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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S THEATER COMPANY
TURNS 20
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS INC. CELEBRATES WITH
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 2001 OCTOBER 26 – DECEMBER 8
AT THE ALTERNATIVE SPACE AT THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE
VIVENDI UNIVERSAL Provides Major
Funding
For Young Playwrights Festival 2001
October 1, 2001 (New York) --Young
Playwrights, Inc., the theatre company that Stephen Sondheim started in 1981 to foster new
American playwrights, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with Young
Playwrights Festival 2001 at the Alternative Space at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce
Street in New York’s Greenwich Village) October 26 – December 8. The season will include works by six emerging
writers aged 16 – 18, from California, Connecticut, Florida, New York, and
Pennsylvania, who join the ranks of such Festival finds as Kenneth Lonergan, Rebecca
Gilman and Evan Smith. The Young Playwrights
Festival runs Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday
matinees at 2 p.m., with a special evening performance on October 28 at 7 p.m.
New to the Young Playwrights Festival is
the WRITE A PLAY! Intergenerational Performance Series, which will bring together young
people and seniors to exchange ideas through pre-performance playwriting workshops and
post-performance discussions. The WRITE A
PLAY! performances take place beginning November 30 at 11:30 a.m. or 4:30 p.m. and tickets
are $12.
THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
Young Playwrights Festival
2001
Johnny
Likaboot Kills His Father!! by Yelena Elkind, 16, Brooklyn, NY. A
young writer works out his daddy issues in some very creative prose. Johnny Likaboot Kills His Father!! is directed
by Richard Caliban.
Conference
Time by Jeb G. Havens, 17, Ellington, CT. A dysfunctional committee of
absurdist characters fruitlessly founders toward consensus in this fast-paced romp. Conference Time is directed by Padraic Lillis.
Gorgeous
Raptors by Lucy Alibar-Harrison, 18, Monticello, FL. Ugly Kaballah, the only
Jewish girl in her small Georgia town, finds safety and power in a rich fantasy life,
leading to the birth of the “raptor girls.”
Gorgeous
Raptors is directed by Beth F. Milles.
Nursery
by Julia Jarcho, 18, New York City, NY. An insightful and theatrical
examination of the impact of violence, presciently penned before the Columbine High School
tragedy. Nursery
is directed by Brett W. Reynolds.
Write A Play!
Intergenerational Performances
From The
Mouths of Babes by Eva Anderson, 18, Los Angeles, CA. In this comedy, three
nursery school students decide the fate of their teacher, a woman accused of hoarding
juice boxes and making kids sit in the corner.
It’s Hard
Work Being A Playa by J.C. Newbern, 18, Philadelphia, PA. ‘Motown
Townsend,’ a high school student and self-professed professional playa meets his match when he goes after a
beautiful but no-nonsense playette.
Young Playwrights
Festival 2001 will feature Lighting Design by Pat Dignan, Set Design by Michael Brown,
Costume Design by Miguel Angel Huidor and Sound Design by Jill B.C. DuBoff. The acting company includes Sarah Bragin, Shannon
Emerick, Steven Hauck, Cynthia Hood, Ann Hu, Brad Malow, Geoffrey Molloy, Michael Mosley,
and Robin L. Taylor. The 20th
Anniversary season of the Young Playwrights Festival is sponsored in part by a leadership
grant from Vivendi Universal. “I believe
Young Playwrights Inc. is one of the most exciting arts education organizations in the
nation today,” said Nancy Morgan, Manager of Public Affairs for Vivendi Universal.
“Young Playwrights has been remarkably effective in motivating young people to
write, galvanizing professional playwrights to help them, and developing new, diverse
audiences and writers for the theatre. I’m
convinced that Young Playwrights Inc. has the capacity to foster creative expression in an
increasing number of young people, enriching American theatre in the process.
Tickets
for Young Playwrights Festival 2001, at The Alternative Space at the Cherry Lane Theatre
(38 Commerce Street in New York’s Greenwich Village), may be purchased by calling
Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200.
For More Information Contact:
Young Playwrights Inc.
306 West 38th Street, New York NY 10018
Tel: 212.594.5440
FAX: 212.594.5441
Internet:
[email protected]
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