Chad Colacurcio and Steven Patrick.
UNION, N.J.: Premiere Stages at Kean University has named college pupil Chad Colacurcio and alumnus Steven Patrick the winners of the 2023 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Awards. Colacurcio will obtain a money prize of $1,000 and Patrick will obtain a money prize of $2,000. Both will obtain developmental readings of their performs with an expert forged and director.
The studying for Colacurcio’s The Troubles will likely be held Jan. 23 at Kean’s Little Theatre. The drama follows Kasey, who escapes Northern Ireland in the course of the violent Troubles however finds extra tragedy as her household heals in New Jersey in 2003. The studying for Patrick’s X ≠X (X Does Not Equal X) will likely be held Jan. 26 at Lantern Hill Senior Living in New Providence, N.J. The play follows Professor Lloyd, whose new principle questions accepted ideas of actuality and will be the destroy—or salvation—of his struggling school. Both readings will likely be directed by Premiere Stages producing creative director John J. Wooten.
Colacurcio is a queer artist who simply accomplished his last semester at Kean, incomes a B.A. in Theatre. At Kean, Colacurcio wrote and staged a studying of the play I Am Beautiful, And, based mostly on the guide by Keiva Coreen and Sophia Ditchfield. Colacurcio can be a graduate of New York Make-Up Designory’s multimedia program.
Patrick, a 1979 graduate of Kean, is an adjunct professor at each Kean and at Brookdale Community College. His quick play Selective Service was produced on the Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center and his novel Journey at Dusk was printed by Ironbound Press. As a visible artist, Patrick has proven and bought wall sculpture items with the Barron Arts Center, Arts Guild New Jersey, MCC Performing Arts Gallery, and the Edison Arts Society. Patrick is a accomplice at Ascendant Architecture & Interior Design, PC.
Honorable mentions for the 2023 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Awards embrace pupil Tyler Sautner and alumni Dustin Ballard and B.V. Marshall. Each will obtain $150.
The Bauer Boucher Playwriting Award was established in 2014 by funding by W. John Bauer and Nancy Boucher to acknowledge the work of 1 Kean University pupil playwright and one from the alumni neighborhood. The award helps playwrights with enhanced visibility, dramaturgical suggestions, a money award, and the chance to listen to their play learn aloud by an ensemble {of professional} actors.
Premiere Stages was established in 2004 and is an expert Equity theatre in residence at Kean University. Through its distinctive partnership with Kean, Premiere Stages expands the scope, accessibility, and status of campus programming by new play growth, skilled growth, and academic initiatives.
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