EWG and the Public Theater
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Next week, the Public Theater will host an evening of play excerpts by its first ever Emerging Writers Group (class of ’08). I had the great pleasure of being one of 12 playwrights selected to be in the group (out of 700 applicants). We met regularly throughout the year under the guidance of the Public’s Mandy Hacket, Liz Frankel and Lisa Kopitsky, to discuss one another’s work, eat free grub, hear from playwrights more accomplished than ourselves, and just generally encourage and inspire one another.
An excerpt from my play LUTHER, which I worked on during the year, will be performed on Wednesday the 11th. I don’t love the idea of the excerpt nights in general, just because I don’t think you get a real sense of a play from a 10-minute snippet (and in fact, you might even get a misleading sense of it), but I think it’ll be a fun night and I’m proud to be doing it with this crew.
A full reading of LUTHER will be performed at the Public later this Spring, directed by Leigh Silverman.