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Guggenheim Fellowship!

4/9/2021

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pinch me.
www.gf.org/announcement-2021/
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Audio Style!

3/31/2021

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Hi there, Huntington did a podcast version of Tiger Style! with BGH and it's available here.

And we're now nominated for a Drama League Award for Best Audio Theater Production.
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Some Updates

8/23/2019

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OK some updates!

Bhangin' It won the Richard Rodgers Award.

Teenage Dick is going to Donmar Warehouse in London, Dec 6 - Feb 1 2020 and to Wooly Mammoth in DC June 2020.

Tiger Style! was at Olney in Maryland and everyone seemed like they had a good time!

Teenage Dick, Tiger Style!, and microcrisis are all now available from Dramatists Play Service.
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Teenage Dick in Theatre Forum Magazine

2/2/2019

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Academics and monologue-seekers, Teenage Dick will soon be available from Dramatists Play Service but the full text is now published in Theatre Forum - the last-ever print edition, grab it now!
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TD, BI

1/29/2019

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Teenage Dick is now playing at Artists Rep in Portland thru Feb 3.
Next up cooking up a workshop of Bhangin' It in NYC...
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The Colonialism Project

9/6/2018

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RSVPs now open for a reading of "The Colonialism Project" - a trilogy of plays by me n Rehana, commissioned by LJP and opening the season at the Lark. Sep 24-25. See ya there.
https://www.larktheatre.org/whats-happening/events/colonialism-project/
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La Jolla Playhouse Residency, New Dramatists

8/15/2018

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This summer we're workshopping "Bhangin' It" and our commissioned trilogy with La Jolla Playhouse. September 17 is the New Playwrights Welcome at New Dramatists where I'll begin my seven-year residency.
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Spring Updates: New Dramatists, La Jolla Playhouse, "Bhangin' It" and "Teenage Dick"

5/19/2018

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Some spring updates!

Rehearsals continue for Teenage Dick, produced by Ma-Yi at the Public. If you're in NYC check it out June 12-July 15. Tix here:
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/1516/Teenage-Dick/?SiteTheme=JoesPub

Coming up in June I've also received a Project Springboard dance workshop of our musical Bhangin' It (music/lyrics by Sam Willmott, book by me and Rehana Mirza, and choreography by Rujuta Vaidya), courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Press release here:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Project-Springboard-Announces-Winners-of-Second-Annual-Residency-Awards-20180502

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Rehana and I recently became Artists-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse, which is my hometown theater and the recent producers of my play Tiger Style! While in residence we'll be working on Bhangin' It and a trilogy they commissioned:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-et-theater-playhouseartists-20180424-story.html

And finally, after 4 years of working there and 8 years of applying, I've just been accepted into the latest class of New Dramatists:
http://newdramatists.org/news/17/05/2018/new-playwrights-join-new-dramatists%E2%80%99-resident-playwright-company
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Ma-Yi presents "Teenage Dick" at the Public

3/29/2018

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Get yer tix. Ma-Yi presents the world premiere of "Teenage Dick" at the Public. June 12-July 15 directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and starring Gregg Mozgala who commissioned and started this whole crazy mess. Tix here:
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/1516/Teenage-Dick/?SiteTheme=JoesPub
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PEN Emerging Playwright Award

2/12/2018

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Grateful to have just received the PEN/Laura Pels Emerging American Playwright Award!

Press release here.
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