LOS ANGELES and MIAMI: The Black List and Miami New Drama have introduced that Matt Barbot will obtain a $10,000 fee to work alongside the creative crew at Miami New Drama on the writing and growth of a brand new play. The Miami New Drama x Black List Playwriting Commission, because it’s referred to as, is the primary of 4 commissions to be made in a partnership program the Black List introduced earlier this yr, within the screenwriting platform’s first foray into theatre.
For his fee, Barbot will work with Miami New Drama on a brand new play that displays their mission to supply work as numerous, multicultural, and multilingual as their South Florida group. As the biggest bilingual theatre firm in America, Miami New Drama helps writers who perceive, and are desirous about exploring, the distinctive sensibilities of a metropolis like Miami and its connection to the bigger nationwide dialog.
“We are incredibly thrilled to be working with the Black List and with Matt,” mentioned Michel Hausmann, Miami New Drama’s creative director, in an announcement. “It is such an invaluable part of our mission to continue to help open doors for writers, and Matt is the perfect collaborator for the field we seek to help create. We cannot wait to see what the fruits of this collaboration bring.”
Added Black List founder Franklin Leonard in an announcement, “Obviously, this is the first partnership the Black List has done in the theatre world, so it’s incredibly exciting to confirm the Black List’s ability to find great writers and connect them with opportunities that befit their talent here as well. I couldn’t be more excited to read what Matt writes for Miami New Drama, and you will find me there opening night of previews, whenever that happens.”
Miami New Drama chosen Barbot on the energy of his play El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom, which received the Kennedy Center’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award in 2017. The play facilities on Alex, a comic book artist who secretly worries he’s not Puerto Rican sufficient, and who has created a superhero that embodies all the things he thinks it means to be Puerto Rican: El Coquí Espectacular. Barbot, a Nuyorican author from Brooklyn, lately workshopped his new performs the attractive land i search (la linda tierra que busco yo) at Fault Line Theatre, and Trilogy, a fee for Two River Theater, each with director José Zayas. Barbot additionally wrote Spray Cap for Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon’s The Watering Hole on the Signature Theatre in New York.
The Miami New Drama x the Black List Playwriting Commission is considered one of 4 playwriting commissions launched by the Black List in January. The others introduced have been to be in partnership with the Movement Theater Company, Victory Gardens, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The Black List has introduced that they’re extending the submission window for the Woolly Mammoth commissions by Apr. 2, 2023.