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Media Alert March 29, 2006
Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre
Box 1897 , Providence, RI 02912
Contact: Brian Gaston, Director of Marketing and Publicity
401-863-2730 or Brian_Gaston@brown.edu
For more details and photos: www.brown.edu/btprep/reppress.htm
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Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre Announces
"2006 Summer Season"
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Power of Sail
by Paul Grellong
Directed by Alex Torra
July 5, 6, 7, 8, 28 at 8 PM and July 29 at 1 PM
Iggy Woo
b y Alice Tuan
Directed by Birgitta Victorson
July 12, 13, 14, 15, 27 at 8 PM and July 29 at 4 PM
Speech & Debate
by Stephen Karam
Directed by Lowry Marshall
July 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 29 all at 8 PM
(FESTIVAL WEEK, July 26-29, All Three Plays in Repertory)
Throughout the month of July, three hot new plays by three of America’s hottest young playwrights will premiere in the Leeds Theatre -- each for about the price of a movie.
The Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, under the artistic direction of Lowry Marshall, 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 share their experience and expertise with students and to showcase their new works.
This summer B/T Playwrights Rep welcomes in residence the Workhorse Theatre Company.
For details on our company and up-to-date information visit: www.brown.edu/btprep
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Leeds Theatre, Catherine Bryan Dill Performing Arts Center
Brown University , 77 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Tickets available beginning June 20, 2006
All tickets unassigned seating
$10 Regular Admission ($8 Seniors/Employees, $5 Students)
Box Office – 401-863-2838 www.brown.edu/ btprep
Power of Sail
by Paul Grellong
Directed by Alex Torra
July 5, 6, 7, 8, 28 at 8 PM and July 29 at 1 PM
Publish or perish, or just fade from view? Desperate to retain his professional clout, a professor at a major American University takes the ultimate risk and invites a Holocaust denier to speak on campus. Retribution is swift and the University explodes in controversy. With his academic reputation under attack, Charles Lyden takes the ultimate risk. Paul Grellong (Warfare ‘05, Manuscript, and Law and Order SVU) keeps us guessing till the end.
Paul Grellong studied playwriting as an undergraduate at Brown University. His play Manuscript (available from Dramatists Play Service) was produced Off-Broadway by Daryl Roth and Scott Rudin in the summer of 2005 and was directed by Bob Balaban (Waiting For Guffman, Gosford Park). His play Warfare was part of the inaugural season of Brown Trinity Playwrights Rep in July 2005. His newest play, Radio Free Emerson!, has been commissioned by the Gamm Theatre ( Pawtucket, RI) and is slated for production there in the spring of 2007. Paul wrote the music, lyrics, and book for Hot Star, Nebraska, which was produced in March 2002 by SpeakEasy Stage Company ( Boston, MA). His one-act The New Fire (available from Playscripts, Inc.) was first produced by the Echo Theatre Company ( Los Angeles, CA); other one-act plays have been staged in New England by NewGate Theatre and the Echolalia Theatre Festival. His plays have been read and workshopped at Manhattan Theatre Club (New York, NY), MCC (New York, NY), Cherry Lane (New York, NY), Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, RI), DR2 Theatre (New York, NY), Cape Cod Theatre Project (Falmouth, MA) and the Black Dahlia Theatre (Los Angeles, CA). He has been commissioned to write two screenplays, both adaptations of novels. Paul currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where he is a writer for Law & Order: SVU.
Alex Torra, Brown/Trinity MFA in Directing '06, directed the premiere of Anaerobic Respiration at the NY Fringe produced by The Shifting Company, of which he is a founding member. Brown/Trinity directing credits include: Giants Have Us In Their Books, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Cloud Tectonics, and Glengarry Glen Ross. For Brown's New Play Festival, Alex directed Gingerbreadhouse by Jennifer Haley and Blind Woman of Veracru z by Jonathan Ceniceroz. He has worked with Pig Iron Theater Company, The Goodman Theater, The Side Project-Chicago, and Blind Summit Theatre in London in various capacities. Alex received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Iggy Woo
by Alice Tuan
Directed by Birgitta Victorson
July 12, 13, 14, 15, 27 at 8 PM and July 29 at 4 PM
If quitting smoking isn't hard enough, try falling in love at the same time!
