BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Alliance Theatre - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Alliance Theatre
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20180311T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20181104T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20190310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20191103T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20200308T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20201101T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20210314T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20211107T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191023T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153458Z
UID:10000349-1571859000-1571859000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/talkback.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hertz Stage 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200117T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200117T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153457Z
UID:10000346-1579264200-1579264200@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/lunchtime20culture_2.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.79032;-84.3752
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Ave NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1345 Piedmont Ave NE:geo:-84.3752,33.79032
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191220T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191220T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153457Z
UID:10000347-1576845000-1576845000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/lunchtime20culture.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.79406;-84.3898
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Breman Museum 1440 Spring St NW Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1440 Spring St NW:geo:-84.3898,33.79406
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200221T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200221T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153456Z
UID:10000345-1582288200-1582288200@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Alliance Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200124T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153442Z
UID:10000344-1579888800-1579888800@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/pxp20mixer.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Alliance Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200120T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200120T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153441Z
UID:10000342-1579532400-1579532400@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/collision-MLK-2020.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Rich Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200209T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200209T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153441Z
UID:10000343-1581258600-1581258600@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MHEteaser1_2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Alliance Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200306T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153440Z
UID:10000340-1583524800-1583524800@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/seizetheking_1000x1000_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hertz Stage 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200120T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153440Z
UID:10000341-1579518000-1579518000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/collision-MLK-2020.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Rich Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200203T183000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153424Z
UID:10000338-1580754600-1580754600@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Curious20Conversations_3.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Alliance Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153424Z
UID:10000339-1581363000-1581363000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/atlbway.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.77378;-84.2964
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Eddie’s Attic 515 N McDonough St Decatur GA 30030 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=515 N McDonough St:geo:-84.2964,33.77378
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200214T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153423Z
UID:10000336-1581685200-1581685200@www.alliancetheatre.org
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.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/reviewing-theater-a-conversation-with-jesse-green-of-the-new-york-times/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/JesseGreen.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Woodruff Arts Center Memorial Arts Building 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200202T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200202T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T202052Z
UID:10000337-1580653800-1580653800@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-robotics-on-stage/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/robots.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Alliance Theatre 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200223T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200223T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T202053Z
UID:10000335-1582468200-1582468200@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-what-drives-us-to-be-good-or-bad/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/drmartajimenez.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hertz Stage 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T202015Z
UID:10000334-1583672400-1583672400@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 »
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/free-family-festival/
LOCATION:Woodruff Arts Center\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PPCC20_D6X8639_1.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Woodruff Arts Center 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta GA 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153409Z
UID:10000332-1587744000-1587744000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/virtual-play-club-series-4/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kendeda2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200424T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153409Z
UID:10000333-1587749400-1587749400@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/virtual-play-club-series-5/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kendeda2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200417T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153408Z
UID:10000330-1587150000-1587150000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/virtual-play-club-series-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kendeda2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153408Z
UID:10000331-1587657600-1587657600@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/virtual-play-club-series-3/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kendeda2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200301T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200301T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T202053Z
UID:10000328-1583073000-1583073000@www.alliancetheatre.org
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.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-qa-with-laura-cole-of-atlanta-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
GEO:33.78953;-84.3863
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hertz Stage 1280 Peachtree St NE Atlanta 30309 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1280 Peachtree St NE:geo:-84.3863,33.78953
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200416T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153405Z
UID:10000329-1587052800-1587052800@www.alliancetheatre.org
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 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/virtual-play-club-series/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kendeda2_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200724T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200724T235900
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153404Z
