Christopher Chen (Photo by Sasha Arutyunova), Danny Haengil Larsen (Photo by Alexis Buatti-Ramos), Michelle Elliott (Photo by Alexis Buatti-Ramos), and Rehana Lew Mirza (Photo by Christine Chambers.)
SARATOGA, CALIF: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has introduced that the nineteenth annual New Works Festival will make its first in-person return since 2019 at Montalvo Arts Center from Nov. 6 to Nov. 13.
The annual competition will showcase new performs and musicals of their early phases of improvement and can give audiences a chance to supply suggestions to the creators. With a number of performances of every present scheduled all through the competition, playwrights and composers will have the ability to absorb and incorporate suggestions, permitting audiences to observe the reveals develop and evolve.
“Developing new works is in TheatreWorks’ DNA,” stated inventive director Tim Bond in an announcement. “An integral part of our mission is to foster and build community around artists as they create works that will engage theatre audiences of the future. I’m so excited for the in-person return of this beloved and vital TheatreWorks tradition.”
This 12 months’s competition is a partnership between TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Montalvo Arts Center’s Lucas Artists Residency Program, a artistic incubator that helps artists throughout many disciplines of their course of to develop new work. TheatreWorks and Montalvo beforehand partnered on a developmental studying of the brand new musical Alice Bliss, which is scheduled to obtain its world premiere at TheatreWorks July 12-Aug. 6, 2023.
“We at Montalvo Arts Center are excited to share these experiences with TheatreWorks,” stated Kelly Sicat, director of Lucas Artist Program, in an announcement. “We hope that this continued partnership not only leads to many more opportunities to build art with our shared community, but that it also highlights for Silicon Valley a model for more organizations to collaborate together to create and inspire community. We look forward to very successful events and anticipate a bold future of making and supporting art together.”
This 12 months’s competition consists of Jonathan Larson Grant winners Danny Haengil Larsen and Michelle Elliott’s new musical, Hart Island, about an immigrant girl and an inmate who type an unlikely connection within the face of tragedy. The musical was beforehand introduced on the 2020 National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival, acquired a Beta Series manufacturing at Village Theatre, a sequence of staged readings at Playwrights Horizons in 2018 and was featured within the 2017 Village Originals Festival of New Musicals.
Additionally, Obie-winning playwright Christopher Chen’s play The Motion explores values and perception techniques amongst 4 students concerned in a debate about animal rights. The Motion was initially a Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Commission.
Kleban Award winner Rehana Lew Mirza’s play Words We Believe portrays a robust examination of fractured neighborhood after a search begins for a lacking 17-year-old particular person in Orange County, Calif.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley was based in 1970 by Robert Kelley and is presently led by inventive director Tim Bond. In 2019, they acquired the Regional Theatre Tony Award. TheatreWorks continues to champion new work, providing artists assist and a house to develop new tales for American theatre. Additionally, TheatreWorks presents arts training and engagement applications for native colleges within the surrounding Silicon Valley neighborhoods. As of 2020, the theatre’s price range was roughly $8.3 million.
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