
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/aligning-with-nature-tu-bshevat-lessons-that-connect-us-with-the-earth/
LOCATION:Atlanta Botanical Garden\, 1345 Piedmont Ave NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Chanukah Favorites with the ASO
DESCRIPTION:Tasty bite-sized portions of delicious culture. FREE. Each lunchtime culture event pairs two Midtown arts and culture organizations for a conversation\, performance\, or tour experience from a fresh perspective. Programs begin at 12:30\, are FREE\, and last approximately 30 minutes with time to explore the venue. \nDEC 20\, 2019\nChanukah Favorites with the ASO\nPresented by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the Breman Museum (1440 Spring St. NW)\nCome and experience a specially curated program by The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the historic Breman Museum! Audience members can visit the museum to learn about pivotal moments in Jewish history while also enjoying the music of Hanukkah and other selections by Jewish composers.  \nLunch is not included with programs. Please visit Midtown dining options near each venue. \n​
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/chanukah-favorites-with-the-aso/
LOCATION:Breman Museum\, 1440 Spring St NW\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:In My Granny's Garden: The Sweet and Fun Intersection of Theater & Tomatoes
DESCRIPTION:Tasty bite-sized portions of delicious culture. FREE. Each lunchtime culture event pairs two Midtown arts and culture organizations for a conversation\, performance\, or tour experience from a fresh perspective. Programs begin at 12:30\, are FREE\, and last approximately 30 minutes with time to explore the venue. \nFEB 21\, 2020\nIn My Granny’s Garden: The Sweet and Fun Intersection of Theater & Tomatoes\nPresented by the Atlanta Botanical Garden at the Alliance Theatre (1280 Peachtree St NE)\nIn anticipation of the Alliance Theatre’s upcoming production of In My Granny’s Garden\, Raleigh Wasser\, Horticulture Manager\, Atlanta Botanical Garden will share tips on growing your own successful tomatoes for the garden or patio. Tomato harvests are best shared with friends and family\, so we’ll offer a sample of tomato preserves for all to enjoy. \nLunch is not included with programs. Please visit Midtown dining options near each venue. \n​ \n​
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/in-my-grannys-garden-the-sweet-and-fun-intersection-of-theater-tomatoes/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Maybe Happy Ending Play X Play Mixer
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 24\, at 6:00\, enjoy a happy hour with complimentary bites\, cocktails\, a behind the scenes experience in the Alliance Theatre rehearsal hall with writers Will Aronson & Hue Park\, and see the award-winning new musical Maybe Happy Ending – all free with your membership. Members can reserve their tickets by calling the box office at 404-733-5000. Non members may purchase a ticket to the event for $50. See details below. \nNot a member yet? \nOur Play X Play membership gives patrons who are under 40 access to see every show in our season as many times as they want to see them plus free access to events each season (like this one) all for just $175. Purchase your Play X Play membership today for free access to Maybe Happy Ending on the new Coca-Cola Stage + a pre-show happy hour on January 24 in the Alliance Theatre rehearsal hall. Learn more and purchase the membership here. \nNot sure you’re ready to become a member yet?  \nYou can still enjoy this event and show on January 24 for just $50. If you love the experience (and we know you will!)\, we can apply your $50 ticket purchase towards the purchase of your Play X Play membership ($125 for Maybe Happy Ending mixer attendees only!) \nUse promo code PLAYMHE50 for $50* tickets to the show and happy hour. Happy hour includes complimentary light bites and drinks in the Alliance theatre rehearsal hall\, and a ticket to Maybe Happy Ending on the Coca-Cola Stage at 8:00 p.m.  \nThis offer is only available by using promo code PLAYMHE50.  Purchase the $50 ticket here. \nAbout MAYBE HAPPY ENDING \nWinner of six Korean Musical Awards and the Richard Rodgers Production Award\, the Alliance’s American premiere of Maybe Happy Ending is this season’s can’t-miss new musical.  \nA new musical reminding us that love is never obsolete. Set in the not-too-distant future in Seoul\, Korea\, two obsolete helper-bots are living an isolated existence in a robots-only housing complex on the edge of the city. Oliver is waiting for his former-owner to come looking for him\, and Claire is just… waiting. When the two discover each other across the hall\, they have a surprising connection that challenges what they believe is possible for themselves\, relationships\, and love. Looking past our era of technology-driven detachment\, this award-winning musical imagines a magical and bittersweet reawakening to the things that make us human.   \nMAYBE HAPPY ENDING is by Will Aronson (Book & Music) and Hue Park (Book & Lyrics) and is directed by two-time Tony Award® nominee Michael Arden (Once on This Island\, Spring Awakening).     \n*Valid for 1/24/20 performance only. Limit 4 tickets per order. Not to be combined with other offers. Offer based upon availability and not valid on previously purchased tickets. Includes tax and fees. Offer only available online or by calling the box office at 404.733.5000.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/maybe-happy-ending-play-x-play-mixer/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Palefsky Collision Project for MLK Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day with the young artists of the Alliance Theatre’s Palefsky Collision Project as they explore the issues and ideas that challenge their generation to change the world. Students from this summer’s Palefsky Collision Project come back together to explore the themes from their summer performance project\, inspired by the classic novel 1984\, through the lens of letters to Dr. King. This staged reading\, suitable for all ages\, will challenge\, inspire\, and leave you feeling uplifted about the future. The Palefsky Collision Project affords teens a unique theatrical experience and gives them ownership of a performance at the Alliance. It also gives the students validity – confidence in their talents\, strength for the future\, and power in their decisions. The wholly original piece is guaranteed to inspire audiences at the two free performances these young artists will offer. Join us for a unique Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day celebration you will never forget!   \nAlliance Theatre Palefsky Collision Project Public Performances \n\n• WHEN & WHERE:\n\nMonday\, January 20 at 11:00 a.m. – A special performance at the National Center for Civil & Human Rights\nMonday\, January 20 at 3:00 p.m. – Rich Theatre Auditorium at the Woodruff Arts Center\n\nRSVP for free tickets: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/content/current-project \nNOTE: Performances at the Woodruff Arts Center are free but require an RSVP.  NCCHR performance requires admission to the museum.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/palefsky-collision-project-for-mlk-day-2/
LOCATION:Rich Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Good Night Miss Saigon: Asian and Asian American Representation in the Arts
DESCRIPTION:Please join us after the matinee performance of Maybe Happy Ending on February 9th for a community conversation with the Asian American Journalist Association.\nGood Night Miss Saigon: Asian and Asian American Representation in the Arts\nFrom the musicals The Mikado and Miss Saigon to Soft Power\, the portrayal and depiction of Asian-ness on stage has been a site of desire\, controversy and protest. This community conversation focuses on the significance of Maybe Happy Ending within the history of Asian and Asian American representation in the arts. Hosted in partnership with the Asian American Journalist Association\, speakers include journalists\, community members\, artists and advocates all working to foster diverse perspectives and inclusive practices in their spheres of influence. \nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\nAnjali Enjeti is an award-winning journalist and critic whose work appears in the Atlanta Journal Constitution\, Newsday\, Washington Post\, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Reinhardt University\, and her nonfiction book that blends personal essays and criticism is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. \n\n\n\nDiana Huey is an award-wining Film/TV and theater actress currently making her Alliance debut as JiYeon/Ensemble member in Maybe Happy Ending (and U/S for Claire). She most notably played Ariel in the National Tour of Disney’s The Little Mermaid\, where she made international headlines for facing racism over her casting as an Asian American actor and her activism for diversity in the arts.\n\n\n\nHelen Kim Ho is the Founding Partner of HKH Law LLC\, a law firm specializing in civil rights\, business and employment law. Helen began her legal career at an international law firm in New York\, and later dedicated nearly 12 years of her career to the nonprofit sector culminating in her founding and building Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (formerly AALAC)\, the first civil rights organization dedicated to Asian immigrants and refugees in the Southeast.\n\n\n\nJudy Oh is a Co-Founder of Kollaboration Atlanta\, a chapter of a global nonprofit and movement dedicated to supporting Asian\, Pacific Islander\, and Desi Americans (APIDA) who aspire to pursue a career in the arts. For seven years\, she served as an Associate Director\, building the organization and community of artists from the ground up and promoting diverse representation in mainstream media. She currently works as a Director of Strategy at BrightHouse\, a BCG company and global creative consultancy.\n\n\n\nWilloughby Mariano (Moderator) is an investigative reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel and the Los Angeles Time‘s METPRO diversity program. Past recognition includes the National Headliner Award in investigative journalism\, the Atlanta Press Club’s award for civil and human rights reporting and the Asian American Journalists Association’s Al Neuharth Award\, and other honors. She is currently president of the AAJA Atlanta chapter.\n\n\n\n  \n​ \nThe Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational and professional organization with more than 1\,500 members across the United States and Asia. AAJA was founded in 1981 by a small group of AAPI journalists who felt a need to support one another and to encourage more Asian American and Pacific Islanders to pursue journalism at a time when there were few AAPI faces in the media.  \nThis conversation is free with a ticket purchase to the matinee performance on February 9th of Maybe Happy Ending. \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/good-night-miss-saigon-asian-and-asian-american-representation-in-the-arts/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:College Night: Seize the King
DESCRIPTION:Remix: College Night \nFriday\, March 6\, 2020 \nThe Alliance is hosting a college night on March 6th in conjunction with the presentation of the play Seize the King.  \nJoin us for a post-show Q&A with playwright and Spelman Associate Professor Will Power and performances by artists from Emory University\, Kennesaw State University\, Oglethorpe University\, and Spelman College. \nAfter Seize the King\, students from across Atlanta take the Hertz stage to present a showcase of original work inspired by Shakespearean texts. Drawing on their studies of Shakespeare and art\, they remix the work of “the bard” with their own unique voices and contemporary forms of language\, sounds\, dance\, and media.   \nTickets required. Student tickets $15\, includes pizza \nTickets Here