UID:10000326-1595635140-1595635140@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Buy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt
DESCRIPTION:Buy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt \nYour Story. Your Stage. Even when we’re away.\nThe theater is where our collective stories are brought to life. Help the Alliance continue to expand hearts and minds on stage and off.\n​ \nTaking inspiration from the curved woodwork of the new Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre\, this shirt lets you show your Alliance pride even while we are away from the theater. \nLike the ghost light that keeps our stage illuminated during dark times\, blue and teal glow across the arcs to shine light on the diverse stories we tell. \nBy supporting the Alliance\, you make possible our mission to expand hearts and minds on stage and off through innovative storytelling\, education outreach\, and deep engagement with our Atlanta community. \nBuy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/buy-an-alliance-theatre-t-shirt-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Offstage
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/flatlay-alternate1.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153404Z
UID:10000327-1588356000-1588356000@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Storytelling and Community
DESCRIPTION:What can theatre do at a moment of public crisis? Join us on Facebook Live for a conversation between Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Pearl Cleage that addresses how storytelling can sustain community during a period of crisis. \nKajese-Bolden and Cleage will discuss the play Sweat as a response to the 2008 economic crisis\, highlighting the voices of local experts on labor and immigration advocacy\, and reflect on their own journey as theater artists striving to center social issues in their work. The Facebook Live conversation will feature special guests from Atlanta’s theater community responding to how arts can address pressing civic concerns in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Q&A to follow. \nTune In Here \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\n\nTinashe Kajese-Bolden (Director) has directed a critically acclaimed production of Eclipsed at Synchronicity Theater (Best Director\, Suzi Bass Award); Graveyard Shift (finalist for the Kendeda playwriting festival); Nick’s Flamingo Grill with us at the Alliance\, and Atlanta 24 Hour Play event with Working Title Playwrights. Other directing credits include In The Continuum at Clark Atlanta University\, Blood On A Cat’s Neck\, Armory Theater and she will next be directing Native Garden at Virginia Stage. As an actor\, her Alliance Theatre credits include Hospice + Pointing at the Moon\, Shakespeare In Love\, Disgraced\, Blues For an Alabama Sky. Recently\, she remounted her role of Shelly in the Kenny Leon directed production of DOT by Coleman Domingo at the Billie Holiday Theater in New York. My eternal gratitude and love to my husband\, Keith\, for always pushing me to never give up!  \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\n\nPearl Cleage (Playwright) is currently Mellon Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre. Her world premieres at the Alliance include Angry\, Raucous\, and Shamelessly Gorgeous\, Pointing at the Moon\, What I Learned in Paris\, The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years\, Tell Me My Dream\, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Flyin’ West. She also serves as playwright for the Palefsky Collision Project\, an Alliance program for Atlanta area high school students. She and her husband\, writer Zaron W. Burnett\, Jr.\, recently collaborated with artist Radcliffe Bailey on In My Granny’s Garden\, a children’s book\, for The Mayor’s Reading Club 2019.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/storytelling-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200710T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200710T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153403Z
UID:10000325-1594339200-1594339200@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Buy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt
DESCRIPTION:Buy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt \nYour Story. Your Stage. Even when we’re away.\nThe theater is where our collective stories are brought to life. Help the Alliance continue to expand hearts and minds on stage and off.\n​ \nTaking inspiration from the curved woodwork of the new Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre\, this shirt lets you show your Alliance pride even while we are away from the theater. \nLike the ghost light that keeps our stage illuminated during dark times\, blue and teal glow across the arcs to shine light on the diverse stories we tell. \nBy supporting the Alliance\, you make possible our mission to expand hearts and minds on stage and off through innovative storytelling\, education outreach\, and deep engagement with our Atlanta community. \nBuy an Alliance Theatre T-Shirt
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/buy-an-alliance-theatre-t-shirt/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Offstage
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/flatlay-alternate1.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200724T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200724T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153350Z
UID:10000323-1595604600-1595604600@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Buy a Cloth Face Covering from our Costume Shop
DESCRIPTION:Buy a Cloth Face Covering from our Costume Shop\n \nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all Americans to cover their faces while out in public to prevent the spread of the COVID-19\, and face masks have been in high demand. In response\, artists from our costume shop have been making fabric face masks and distributing them to Emory Healthcare for weeks. To date we’ve delivered over 3\,000 fabric face masks to frontline workers\, and now\, we’d like to make them available to you for $10 per mask.* \nHere are some key fundamentals to wearing a cloth face covering correctly: \nOne of the most important requirements of an effective cloth face covering is that it covers your mouth and nose\, and fits snugly along all sides of your face―you don’t want any gaps that’ll allow extra air or virus particles to flow in. Keep in mind that wearing a nonsurgical face mask cannot completely prevent you from contracting COVID-19―if anything\, wearing a cloth face covering does more to prevent you from spreading the disease than it does to keep you from catching it. \nPurchase\n*Your purchase directly supports the work of the Alliance Theatre. Only available for shipping to the state of Georgia. For large orders (over 9 masks) please contact our group services department at 404-733-4690.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/buy-a-cloth-face-covering-from-our-costume-shop/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/masks_4.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201031T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201031T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153350Z
UID:10000324-1604158200-1604158200@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Buy a Cloth Face Covering from our Costume Shop
DESCRIPTION:Buy a Cloth Face Covering from our Costume Shop\n \nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all Americans to cover their faces while out in public to prevent the spread of the COVID-19\, and face masks have been in high demand. In response\, artists from our costume shop have been making fabric face masks and distributing them to Emory Healthcare for weeks. To date we’ve delivered over 3\,000 fabric face masks to frontline workers\, and now\, we’d like to make them available to you for $10 per mask.* \nHere are some key fundamentals to wearing a cloth face covering correctly: \nOne of the most important requirements of an effective cloth face covering is that it covers your mouth and nose\, and fits snugly along all sides of your face―you don’t want any gaps that’ll allow extra air or virus particles to flow in. Keep in mind that wearing a nonsurgical face mask cannot completely prevent you from contracting COVID-19―if anything\, wearing a cloth face covering does more to prevent you from spreading the disease than it does to keep you from catching it. \nPurchase\n*Your purchase directly supports the work of the Alliance Theatre. Only available for shipping to the state of Georgia. For large orders (over 9 masks) please contact our group services department at 404-733-4690.
