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.
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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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 directed The Syringa Tree at Trinity Rep, currently playing
Miriam Silverman currently in The Liar at Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC
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 Victorson directed A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company
Mia Rovegno was awarded a 2009 Drama League Directing Fellowship
Miriam Silverman appeared in world premiere of Shapeshifter, by Laura Schellhardt, at Trinity Repertory Company, directed by Laura Kepley
Susannah Flood played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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's Radio Free Emerson won the 2008 Elliott Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding New Script
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 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 appeared in The Dog in the Manger at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.
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 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 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 Galloway played Neasa in The Shining Cityat Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre
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.)
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
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 Victorson directed and choreographed new musical Paris By Night at Trinity Repertory Company
Andy Bragen 's translation of Yukiko Motoya's Vengeance Can Wait premiered at PS122, NYC
Lucy DeVito appeared as Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank at Intiman Theatre in Seattle
Paul Coffey appeared in Firecracker, a new adaptation of Chekhov's Platanov, at Theatre Lila in New York
Robin Galloway played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Portland Stage Company
Tina Chilip appeared Off-Broadway as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club (Pan Asian Rep)
Jessie Austrian appeared in Jane Eyre at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis
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 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 Silverman played Solveig to Mark Rylance's Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis
Andrew Hertz is musical director of sketch comedy group The Apple Sisters (ECNY Award, best musical comedy act)
Jennifer Haley was a 2008 resident of the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony for the Arts
Brighde Mullins is currently director of the MFA Writing Program at CalArts
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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