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/college-night-seize-the-king/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Palefsky Collision Project for MLK Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day with the young artists of the Alliance Theatre’s Palefsky Collision Project as they explore the issues and ideas that challenge their generation to change the world. Students from this summer’s Palefsky Collision Project come back together to explore the themes from their summer performance project\, inspired by the classic novel 1984\, through the lens of letters to Dr. King. This staged reading\, suitable for all ages\, will challenge\, inspire\, and leave you feeling uplifted about the future. The Palefsky Collision Project affords teens a unique theatrical experience and gives them ownership of a performance at the Alliance. It also gives the students validity – confidence in their talents\, strength for the future\, and power in their decisions. The wholly original piece is guaranteed to inspire audiences at the two free performances these young artists will offer. Join us for a unique Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day celebration you will never forget!   \nAlliance Theatre Palefsky Collision Project Public Performances \n\n• WHEN & WHERE:\n\nMonday\, January 20 at 11:00 a.m. – A special performance at the National Center for Civil & Human Rights\nMonday\, January 20 at 3:00 p.m. – Rich Theatre Auditorium at the Woodruff Arts Center\n\nRSVP for free tickets: https://www.alliancetheatre.org/content/current-project \nNOTE: Performances at the Woodruff Arts Center are free but require an RSVP.  NCCHR performance requires admission to the museum.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/palefsky-collision-project-for-mlk-day/
LOCATION:Rich Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Curious Conversations
DESCRIPTION:A conversation series featuring industry professionals discussing their field of expertise. \nCurious Conversation with Actor & President of Atlanta Local SAG/AFTRA\, Clayton Landey.\nJoin us on February 3 at 6:30 pm. at the Alliance Theatre. \n\nRegister for only $5  \n\nAEA and SAG/AFTRA members: Free! call 404.733.4700 to register. \n \nCLAYTON LANDEY\nClayton says it’s a joy to be back at the Alliance. More than 40 plays\, 50 films\, 180 TV episodes\, 85 commercials. Recent: Storefront Church (Theatrical Outfit)\, Warrior Class (Alliance Theatre)\, Little Foxes (Theater in the Square). Drama-Logue Award\, LA Weekly Award\, Maddy\, Garland Award\, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination: Names. Norma Rae\, Clayton’s first film\, is in the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Venice: The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Cannes: She’s So Lovely. Sundance: The Shadow Hours. Upcoming: Sully\, A Sunday Horse\, Camera Store. Starred in “1st &d Ten\,” HBO’s first original comedy series. Recurring roles on 10 other TV series. Currently: “If Loving You Is Wrong\,” three seasons of “Knots Landing” and one year on “Days of Our Lives.”
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/curious-conversations/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Atlanta's Broadway Series: Maybe Happy Ending at Eddie's Attic
DESCRIPTION:Join cast members from the Alliance Theatre’s new musical production of Maybe Happy Ending for a one night only concert performance at Eddie’s Attic. The cast will entertain audiences with an eclectic mix of musical theater\, original selections\, plus performances from their roles in Maybe Happy Ending\, on stage at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre from January 21 – February 16. The concert will also feature special ticket discounts to see Maybe Happy Ending and an exclusive VIP post-show reception with the cast and Maybe Happy Ending ticket holders. \nCast members performing include the show’s stars Cathy Ang (KPOP)\, Kenny Tran (Vietgone)\, and Dez Duron (as seen on NBC’s The Voice); joining them are cast members including Daniel J. Edwards (Anything Goes 2011 Broadway Revival); Diana Huey (Ariel in the National Tour of Disney’s The Little Mermaid); Benjamin Moore (20th anniversary tour of Rent); and Kevin Qian (Christmas Carol). \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/atlantas-broadway-series-maybe-happy-ending-at-eddies-attic/
LOCATION:Eddie’s Attic\, 515 N McDonough St\, Decatur\, GA\, 30030\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200214T130000
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SUMMARY:Reviewing Theater: A Conversation with Jesse Green of The New York Times
DESCRIPTION:​ \n\n \nReviewing Theater: A Conversation with Jesse Green of The New York Times\nPlease join us for a conversation and Q&A with Jesse Green\, co-chief theater critic of The New York TimesFriday\, February 14 1pm-2pm // Shaw Room\, Woodruff Arts Center\nWhat role does the critic play in arts and culture? The New York Times journalist Jesse Green discusses his career in the theater and key moments that shaped his voice and approach as a writer.  \nIn conversation with Susan Booth\, Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre  \nRSVP here \nJesse Green is a writer and the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Prior\, he was the theater critic for New York Magazine\, where he had also been a contributing editor\, writing long-form features since 2008. He is the author of the novel “O Beautiful” (Ballantine/Random House) and “The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood” (Villard/Random House)\, a memoir named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Los Angeles Times Book Review\, and one of the best parenting books of the year by Child magazine. Shy\, his memoir with and about Mary Rodgers Guettel\, the pioneering musical theater doyenne\, will be published in 2021 by Farrar\, Straus & Giroux.  Before turning to writing\, Green worked in the theater as a gopher\, a copyist\, and a musical coordinator on Broadway shows. He is a graduate of Yale College\, with a degree in English and Theater.
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LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:AfterWords: Robotics on Stage
DESCRIPTION:Robotics on/of the Stage with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt\nMaybe Happy Ending employs robotics in unprecedented ways in the area of musical theater. Join us for a post-show discussion and Q&A with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt that explores the future of robot-human characters onstage and the use of advanced stage automation technology. \nIn collaboration with Georgia Tech Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\nDr. Magnus Egerstedt is the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics\, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. Dr. Egerstedt previously served as the Executive Director for the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech and is founder of the Robotarium Lab.\n\n\n\nRead more about Dr. Magnus Egerstedt in Atlanta Magazine (July 2018) \nThis conversation is free with a ticket purchase to the matinee performance on February 2nd of Maybe Happy Ending. \n 
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: What Drives Us to Be Good... or Bad?
DESCRIPTION:​ \nAfterWords: What Drives Us to Be Good… or Bad? \nJoin us for a post-show discussion and Q&A with moral philosopher Dr. Marta Jimenez that explores the figure of the tyrant in Seize the King and the role of emotion in the development of our moral compass.\nPurchase Tickets for this Performance of Seize the King \nDr. Marta Jimenez is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. She specializes in moral psychology\, contemporary as well as ancient\, and lectures and writes about emotion theory and virtue in ethical and political thought. She recently completed a book manuscript titled Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good. \n 
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SUMMARY:Free Family Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Woodruff Arts Center presents: Free Family Fun Festival from 1 PM – 4 PM. Brought to you by the Alliance Theatre\, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra\, and the High Museum of Art. Includes performances of Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience and an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert broadcast.  \nSchedule: \n\n1:15 PM – Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Concert Broadcast\n1:30 PM – Naked Mole Rate Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience\n2:45 PM – Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Concert Broadcast\n4 PM – Naked Mole Rate Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience\n\nRegister here »
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LOCATION:Woodruff Arts Center\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Play Club Series
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Play Club Series\nThe Alliance Theatre will showcase the finalists of the 16th Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition by making all four scripts available to the public to read between April 9 – 24\, 2020. After the scripts have been available for a week\, the Alliance will begin hosting a free Virtual Play Club series where the public is invited to a live virtual meeting with the playwright to discuss the script. The Virtual Play Club series will culminate with an Artists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall.   \nRead the full scripts here.\nLearn how to read a play here. \nIf you RSVP’d\, you will receive the details for how to access those conversations on the day of your scheduled event.\nVirtual Play Club Schedule\nUnkindness\nby Logan Faust (NYU Tisch)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 16th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Matt Torney and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nUnkindness tells the story of Bonnie\, a grieving mother\, and Elijah\, a would-be prophet\, as they struggle to survive after their only motivations for survival\, their son and faith respectively\, are taken from them. When a desperate young mother with a dying child comes to them for help\, they must confront the only question that matters at the End of the World: what will you do to survive? Inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood\, the Bible’s First Book of Kings\, and the murder-spree of Bonnie and Clyde\, Unkindness is one Southerner’s attempt to reconcile the destructive and redemptive elements of our myriad\, modern-day interpretations of faith. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Logan Faust\, talking about the play: \n \nDjarum Vanilla\nby Cary Simowitz (UCLA)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 17th at 7:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Keith Bolden and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nNovember 2014. Missouri. The Darren Wilson verdict is imminent. Protests are becoming a daily part of life in Ferguson. The nascent Black Lives Matter movement is gaining national traction as racial tension in Missouri reaches a boiling point. To make matters worse\, rumors perpetuated by the media are spreading about the possibility of a race war igniting between a group of black teenagers and Bosnian immigrants. \nMeanwhile\, ten miles away from Ferguson at an aging gas station/autobody shop\, an unlikely friendship is fostered between a twenty-one-year-old black man named Malcolm and a poverty-stricken\, seventeen-year-old white girl named Bex after the pair discover a secret hidden beneath the front seat of an abandoned Maserati. In the coming weeks\, Malcolm and Bex are forced to test the boundaries of their friendship as the two are confronted with the harsh reality of living in a changing\, unjust America. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Cary Simowitz\, talking about the play: \n \nMonster\nby Ava Geyer (UCSD)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 23rd at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director January LaVoy and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins.  \nWhen self-help guru Drew Capuano’s compulsive masturbation comes to light\, he retains the services of the only person who will still represent him: his power hungry twenty-four year-old female assistant. Meanwhile\, survivor Mona Giotti works to make sure she’s put Drew away for good. Monster is a brutal and brutally funny odyssey through America’s media machine that puts perpetrator and survivor on a collision course of reckoning. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Ava Geyer\, talking about the play: \n \nStitched with a Sickle and a Hammer\nby Inna Tsyrlin (Ohio University)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 24th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Lauren Morris and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nAleksandra\, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe\, is forced to help Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power\, inside and outside the camp\, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Inna Tsyrlin\, talking about the play: \n \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Virtual Kendeda Play Club: Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98669661579?pwd=TWtMT1c2Q3FxQ1pSSEMwN252a1JUUT09\nPassword: 715537 \nArtists’ Roundtable\nFriday\, April 24 at 5:30pm \nArtists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall. \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Artist Roundtable Discussion \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/91226371416?pwd=SGZ6VTRCb055T1FxenNCbGU0V3ZaZz09\nPassword: 520926 \nRoundtable Artist Bios:\n2019/2020 Kendeda Winner:\n\n\n\n\nSteph Del Rosso\, 53% Of\nSteph Del Rosso is a writer based in New York. Her plays include: 53% Of (Alliance/ Kendeda winner)\, The Gradient (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis\, 2021)\, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea)\, Machinalia (JACK)\, Are You There? (UC-San Diego)\, You’re Crazy (a play with karaoke) (IAMA New Works Festival)\, and Life Savers. Her work has been developed at The Kennedy Center\, The Lark\, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference\, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference\, Colt Coeur\, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center\, the Los Angeles Theatre Center\, New York Stage and Film\, SPACE on Ryder Farm\, and others. She is the 19/20 Shank Playwright in Residence at The Public Theater and is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers’ Group. She is commissioned by Studio Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse and teaches Playwriting at NYU. \n\n\n\n\nKendeda Finalists:\n\n\n\n\nAva Geyer\, Monster \nAva Geyer received her BA from Princeton University in 2015 and MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego in 2019. Geyer is currently the Shank Resident Playwright at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater\, a member of EST/Youngblood\, and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recipient of Theater Masters’ 2020 Visionary Award. Her play Monster was a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. She was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Jerome Fellowship and semi-finalist for the Ingram New Works Lab. Her play Fruit Snacks appeared at the Hopeful Decade event in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn in January 2020. Her play B-Storm appeared at Theatre Row in May 2019 as part of Theater Masters’ Take Ten program honoring the best short plays by MFA playwrights across the country. Past plays include SERE (Wagner New Play Festival 2018) and Baby Teeth (WNPF ’17).   \n\n\n\n\nLogan Faust\, Unkindness\nLogan Faust is a Louisiana-born\, New York-based playwright\, television writer\, and actor who holds his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Before moving to New York\, he lived in New Orleans\, where he received his BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola University New Orleans. He currently works as Showrunner’s Assistant for Filthy Rich\, airing on Fox this Spring. A lifelong Southerner\, Faust’s work grapples with questions of religion\, absurdity\, and the End of the World; and are inspired by Samuel Beckett\, Flannery O’Connor\, Martin McDonagh\, and\, of course\, Tennessee Williams.  \n\n\n\n\nInna Tsyrlin\, Stitched With a Sickle and a Hammer\nInna Tsyrlin was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Australia during the collapse of the socialist state. Her work responds to ideas of political freedom through the lens of historical and current events\, identity in a diaspora\, and society’s responsibility to the natural environment. She received the Trisolini Graduate Fellowship (Ohio University) for her play Stitched with a Sickle and Hammer\, and the play was the 2019 Renaissance Theaterworks New Play Festival finalist (Milwaukee\, WI) and 2020 Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition finalist (Atlanta\, GA). Her work has been presented in New York City at The Rising Sun Performance Company\, Emerging Artists Theater\, HB Playwrights Theatre\, and Manhattan Repertory Theater. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. More about Inna: innatsyrlin.org  \n\n\n\n\nCary Simowitz\, Djarum Vanilla\nCary Simowitz recently graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater\, Film\, and Television with his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting. He is the author of five full-length plays\, three one acts\, and several ten- minute pieces\, in addition to multiple works of poetry and short fiction. He received his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 2016 and is licensed to practice law in Missouri and New York. Cary’s plays have collectively garnered him modest recognition in over two-dozen competitions across the country. He twice participated in the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival in 2014 and 2015 with his plays\, Ekphasia and The Divine Buoyancy of Being\, respectively. His play\, Djarum Vanilla\, was developed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC as part of their MFA New Play Festival\, in association with the National New Play Network and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Moreover\, this play received the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Rosa Parks Award for “Distinguished Achievement\,” the 2017 Tim Robbins Award in Playwriting\, the 2016 Leota Diesel Ashton Prize in Playwriting\, the 2016 Dramatics Club of St. Louis Award\, semifinalist status in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference\, and finalist status in Panndora Productions’s 10th Annual New Works Festival. His play\, A Wolf’s Mother\, was produced at UCLA as part of its 2019 MFA New Play Festival and was subsequently given a workshop production at the Garage Theater in Long Beach\, California\, as a winner of Panndora Production’s 12th Annual New Works Festival. His most recent project\, All the Oxytocin at Your Fingertips was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2020 National Playwrights Conference and is still under adjudication for the finals.   \n\n\n\n\nAtlanta Playwrights:\n\n\n\n\nMary Lynn Owen\nMary Lynn Owen is an Atlanta-based theater artist with a career spanning over forty years. Her first full-length script\, KNEAD\, a one-person play in which she also performed\, received its world premiere at The Alliance Theatre in November 2018.  KNEAD\, the recipient of the 2019 Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award and The Alliance Theatre’s Reiser Lab Award\, was also a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference.  Mary Lynn’s second full-length play\, LADY PARTS\, was a semi-finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference\, a selection for the 2019 Working Title Playwrights First Light Series\, and a selection for Theatrical Outfit’s 2020 Unexpected Play Festival.  Mary Lynn’s commissions include a ten-minute play\, TRAILERS\, for the 2019 MoJo Festival and the recent ’22 Homes Project’ by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her writing residencies include Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley\, WA and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap\, GA. As an actor\, Mary Lynn is a two-time Suzi Award winner for both Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role (WIT – Aurora Theatre) and Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role (THE LITTLE FOXES – Theatre in the Square) and an eight-time Suzi nominee. Recently\, she assumed the traditionally male role of The Stage Manager in the historic repertory of OUR TOWN and THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Theatrical Outfit.  She is a faculty member of Emory University’s Theater Studies Department where she teaches Introduction to Acting and yearly workshops in Teaching as Performance. Also at Emory\, she has curated for the Brave New Works Festival and developed an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese Department in the production of both new and classical Spanish/Latinx Theater.  She co-created the popular course\, ‘Taller de Teatro en Español – a Theater Workshop in Spanish\,’ a class designed to improve Spanish language proficiency through the use of Theater techniques.   \n\n\n\n\nWill Power\nWill Power is an internationally renowned playwright\, performer\, lyricist and educator. His plays and performances have been seen in hundreds of theaters and concert halls throughout the world including Lincoln Center (New York)\, The Public Theater (New York)\, The Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.)\, The Sydney Opera House\, as well as numerous venues in Asia\, Africa\, Europe and throughout North America.  Called “The best verse playwright in America” by New York Magazine\, Mr. Power is an innovator and dramatic explorer of new theatrical forms. He is known as one of the pioneers and co-creators of hip hop theater\, a late 20th Century art form that led the way for future iconic works such as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton\, as well as dozens of hip hop education programs being established throughout the country. Power is also a master craftsman of traditionally based plays and musicals. His straight play\, Fetch Clay\, Make Man\, has been produced in various LORT theaters and regional companies including the McCarter Theater\, New York Theater Workshop\, the Round House Theater\, True Colors Theater Company\, The Ensemble Theater\, and Marin Theater Company to name a few. Other plays include Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s Theater Company)\, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse\, New York Theater Workshop\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Seize the King (La Jolla Playhouse\, The Alliance Theater)\, and Detroit Red (Arts Emerson). Power’s collaboration with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and composer Julia Wolfe resulted in the performance piece Steel Hammer (Humana Festival\, UCLA Live\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, plus World tour). Power has received numerous awards for his work as a writer and performer in the field including The Doris Duke Artist Award\, an Andrew W. Mellon Playwright in Residence Grant\, a Lucille Lortel Award\, a United States Artist Prudential Fellowship\, an NEA/TCG Residency Grant\, TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award\, a NYFA Award\, and a Joyce Foundation Award. Power is also a passionate teacher of writing and performance. He has held fellowships\, residencies or faculty positions at the City College of New York\, Princeton University\, Wayne State University\, The University of Michigan at Flint\, Southern Methodist University\, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Currently\, Will Power is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of theater at Spelman College\, Atlanta. \n\n\n\n\nKimberly Belflower\nKimberly Belflower is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Her play\, Lost Girl\, is published by Samuel French and won the 2018 Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award. Her other plays include John Proctor is the Villain (2019 Kilroys List)\, Gondal\, The Use of Wildflowers\, and The Sky Game\, which have been commissioned\, produced\, and developed by Ojai Playwrights Conference\, South Coast Repertory Theatre\, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, The Farm Theatre\, We the Women Collective\, Peppercorn Theatre\, Less Than Rent Theatre\, Cohen New Works Festival\, as well as many colleges and universities across the country. Kimberly is currently a Playwriting Fellow at Emory University\, and has also worked as a writer and narrative lead for Meow Wolf\, Santa Fe’s celebrated immersive arts collective. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\nMark Kendall\nMark Kendall is an Atlanta-based comedian. He is an ensemble member at Dad’s Garage Theatre. His one man show\, “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness” was produced by the Alliance Theatre and he continues to tour the show around the country. Mark studied film at Northwestern University. He worked at Comedy Central through the Chris Rock Summer School Program for up and coming comedy writers of color. During his time at Comedy Central\, he got to pitch jokes to the writing staffs of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Mark was the Readers Pick for Best Comedian in Creative Loafing Atlanta in 2019. \n\n\n\n\nSteve Coulter\nSteve Coulter is an Atlanta-based actor and writer. He was the headwriter for both of Tyler Perry’s television series\, House of Payne and Meet the Browns\, where he supervised over 100 episodes and won two consecutive NAACP IMAGE Awards for Best Comedy Series. He wrote Alice Betweenfor the Alliance Theatre and directed the award-winning short film\, The Etiquette Man\, selected by the Sundance Channel and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. His screenplay\, Keesha’s House\, won the $100\,000 Southeastern Media Award.  As an actor\, he has had recurring roles in House of Cards\, The Walking Dead\, Brockmire\, and Yellowstone. Most recently\, he appeared in HBO’s Watchmen and the just released The Hunt. \n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\nRachel Karpf\nRachel Karpf is a cultural producer and was most recently the BOLD Artistic Producer of WP Theater in New York City\, overseeing projects including the Off-Broadway world premieres of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and Where We Stand. She previously served as Senior Producer for the international creative collective Guerilla Science\, where she produced the multidisciplinary Works on Water Festival and created science-inspired cultural programming in music festivals\, public parks\, nightclubs\, and more. Rachel has also produced and developed new theater with New Georges\, the Public Theater\, New York Theatre Workshop\, Page 73\, and Beth Morrison Projects. As an independent producer\, she has collaborated with artists including Martyna Majok\, Jackson Gay\, Kate Benson\, Lee Sunday Evans\, Obehi Janice\, and Caitlin Sullivan. Rachel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a former Time Warner Foundation Fellow.   \n\n\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Play Club Series
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Play Club Series\nThe Alliance Theatre will showcase the finalists of the 16th Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition by making all four scripts available to the public to read between April 9 – 24\, 2020. After the scripts have been available for a week\, the Alliance will begin hosting a free Virtual Play Club series where the public is invited to a live virtual meeting with the playwright to discuss the script. The Virtual Play Club series will culminate with an Artists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall.   \nRead the full scripts here.\nLearn how to read a play here. \nIf you RSVP’d\, you will receive the details for how to access those conversations on the day of your scheduled event.\nVirtual Play Club Schedule\nUnkindness\nby Logan Faust (NYU Tisch)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 16th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Matt Torney and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nUnkindness tells the story of Bonnie\, a grieving mother\, and Elijah\, a would-be prophet\, as they struggle to survive after their only motivations for survival\, their son and faith respectively\, are taken from them. When a desperate young mother with a dying child comes to them for help\, they must confront the only question that matters at the End of the World: what will you do to survive? Inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood\, the Bible’s First Book of Kings\, and the murder-spree of Bonnie and Clyde\, Unkindness is one Southerner’s attempt to reconcile the destructive and redemptive elements of our myriad\, modern-day interpretations of faith. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Logan Faust\, talking about the play: \n \nDjarum Vanilla\nby Cary Simowitz (UCLA)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 17th at 7:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Keith Bolden and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nNovember 2014. Missouri. The Darren Wilson verdict is imminent. Protests are becoming a daily part of life in Ferguson. The nascent Black Lives Matter movement is gaining national traction as racial tension in Missouri reaches a boiling point. To make matters worse\, rumors perpetuated by the media are spreading about the possibility of a race war igniting between a group of black teenagers and Bosnian immigrants. \nMeanwhile\, ten miles away from Ferguson at an aging gas station/autobody shop\, an unlikely friendship is fostered between a twenty-one-year-old black man named Malcolm and a poverty-stricken\, seventeen-year-old white girl named Bex after the pair discover a secret hidden beneath the front seat of an abandoned Maserati. In the coming weeks\, Malcolm and Bex are forced to test the boundaries of their friendship as the two are confronted with the harsh reality of living in a changing\, unjust America. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Cary Simowitz\, talking about the play: \n \nMonster\nby Ava Geyer (UCSD)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 23rd at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director January LaVoy and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins.  \nWhen self-help guru Drew Capuano’s compulsive masturbation comes to light\, he retains the services of the only person who will still represent him: his power hungry twenty-four year-old female assistant. Meanwhile\, survivor Mona Giotti works to make sure she’s put Drew away for good. Monster is a brutal and brutally funny odyssey through America’s media machine that puts perpetrator and survivor on a collision course of reckoning. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Ava Geyer\, talking about the play: \n \nStitched with a Sickle and a Hammer\nby Inna Tsyrlin (Ohio University)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 24th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Lauren Morris and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nAleksandra\, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe\, is forced to help Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power\, inside and outside the camp\, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Inna Tsyrlin\, talking about the play: \n \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Virtual Kendeda Play Club: Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98669661579?pwd=TWtMT1c2Q3FxQ1pSSEMwN252a1JUUT09\nPassword: 715537 \nArtists’ Roundtable\nFriday\, April 24 at 5:30pm \nArtists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall. \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Artist Roundtable Discussion \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/91226371416?pwd=SGZ6VTRCb055T1FxenNCbGU0V3ZaZz09\nPassword: 520926 \nRoundtable Artist Bios:\n2019/2020 Kendeda Winner:\n\n\n\n\nSteph Del Rosso\, 53% Of\nSteph Del Rosso is a writer based in New York. Her plays include: 53% Of (Alliance/ Kendeda winner)\, The Gradient (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis\, 2021)\, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea)\, Machinalia (JACK)\, Are You There? (UC-San Diego)\, You’re Crazy (a play with karaoke) (IAMA New Works Festival)\, and Life Savers. Her work has been developed at The Kennedy Center\, The Lark\, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference\, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference\, Colt Coeur\, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center\, the Los Angeles Theatre Center\, New York Stage and Film\, SPACE on Ryder Farm\, and others. She is the 19/20 Shank Playwright in Residence at The Public Theater and is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers’ Group. She is commissioned by Studio Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse and teaches Playwriting at NYU. \n\n\n\n\nKendeda Finalists:\n\n\n\n\nAva Geyer\, Monster \nAva Geyer received her BA from Princeton University in 2015 and MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego in 2019. Geyer is currently the Shank Resident Playwright at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater\, a member of EST/Youngblood\, and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recipient of Theater Masters’ 2020 Visionary Award. Her play Monster was a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. She was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Jerome Fellowship and semi-finalist for the Ingram New Works Lab. Her play Fruit Snacks appeared at the Hopeful Decade event in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn in January 2020. Her play B-Storm appeared at Theatre Row in May 2019 as part of Theater Masters’ Take Ten program honoring the best short plays by MFA playwrights across the country. Past plays include SERE (Wagner New Play Festival 2018) and Baby Teeth (WNPF ’17).   \n\n\n\n\nLogan Faust\, Unkindness\nLogan Faust is a Louisiana-born\, New York-based playwright\, television writer\, and actor who holds his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Before moving to New York\, he lived in New Orleans\, where he received his BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola University New Orleans. He currently works as Showrunner’s Assistant for Filthy Rich\, airing on Fox this Spring. A lifelong Southerner\, Faust’s work grapples with questions of religion\, absurdity\, and the End of the World; and are inspired by Samuel Beckett\, Flannery O’Connor\, Martin McDonagh\, and\, of course\, Tennessee Williams.  \n\n\n\n\nInna Tsyrlin\, Stitched With a Sickle and a Hammer\nInna Tsyrlin was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Australia during the collapse of the socialist state. Her work responds to ideas of political freedom through the lens of historical and current events\, identity in a diaspora\, and society’s responsibility to the natural environment. She received the Trisolini Graduate Fellowship (Ohio University) for her play Stitched with a Sickle and Hammer\, and the play was the 2019 Renaissance Theaterworks New Play Festival finalist (Milwaukee\, WI) and 2020 Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition finalist (Atlanta\, GA). Her work has been presented in New York City at The Rising Sun Performance Company\, Emerging Artists Theater\, HB Playwrights Theatre\, and Manhattan Repertory Theater. