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Bricolage Production Company
Bricolage Production Company is a professional theatre company based in downtown Pittsburgh. Established in 2001 by Jeffrey Carpenter, it is located aCommunity Forge an inclusive community center in Wilkinsburg, PA. The company's mission is to use Pittsburgh's "distinctive resources" to create theatre that "stimulate a heightened sense of involvement for the audience." Bricolage has held readings and staged productions of numerous new works by playwrights on the Pittsburgh, national, and international theatre scene. Their immersive theatre piece STRATA was named a number one production of the year by the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving Greater Pittsburgh, metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the fi ...'', and was featured on the cover of '' American Theatre Magazine''. Also part of their season are ''Mid ...
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of United States cities by population, 67th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is located in Western Pennsylvania, southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. It anchors the Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.457 million residents and is the largest metro area in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistic ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving Greater Pittsburgh, metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the ''Pittsburgh Gazette Times'' and ''The Pittsburgh Post''. The ''Post-Gazette'' ended daily print publication in 2018 and has cut down to two print editions per week (Sunday and Thursday), going Online newspaper, online-only the rest of the week. In the 2010s, the editorial tone of the paper shifted from Liberalism in the United States, liberal to Conservatism in the United States, conservative, particularly after the editorial pages of the paper were consolidated in 2018 with ''The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), The Blade'' of Toledo, Ohio. After the consolidation, Keith Burris, the pro-Donald Trump, Trump editori ...
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American Theatre Magazine
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre 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 incorporated in 1964. The organization began with a membership of 15 regional and community theatres, and nine university drama departments under the leadership of Pat Brown. In its first decade of operation, other leaders included Michael Mabry, Joseph Zeigler a ...
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Gab Cody
Gab Cody is an American filmmaker and theatre artist. She wrote, produced and directed the feature film ''Progression'', and her plays ''Fat Beckett'', ''Crush the Infamous Thing'', ''The Alchemists' Lab'', ''Prussia:1866'' and ''Inside Passage'' have premiered at theaters. She served as Lead Writer on the immersive theatre pieces ''STRATA'', ''OjO'' and ''DODO'', produced by the Bricolage Production Company. Life and career Cody was born in Juneau, Alaska. She spent her youth there and in Upstate New York before moving to North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and after graduating moved to New York City. In New York, she worked for Broadway producer Stuart Thompson and as the personal assistant to playwright David Hare. Her first play, ''Crush the Infamous Thing: The Adventures of the Hollywood Four'', was optioned by Broadway producer Randall Wreghitt, and she starred in the world premiere production at the Coconut Grove Playhouse ...
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the pioneering art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. Gómez-Peña has contributed to cultural debates for over 30 years staging seminal performance art pieces including ''Border Brujo'' (1988-1989), '' Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West'' (with Coco Fusco, 1992–93), ''The Cruci-fiction Project'' (with Roberto Sifuentes, 1994), ''Temple of Confessions'' (1995), ''The Mexterminator Project'' (1997–99), ''The Living Museum of Fetishized Identities'' (1 ...
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Dramatists Guild
The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market. It was born in 1921 out of the Authors Guild, known then as Authors League of America, formed in 1912. Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play produced in front of a paying audience or have had their work published by a major theatrical publisher. Student membership is also available for those enrolled in dramatic writing courses. The Dramatists Guild works to negotiate better contract A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of thos ...s for playwrights in professional markets and offers recommendations for contracts in other ...
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Speech & Debate (play)
''Speech & Debate'' is a play written by Stephen Karam. The play concerns three misfit teenagers who live in Salem, Oregon. Production history ''Speech & Debate'' opened Off-Broadway at Roundabout Underground in October 2007 and ran through February 28, 2008 in a Roundabout Theater Company production. Directed by Jason Moore, the cast featured Gideon Glick (Howie), Sarah Steele (Diwata), Jason Fuchs (Solomon) and Susan Blackwell (Teacher/Reporter).James, Caryn."Theater Review. 'Speech & Debate'"''The New York Times'', October 30, 2007 The play was originally performed as a workshop production at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island in July 2006. It was directed by Lowry Marshall. ''Speech & Debate West Coast premiere at Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, Oregon, in November to December 2008. Directed by Jon Kretzu, the cast featureDerek Herman(Howie)Jennifer Rowe(Diwata), Adrian de Forest (Solomon) and Allison Frost (Teacher/Repor ...
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Pittsburgh City Council
The Pittsburgh City Council serves as the legislative body in the City of Pittsburgh. It consists of nine members. City council members are chosen by plurality elections in each of nine districts. The city operates under a mayor-council system of local governance. Current membership The current members of the city council are: † Denotes Council President (since 2024) ‡ Denotes Council President pro tempore (since 2024) Past presidents * Bruce Kraus 2014–2020 *Darlene Harris 2010–2014 *Doug Shields 2006–2010 * Luke Ravenstahl 2005–2006 *Gene Ricciardi 2002–2005 * Bob O'Connor 1998–2002 * Jim Ferlo 1994–1998 * Jack Wagner 1990–1994 *Ben Woods 1988–1990 * Sophie Masloff 1988 *Ben Woods 1985–1988 *Robert Rade Stone 1985 *Eugene "Jeep" DePasquale 1978–1984 * Richard Caliguiri 1977–1978 *Louis Mason 1970–1977 *John F. Counahan 1968–1970 *Thomas Gallagher 1936–1959 *Robert Garland * James F. Malone * James Ross 1817 Past members Source: *R ...
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Theatre In Pittsburgh
Theater in Pittsburgh has existed professionally since the early 1800s and has continued to expand, having emerged as an important cultural force in the city over the past several decades. History The heritage of theater in Pittsburgh stretches back to at least 1765, when it was recorded that "balls, plays, concerts, and comedies" were being performed at the British military installation at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), Fort Pitt. Subsequently, amateur "thespian societies" emerged, including the Thespian Society that was organized by students of the Pittsburgh Academy in 1810, the forerunner of the University of Pittsburgh, in order to stage popular comedies and musical entertainment. These students included Henry Marie Brackenridge, the son of university founder Hugh Henry Brackenridge; Morgan Neville, the son of Presley Neville; and future U.S. Congressman and Senator William Wilkins (U.S. politician), William Wilkins. This club was frequently mentioned by travelers commenting on ...
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