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/buy-a-cloth-face-covering-from-our-costume-shop-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/masks_4.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T090000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153349Z
UID:10000321-1588323600-1588323600@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Native Guard
DESCRIPTION:Following our critically acclaimed 2014 premiere and 2017 production at the Atlanta History Center of Natasha Tretheway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry\, LA Theatre Works captured an audio recording with our original cast including January LaVoy\, Neal Ghant\, and Nicole Banks Long\, with original music by Tyrone Jackson. Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. In poetry and song\, she reflects on her mother’s passing while contemplating the former slaves who became soldiers in a regiment known as the Native Guard. We’d like to reshare this story with you. Purchase a mp3 download of the audio play recording through LA Theatre Works for $4.99. \nListen\nThis recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation. \nRecorded at The Invisible Studios\, West Hollywood in July 2018. \nWritten by Natasha Tretheway\nOur production was originally directed by Susan V. Booth\nComposer and Music Director\, Tyrone Jackson\nOriginal Sound Design\, Clay Benning\nJanuary LaVoy as The Poet\nThomas Neal Antwon Ghant as the Native Guard\nAnd featuring Nicole Banks Long on vocals and Tyrone Jackson on piano
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/native-guard/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Native-Guard_teaser_01_2_0_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200831T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200831T090000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153349Z
UID:10000322-1598864400-1598864400@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Native Guard
DESCRIPTION:Following our critically acclaimed 2014 premiere and 2017 production at the Atlanta History Center of Natasha Tretheway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry\, LA Theatre Works captured an audio recording with our original cast including January LaVoy\, Neal Ghant\, and Nicole Banks Long\, with original music by Tyrone Jackson. Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. In poetry and song\, she reflects on her mother’s passing while contemplating the former slaves who became soldiers in a regiment known as the Native Guard. We’d like to reshare this story with you. Purchase a mp3 download of the audio play recording through LA Theatre Works for $4.99. \nListen\nThis recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation. \nRecorded at The Invisible Studios\, West Hollywood in July 2018. \nWritten by Natasha Tretheway\nOur production was originally directed by Susan V. Booth\nComposer and Music Director\, Tyrone Jackson\nOriginal Sound Design\, Clay Benning\nJanuary LaVoy as The Poet\nThomas Neal Antwon Ghant as the Native Guard\nAnd featuring Nicole Banks Long on vocals and Tyrone Jackson on piano
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/native-guard-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Native-Guard_teaser_01_2_0_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153348Z
UID:10000320-1595687400-1595687400@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:19th Annual Palefsky Collision Project Performance
DESCRIPTION:Alliance Theatre Palefsky Collision Project performance\nJuly 25\, 2:30 PM\nRSVP for free tickets to this live streamed performance HERE \nThe Alliance Theatre’s Palefsky Collision Project\, now in its 19th year\, is a program that gives high-school students a platform to tackle important social issues. Under the guidance of Playwright & Author Pearl Cleage\, twenty Atlanta students will devise and present a world premiere play inspired by the novel White Rose. Based on the true story of the student-led resistance group who challenged the Nazi regime during World War II\, White Rose is an inspiring story that allows the teens to explore ideas of what it means to be an ally to oppressed people and how young people can respond to injustice. \nLearn more about the Palefsky Collision Project here \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/19th-annual-palefsky-collision-project-performance/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/collision-20202_1.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201015T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T073258
CREATED:20250808T153346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T153346Z
UID:10000318-1602788400-1602788400@www.alliancetheatre.org
SUMMARY:Black LGBTQ Narratives
