Rosie Narasaki, Marlow Wyatt, and David Johann Kim.
LOS ANGELES: The second annual Los Angeles New Play Project (LANPP) has named three new playwrights and 4 theatres as their 2022 grant recipients. The playwrights are David Johann Kim, Rosie Narasaki, and Marlow Wyatt. Each playwright will obtain $20,000, and the grant additionally awards 4 Los Angeles County theatres $20,000 for producing the playwrights’ work throughout the subsequent 18 months. Chalk Repertory Theatre will premiere Kim’s Pang Spa, whereas Ensemble Studio Theatre LA will stage Kim’s Two Stop. Playwright’s Arena will produce Narasaki’s Unrivaled and Antaeus Theatre Company will produce Wyatt’s SHE.
The LANPP grant is designed to contribute to unique work on the phases of Los Angeles County. The grants are meant to assist appeal to excellence in playwriting to the Los Angeles theatre group and to encourage the manufacturing of thrilling, untried performs.
“We launched Los Angeles New Play Project in order to support some of the best writers who are working to develop new plays,” defined LANPP director and producer Paula Holt in a press release. “Additionally, by helping to support small theatres that work so hard to present new plays to the local audiences, we are offering a spark for L.A. theatres coming back to life after these challenging years.”
Kim’s performs are each set in L.A.’s Korean group following the Rodney King verdict. Two Stop is ready in a Korean-owned comfort retailer on the night time of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, and Pang Spa is an immersive manufacturing that tells the story of a previously affluent grocery retailer on the outskirts of L.A.’s Koreatown that was destroyed within the aftermath of the decision.
Narasaki’s Unrivaled tells the story of two renounced Japanese feminine writers of the eleventh century, exploring gender politics, sexuality, and sophistication construction in a interval that pulls parallels to up to date Western tradition.
Wyatt’s SHE is ready in Clark County, Miss., and examines the story of 13-year-old Sojourner Freeman, who battles her single mom and navigates a rocky summer season attempting to piece collectively the cash to fund tuition at a prestigious Academy of Arts and Science.
The Los Angeles New Play Project grant was based by producers Paula Holt and Nathan Birnbaum. The mission is run in cooperation with the UCLA Foundation, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, and is funded by a beneficiant benefactor who has requested to stay nameless.