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In collaboration with the Future Is Female Festival, Dark Matter Productions presents SMASH!, a night of short plays written by female playwrights and led by female directors. My play, Reality Check, will be featured as one of seven, 10-minute pieces.
When: Friday, March 17th @ 7pm
Where: La Maison d’Art (259 W 132nd St. in Manhattan)
Tickets: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11358
Moving Arts marks the fourth cycle of our Moving Arts Development Lab (MADlab). This year, Moving Arts received more applications than ever before. We are proud to announce the 2017 MADlab writers: Nayna Agrawal, Makeda Declet, Chloé Hung and Jennie Webb. They will be working with dramaturgs, directors and actors as they craft brand-new plays over the next nine months, culminating in the First Look Reading Series in October, 2017.
To learn more about this opportunity and our playwrights, please visit: http://movingarts.org/madlab-2017-writers/
Trap Street Theatre Los Angeles invites you to an evening of partying like it's all comin' to an end....
Beginning January 22nd, the Iron Triangle Brewery will host our immersive theatrical experience, Nautapocalypse, for audience members and patrons to experience an evening of vignettes which flutters our hearts, tickles our funny bones and tests your nerves. Audience members will be drawn into a world where a submarine has inexplicably appeared in Echo Lake, causing panic and widespread mayhem that the end of the world is imminent.
Get your tickets at trapstreet.la
My 10-minute play, Slut, is a semi-finalist for the Ivoryton Playhouse’s inaugural Women Playwright’s Initiative. It is one of fourteen semi-finalists selected from 183 submissions. Based in Connecticut, The Ivoryton Playhouse is committed to providing exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the Shoreline region and beyond.
My tale of international aid, espionage, love and yes, Tuberculosis, has been selected for performance at the Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica. SHINE is presented by Storey Productions in association with Santa Monica Repertory Theater and UCLArts and Healing. Hosted by Alan Aymie (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival selection, "Child's Play"), the event will take place on Sunday, October 16th at 8 p.m.; tickets can be purchased at storeyproductions.com. Please join us!
East West Players, LA's premiere pan-Asian theater company, has awarded me a spot in and scholarship for their new playwrights' program. This 13-week workshop gives playwrights the opportunity to work intensively on revising a full-length play to submit to theaters, festivals, and contests. The workshop focuses on different aspects of the rewriting process, reading assignments of relevant plays, and group outings to play productions. Each playwright will have class time dedicated to receiving notes on two different drafts of his or her play.
My dramedy pilot, Goodie Two-Faced, has been selected for the second round of the application process for the 2016 Episodic Story Lab at Sundance. This pilot is loosely based on my personal experiences as an anti-trafficking crusader in Asia. Twelve revisions and two years later, here we are! Final selections will be announced in late August. Fingers crossed!
Join us on Wednesday, April 6th, at the Matrix Theater for a night of non-fiction stories culled from our personal lives! The event begins at 8 p.m. and a reception with complimentary drinks and snacks follows. Tickets can be purchased for as little at $5 at http://nueapower.eventbrite.com/
My play, Dharma, has made the first cut (130 plays chosen from 750 plays) for PlayPenn's annual conference. This annual conference takes place each July in Philadelphia. The conference includes workshops and readings of six plays, additional readings of up to three works-in-progress, forums for artists, and a symposium on new play development issues.
I've been nominated for the New Voices of HUMANITAS! This opportunity recognizes emerging writers of all modes and genres. Each selected writer receives a monetary grant to craft an original pilot under the guidance of a HUMANITAS Trustee or member of the Board of Directors. Once completed, the script is submitted to a studio partner for consideration.