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with \nThis conversation focuses on the intersections of Black\, gay\, and trans identities\, and the legacy and work of Black artists within both the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ rights movement. Featuring a screening of a film short from the co-directors of Hands Up\, introduced by playwright Nathan Yungerberg\, and a performance from artist E. Patrick Johnson. \nModerated by Charles Stephens\, The Counter Narrative Project\nE. Patrick Johnson\, Performer and Professor of African American Studies; Author of Sweet Tea\nNathan Yungerberg\, Playwright and Author of “Holes in My Identity”\nTrevor Perry\, Actor and Drag Performer\nThandiwe Thomas DeShazor\, Writer\, Actor\, Comedian\nTAYLOR ALXNDR\, Musician\, Drag Performer\, and Community Organizer \nThursday\, October 15th at 7pm EST\n  \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\nCharles Stephens is the Founder and Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project. He is committed to working at the intersection of art\, culture\, and social justice. Charles served as the Conference Organizer for the historic 2014 conference “Whose Beloved Community Black Civil and LGBT Rights” at Emory University. He also led the innovative social marketing campaign “From Where I Stand” for AID Atlanta. The anthology he co-edited Black Gay Genius\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Charlies received the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award and received the Gentleman of the Year Award from the Gentlemen’s Foundation. He has also been a CDC Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership Fellow\, an Arcus Foundation Executive Director Fellow\, and a Rockwood Leader in the HIV movement fellow.  His writings have appeared in the AJC\, Atlanta Magazine\, and Creative Loafing. He previously wrote a column for Advocate magazine and Georgia Voice focused on Black LGBTQ+ politics and culture. A native Georgian\, Charles received his B.A. from Georgia State University in 2005. He is also a member of the Alliance Theatre Advisory Board. \n\n\n\n​ \n\n\nE. Patrick Johnson is Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is a 2020 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A scholar/artist\, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race\, gender\, sexuality and performance. Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar\, and an inspiring teacher\, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies\, Performance studies\, and Gender and Sexuality studies. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke UP\, 2003)\, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (University of North Carolina UP\, 2008); Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press\, 2018)\, and\, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Duke UP\, 2019). He is the editor of Cultural Struggles: Performance\, Ethnography\, Praxis by Dwight Conquergood (Michigan UP\, 2013); No Tea\, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (Duke UP\, 2016); and the co-editor (with Mae G. Henderson) of Black Queer Studies—A Critical Anthology (Duke UP\, 2005); and (with Ramón Rivera-Servera) of solo/black/woman: scripts\, interviews\, and essays (Northwestern UP\, 2013) and Blacktino Queer Performance (Duke UP\, 2016).  \nHe has received multiple awards for his scholarship\, including the Lilla A. Heston Award\, the Errol Hill Book Award\, Hurston/Wright Legacy Book Finalist\, Stonewall Book Award Honor Book\, Lambda Literary LGBTQ Studies Book Award Finalist\, the Randy Majors Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to LGBT Scholarship in Communication\, Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist\, Lambda Literary LGBTQ Anthology Award Finalist. \nJohnson’s performance work dovetails with his written work. His staged reading\, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” is based on his book\, Sweet Tea\, and has toured to over 100 college campuses from 2006 to the present\, and his full-length stage play\, Sweet Tea—The Play\, premiered in Chicago and toured to Austin\, Texas\, Washington\, DC\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, Durham\, North Carolina and the National Black Theater Festival. The playscript was published by Northwestern University Press (2020). He is one of the subjects and co-executive producer (with John L. Jackson\, Jr.) of the documentary\, Making Sweet Tea\, based on his book and play. \nJohnson has received many awards for his performance work\, including the Leslie Irene Coger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Performance from the National Communication Association\, the Bert Williams Award for Best Solo Performance\, from the Chicago Black Theater Alliance\, and the René Castillo Otto Award for Political Theater. And his film Making Sweet Tea has also received several awards\, including the Judges’ Choice Award at the Longleaf Film Festival\, Best Documentary Audience Award at the Kansas City International Film Festival\, Best LGBTQ Film at the San Diego Film Festival\, Best Documentary Audience Award at the Out on Film Festival\, and the Silver Image Award from the Association of American Retired Persons (AARP) for Positive Representation of LGBTQ People over Fifty at the Chicago Reeling LGBTQ Film Festival. In 2010 he