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2014-2015 Alumni Playwrights About the Alumni Playwrights Group W e love the playwrights we produce, and after we do their shows, we just can’t say good- bye. That’s why we started the Alumni Playwrights Program! Our past writers meet once a month to read and discuss their latest work. Then, once a year, we get to help nurture and develop their exciting new plays in The Next Edition Festival, a series of readings designed to provide the next step in their playwriting process. T he greatest impact we can have on a playwright’s career is a full-scale production, so this season, The Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production. This full Off-Broadway production will be dedicated to mounting work by our Alumni Playwrights, starting with Anton Dudley’s City Of in January of 2015! TABLE OF CONTENTS anton DUDLEY ethan LIPTON gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO jen SILVERMAN christopher WALL lauren YEE anna ZIEGLER 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

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Page 1: Alumni Playwrights: The Look Book

2014-2015 Alumni Playwrights

About the Alumni Playwrights Group

We love the playwrights we produce, and after we do their shows, we just can’t say good-

bye. That’s why we started the Alumni Playwrights Program! Our past writers meet once a month to read and discuss their latest work. Then, once a year, we get to help nurture and develop their exciting new plays in The Next Edition Festival, a series of readings designed to provide the next step in their playwriting process.

The greatest impact we can have on a playwright’s career is a full-scale production,

so this season, The Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production. This full Off-Broadway production will be dedicated to mounting work by our Alumni Playwrights, starting with Anton Dudley’s City Of in January of 2015!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

anton DUDLEY

ethan LIPTON

gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO

jen SILVERMAN

christopher WALL

lauren YEE

anna ZIEGLER

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anton DUDLEY

/I’m currently working on three new musical commissions. Oh yeah, and I have this

play City Of opening at this awesome theater company in January, 2015. In April, 2015,

What are you working on now?

Absinthe.The drink of museums and sewersOne glass and you’ll end up in one or the other. - CITY OF

2008 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: Montreal, QuebecCurrent City: Brooklyn, NY

anton DUDLEY

Anton Dudley’s Off-Broadway productions include Substitution (Playwrights Realm featuring Jan Maxwell), Getting Home (Second Stage Theatre directed by David Schweizer), Honor and the River (Theatre Row featuring Jan Maxwell), and Slag Heap (Cherry Lane Theatre featuring Vincent Kartheiser). Other productions include A Dram of Drummhicit [co-written with Arthur Kopit] (LaJolla Playhouse directed by Christopher Ashley), Honor and the River (Walnut Street Theatre, Luna Stage, New York Stage & Film), Cold Hard Cash (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Letters to the End of the World (Finalist for 2012 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Drama), Davy & Stu (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and The Lake’s End (Adirondack Theatre Festival featuring Jason Butler Harner). His work has been commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club, Playscripts Inc, Cherry Lane Theatre, Stella Adler Studio, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, and is published by Playscripts, Heuer Publishing, Heinemann Press, Backstage Books, Vintage, and Samuel French. The award-winning short film of Davy & Stu, directed by Soman Chainani, appears on Strand Releasing’s Boys Life 6. More info at www.antondudley.net

BIOGRAPHY

I’m a vegetarian.

How spicy do you like your buffalo wings?

It’d be called YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT?!?! I’m a fairly out of the box thinker, so each week I’d get a different entry level job in an industry that requires strict adherence to a system of labor. I’d love it if either Holland Taylor or that British woman from The Weakest Link would host.

If you got your own reality show, what would be the premise?

• 17 Orchard Point (with Stephanie Di Maggio)

• Bob• Cage Fight• City Of• Cold Hard Cash• A Dram of Drummhicit

(with Arthur Kopit)• edWARd2• The Empty Ocean• Flight of Kings

PLAYS

• Circumvention• January 1st, 2000• Pleaching the Coffin Sisters• The Queen of Pop

Full-length Plays

One-Act Plays

• Fluid Love• Getting Home• Honor and the River• The Lake’s End• Letters to the End of the World• Moving On• Peter and the Wiley Wolf… Unplugged• Slag Heap• Spamlet• Still Life• Substitution

• Antarctica• Davy & Stu• Faith in Gods• Pop!• Up Here/In Here

Ten-Minute Plays

my new musical Give It Up! will premier at Adelphi University’s Olmsted Theater, as part of their year-long initiative, the Changing Nature of War and Peace.

