''Geography Club'' is a play by American playwright and author

Brent Hartinger Brent Hartinger (born 1971) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his novels about gay teenagers. Early life Hartinger was born in 1971 in Washington state and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's ...

, based on his novel ''

Geography Club ''Geography Club'' is a 2003 young adult novel by American author Brent Hartinger. It is the first book in '' The Russel Middlebrook Series''. The novel follows a group of high school students who feel like outsiders, some because of their se ...

''.

Production history

''Geography Club'' premiered as a staged reading in Seattle, Washington at the third annual Seattle FringeACT Festival of New Plays in 2004, directed by Ilene Fins. ''The Geography Club'' starred Brendan Callahan as Russel Middlebrook. The play's production premiere was as the opening show at the first annual Northwest Playwright's Alliance Festival of New Plays in 2008. It was directed by David Domkoski (who applauded the play for being both "good and relevant to what's happening to kids right now") and starred Galen Wicks, then a senior at Tacoma School of the Arts, as Russel. One review said that "''Geography Club'' stands confidently on a cliff-edge of new theater: theater for young people, dealing with hot topics seldom dramatized. Weaving through the ultra-delicate intricacies of teenage identity, the play builds strong themes of friendship and belonging, just as well (or better) as its original form." Subsequent productions have taken place in Edmonton, Canada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and elsewhere.Photo from the University of Utah production
/ref>

References

External links

*Hartinger'
official website
LGBT-related plays American plays 2004 plays Plays based on novels {{LGBT-fiction-stub