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. More about Inna: innatsyrlin.org  \n\n\n\n\nCary Simowitz\, Djarum Vanilla\nCary Simowitz recently graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater\, Film\, and Television with his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting. He is the author of five full-length plays\, three one acts\, and several ten- minute pieces\, in addition to multiple works of poetry and short fiction. He received his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 2016 and is licensed to practice law in Missouri and New York. Cary’s plays have collectively garnered him modest recognition in over two-dozen competitions across the country. He twice participated in the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival in 2014 and 2015 with his plays\, Ekphasia and The Divine Buoyancy of Being\, respectively. His play\, Djarum Vanilla\, was developed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC as part of their MFA New Play Festival\, in association with the National New Play Network and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Moreover\, this play received the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Rosa Parks Award for “Distinguished Achievement\,” the 2017 Tim Robbins Award in Playwriting\, the 2016 Leota Diesel Ashton Prize in Playwriting\, the 2016 Dramatics Club of St. Louis Award\, semifinalist status in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference\, and finalist status in Panndora Productions’s 10th Annual New Works Festival. His play\, A Wolf’s Mother\, was produced at UCLA as part of its 2019 MFA New Play Festival and was subsequently given a workshop production at the Garage Theater in Long Beach\, California\, as a winner of Panndora Production’s 12th Annual New Works Festival. His most recent project\, All the Oxytocin at Your Fingertips was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2020 National Playwrights Conference and is still under adjudication for the finals.   \n\n\n\n\nAtlanta Playwrights:\n\n\n\n\nMary Lynn Owen\nMary Lynn Owen is an Atlanta-based theater artist with a career spanning over forty years. Her first full-length script\, KNEAD\, a one-person play in which she also performed\, received its world premiere at The Alliance Theatre in November 2018.  KNEAD\, the recipient of the 2019 Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award and The Alliance Theatre’s Reiser Lab Award\, was also a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference.  Mary Lynn’s second full-length play\, LADY PARTS\, was a semi-finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference\, a selection for the 2019 Working Title Playwrights First Light Series\, and a selection for Theatrical Outfit’s 2020 Unexpected Play Festival.  Mary Lynn’s commissions include a ten-minute play\, TRAILERS\, for the 2019 MoJo Festival and the recent ’22 Homes Project’ by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her writing residencies include Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley\, WA and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap\, GA. As an actor\, Mary Lynn is a two-time Suzi Award winner for both Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role (WIT – Aurora Theatre) and Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role (THE LITTLE FOXES – Theatre in the Square) and an eight-time Suzi nominee. Recently\, she assumed the traditionally male role of The Stage Manager in the historic repertory of OUR TOWN and THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Theatrical Outfit.  She is a faculty member of Emory University’s Theater Studies Department where she teaches Introduction to Acting and yearly workshops in Teaching as Performance. Also at Emory\, she has curated for the Brave New Works Festival and developed an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese Department in the production of both new and classical Spanish/Latinx Theater.  She co-created the popular course\, ‘Taller de Teatro en Español – a Theater Workshop in Spanish\,’ a class designed to improve Spanish language proficiency through the use of Theater techniques.   \n\n\n\n\nWill Power\nWill Power is an internationally renowned playwright\, performer\, lyricist and educator. His plays and performances have been seen in hundreds of theaters and concert halls throughout the world including Lincoln Center (New York)\, The Public Theater (New York)\, The Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.)\, The Sydney Opera House\, as well as numerous venues in Asia\, Africa\, Europe and throughout North America.  Called “The best verse playwright in America” by New York Magazine\, Mr. Power is an innovator and dramatic explorer of new theatrical forms. He is known as one of the pioneers and co-creators of hip hop theater\, a late 20th Century art form that led the way for future iconic works such as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton\, as well as dozens of hip hop education programs being established throughout the country. Power is also a master craftsman of traditionally based plays and musicals. His straight play\, Fetch Clay\, Make Man\, has been produced in various LORT theaters and regional companies including the McCarter Theater\, New York Theater Workshop\, the Round House Theater\, True Colors Theater Company\, The Ensemble Theater\, and Marin Theater Company to name a few. Other plays include Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s Theater Company)\, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse\, New York Theater Workshop\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Seize the King (La Jolla Playhouse\, The Alliance Theater)\, and Detroit Red (Arts Emerson). Power’s collaboration with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and composer Julia Wolfe resulted in the performance piece Steel Hammer (Humana Festival\, UCLA Live\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, plus World tour). Power has received numerous awards for his work as a writer and performer in the field including The Doris Duke Artist Award\, an Andrew W. Mellon Playwright in Residence Grant\, a Lucille Lortel Award\, a United States Artist Prudential Fellowship\, an NEA/TCG Residency Grant\, TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award\, a NYFA Award\, and a Joyce Foundation Award. Power is also a passionate teacher of writing and performance. He has held fellowships\, residencies or faculty positions at the City College of New York\, Princeton University\, Wayne State University\, The University of Michigan at Flint\, Southern Methodist University\, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Currently\, Will Power is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of theater at Spelman College\, Atlanta. \n\n\n\n\nKimberly Belflower\nKimberly Belflower is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Her play\, Lost Girl\, is published by Samuel French and won the 2018 Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award. Her other plays include John Proctor is the Villain (2019 Kilroys List)\, Gondal\, The Use of Wildflowers\, and The Sky Game\, which have been commissioned\, produced\, and developed by Ojai Playwrights Conference\, South Coast Repertory Theatre\, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, The Farm Theatre\, We the Women Collective\, Peppercorn Theatre\, Less Than Rent Theatre\, Cohen New Works Festival\, as well as many colleges and universities across the country. Kimberly is currently a Playwriting Fellow at Emory University\, and has also worked as a writer and narrative lead for Meow Wolf\, Santa Fe’s celebrated immersive arts collective. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\nMark Kendall\nMark Kendall is an Atlanta-based comedian. He is an ensemble member at Dad’s Garage Theatre. His one man show\, “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness” was produced by the Alliance Theatre and he continues to tour the show around the country. Mark studied film at Northwestern University. He worked at Comedy Central through the Chris Rock Summer School Program for up and coming comedy writers of color. During his time at Comedy Central\, he got to pitch jokes to the writing staffs of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Mark was the Readers Pick for Best Comedian in Creative Loafing Atlanta in 2019. \n\n\n\n\nSteve Coulter\nSteve Coulter is an Atlanta-based actor and writer. He was the headwriter for both of Tyler Perry’s television series\, House of Payne and Meet the Browns\, where he supervised over 100 episodes and won two consecutive NAACP IMAGE Awards for Best Comedy Series. He wrote Alice Betweenfor the Alliance Theatre and directed the award-winning short film\, The Etiquette Man\, selected by the Sundance Channel and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. His screenplay\, Keesha’s House\, won the $100\,000 Southeastern Media Award.  As an actor\, he has had recurring roles in House of Cards\, The Walking Dead\, Brockmire\, and Yellowstone. Most recently\, he appeared in HBO’s Watchmen and the just released The Hunt. \n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\nRachel Karpf\nRachel Karpf is a cultural producer and was most recently the BOLD Artistic Producer of WP Theater in New York City\, overseeing projects including the Off-Broadway world premieres of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and Where We Stand. She previously served as Senior Producer for the international creative collective Guerilla Science\, where she produced the multidisciplinary Works on Water Festival and created science-inspired cultural programming in music festivals\, public parks\, nightclubs\, and more. Rachel has also produced and developed new theater with New Georges\, the Public Theater\, New York Theatre Workshop\, Page 73\, and Beth Morrison Projects. As an independent producer\, she has collaborated with artists including Martyna Majok\, Jackson Gay\, Kate Benson\, Lee Sunday Evans\, Obehi Janice\, and Caitlin Sullivan. Rachel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a former Time Warner Foundation Fellow.   \n\n\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. \n 
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DESCRIPTION:Virtual Play Club Series\nThe Alliance Theatre will showcase the finalists of the 16th Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition by making all four scripts available to the public to read between April 9 – 24\, 2020. After the scripts have been available for a week\, the Alliance will begin hosting a free Virtual Play Club series where the public is invited to a live virtual meeting with the playwright to discuss the script. The Virtual Play Club series will culminate with an Artists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall.   \nRead the full scripts here.\nLearn how to read a play here. \nIf you RSVP’d\, you will receive the details for how to access those conversations on the day of your scheduled event.\nVirtual Play Club Schedule\nUnkindness\nby Logan Faust (NYU Tisch)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 16th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Matt Torney and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nUnkindness tells the story of Bonnie\, a grieving mother\, and Elijah\, a would-be prophet\, as they struggle to survive after their only motivations for survival\, their son and faith respectively\, are taken from them. When a desperate young mother with a dying child comes to them for help\, they must confront the only question that matters at the End of the World: what will you do to survive? Inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood\, the Bible’s First Book of Kings\, and the murder-spree of Bonnie and Clyde\, Unkindness is one Southerner’s attempt to reconcile the destructive and redemptive elements of our myriad\, modern-day interpretations of faith. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Logan Faust\, talking about the play: \n \nDjarum Vanilla\nby Cary Simowitz (UCLA)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 17th at 7:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Keith Bolden and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nNovember 2014. Missouri. The Darren Wilson verdict is imminent. Protests are becoming a daily part of life in Ferguson. The nascent Black Lives Matter movement is gaining national traction as racial tension in Missouri reaches a boiling point. To make matters worse\, rumors perpetuated by the media are spreading about the possibility of a race war igniting between a group of black teenagers and Bosnian immigrants. \nMeanwhile\, ten miles away from Ferguson at an aging gas station/autobody shop\, an unlikely friendship is fostered between a twenty-one-year-old black man named Malcolm and a poverty-stricken\, seventeen-year-old white girl named Bex after the pair discover a secret hidden beneath the front seat of an abandoned Maserati. In the coming weeks\, Malcolm and Bex are forced to test the boundaries of their friendship as the two are confronted with the harsh reality of living in a changing\, unjust America. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Cary Simowitz\, talking about the play: \n \nMonster\nby Ava Geyer (UCSD)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 23rd at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director January LaVoy and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins.  \nWhen self-help guru Drew Capuano’s compulsive masturbation comes to light\, he retains the services of the only person who will still represent him: his power hungry twenty-four year-old female assistant. Meanwhile\, survivor Mona Giotti works to make sure she’s put Drew away for good. Monster is a brutal and brutally funny odyssey through America’s media machine that puts perpetrator and survivor on a collision course of reckoning. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Ava Geyer\, talking about the play: \n \nStitched with a Sickle and a Hammer\nby Inna Tsyrlin (Ohio University)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 24th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Lauren Morris and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nAleksandra\, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe\, is forced to help Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power\, inside and outside the camp\, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Inna Tsyrlin\, talking about the play: \n \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Virtual Kendeda Play Club: Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98669661579?pwd=TWtMT1c2Q3FxQ1pSSEMwN252a1JUUT09\nPassword: 715537 \nArtists’ Roundtable\nFriday\, April 24 at 5:30pm \nArtists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall. \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Artist Roundtable Discussion \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/91226371416?pwd=SGZ6VTRCb055T1FxenNCbGU0V3ZaZz09\nPassword: 520926 \nRoundtable Artist Bios:\n2019/2020 Kendeda Winner:\n\n\n\n\nSteph Del Rosso\, 53% Of\nSteph Del Rosso is a writer based in New York. Her plays include: 53% Of (Alliance/ Kendeda winner)\, The Gradient (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis\, 2021)\, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea)\, Machinalia (JACK)\, Are You There? (UC-San Diego)\, You’re Crazy (a play with karaoke) (IAMA New Works Festival)\, and Life Savers. Her work has been developed at The Kennedy Center\, The Lark\, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference\, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference\, Colt Coeur\, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center\, the Los Angeles Theatre Center\, New York Stage and Film\, SPACE on Ryder Farm\, and others. She is the 19/20 Shank Playwright in Residence at The Public Theater and is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers’ Group. She is commissioned by Studio Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse and teaches Playwriting at NYU. \n\n\n\n\nKendeda Finalists:\n\n\n\n\nAva Geyer\, Monster \nAva Geyer received her BA from Princeton University in 2015 and MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego in 2019. Geyer is currently the Shank Resident Playwright at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater\, a member of EST/Youngblood\, and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recipient of Theater Masters’ 2020 Visionary Award. Her play Monster was a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. She was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Jerome Fellowship and semi-finalist for the Ingram New Works Lab. Her play Fruit Snacks appeared at the Hopeful Decade event in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn in January 2020. Her play B-Storm appeared at Theatre Row in May 2019 as part of Theater Masters’ Take Ten program honoring the best short plays by MFA playwrights across the country. Past plays include SERE (Wagner New Play Festival 2018) and Baby Teeth (WNPF ’17).   \n\n\n\n\nLogan Faust\, Unkindness\nLogan Faust is a Louisiana-born\, New York-based playwright\, television writer\, and actor who holds his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Before moving to New York\, he lived in New Orleans\, where he received his BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola University New Orleans. He currently works as Showrunner’s Assistant for Filthy Rich\, airing on Fox this Spring. A lifelong Southerner\, Faust’s work grapples with questions of religion\, absurdity\, and the End of the World; and are inspired by Samuel Beckett\, Flannery O’Connor\, Martin McDonagh\, and\, of course\, Tennessee Williams.  \n\n\n\n\nInna Tsyrlin\, Stitched With a Sickle and a Hammer\nInna Tsyrlin was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Australia during the collapse of the socialist state. Her work responds to ideas of political freedom through the lens of historical and current events\, identity in a diaspora\, and society’s responsibility to the natural environment. She received the Trisolini Graduate Fellowship (Ohio University) for her play Stitched with a Sickle and Hammer\, and the play was the 2019 Renaissance Theaterworks New Play Festival finalist (Milwaukee\, WI) and 2020 Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition finalist (Atlanta\, GA). Her work has been presented in New York City at The Rising Sun Performance Company\, Emerging Artists Theater\, HB Playwrights Theatre\, and Manhattan Repertory Theater. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. More about Inna: innatsyrlin.org  \n\n\n\n\nCary Simowitz\, Djarum Vanilla\nCary Simowitz recently graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater\, Film\, and Television with his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting. He is the author of five full-length plays\, three one acts\, and several ten- minute pieces\, in addition to multiple works of poetry and short fiction. He received his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 2016 and is licensed to practice law in Missouri and New York. Cary’s plays have collectively garnered him modest recognition in over two-dozen competitions across the country. He twice participated in the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival in 2014 and 2015 with his plays\, Ekphasia and The Divine Buoyancy of Being\, respectively. His play\, Djarum Vanilla\, was developed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC as part of their MFA New Play Festival\, in association with the National New Play Network and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Moreover\, this play received the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Rosa Parks Award for “Distinguished Achievement\,” the 2017 Tim Robbins Award in Playwriting\, the 2016 Leota Diesel Ashton Prize in Playwriting\, the 2016 Dramatics Club of St. Louis Award\, semifinalist status in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference\, and finalist status in Panndora Productions’s 10th Annual New Works Festival. His play\, A Wolf’s Mother\, was produced at UCLA as part of its 2019 MFA New Play Festival and was subsequently given a workshop production at the Garage Theater in Long Beach\, California\, as a winner of Panndora Production’s 12th Annual New Works Festival. His most recent project\, All the Oxytocin at Your Fingertips was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2020 National Playwrights Conference and is still under adjudication for the finals.   \n\n\n\n\nAtlanta Playwrights:\n\n\n\n\nMary Lynn Owen\nMary Lynn Owen is an Atlanta-based theater artist with a career spanning over forty years. Her first full-length script\, KNEAD\, a one-person play in which she also performed\, received its world premiere at The Alliance Theatre in November 2018.  KNEAD\, the recipient of the 2019 Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award and The Alliance Theatre’s Reiser Lab Award\, was also a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference.  Mary Lynn’s second full-length play\, LADY PARTS\, was a semi-finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference\, a selection for the 2019 Working Title Playwrights First Light Series\, and a selection for Theatrical Outfit’s 2020 Unexpected Play Festival.  Mary Lynn’s commissions include a ten-minute play\, TRAILERS\, for the 2019 MoJo Festival and the recent ’22 Homes Project’ by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her writing residencies include Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley\, WA and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap\, GA. As an actor\, Mary Lynn is a two-time Suzi Award winner for both Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role (WIT – Aurora Theatre) and Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role (THE LITTLE FOXES – Theatre in the Square) and an eight-time Suzi nominee. Recently\, she assumed the traditionally male role of The Stage Manager in the historic repertory of OUR TOWN and THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Theatrical Outfit.  She is a faculty member of Emory University’s Theater Studies Department where she teaches Introduction to Acting and yearly workshops in Teaching as Performance. Also at Emory\, she has curated for the Brave New Works Festival and developed an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese Department in the production of both new and classical Spanish/Latinx Theater.  She co-created the popular course\, ‘Taller de Teatro en Español – a Theater Workshop in Spanish\,’ a class designed to improve Spanish language proficiency through the use of Theater techniques.   \n\n\n\n\nWill Power\nWill Power is an internationally renowned playwright\, performer\, lyricist and educator. His plays and performances have been seen in hundreds of theaters and concert halls throughout the world including Lincoln Center (New York)\, The Public Theater (New York)\, The Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.)\, The Sydney Opera House\, as well as numerous venues in Asia\, Africa\, Europe and throughout North America.  