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Ethan Lipton’s plays have been seen in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, London, Edinburgh, and Berne, Austria. His musical No Place to Go was commissioned by Joe’s Pub and produced by the Public Theater in 2012, for which he won an Obie Award. No Place to Go was later produced at Two River Theatre in Red Bank, NJ and at the Gate Theatre in London. It has also been presented in concert in more than 20 cities around the US and UK. He is an alumnus of the Public’s Emerging Writers Group, as well as the Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Realm writers groups. He was also the inaugural Playwrights Realm Page One Playwright. Ethan has received a NYFA grant, a Drama-Logue Award, and commissions from Playwrights Horizons, True Love Productions, NYSCA (via Clubbed Thumb), Barrington Stage Company and the NEA (via Joe’s Pub). He has been a Kesselring Prize nominee, an O’Neill Conference finalist, a Kleban award finalist, and a resident playwright at New York Stage and Film. His play Luther was published in THEATER (Duke/Yale) in Winter 2013. With his band, Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra (“Best Lounge Act” New York Magazine), he has released five albums and played throughout New York and beyond including Joe’s Pub, Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCA, ATP in East Sussex (UK), Grand Performances in LA and at Portsmouth Music Hall. The band has been featured on radio shows such as “Weekend Edition,” “Word of Mouth,” “The World,” and “Soundcheck” and on the Clash cover album “Sandinista.” As a performer Ethan originated the role of Klipspringer in Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz, and he has worked with artists including Laurie Anderson, Cynthia Hopkins and Matt Berninger of The National. More info at www.ethanlipton.com

BIOGRAPHY

Knock-knock. Who’s there? Disney. Disney who? Disney feel fine but dat knee been bodderin’ me.

What’s the worst joke that you know?

ethan LIPTON

• Red-Handed Otter• Luther• No Place to Go (a song cycle)• The Barber and the Farmer,

a play for computer• Goodbye April, Hello May• 100 Aspects of the Moon• Meat• Hope on the Range

PLAYS

ethan LIPTON

/In November I have three NYC workshops for commissioned plays. In the Next Edition

Festival, Leigh Silverman is directing Goodbye April, Hello May, which is a play I had a small production of seven years ago, and which Barrington Stage Company has invited me to further develop (very rare to get a chance to revisit an older piece, especially one I felt I hadn’t gotten quite right the first time).

What are you working on now?

I will find the cat a proper home, with an owner who is capable of caring for it, one who has not been withholding affection from all god’s creatures his entire life and in so doing missed out on the most mystical part of the human drama.- RED-HANDED OTTER

The following week Anne Kaufman is directing a workshop of The Agonist for Playwrights Horizons, and the week after that, Leigh is directing Tumacho, a project we’ve been developing for Clubbed Thumb for two years. I also continue to tour No Place To Go, a song cycle I wrote for my band, which premiered in 2012 at Joe’s Pub. We’ll be performing that in January at the Texas Center for the Performing Arts and Purdue’s Convocations series.

2012 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: San Fernando Valley, LACurrent City: Red Hook, Brooklyn

What would you title your memoirs?

"I Could Have Been an Adjunct Professor."

I thought you were great in “Blue Lagoon.”

Is there anything you would like to say to the boy/girl who rejected you in junior high?

