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Premiere Stages
Premiere Stages is the professional Equity theater company in residence at Kean University. Background Founded in 2004, Premiere sponsors the Premiere Play Festival, a source for developing new plays. The winner of the festival receives a full-scale production as part of Premiere's season. The second-place finisher receives a staged reading to contribute to its further development. Apart from the festival winner, Premiere produces new works by established playwrights as well as established plays such as the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning play '' Rabbit Hole'' by David Lindsay-Abaire. Premiere's presentation of ''Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods'', by Tammy Ryan was produced in collaboration with the Kean Human Rights Institute and Newark's Darfur Rehabilitation Project. Premiere Stages is a member of Theatre Communications Group. It is a member company of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.. Selected alumni The following is a list of playwrights who have developed work through Premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actors' Equity
The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly called Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing those who work in live theatrical performance. Performers appearing in live stage productions without a book or through-storyline (vaudeville, cabarets, circuses) may be represented by the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA). The AEA works to negotiate quality living conditions, livable wages, and benefits for performers and stage managers. A theater or production that is not produced and performed by AEA members may be called "non-Equity". Background Leading up to the Actors' and Producers' strike of 1929, Hollywood and California in general had a series of workers' equality battles that directly influenced the film industry. The films ''The Passaic Textile Strike'' (1926), ''The Miners' Strike'' (1928) and ''The Gastonia Textile Strike'' (1929) gave audience and producers insight into the effect and accomplishments of labor unions and striking.St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Corley
Hal Corley is an American television writer and playwright. He was associate head writer for ''All My Children'' and ''As The World Turns'', for which he won five Daytime Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards. His plays have been developed with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, Premiere Stages, Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, New York's Westbeth, San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Washington DC's Source, Stageworks/Hudson, Los Angeles' New American Theatre, and Ontario's Flush Ink. Three full-length scripts, ''Easter Monday'', ''Mama and Jack Carew'', and ''ODD'', are published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. His ''Fanny Otcott'', an adaptation of a sketch by Thornton Wilder, is published by YouthPLAYS; his ''Treed'' is in Playscripts' ''Great Short Plays Volume 10''; and his ''Dolor'' is included in Applause's ''Best American Short Plays'' for 2014-2015. His work is excerpted in Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Morisseau
Dominique Morisseau (born March 13, 1978) is an American playwright and actress from Detroit, Michigan. She has written more than nine plays, three of which are part of a cycle titled ''The Detroit Project.'' She received a MacArthur Fellowship (also known as the 'Genius Grant') in 2018. Early life Morisseau was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, with her mother and father. Her mother's family is from Mississippi and her father's family is from Haiti. Morisseau attended Bates Academy (a selective pre-K through 8 public school in Detroit) and Cass Technical High SchoolShe attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she received her BFA in Acting in 2000. There she met J. Keys, who is also from Michigan. They married in 2013. Keys was born in Detroit but grew up in Southfield, Michigan, a nearby suburb of the city. He works as a music industry promoter, emcee and hip hop musician. Career Acting Morisseau began her performance career as a live poetry speaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kait Kerrigan
Kait Kerrigan is an American playwright and musical theater lyricist and book writer. Biography Kait Kerrigan is a playwright and a lyricist and composer of musicals. Originally from Kingston, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Wyoming Valley West Senior High School (Plymouth, Pennsylvania, 1999) and Barnard College (2003, with a degree in English Literature). She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Work with Bree Lowdermilk Kerrigan is most well known for her collaborations with Bree Lowdermilk. Their works together include shows such as '' The Woman Upstairs'' and ''The Mad Ones'' (formerly known as ''The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown'') with Zach Altman. She and Lowdermilk collaborated on TheaterworksUSA's adaptation of ''Henry and Mudge'', which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. They also worked on the project, ''Republic'', an adaptation of William Shakespeare's '' Henry IV'', set in Northern Ireland in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Holtzman
Willy Holtzman (born 1951) is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National Playwrights Conference. Personal life Willy Holtzman was born and raised as the second of three children in St. Louis, Missouri. Holtzman moved to Middletown, Connecticut in 1969 to attend Wesleyan University, where he majored in American Studies. After graduation, he moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Sylvia Shepard. Career Many of Holtzman's plays have been developed through the PlayPenn New Play Conference. Holtzman's plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, and the Working Theater. He has been produced regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre, City Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, Baltimore Center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keli Goff