All's fair in love and war as Iggy and Kiki battle it out in this delightful new comedy about obsession and desire.
Alice Tuan is the author of Ajax (por nobody), which has played at NY’s Flea Theater, Austin’s Salvage Vanguard Theater and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Other produced plays include Last of the Suns, an adaptation of Middleton/Dekker’s The Roaring Girle, Some Asians, Manilova and Ikebana, which she wrote as an MFA student at Brown. Her Virtual Hypertext Theater thesis play Coastline was presented at the last Edinburgh Fringe by Serious Play! of Northampton, MA. Current projects include, Black Flight with LA’s Watts Village Theater, and an adaptation of the Chinese tale White Snake. She’s also collaborating with Philadelphia’s New Paradise Laboratories in creating a spectacle on Bachelor/Bachelorette parties for the 2007 Humana Festival at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. The past year she has taught at the Michener Center at the University of Texas, Austin, Independence Community College, and Cal Arts. She lives in Los Angeles.
Birgitta Victorson , Brown/Trinity MFA in Directing '07, directed Medea, Big Love and The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek for the Consortium and Sweet Dream of Paris (Andy Bragen) and Don’t Stop (Molly Rice) for the Brown New Plays Festival. In Chicago she co-director Fatty Arbuckle’s Spectacular Musical Review - Second City Theatricals, The Book of Liz - Roadworks, Arabian Nights, National High School Institute (Evanston), Tattoo Girl, Cobalt Ensemble Theatre. As choreographer and movement director, Birgitta has worked with Roadworks, The Goodman Theatre, Next Theatre, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers Theatre, Second City, and Miloco Theatre Company in Prague, CZ. As a performer and dancer she worked with Plasticene, Sprung, Chicago Moving Company, MK Victorson, Lookingglass and Jump Rhythm Jazz Project.
Speech & Debate
by Stephen Karam
Directed by Lowry Marshall
July 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 29 all at 8 PM
Three misfit teenagers in Salem, Oregon band together to uncover the truth about a sex scandal that’s just hit their town. Secrets become currency and lies abound in this wickedly funny black comedy by the author of last summer’s riotous Girl on Girl.
Stephen Karam is a graduate of Brown University. His plays have been read/produced at The Kennedy Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Arena Stage, Stark Raving Theatre, The Blank Theatre Company, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Cardboard Box Theatre Company and at the New York Music Theatre Festival. He is a winner of the Director’s Choice Award selected by Tony-winning director John Rando (Urinetown), a three-time winner of the Blank Theatre Company's National Young Playwriting Competition, YPI's (Young Playwrights Inc.), National Playwriting Competition and the Kennedy Center’s ACTF Award for Musical Theatre. www.stephenkaram.com
Lowry Marshall, Director/Company Artistic Director, has taught acting/directing courses and directed plays at Brown since 1986. She's active as a freelance director, actor, voice-over artist, and coach. In addition to an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program of the Asolo Conservatory, she holds degrees in directing and English literature.
Lowry served as artistic director of summer companies in Michigan and North Carolina. She's served as director and/or dramaturg for more than a hundred plays and solo shows, including the ANTA national tour of El Grande De Coca-Cola and the world premier at the La Jolla Playhouse of the 2.5 Minute Ride, for which Lisa Kron won an Obie Award. Filler Up, the solo show Lowry co-wrote with Toronto performance artist Deb Filler, has toured all over the world and this year is nominated for a Helen Hayes award.
Lowry is a playwright, lyricist, and script consultant. She's been a guest artist at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the London Academy of Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Her play Waiting for the Termite Man was awarded the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Playwriting Prize, and she wrote book and lyrics for The Musical Winter's Tale. For Brown, Marshall translated and adapted Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro, with a musical score by Jack Eric Williams. "Solo Performance," a course Lowry developed at Brown over the last decade, serves as a capstone experience for Brown writer/performers.
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