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Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco is a playwright, screenwriter and translator from Peru. His most recent works include the opening in Lima of El hombre del subsuelo, an adaptation of Dostoyevski’s Notes from the Underground written with Josué Méndez and a new staging of his play Assunto de Três, performed in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His play Dramatis Personae was produced Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, in 2010. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama (MFA in Playwriting, 2009). His short radio play Taxi Scene was broadcast by the BBC World Service in 2003. His translation credits include: Marisol by José Rivera, A Chorus Line by Hamlisch and Kleban, The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Richard O’Brien, The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam, The Thirty-Nine Steps by Patrick Barlow, In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl, Altar Boyz by Kevin del Águila, Communicating Doors, Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn, In on It by Daniel McIvor, The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard and Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright. His first feature film El Vientre (The Womb) opened to great success in Peru in 2014. More info at www.gonzalorodriguezrisco.com

BIOGRAPHY

“iCrap!” (The emotion you feel when you buy a tech gizmo and the newer one comes out a week later.)

What emotion or experience do you think there should be a word for?

Yes! I almost killed one of my students when he said it a few weeks ago.

Do you believe in the curse of the Scottish play?

• El Hombre del Subsuelo (with José Méndez)

• Nunca Llueve en Lima• Purgatorio (with Julia Thays)• Hoy Prometo No Mentir• Cuarenta• Flores (de plástico) en el Jardín• Carmín, El Musical• The French Play• Dramatis Personae

PLAYS

• The End of Vaudeville• Gay Play• Threesome• Father/Son (Monologue)• Journey to Santiago• Servicio Íntimo Exclusivo para Damas• Pensión

Full-length Plays

Short Plays

• Expiration• Tv-Terapia• El Musical (Musical)• Mal-Criadas (con Diego La Hoz)• Generación Y• La Manzana Prohibida• Un Verso Pasajero• El Último Invitado• 101 Dálmatas (Musical)• El Cielo y Tú (with José Enrique Mavila)

• Asunto de Tres• Vesti La Giubba• Rainbow• Juegos de Manos• Waiting for the President• Juicio de Medea

gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO

/Right now I’m working on a new film, still untitled, that will shoot in February 2015,

all I can say is that it’s a horror film dealing with ghosts. I’m also working on a new musical with

What are you working on now?

gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO

Alright. Here comes the part I can’t explain. I had a brother; Marc. He died almost eight years ago. I saw him, sometimes, while I was writing my book... Not like a ghost or hallucination, but more like a song that you can’t get out of your head. - DRAMATIS PERSONAE

2010 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: Lima, Peru Current City: Lima, Peru

an amazing composer, a couple of translations that will open next year and a new play called Hijos de la República [Sons of the Republic] that has been taking away my sleep for months. A busy year is coming up!

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Jen Silverman is a New York based playwright whose work has been produced off-Broadway by The Playwrights Realm, off-off Broadway by Clubbed Thumb (Phoebe in Winter), regionally at InterAct (The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane, upcoming), and commissioned and produced by Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. She is an affiliated artist with New Georges, Ars Nova, The Playwrights Realm, The Lark, and Youngblood/EST. She is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and has developed work with Playwrights Horizons, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, NY Stage & Film/ Powerhouse, Williamstown, PlayPenn, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, New York Theatre Workshop, and The New Harmony Project. Her play The Hunters was selected for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project (mentor Lynn Nottage). Her play Still won the Yale Drama Series Award, and received a reading at Lincoln Center. She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, an NYFA grant, and a Leah Ryan / Lilly Award. BA: Brown. MFA: Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She currently holds a Lila Acheson Wallace fellowship at Juilliard. More info at www.jensilverman.com

BIOGRAPHY

Really lost and unwashed ones, with strange haircuts and fluid pronouns.

If you become wildly famous, what kind of teenagers will be obsessed with you?

