Seeking New Playwrights of Color

[washu2002]

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

[javero]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 9:27pm

What color? Is white ok?

[javero]

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.

Updated On: 1/24/10 at 09:30 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:17pm

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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:31pm

There goes my theory that you're Snooki.

[PiraguaGuy2]

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?

[FindingNamo]

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.

[javero]

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.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:09am

Isn't 'White' a color?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:13am

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

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:15am

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

[Jane2]

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.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:24am

And, we have a winner!!!




So, I guess caucasians can enter this.

[javero]

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.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 2:10am

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

[jacobtsf]

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.

[D2]

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.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:51pm

It's only color and light.