Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 17, 2003|Volume 31, Number 15|Two-Week Issue

Playreading festival in New York City will
feature new works of student playwrights

Works by members of the graduating M.F.A. class at the School of Drama will be featured in the fifth annual Yale Playwrights at New Dramatists Playreading Festival on Friday, Jan. 17.

The reading is part of the Yale Playwrights at New Dramatists program, which brings drama school students to the Manhattan-based center, which serves the theater community as an artistic home, research and development center, and writer's colony. The Yale students attend monthly playwriting workshops, develop ongoing mentorships with members of New Dramatists and take part in professional readings of their works.

The works featured at the playwriting festival include:

* "The Filmmaker's Mystery" by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, in which a horror movie director who survives a terrible train crash is haunted by a passenger who didn't survive. The work will be directed by Connie Grappo. Aguirre-Sacasa's adviser for the project at New Dramatists was Doug Wright ("Quills").

* "New" by A. Rey Pamatmat, about four friends who try to rebuild their lives in the wake of a disaster. Loy Arcenas will direct the play; Nilo Cruz ("Two Sisters and a Piano," "Dancing on Her Knees") was Pamatmat's adviser.

* "A Book of Two" by Kathryn Walat, in which a pair of roommates and a pair of samurai live by the codes of a cramped East Village cohabitation and a powerful, but fun-loving shogun. Leah Gardiner will direct; Neena Beber ("Jump Slash Cut," "Tomorrowland") was the adviser.

"These readings -- in conjunction with the workshops and mentorships -- create an extraordinary opportunity for Yale playwriting students at a critical moment in the development of their careers as working professionals in the theater," says Mark Bly, chair of the playwriting program at the School of Drama, who co-directs the festival with Todd London and Melissa Kievman of New Dramatists.

The playreading festival will take place 1-5 p.m. at New Dramatists; a reception will follow.

For more information or to make reservations, call (203) 432-1526.

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