Fish eyeballs. I KNOW I KNOW. But the people I was with were like, “Listen foreign barbarian, this is a delicacy.” So I ate them. And then they all laughed really hard and were like, “Just kidding, fish eyeballs are disgusting, we don’t actually eat that.” But by then it was too late.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

• All the Roads Home• The Moors• Wild Blue• Still• Wink• Phoebe In Winter• The Hunters• Crane Story

PLAYS

jen SILVERMAN

Other New York subway riders, specifically the dude in the sweatpants with the jock itch, you know that dude, who sits with his legs wide open and takes up 3 seats and asks you if you want to go home with him. NO, SWEATPANTS DUDE, NONE OF US DO, AND EVEN YOUR MOTHER HATES YOU.

Who or what is your nemesis?

/A commission for Playwrights Horizons Theatre School called That Poor Girl And How

He Killed Her. It’s being written for a cast of 9 graduating students and will go up in December.

A musical commission for Ars Nova, with musician/ lyricist Shaina Taub. It’s tentatively titled Robin, and is a contemporary exploration of the Robin Hood legend, with women.

What are you working on now?

I think, Miss Vandergaard, you know very little about women and what they are capable of. In your time here on the moors, perhaps you will become more knowledgeable. - THE MOORS

2011 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: Simsbury, CT, but also, it’s complicated. Current City: Astoria, Queens

jen SILVERMAN

A commission for InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, called The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane. It tells the story of a woman forced to return home to South Africa when her former lover, a queer activist, goes missing. I started writing it in 2011 - we’ll be going into production in January, so I’m working on a final production-ready draft.

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Invisibility. I’m creepy that way.

Pick a superpower: invisibility, or flight?

Tell your life story in a single tweet.

• Shake and Be Saved!• Some Other Place• dreams of the washer king• Couldn’t Say• Elmo on the Half Shell• Dumpster Dan

PLAYS

Guanciale. Difficult to spell, impossible to forget. Made of pig cheeks.

Which pizza topping is a reflection of your soul?

christopher WALL

Christopher’s play dreams of the washer king premiered Off Broadway at the Playwrights Realm (Backstage Critic’s Pick) and was subsequently produced in LA. Other productions include Couldn’t Say at Charter Theatre and Some Other Place at Black Dog, both in DC. His plays have been developed at Abingdon in New York, Kitchen Dog in Dallas, RoundHouse in Maryland, HotCity in St. Louis, and at the Last Frontier Theater Conference. He’s been a finalist at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance, New Harmony, and other festivals. His nonfiction has appeared in the LA Review of Books, The Missouri Review, Poets & Writers, and other publications, and three of his works have been cited as a Notable Essay of the year in the Best American Essays anthology. He was a fellow at the Norman Mailer Center last summer and was interviewed on the Leonard Lopate show in 2007, where he read from his prize-winning essay, “The Size of the Room.” He has a BA from Dartmouth and an MFA from New York University.

More info at: www.christopherwall.org

BIOGRAPHY

christopher WALL

/In addition to The Calamity, I’m still working on One-Man Farce, a play about the challenges

of doing theater. A middle-aged actor tries to play all the parts in a murder mystery after

What are you working on now?

Set us against each other and lock the door and what do you expect? People are half crazed already. Wait till this thing rides into town on a flea’s ass or whatever and see how well we cooperate.- THE CALAMITY

everyone else drops out of the production because of opportunities in film, or television, or because, well, you just can’t make a living doing theater. I’m also working on a book about fatherhood.

2010 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: New Haven, CTCurrent City: Brooklyn, NY

He came. He saw. He slipped.

If you had to go back to preschool, how do you think you would do?

Awesome. Except for the sharing, and the sleeping, and the riding of tricycles.

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Lauren Yee’s plays include Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian, Mu Performing Arts, SIS Productions, Impact Theatre), Crevice (Impact Theatre), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Playwrights Realm, The Hub, Moxie Theatre, AlterTheater, PlayPenn), Hookman (Company One workshop), in a word (Hangar and Williamstown workshops), King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre commission), Samsara (O’Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Victory Gardens’ IGNITION Festival), and The Tiger Among Us (MAP Fund, Mu Performing Arts). Upcoming productions in the 2014/15 season at Victory Gardens, San Francisco Playhouse, the Cleveland Public Theatre, Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, and Encore Theatre.