Called “The best verse playwright in America” by New York Magazine\, Mr. Power is an innovator and dramatic explorer of new theatrical forms. He is known as one of the pioneers and co-creators of hip hop theater\, a late 20th Century art form that led the way for future iconic works such as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton\, as well as dozens of hip hop education programs being established throughout the country. Power is also a master craftsman of traditionally based plays and musicals. His straight play\, Fetch Clay\, Make Man\, has been produced in various LORT theaters and regional companies including the McCarter Theater\, New York Theater Workshop\, the Round House Theater\, True Colors Theater Company\, The Ensemble Theater\, and Marin Theater Company to name a few. Other plays include Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s Theater Company)\, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse\, New York Theater Workshop\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Seize the King (La Jolla Playhouse\, The Alliance Theater)\, and Detroit Red (Arts Emerson). Power’s collaboration with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and composer Julia Wolfe resulted in the performance piece Steel Hammer (Humana Festival\, UCLA Live\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, plus World tour). Power has received numerous awards for his work as a writer and performer in the field including The Doris Duke Artist Award\, an Andrew W. Mellon Playwright in Residence Grant\, a Lucille Lortel Award\, a United States Artist Prudential Fellowship\, an NEA/TCG Residency Grant\, TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award\, a NYFA Award\, and a Joyce Foundation Award. Power is also a passionate teacher of writing and performance. He has held fellowships\, residencies or faculty positions at the City College of New York\, Princeton University\, Wayne State University\, The University of Michigan at Flint\, Southern Methodist University\, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Currently\, Will Power is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of theater at Spelman College\, Atlanta. \n\n\n\n\nKimberly Belflower\nKimberly Belflower is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Her play\, Lost Girl\, is published by Samuel French and won the 2018 Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award. Her other plays include John Proctor is the Villain (2019 Kilroys List)\, Gondal\, The Use of Wildflowers\, and The Sky Game\, which have been commissioned\, produced\, and developed by Ojai Playwrights Conference\, South Coast Repertory Theatre\, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, The Farm Theatre\, We the Women Collective\, Peppercorn Theatre\, Less Than Rent Theatre\, Cohen New Works Festival\, as well as many colleges and universities across the country. Kimberly is currently a Playwriting Fellow at Emory University\, and has also worked as a writer and narrative lead for Meow Wolf\, Santa Fe’s celebrated immersive arts collective. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\nMark Kendall\nMark Kendall is an Atlanta-based comedian. He is an ensemble member at Dad’s Garage Theatre. His one man show\, “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness” was produced by the Alliance Theatre and he continues to tour the show around the country. Mark studied film at Northwestern University. He worked at Comedy Central through the Chris Rock Summer School Program for up and coming comedy writers of color. During his time at Comedy Central\, he got to pitch jokes to the writing staffs of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Mark was the Readers Pick for Best Comedian in Creative Loafing Atlanta in 2019. \n\n\n\n\nSteve Coulter\nSteve Coulter is an Atlanta-based actor and writer. He was the headwriter for both of Tyler Perry’s television series\, House of Payne and Meet the Browns\, where he supervised over 100 episodes and won two consecutive NAACP IMAGE Awards for Best Comedy Series. He wrote Alice Betweenfor the Alliance Theatre and directed the award-winning short film\, The Etiquette Man\, selected by the Sundance Channel and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. His screenplay\, Keesha’s House\, won the $100\,000 Southeastern Media Award.  As an actor\, he has had recurring roles in House of Cards\, The Walking Dead\, Brockmire\, and Yellowstone. Most recently\, he appeared in HBO’s Watchmen and the just released The Hunt. \n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\nRachel Karpf\nRachel Karpf is a cultural producer and was most recently the BOLD Artistic Producer of WP Theater in New York City\, overseeing projects including the Off-Broadway world premieres of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and Where We Stand. She previously served as Senior Producer for the international creative collective Guerilla Science\, where she produced the multidisciplinary Works on Water Festival and created science-inspired cultural programming in music festivals\, public parks\, nightclubs\, and more. Rachel has also produced and developed new theater with New Georges\, the Public Theater\, New York Theatre Workshop\, Page 73\, and Beth Morrison Projects. As an independent producer\, she has collaborated with artists including Martyna Majok\, Jackson Gay\, Kate Benson\, Lee Sunday Evans\, Obehi Janice\, and Caitlin Sullivan. Rachel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a former Time Warner Foundation Fellow.   \n\n\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Play Club Series
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Play Club Series\nThe Alliance Theatre will showcase the finalists of the 16th Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition by making all four scripts available to the public to read between April 9 – 24\, 2020. After the scripts have been available for a week\, the Alliance will begin hosting a free Virtual Play Club series where the public is invited to a live virtual meeting with the playwright to discuss the script. The Virtual Play Club series will culminate with an Artists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall.   \nRead the full scripts here.\nLearn how to read a play here. \nIf you RSVP’d\, you will receive the details for how to access those conversations on the day of your scheduled event.\nVirtual Play Club Schedule\nUnkindness\nby Logan Faust (NYU Tisch)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 16th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Matt Torney and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nUnkindness tells the story of Bonnie\, a grieving mother\, and Elijah\, a would-be prophet\, as they struggle to survive after their only motivations for survival\, their son and faith respectively\, are taken from them. When a desperate young mother with a dying child comes to them for help\, they must confront the only question that matters at the End of the World: what will you do to survive? Inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood\, the Bible’s First Book of Kings\, and the murder-spree of Bonnie and Clyde\, Unkindness is one Southerner’s attempt to reconcile the destructive and redemptive elements of our myriad\, modern-day interpretations of faith. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Logan Faust\, talking about the play: \n \nDjarum Vanilla\nby Cary Simowitz (UCLA)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 17th at 7:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Keith Bolden and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nNovember 2014. Missouri. The Darren Wilson verdict is imminent. Protests are becoming a daily part of life in Ferguson. The nascent Black Lives Matter movement is gaining national traction as racial tension in Missouri reaches a boiling point. To make matters worse\, rumors perpetuated by the media are spreading about the possibility of a race war igniting between a group of black teenagers and Bosnian immigrants. \nMeanwhile\, ten miles away from Ferguson at an aging gas station/autobody shop\, an unlikely friendship is fostered between a twenty-one-year-old black man named Malcolm and a poverty-stricken\, seventeen-year-old white girl named Bex after the pair discover a secret hidden beneath the front seat of an abandoned Maserati. In the coming weeks\, Malcolm and Bex are forced to test the boundaries of their friendship as the two are confronted with the harsh reality of living in a changing\, unjust America. \nWatch a video of playwright\, Cary Simowitz\, talking about the play: \n \nMonster\nby Ava Geyer (UCSD)\nRead it Now \nThursday\, April 23rd at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director January LaVoy and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins.  \nWhen self-help guru Drew Capuano’s compulsive masturbation comes to light\, he retains the services of the only person who will still represent him: his power hungry twenty-four year-old female assistant. Meanwhile\, survivor Mona Giotti works to make sure she’s put Drew away for good. Monster is a brutal and brutally funny odyssey through America’s media machine that puts perpetrator and survivor on a collision course of reckoning. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Ava Geyer\, talking about the play: \n \nStitched with a Sickle and a Hammer\nby Inna Tsyrlin (Ohio University)\nRead it Now \nFriday\, April 24th at 4:00pm\nIn conversation with the playwright\, director Lauren Morris and associate producer\, Amanda Watkins. \nAleksandra\, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe\, is forced to help Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power\, inside and outside the camp\, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution. \nWatch a video of the playwright\, Inna Tsyrlin\, talking about the play: \n \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Virtual Kendeda Play Club: Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98669661579?pwd=TWtMT1c2Q3FxQ1pSSEMwN252a1JUUT09\nPassword: 715537 \nArtists’ Roundtable\nFriday\, April 24 at 5:30pm \nArtists Roundtable Discussion moderated by Rachel Karpf\, former Artistic Producer\, WP Theater\, NYC\, and featuring all four Alliance/Kendeda Competition finalists\, as well as Atlanta playwrights Will Power\, Steve Coulter\, Kimberly Belflower\, Mary Lynn Owen\, and Mark Kendall. \nRSVP’s for this event are closed. To join the Zoom call: \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Apr 24\, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: Artist Roundtable Discussion \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/91226371416?pwd=SGZ6VTRCb055T1FxenNCbGU0V3ZaZz09\nPassword: 520926 \nRoundtable Artist Bios:\n2019/2020 Kendeda Winner:\n\n\n\n\nSteph Del Rosso\, 53% Of\nSteph Del Rosso is a writer based in New York. Her plays include: 53% Of (Alliance/ Kendeda winner)\, The Gradient (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis\, 2021)\, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea)\, Machinalia (JACK)\, Are You There? (UC-San Diego)\, You’re Crazy (a play with karaoke) (IAMA New Works Festival)\, and Life Savers. Her work has been developed at The Kennedy Center\, The Lark\, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference\, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference\, Colt Coeur\, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center\, the Los Angeles Theatre Center\, New York Stage and Film\, SPACE on Ryder Farm\, and others. She is the 19/20 Shank Playwright in Residence at The Public Theater and is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers’ Group. She is commissioned by Studio Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse and teaches Playwriting at NYU. \n\n\n\n\nKendeda Finalists:\n\n\n\n\nAva Geyer\, Monster \nAva Geyer received her BA from Princeton University in 2015 and MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego in 2019. Geyer is currently the Shank Resident Playwright at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater\, a member of EST/Youngblood\, and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recipient of Theater Masters’ 2020 Visionary Award. Her play Monster was a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. She was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Jerome Fellowship and semi-finalist for the Ingram New Works Lab. Her play Fruit Snacks appeared at the Hopeful Decade event in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn in January 2020. Her play B-Storm appeared at Theatre Row in May 2019 as part of Theater Masters’ Take Ten program honoring the best short plays by MFA playwrights across the country. Past plays include SERE (Wagner New Play Festival 2018) and Baby Teeth (WNPF ’17).   \n\n\n\n\nLogan Faust\, Unkindness\nLogan Faust is a Louisiana-born\, New York-based playwright\, television writer\, and actor who holds his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Before moving to New York\, he lived in New Orleans\, where he received his BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola University New Orleans. He currently works as Showrunner’s Assistant for Filthy Rich\, airing on Fox this Spring. A lifelong Southerner\, Faust’s work grapples with questions of religion\, absurdity\, and the End of the World; and are inspired by Samuel Beckett\, Flannery O’Connor\, Martin McDonagh\, and\, of course\, Tennessee Williams.  \n\n\n\n\nInna Tsyrlin\, Stitched With a Sickle and a Hammer\nInna Tsyrlin was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Australia during the collapse of the socialist state. Her work responds to ideas of political freedom through the lens of historical and current events\, identity in a diaspora\, and society’s responsibility to the natural environment. She received the Trisolini Graduate Fellowship (Ohio University) for her play Stitched with a Sickle and Hammer\, and the play was the 2019 Renaissance Theaterworks New Play Festival finalist (Milwaukee\, WI) and 2020 Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition finalist (Atlanta\, GA). Her work has been presented in New York City at The Rising Sun Performance Company\, Emerging Artists Theater\, HB Playwrights Theatre\, and Manhattan Repertory Theater. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. More about Inna: innatsyrlin.org  \n\n\n\n\nCary Simowitz\, Djarum Vanilla\nCary Simowitz recently graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater\, Film\, and Television with his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting. He is the author of five full-length plays\, three one acts\, and several ten- minute pieces\, in addition to multiple works of poetry and short fiction. He received his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 2016 and is licensed to practice law in Missouri and New York. Cary’s plays have collectively garnered him modest recognition in over two-dozen competitions across the country. He twice participated in the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival in 2014 and 2015 with his plays\, Ekphasia and The Divine Buoyancy of Being\, respectively. His play\, Djarum Vanilla\, was developed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC as part of their MFA New Play Festival\, in association with the National New Play Network and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Moreover\, this play received the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Rosa Parks Award for “Distinguished Achievement\,” the 2017 Tim Robbins Award in Playwriting\, the 2016 Leota Diesel Ashton Prize in Playwriting\, the 2016 Dramatics Club of St. Louis Award\, semifinalist status in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference\, and finalist status in Panndora Productions’s 10th Annual New Works Festival. His play\, A Wolf’s Mother\, was produced at UCLA as part of its 2019 MFA New Play Festival and was subsequently given a workshop production at the Garage Theater in Long Beach\, California\, as a winner of Panndora Production’s 12th Annual New Works Festival. His most recent project\, All the Oxytocin at Your Fingertips was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2020 National Playwrights Conference and is still under adjudication for the finals.   \n\n\n\n\nAtlanta Playwrights:\n\n\n\n\nMary Lynn Owen\nMary Lynn Owen is an Atlanta-based theater artist with a career spanning over forty years. Her first full-length script\, KNEAD\, a one-person play in which she also performed\, received its world premiere at The Alliance Theatre in November 2018.  KNEAD\, the recipient of the 2019 Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award and The Alliance Theatre’s Reiser Lab Award\, was also a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference.  Mary Lynn’s second full-length play\, LADY PARTS\, was a semi-finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference\, a selection for the 2019 Working Title Playwrights First Light Series\, and a selection for Theatrical Outfit’s 2020 Unexpected Play Festival.  Mary Lynn’s commissions include a ten-minute play\, TRAILERS\, for the 2019 MoJo Festival and the recent ’22 Homes Project’ by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her writing residencies include Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley\, WA and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap\, GA. As an actor\, Mary Lynn is a two-time Suzi Award winner for both Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role (WIT – Aurora Theatre) and Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role (THE LITTLE FOXES – Theatre in the Square) and an eight-time Suzi nominee. Recently\, she assumed the traditionally male role of The Stage Manager in the historic repertory of OUR TOWN and THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Theatrical Outfit.  She is a faculty member of Emory University’s Theater Studies Department where she teaches Introduction to Acting and yearly workshops in Teaching as Performance. Also at Emory\, she has curated for the Brave New Works Festival and developed an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese Department in the production of both new and classical Spanish/Latinx Theater.  She co-created the popular course\, ‘Taller de Teatro en Español – a Theater Workshop in Spanish\,’ a class designed to improve Spanish language proficiency through the use of Theater techniques.   \n\n\n\n\nWill Power\nWill Power is an internationally renowned playwright\, performer\, lyricist and educator. His plays and performances have been seen in hundreds of theaters and concert halls throughout the world including Lincoln Center (New York)\, The Public Theater (New York)\, The Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.)\, The Sydney Opera House\, as well as numerous venues in Asia\, Africa\, Europe and throughout North America.  Called “The best verse playwright in America” by New York Magazine\, Mr. Power is an innovator and dramatic explorer of new theatrical forms. He is known as one of the pioneers and co-creators of hip hop theater\, a late 20th Century art form that led the way for future iconic works such as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton\, as well as dozens of hip hop education programs being established throughout the country. Power is also a master craftsman of traditionally based plays and musicals. His straight play\, Fetch Clay\, Make Man\, has been produced in various LORT theaters and regional companies including the McCarter Theater\, New York Theater Workshop\, the Round House Theater\, True Colors Theater Company\, The Ensemble Theater\, and Marin Theater Company to name a few. Other plays include Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s Theater Company)\, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse\, New York Theater Workshop\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Seize the King (La Jolla Playhouse\, The Alliance Theater)\, and Detroit Red (Arts Emerson). Power’s collaboration with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and composer Julia Wolfe resulted in the performance piece Steel Hammer (Humana Festival\, UCLA Live\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, plus World tour). Power has received numerous awards for his work as a writer and performer in the field including The Doris Duke Artist Award\, an Andrew W. Mellon Playwright in Residence Grant\, a Lucille Lortel Award\, a United States Artist Prudential Fellowship\, an NEA/TCG Residency Grant\, TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award\, a NYFA Award\, and a Joyce Foundation Award. Power is also a passionate teacher of writing and performance. He has held fellowships\, residencies or faculty positions at the City College of New York\, Princeton University\, Wayne State University\, The University of Michigan at Flint\, Southern Methodist University\, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Currently\, Will Power is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of theater at Spelman College\, Atlanta. \n\n\n\n\nKimberly Belflower\nKimberly Belflower is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Her play\, Lost Girl\, is published by Samuel French and won the 2018 Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award. Her other plays include John Proctor is the Villain (2019 Kilroys List)\, Gondal\, The Use of Wildflowers\, and The Sky Game\, which have been commissioned\, produced\, and developed by Ojai Playwrights Conference\, South Coast Repertory Theatre\, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, The Farm Theatre\, We the Women Collective\, Peppercorn Theatre\, Less Than Rent Theatre\, Cohen New Works Festival\, as well as many colleges and universities across the country. Kimberly is currently a Playwriting Fellow at Emory University\, and has also worked as a writer and narrative lead for Meow Wolf\, Santa Fe’s celebrated immersive arts collective. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\nMark Kendall\nMark Kendall is an Atlanta-based comedian. He is an ensemble member at Dad’s Garage Theatre. His one man show\, “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness” was produced by the Alliance Theatre and he continues to tour the show around the country. Mark studied film at Northwestern University. He worked at Comedy Central through the Chris Rock Summer School Program for up and coming comedy writers of color. During his time at Comedy Central\, he got to pitch jokes to the writing staffs of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” Mark was the Readers Pick for Best Comedian in Creative Loafing Atlanta in 2019. \n\n\n\n\nSteve Coulter\nSteve Coulter is an Atlanta-based actor and writer. He was the headwriter for both of Tyler Perry’s television series\, House of Payne and Meet the Browns\, where he supervised over 100 episodes and won two consecutive NAACP IMAGE Awards for Best Comedy Series. He wrote Alice Betweenfor the Alliance Theatre and directed the award-winning short film\, The Etiquette Man\, selected by the Sundance Channel and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. His screenplay\, Keesha’s House\, won the $100\,000 Southeastern Media Award.  As an actor\, he has had recurring roles in House of Cards\, The Walking Dead\, Brockmire\, and Yellowstone. Most recently\, he appeared in HBO’s Watchmen and the just released The Hunt. \n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\nRachel Karpf\nRachel Karpf is a cultural producer and was most recently the BOLD Artistic Producer of WP Theater in New York City\, overseeing projects including the Off-Broadway world premieres of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and Where We Stand. She previously served as Senior Producer for the international creative collective Guerilla Science\, where she produced the multidisciplinary Works on Water Festival and created science-inspired cultural programming in music festivals\, public parks\, nightclubs\, and more. Rachel has also produced and developed new theater with New Georges\, the Public Theater\, New York Theatre Workshop\, Page 73\, and Beth Morrison Projects. As an independent producer\, she has collaborated with artists including Martyna Majok\, Jackson Gay\, Kate Benson\, Lee Sunday Evans\, Obehi Janice\, and Caitlin Sullivan. Rachel is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a former Time Warner Foundation Fellow.   \n\n\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. \n 
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Q&A with Laura Cole of Atlanta Shakespeare Company
DESCRIPTION:​ \nAfterWords: Q&A with Laura Cole from the Atlanta Shakespeare Company\nJoin us for a post-show discussion and Q&A with Laura Cole from the Atlanta Shakespeare Company as we discuss Seize the King and our pre-occupation with The Bard today.\nPurchase Tickets for this Performance of Seize the King \nLaura Cole is an Atlanta-based actor\, director\, and Director of Education and Training at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse. She is a specialist in Shakespeare’s original practices and has performed almost every single major female role in Shakespeare. Laura received her Bachelors of Science in Acting from Northwestern University.
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