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About the Playwrights Rep

Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre is an extraordinary ensemble of young theatre professionals, augmented by seasoned alumni performers and supported by the young artists-in-training who make up the Apprentice and TheatreBridge Companies. Brown alumni playwrights and other established American dramatists gather at Brown each summer to showcase their new works.

 

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Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Lowry Marshall, the Playwrights Rep was established to meet the need of emerging playwrights to develop new work in a relaxed and creative atmosphere. Brilliant young writers who are already developing a national reputation are invited to Brown for six weeks each summer. Working with a carefully assembled company of gifted professional actors and directors, playwrights become deeply engaged in the production process — attending rehearsals daily, shaping and refining their texts as each new play is born.  The result is some of the most imaginative and adventurous theatre to be seen anywhere in America.

"clever and ambitious" —Channing Gray, Providence Journal

"a laugh riot" —Bill Rodriguez, Providence Phoenix

"It's silly and serious, comically light yet thoughtfully substantive" —Bryan Rourke, Providence Journal

"the adventurous Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre..." --Bill Gale, Backstage.com

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Peter Nachtrieb boom (2007), by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, has had productions in New York, Chicago,Seattle, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Phoenix, San Diego, Boston, Dallas, and Tampa, and Washington, DC. It will soon be published by Dramatists Play Service

Laura Kepley
Laura Kepley
directed The Syringa Tree at Trinity Rep, currently playing

Miriam Silverman Miriam Silverman currently in The Liar at Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC

Geordie Broadwater Geordie Broadwater directed the world premiere of Christmas Is Miles Away, by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning playwright Chloe Moss, at The Connelly Theatre, NYC; New York Times praises Broadwater's "fluid direction" of this "thoughtful antiwar play"

Birgitta
Birgitta Victorson
directed A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company

Mia Rovegno Mia Rovegno was awarded a 2009 Drama League Directing Fellowship

Miriam Silverman Miriam Silverman appeared in world premiere of Shapeshifter, by Laura Schellhardt, at Trinity Repertory Company, directed by Laura Kepley
Laura Kepley

Susannah Flood Susannah Flood played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Lucy Devito Lucy Devito appeared in the world premiere of The Miracle at Naples at Huntington Theatre, Boston

Andy Bragen's The Hairy Dutchman opened at the University of Rochester in April 2009

Paul Grellong Paul Grellong's Radio Free Emerson won the 2008 Elliott Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding New Script

Peter Nachtrieb Peter Sinn Nachtrieb wrote a short play as part of Brink! at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville

Steven Levenson is currently working on new play commissions for the Roundabout Theatre Company and Lincoln Center Theater

Susannah Flood Susannah Flood appeared in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Syracuse Stage

Ken Prestininzi is currently associate chair of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama

Jed Resnick is currently on the national tour of Rent

Miriam Silverman Miriam Silverman appeared in The Dog in the Manger at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Peter Nachtrieb Peter Sinn Nachtrieb currently working on a commission for South Coast Repertory Theatre

Alex Torra is currently Associate Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia

Crystal Finn appeared in Obama Drama at Creative Destruction, NYC

Jessa Sherman played the recurring role of Kelly on CBS's Guiding Light

Alice Tuan currently teaches English in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Lida Polytechnic Institute

Peter Nachtrieb Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's new play TIC recently premiered at the Encore Theatre Company, San Francisco

Darius Pierce is a member of Theatre Vertigo, Portland, OR

Stephen KaramStephen Karam Sons of the Prophet had an extended off-Broadway run at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City (Roundabout Theatre Company)

The Language of Trees by Steven Levenson premiered at Roundabout Underground, NYC

Miriam Silverman appeared as Player Queen in Hamlet at New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, NYC

Crystal Finn appeared in The Complete History of America (Abridged) at Foothill Theatre, CA

Robin
Robin Galloway
played Neasa in The Shining Cityat Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre

boom
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (2007) opened to rave reviews at Ars Nova, New York, and had productions in 2008 at Seattle Rep and Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington, D.C.)

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Speech & Debate
by Stephen Karam (2006) sold out at new Roundabout Underground in New York, extended run twice, and named "the year's best Off-Broadway play" by AM New York

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Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
by Jennifer Haley (2007) featured in 32nd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville and at the Public Theater's 2008 Summer Play Festival

Birgitta
Birgitta Victorson
directed and choreographed new musical Paris By Night at Trinity Repertory Company

Andy Bragen
Andy Bragen 's translation of Yukiko Motoya's Vengeance Can Wait premiered at PS122, NYC

Lucy Devito
Lucy DeVito appeared as Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank at Intiman Theatre in Seattle

Paul Coffey
Paul Coffey
appeared in Firecracker, a new adaptation of Chekhov's Platanov, at Theatre Lila in New York

Robin
Robin Galloway
played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Portland Stage Company

Tina Chillip
Tina Chilip
appeared Off-Broadway as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club (Pan Asian Rep)

jessie
Jessie Austrian appeared in Jane Eyre at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam
's Speech & Debate , after its Off-Broadway success, received productions at American Theatre Company (Chicago), L.A. Theatreworks, Southern Rep (New Orleans), and Curious Theatre (Denver)

justin
Justin Blanchard guest starred on Law & Order: SVU and appeared in Mary Zimmerman's Argonautika at Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., and the McCarter Theatre

Miriam
Miriam Silverman
played Solveig to Mark Rylance's Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis

ANdy
Andrew Hertz
is musical director of sketch comedy group The Apple Sisters (ECNY Award, best musical comedy act)

Jen
Jennifer Haley was a 2008 resident of the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony for the Arts

Brighde
Brighde Mullins is currently director of the MFA Writing Program at CalArts

Heath Cullens
Heath Cullens directed The Blue Bird at Urban Stages in New York, praised by New York Times for its "lovely job at evoking magical worlds and characters"

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