Keli Goff (born July 20, 1979) is an American producer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and collector. She is a contributor to various news outlets and has written for a number of popular television shows, including '' And Just Like That...'', the reboot of the television series ''Sex and the City'', and '' Mayor of Kingstown''. A longtime contributor and fill-in guest host for public radio's '' Left, Right & Center,'' in 2023, Goff began writing a column for ''The Hollywood Reporter'' interviewing political leaders about Hollywood. Early life Originally from Missouri City, Texas, Goff graduated from Elkins High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree in strategic communications from Columbia University. Early career as a journalist and author Goff first came to prominence with the publication of her first book, ''Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence'', which examined the perspectives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Gancher
Sarah Gancher is an American playwright. Gancher is known for her work exploring epic narratives, profound themes, and rich comedy. Her play ''Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy'' opened at the Vineyard Theatre in winter 2024. Gancher's plays often delve into the intersection of history and individual lives, examining how places, communities, and debates evolve over time. Her works have been produced or developed at London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, The Public, New York Theater Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The Vineyard, The Atlantic, Berkeley Rep, Steppenwolf, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, WP Theatre, The Flea, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Geva Theatre, Hartford Stage, RoundHouse, Forward Theatre, Mosaic (DC), P73, NYC Summerstage, and Telluride Theatre. Early life Gancher was raised in Oakland, California and attended Maybeck High School. Career Gancher has written two musicals with the rock band The Bengsons: "The Lucky Ones" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino DiIorio
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Deborah Brevoort
Deborah Brevoort is an American playwright, librettist and lyricist best known for her play ''The Women of Lockerbie''. She teaches creative writing at several universities. Early years Brevoort was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Virginia and Gordon Brevoort. She is the oldest of three children. She graduated from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She attended Kent State University, where she received a BA in English and political science, and an MA in political science. Brevoort moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1979. She worked in Alaskan politics, serving as a special assistant to Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller and Alaska State Senator Frank Ferguson. In 1983 she became the producing director of Perseverance Theatre and an actor in the company. Her first two plays were produced at Perseverance: ''The Last Frontier Club'' and ''Signs of Life''. ''Signs of Life'' was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation playwriting grant and was later published by Samuel French. Brevoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kean University
Kean University () is a public university in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth, and Hillside, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education and is a state-designated research university. The university was founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as the Newark Normal School, then became New Jersey State Teachers College in 1937. In 1958, the college was relocated from Newark to Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union Township, site of the Kean family's ancestral home at Liberty Hall (New Jersey), Liberty Hall. After its move to the historic Livingston-Kean Estate, which includes the entire Liberty Hall acreage, the historic James Townley House, and Kean Hall, which historically housed the library of United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and served as a political meeting place, the school became Newark State College, a comprehensive institution providing a full range of academic programs and majors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey Theatre Alliance
The New Jersey Theatre Alliance is a nonprofit nongovernmental service organization that promotes and supports professional theaters throughout New Jersey. It is one of the nation's first and largest such entities. Its mission is to "unite, promote, strengthen, and cultivate" the state's professional theater community. Background Founded in 1981, the organization has a six-member team and serves 42 professional theaters in the state as well as in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The Alliance provides various resources, networking opportunities, and advocacy efforts to build the growth and visibility of theater in New Jersey. It collaborates with theaters, artists, educators, and the public to foster a professional theater culture in the state.https://www.tapinto.net/towns/roselle/articles/kean-university-students-and-alumni-take-the-stage-for-new-jersey-theatres See also * ''The Hook'', live cabaret-style comedic show and contemporary circus in Atlantic City, New Jersey that opened in 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ... in the United States. The organization also publishes ''American Theatre'' magazine and ''ARTSEARCH'', a theatrical employment bulletin, as well as trade editions of theatrical scripts. History Theatre Communications Group was established in 1961 with a grant from the Ford Foundation in response to their then arts and humanities director W. McNeil Lowry's desire to foster communication and cooperation among the growing community of regional theatres throughout the country.Schanke p. 188 Though initially run as a Ford Foundation administered program, TCG independently incorporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