Work recently developed at the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center/LCT3, the Magic Theatre, The Public, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and Kitchen Dog Theatre. Former Shank playwriting fellow at Second Stage, Dramatists Guild fellow, MacDowell fellow, and Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member.

Fellowships: Women’s Project Lab, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, Playwrights Realm Page One residency, Playwrights’ Center Core Writer. Commissions: Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center/LCT3, Mixed Blood, Encore Theatre, and TheatreworksUSA. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD.

More info at www.laurenyee.com

BIOGRAPHY

Cypress Grove’s Humboldt Fog is not only a Northern California creation but is also “subtle, tangy” and with a “distinctive layer of edible vegetable ash.” Fun, bright, lots of surprises, and totally transportive. (And great with salads.)

What type of cheese is best representative of your writing style?

• Cassandra at the Door (working title)

• Ching Chong Chinaman• Crevice• The Dinner Party Play (working title)

• The Hatmaker’s Wife• Hookman• in a word• King of the Yees• Samsara• The Tiger Among Us

PLAYS

lauren YEE

lauren YEE

/I’ve been working on a commission from the Goodman Theatre that I’m calling King of

the Yees. It’s a joyride exploring the death of Chinatown and culturally specific institutions through a wildly theatrical lens. It also delves into my relationship with my father (who has always deserved a play of his own) and everything I love and less-than-love about Chinese culture in America.

What are you working on now?I’m also working on Cassandra at the Door, a modern-day take on the Oresteia’s Cassandra, smashed up with the story of Saddam Hussein’s favorite daughter, another princess whose family fell out of power when their country was invaded.

2013 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: San Francisco, CACurrent City: Brooklyn, NY

NO ONE THEY BECOME BEST TYPE PERSONUNLESS THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT WHAT IT IS THEY COME FROMAND YOU?YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT - THE HATMAKER’S WIFE

The other Lauren Yee She is a former child beauty pageant queen. Google image “Lauren Yee” and you’ll see what my childhood could have been like.

Who or what is your nemesis?

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Anna Ziegler’s plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Magic Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Theater J, DR2 (W.E.T.), Cherry Lane Theatre (Playwrights Realm), Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Summer Play Festival (SPF), The Fountain Theatre, English Theatre of Berlin, Theatre503 (UK), Synchronicity Theatre, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Vermont Stage Company, among others. She has received commissions from The Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company and New Georges. Awards include the STAGE Award, Weissberger Award (finalist), Edgerton New Play Prize, Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize and NYIT Award nomination for Best Short Play (2011, 2012). She has participated in residencies and workshops at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Arena Stage, PlayLabs (Playwrights Center), Chautauqua Theater Company, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, Lark Playwrights Workshop, McCarter Playwrights Retreat, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Araca Group, Old Vic New Voices, TimeLine Theatre Timepieces Reading Series, First Light Festival (EST), terraNOVA Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, Orchard Project, Space at Ryder Farm, Ars Nova, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Primary Stages, Geva Theatre Center, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival and The New Group. Publications include New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 and DPS editions of BFF, Life Science and Photograph 51. Film credits include a screenplay adaptation of Photograph 51 funded by a Tribeca Film Institute/Sloan Foundation grant. Ms. Ziegler has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

More info at http://annabziegler.net/

BIOGRAPHY

The hottest day in summer or the coldest day in winter?

WINTER. Bring it on.

• Boy• Photograph 51• A Delicate Ship• Another Way Home

(also known as An Incident)• The Minotaur• Variations on a Theme• Dov and Ali• Novel• BFF• Life Science

PLAYS

anna ZIEGLER

/I’m working on a commission from Seattle Rep that’s an adaptation of a book called

The Lost Bank. I also have a rewrite commission from Ensemble Studio Theatre of my play Boy, which will be featured as a workshop in their

What are you working on now?

anna ZIEGLER

And my dear Samantha, no—you are no monster, no matter what your mother says to you in a fleeting moment of frustration. Or if you are, I am too, and we are monsters together. - BOY

2009 ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY Current City: Brooklyn, NY

First Light Festival this December, and as a reading in TimeLine Theatre’s TimePieces Reading Series on October 29 in Chicago. Then there’s my new play The Last Match, and a musical about the child prodigy Lenny Ross.

Nerdy girls.

If you become wildly famous, what kind of teenagers will be obsessed with you?

Who is your favorite first lady?

Lady Bird Johnson. For her name alone. My dog growing up was Zoe Bird Ziegler, in a total name homage.

Not a penguin and not a flamingo and I can’t think of any other flightless birds.

Which flightless bird, living or extinct, do you most resemble?

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About the Realm About the Alumni Playwrights Group

We love the playwrights we produce, and after we do their shows, we just can’t say good-

bye. That’s why we started the Alumni Playwrights Program! Our past writers meet once a month to read and discuss their latest work. Then, once a year, we get to help nurture and develop their exciting new plays in The Next Edition Festival, a series of staged readings designed to provide the next step in their playwriting process.

The greatest impact we can have on a playwright’s career is a full-scale production,

so this season, The Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production. This full Off-Broadway production will be dedicated to mounting work by our Alumni Playwrights, starting with Anton Dudley’s City Of in January of 2015!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

anton DUDLEY

ethan LIPTON

gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO

jen SILVERMAN

christopher WALL

lauren YEE

Founded in 2007, The Playwrights Realm is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to serving early-career playwrights. We take the best elements of producing houses, development centers, and artist service organizations and put them all under one roof… or rather, all in one Realm. With a focus on depth of support, our programs are designed to meet playwrights where they are (metaphorically speaking) and guide them along the journey of playwriting. This inch-wide/mile-deep approach puts us in the unique position to provide focused attention to promising writers with creative, professional, and financial assistance — giving them the rare chance to be well-supported artists.

WRITING FELLOWSHIPThis nine-month residency builds a professional bridge for early-career playwrights giving them what they really need to write — a little time, money, and the occasional hug.

PAGE ONE PROGRAMWhen something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. We focus our resources on one playwright each year, providing them with a full-scale Off-Broadway production and a year-long residency.

ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHTS GROUPWe love great playwrights, so when we find them we like to keep them around! After their production, our playwrights graduate to our Alumni Writers Group — and we hold our reunions every month!

ALUMNI PRODUCTIONThe Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production to our season, which will be dedicated to mounting new works by our growing contingent of Alumni Playwrights.

PIPELINEA production can’t happen without a worthwhile and ready script, and a writer needs creative collaborators to get it there. With Pipeline, we give them just that.

FOR MORE INFO: www.playwrightsrealm.org

THE STAFFKatherine KovnerARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Alexander Orbovich MANAGING DIRECTOR

Alex BarronLITERARY MANAGER

Lauryn McCarterDEVELOPMENT & MARKETING ASSOCIATE

Patti Anne Miller DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Kate WeberOFFICE MANAGER

Elizabeth IrwinPAGE ONE PLAYWRIGHT

Paul Davis/Calleri CastingCASTING DIRECTOR

Chris Boneau, Boneau/Bryan-BrownPRESS REPRESENTATIVE

Piama HabibullahGRAPHIC DESIGNER

THE BOARDMichael Margitich, CHAIR

Norma Rosenberg, SECRETARY

Oliver Lennox, TREASURER

Susan FeaginKathy FuldAlexandra HerzanBruce KovnerKatherine KovnerCaroline Johnston PolisiEsther RosenbergAnna Deavere Smith

INKWELLDebbie BisnoMichael CumpstyJohn DiasPeter FriedmanAmy HerzogKaren Brooks HopkinsLisa KronTodd LondonEllen McLaughlinReshma ShettyLeigh Silverman