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Seeking New Playwrights of Color

Seeking New Playwrights of Color

washu2002
#1Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/23/10 at 1:09pm

Please pass this message along to someone who may be interested.

Are you a playwright of color with little or no production experience?

A new weekly or bimonthly playwriting unit of 4-6 writers is forming with the objective of assisting in the development and critique of new work and to collectively explore avenues of production.

Once or twice a month, we will have an in-depth discussion of your script. This group will not only provide the accountability you need to get your first script on paper, but also feedback from other writers on perceived strengths and weaknesses, applications of drama theory, writing ideas and more. Occasionally, we may network with established writers and theater professionals. After a few months, we would like to self-produce a night of readings or a series of small-scale staged productions. We have full-time access to rehearsal loft space in Brooklyn.

We would prefer to work with writers on the more experimental/avant-garde scale. As of now, the group's plays deal heavily on the social and historical dynamics of race and racism but this isn't the only topic that interests us. Please, no Tyler Perry/urban drama/gospel plays. We welcome writers who take inspiration from the likes of Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan Lori-Parks, George C. Wolfe. We also welcome beginning and established playwrights writing traditionally structured plays like those of August Wilson, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. You should be queer-friendly but all sexual orientations are welcome and sexuality does not have to be a focus of your writing.

We hope you will join us in helping to build this collective. With dedication and directed energy to each other and to our craft, we can broadcast our voices and ensure each other's success.

If interested, please e-mail Chris at i n f o @ brand shire (dot) com
Updated On: 1/23/10 at 01:09 PM

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javero
#2Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 9:26pm

rotflmao @ "Please, no Tyler Perry/urban drama/gospel plays."

Thanks for sharing. I'll pass this on to a few DC-based aspiring playwrights. I gave up after my last unsuccessful stab at it.


#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.

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Jordan Catalano
#2Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 9:27pm

What color? Is white ok?

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javero
#3Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 9:30pm

"What color? Is white ok?"

That seems like an interesting topic for someone from the collective to explore.


#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
Updated On: 1/24/10 at 09:30 PM

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JerseyGirl2
#4Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:17pm

I on on the pale side of peach. Do I count?


Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

FindingNamo
#5Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:31pm

There goes my theory that you're Snooki.


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PiraguaGuy2
#6Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:31pm

I'm not really sure if you'd call me blue or green - I'm kinda turquoise-y. Do you need to see what my skin color can be classified as in person before I'm admitted to your club?


Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

FindingNamo
#7Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:43pm

See how white people are discriminated against? It's just awful. We were just talking about this over dinner at the club last weekend.


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javero
#8Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:09am

Yep, and we were talking the other day over dinner about how we could rock tefillin in the 20-10 as a fashion statement. Now, that would be da ish sho nuff.


#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.

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TheatreDiva90016
#9Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:09am

Isn't 'White' a color?


"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

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StockardFan
#10Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:13am

Actually I think that white is considered the absence of color. But whatever.


KFTC!!!!!

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TheatreDiva90016
#11Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:15am

Then, "Black" would be....?


Seeking New Playwrights of Color


"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

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Jane2
#12Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:22am

white is actually the combination of all colors in terms of light, while black reflects no light hence it has no color.


<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

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TheatreDiva90016
#13Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:24am

And, we have a winner!!!




So, I guess caucasians can enter this.


"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

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javero
#14Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:28am

"So, I guess caucasians can enter this."

I'd say so as long as they can pass the paper bag test.


#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.

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StockardFan
#15Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 2:10am

I thought white was absence of color and black was all colors but whatevs....LOL


KFTC!!!!!

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jacobtsf
#16Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:55am

StockardFan- When you deal with color in light white appears when you combine all colors. When you do something like paint black appears when you combine all colors.


David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

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D2
#17Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 10:03am

So there you have. Combine all the colors in light and you get white. Combine all the colors in paint and you get black.

Ergo, anyone can join.


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SNAFU
#18Seeking New Playwrights of Color
Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:51pm

It's only color and light.


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