was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\nNathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based Afrosurrealist and storyteller whose plays have been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre\, JAG Productions\, LAByrinth Theater\, Lorraine Hansberry Theater\, The National Black Theatre\, The Fire This Time Festival\, 48 Hours in Harlem\, The Lark\, Roundabout Theatre Company\, The Playwrights’ Center\, American Blues Theater\, Crowded Fire Theater Climate Change Theatre Action\, The Sheen Center\, The August Wilson Red Door Project\, Climate Change Theatre Action\, The Bushwick Starr\, and BBC Radio Afternoon Drama. He is one of seven Black playwrights commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights\, 7 Testaments\, which was published by Samuel French. Awards and honors: 2017 Mentor Project with Stephen Adly Guirgis\, Blue Ink Playwriting Award (Finalist)\, 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist\, The 2016 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist)\, Ken Davenport 10-Minute Play Festival (Winner). \n\n\n\n​ \n\nTrevor Rayshay Perry; They/Them is beyond thrilled to be a part of this panel. As an non-binary artist Trevor lives for new and intresting works and is so thankful for an opportunity that lets them represent their community. Previous Atlanta credits include: Pythio in Head Over Heels (Actor’s Express)\, Ensemble/Soloist in RENT (Actor’s Express)\, Eat Moe in Five Guys Named Moe (Theatrical Outfit)\, Willie in The View Upstairs (Out Front Theatre)\, and The Emcee in The Red Room Cabaret (The Alliance Theatre). Trevor is a graduate of Western Carolina University with a B.F.A. in Theatre with a concentration in acting. While there he studied with Broadway legend Terrence Mann. They would like to thank their partner Nicholas for all of his support and love! They would also love to dedicate this show to the memory to their mother Maxine. Follow them @MusicklyGifted on Instagram\n\n\n\n​ \n\n\nThandiwe Thomas DeShazor is an Atlanta based actor\, writer\, producer\, and director. He is an alumnus of Oakland University’s Meadowbrook Theater Apprenticeship Program and a recipient of the San Francisco’s Queer Cultural Center Grant for his one-man-show “Children of the Last Days”\, a comedy about the intersections of Black church and the LGBT community. Thandiwe has performed and collaborated on new and experimental work throughout the country including “Before the Dream: The Mysterious Life and Death Of Richard Wright” (Oakland Public Theater)\, “Pomo Afro Homo’s Fierce Love” (National Tour)\, and “Armstrong’s Kid” (off-Broadway). Thandiwe is a founding board member of Oakland LGBT Pride and served as their marketing chair in 2010 and 2011. Thandiwe served as the Artistic Director director of Black Girlz Productions a touring urban theater company. \nSince moving to Atlanta\, his theater credits include\, “Tomcat”\, The Legend Of Georgia McBride” (Actor’s Express”) and “Angels in America” (Actor’s Express). Thandi’s tv credits include Homicide Hunter\, Swamp Murders Fatal Attraction. He can be seen in 2018 in Murder Chose Me and in a re-occurring role in AMC’s Lodge 49. Thandi’s artist collaboration business\, Thandi & Company has partnered with Blake Vision Entertainment to write and produce musical biographies of soul music legends\, Little Richard\, Diana Ross\, and Aretha Franklin and tour throughout metro Atlanta. \nSince the pandemic\, Thandi accidentally became an essential worker. He began the year teaching acting/improv to at risk emerging adults interested in careers in the arts. Because the facility provides essential needs (showers\, food\, etc.) he’s become essential. \nHe’s also been directing productions and readings in the zoom platform; “one in two” by Donja R. Love\, “The Grand Transsexual Draweth Nigh” by Sloka Krishnan and currently The Harlem Connection: Paris\, Negritude\, and the Harlem Renaissance with Théâtre du Rêve\, Atlanta’s French language theater company. \nHe and his husband live in Atlanta with their 7 year old daughter. \n\n\n\n\n​ \n\n\nTAYLOR ALXNDR (they/she) is a DIY musician\, drag performer\, and community organizer based in Atlanta\, GA. Raised in the rural edges of the metro area\, ALXNDR has been creating in and captivating Atlanta and beyond since 2011. \nALXNDR is the co-founder and current executive director of Southern Fried Queer Pride (SFQP)\, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization empowering Black queer and QTPOC centered communities in the South through the arts. They are also the mother of the House of ALXNDR\, an Atlanta-based drag family and events hub\, creating drag-centered\, inclusive events. \n\n\n\n\nSee additional conversations and events taking place as part of the HANDS UP ATLANTA: Art & Activism series. \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/black-lgbtq-narratives/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/handsup-preview_0.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance Theatre":MAILTO:allianceinfo@alliancetheatre.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR