NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Reggie Jackson

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Thanks to Reggie Jackson for sharing - and mutual congratulations:

Congratulations on NYCPlaywrights Tenth Anniversary!

I am so happy that I found NYCPlaywrights. I check on a regular basis to see what I might qualify for.  

In 2019, I submitted to Houston's Fade to Black Play Festival and my 10-minute play, Convictions was selected to be produced as one of ten plays by African American playwrights. It was one of the best experiences I've had seeing my play on the stage then to have it open the festival for those three nights was truly an honor.

I am continuing to find great opportunities that I would not have found without NYCPlaywrights.

Thank you NYCPlaywrights!

~ Reggie Jackson

 

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Rachael Carnes

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MAINTAINING A SPACE CUSHION
by Rachael Carnes
Directed by Janet Bentley
with Mike Roche, Mariel Matero and Randall Rodriguez

Rachael Carnes writes:

I took my first how-to-write-a-10-minute-play class in Fall of 2016, and quickly caught the bug. As a nascent playwright, I was curious about finding places to submit to, and was grateful to find NYC Playwrights and Nancy's carefully-curated weekly list of production, publication and development opportunities. I can't even count the number of doors that this list serve has opened for me!

I'm grateful for the support that NYC Playwrights provides to writers like me, who live... 3,000 miles from NYC. Here's to ten more years! And thanks.

Thanks for sharing Rachael! For more information about Rachael and her work, check out these resources:

Rachael Carnes, carnes.rachael@gmail.com
Pronouns: She, Her, Hers
Nonprofit organization founder and consultant, writer/editor/educator, playwright

2020 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipient
Portland/Oregon Regional Representative, Dramatists Guild of America.
Member, League of Professional Theatre Women.
New Writing Development Group Coordinator, KDC Theatre, London
New Play Exchange Page/ Rachael's website/ Playwright FaceBook Page
Learn about the group I founded, #CodeRedPlaywrights, responding to gun violence.

Upcoming Virtual Performances include Soup with Project Y Theatre in NYC; Intermolecular Forces with SLAM Kings Cross in London; Wabi Sabi with Open Door Playhouse; Inertia and Crabs(Dot)Com at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA; Crossing the Amur at Millersburg University; Creative Little Garden at Chancellor High School, Fredricksburg, VA; Pudding as part of Director's Cut, London; What a Memory Looks Like and The Function of a Pebble in PDX Playwrights’ 2021 Fertile Ground Festival, Portland, OR and a scene from Windberry Creek, as part of the Bechdel Group's Sunday Shortlist, NYC, 2021. Current publications: Egg in Spoon in the Coachella Review, Partner Of— in the Coachella Review, Waterfall in Cascadia Rising Review, Utøya in Some Scripts Literary Magazine, Contrappostoin Feels Blind Literary Magazine, What a Memory Looks Like in Some Scripts Literary Magazine and the Extinction Rebellion, London; , Curbed and Ice Front in the Silk Road Review and 91st & Powell Blvd. in Quince Magazine; Mouse & Owl in the Extinction Rebellion; RELATIONSHIPS, a new collection of oft-produced comic short plays published by Smith Scripts in London and SYZYGY, nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize by the Stonecoast Review. Coming soon: In Training with PanglossianProductions Podcasts.

HELPER

Jason Sofge

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Steven Carinci

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Thanks to Steven Carinci for sharing.

Steven writes:

My play, Coyotes finished in a three-way tie for Best Play in the Fifth Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall Festival 2020 Play Festival. I naturally discovered the link via NYC Playwrights which has over the years been a valuable resource that has allowed my plays to be performed around the U.S.A. I appreciate the opportunities afforded me and look forward to utilizing your website in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexXFU79QIM

https://www.pineyforkpress.com/

I urge NYC Playwright readers to please feel free to click on the Youtube link to view Coyotes or you may link to it via Piney Fork Press. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Steven, it's great to hear that NYCPlaywrights has helped another playwright find opportunities! 

 

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Tavi Juárez

 

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THE UNITED STATES OF HUEVOS
by Tavi Juárez and Stephen Tsimpides
Pictured: Tavi Juárez, Stephen Tsimpides, Cameron Moser,
Lindsey Bristol, Shay Thomas, Janelle Lawrence

My chicken comedy, "The United States of Huevos" just won BEST PLAY in the Fifth Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival! I found this opportunity on your blog and I couldn't be more grateful! Thanks for being one of the best places to find playwriting opportunities!

Best, Tavi Juárez

www.tavi.show

Congratulations Tavi! 

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Rex McGregor

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THE BIRDS ARE FEEDING ME

by Rex McGregor

Paulo Goulart Filho, Sarah Jeanne, Pepper Liddell

Over in New Zealand, Rex McGregor writes:

I'm a playwright based in Auckland, New Zealand. Thanks to NYCPlaywrights, I've had numerous productions over the last decade. The blog truly has an international reach. Here are a couple of examples of productions arising from opportunities listed there: 

The Birds Are Feeding Me Zoom Fest Series 2, Goodly Frame Theatre, Greensboro, North Carolina, August 26, 2020, directed by Meredith DiPaolo Stephens
Paulo Goulart Filho (Doug), Sarah Jeanne (Kim), Pepper Liddell (Marion​) Greensboro, NC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ad-h616LM

Stage Fights Screen Theatre Three Off-Stage/On-Line, Port Jefferson, New York, May 13, 2020, directed by Jeffrey Sanzel
Phyllis L. March (Greer), Dennis Creighton (Josh) and Meg Bush (Shannon) New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRUKHFJZwY&feature=youtu.be

Many other examples can be found on my website: http://www.rexmcgregor.com/

That's great to hear Rex and thanks for sharing. Congratulations on your international successes!

STAGE FIGHTS

Phyllis L. March, Dennis Creighton and Meg Bush

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Tom Misuraca

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FIGMENTS
by Tom Misuraca
Matthew Antonizick & Paul Cieslewicz
Directed by David Ament - Produced by Las Vegas Little Theater

Thanks for sharing Tom!

I don’t know what my playwriting life would be without NYCPlaywrights. I check it every morning. I’m talking Saturday and Sundays, too. I honestly can’t count how many productions have come out of calls I saw posted here. And even if I see a call posted elsewhere, I always cross reference it on NYCPlaywrights. To me, it feels a little more legit if I see it posted here.

Even from Los Angeles, it has helped me make long-lasting connections with theater companies in New York City like The Alternative Theatre Company, Nylon Fusion and Roaring Epiphany Production Company. As well as theater companies in Houston (Theatre Southwest and Cone Man Running Productions) and all over the country.

In this difficult time for playwrights, I’m finding opportunities here that keep me going. Most recently, my play The Rest of the Story, won first place at The Carlow Little Theatre Society’s One-Act Playwriting Competition.

Some highlights from the past ten years thanks to NYCPlaywrights: Twice winning the Las Vegas Little Theatre New Works Competition with my plays Little Black Book and Figments; having plays produced two years in a row at the BoxFest Detroit Festival; attending and having my play, Cocktail Party, win second place audience favorite at The College at Brockport’s Festival of Ten X; having my full-length play, Golden Age, win both the Branch County Community Theatre's Pickering Award and the McKinney Repertory Theatre's New Play Competition within the same year. 

They even promoted my series of free Los Angeles Library readings a few years back.

Happy 10th Anniversary! I look forward to continuing to grow with you.

Congratulations for all your success - glad if we could be helpful! 

THE REST OF THE STORY

Produced by The Carlow Little Theatre Society, Ireland

Starring: John Brady & Paul Dunne

Directed by Richard Doyle

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Benjamin Peel

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Thanks to Benjamin Peel for sharing his story:

I live in the UK and I came across an opportunity posted on your blog for short plays wanted in a New York Festival and my piece The Interrogator was selected and performed fully rehearsed in March 2019.

THE INTERROGATOR
By Benjamin Peel
Directed by Eli Schleicher
Patrick Shane, Leigh Anne West

Benjamin also writes:

NYC Playwrights website and FB page have been a great source of submissions info to me as someone living in the UK. I entered the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Competition last year with a play called Children of God which I came across on the blog. It was in conjunction with the PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. My play reached the semifinals round. 

Also as another point of interest, I visited New York in February 2018 as my Dad Edward Peel was appearing in a play called Farinelli and the King that starred Mark Rylance. It was performed at the magnificent Belasco Theatre where Houdini did his routines. It was my second visit to New York as in 1998 a company I was working with as a stage manager were invited to be part of an international festival held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I had a wonderful time on both trips. 

Best wishes

Benjamin 

Congratulations to Benjamin for his success - we're glad NYCPlaywrights was useful.

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Aaron Leventman

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MATURITY

by Aaron Leventman

Kati Rae Cowardin, Justin Sebastyn

Directed by Vanessa Lancellotti, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2012

Aaron Leventman has nice things to say about NYCPlaywrights - thanks Aaron!

I attribute the growth in my career as a playwright to opportunities that have been posted on NYC Playwrights Blog. This has led to over 30 productions and many publications of my works. The highlight for me was in 2019 when my short play Blanche in a Wheelchair was selected from over 800 submissions to be featured in the Samuel French 44th Annual Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival for which it was a finalist. The same play the previous year was a finalist for the Secret Theatre's One Act Factor in LIC, NY.

UNDER-AGE

Justin Sebastyn and Joshua Rowe

Directed by Vanessa Lancellotti, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2012

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Pam Kingsley

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Thanks to Pam Kingsley for her kind words about NYCPlaywrights - so glad if we could help!

FINDING MOTHER COURAGE
with Gail Smith-Reynolds and Jeremy Whittington. Socially Distanced Taped Recording)
streamed online from Stage Left Theatre, Spokane, WA

WOW! Some year, right? If not for nycplaywrights.org, many of us might would have spent the pandemic hunkered down underground writing in bunkers going bonkers! Instead, so many of us found outstanding opportunities to share our work. My plays Boxes, Scars, The Sitting, Roughing It and Finding Mother Courage received virtual readings, taped performances and live Zoom from coast to coast thanks to your listings! From New Haven to Santa Fe and Kansas City to Cleveland; from Spokane, WA to Richmond VA, I made new friends and new theatre! Sometimes it was like doing "guerilla theatre!" The many and varied opportunities you shared buoyed our spirits and kept meaningful THEATRE alive! What a gift you keep giving playwrights, theatres and audiences alike! BRAVA! BRAVO!

Gratefully, Pam Kingsley

Member, Dramatists Guild of America

Congratulations to Pam on her well-deserved success!

THE SITTING
]with Hugh Tucker and Mindy Pfeffer (Zoom Taped Performance)
Orange Players, New Haven, CT

 BOXES 
with Marguerite Scott and Jane Wilson (Live Zoom Performance)
Almost Adults Theatre in Santa Fe, NM

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Kevin Curley

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Kevin Curley shared his story, thanks for your kind words Kevin. And NYCPlaywrights would like to take this opportunity to thank Kevin for all the times he's given us a heads-up on opportunities out there that we missed! And congratulations Kevin on your success and your exemplary organizational habits which some of us at NYCPlaywrights could learn from.

KEVIN CURLEY: Congratulations on NYCPlaywrights  Tenth Anniversary! What an accomplishment! You should be proud.

NYCPlaywrights have been a godsent to playwrights like me. I can’t thank you enough. As I think I shared with you once, when I arise each morning I check my email, the digital NY Times and then NYCPlaywrights. Every day including Saturday and Sunday. Any notice that I might qualify for I enter onto that year’s spreadsheet and send it along when it’s due. I have been reading your blog since the beginning and you have saved me an enormous amount of time I would have had to devote to seeking opportunities, which has in turn given me more time to devote to writing. Thank you!

Here are my productions in the last few years: Daddy a ten-minute play produced in a reading by Plays and Pizza at Lucky Jack’s Bar in NYC, April 2017. Things, my one-act play, was selected by The William Inge Festival 2016 (declined, by me, because of expenses involved). Brothers a ten-minute play was produced by Stage Door Theatre in Fredericksburg, VA, April 2014. Improv, a ten-minute play that was broadcast on Spokane Radio Theatre KYRS, October 2013. Friendship, a ten-minute play presented by Lebanon Community Theatre in Lebanon, PA, August 2012. Proposition, a ten-minute play, broadcast on Spokane Radio Theatre KYRS, June 2012. Your Thing: produced in A New York One Minute Play Festival, NYC, September 2010.

All best and looking forward to ten more years,

Kevin 

 

NYCPlaywrights 10 Year Anniversary: Allie Costa

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BEST ACTRESS 1962

written by Allie Costa, directed by Libby Mitchell, 

starring Jennifer Leigh and Sam Aguilar,

world premiere produced by Rover Dramawerks

at the 365 Women a Year Festival

ALLIE COSTA: Thanks to notices posted on NYCPlaywrights, I've had productions, workshops, readings, publications, and opportunities I may not have known about otherwise.

Productions from this past year include the world premiere of Almost, the East Coast premiere of Tofurkey Day, and performances and workshops (including lots of streaming/online opportunities) of many other shows, including Boxes Are Magic, She Has Seen the Wolf, How I Knew Her, Quality Assurance, Faking Glory, And Peggy, Clean Slate, Cut and Run, Embracing Change, After the Fact, As You May Be Aware, Yes, And..., Root Down, Dear Neighbor, and A Novel Idea.

To learn more about these and other projects, visit http://www.alliecosta.com and visit Allie's page at New Play Exchange and IMDb.

Thanks to Allie for sharing her accomplishments - and congratulations!

MINDSTREAM
written by Allie Costa, directed by Sophie Goldstein,
world premiere produced by 2Cents Theatre Group for INK Fest
Pictured: Nita Torres, Grace Serrano, and Kevin Herrmann
Photo by Daniel J. Sliwa

BREAKING COVER
written by Allie Costa, directed by Cassandra Giovine,
world premiere produced by Open Hydrant Theater Company
Pictured: Shannon Uphold as Daphne