I have advanced in the process of consideration of the Fox Writers Lab (FWL) for their 2018 program. The program receives up to 750 applications and ultimately eight writers will be selected. Participants are connected with showrunners, screenwriters, directors and creative executives across television, feature films and digital entertainment. The FWL offers trained writers an immersive four-month curriculum focused on developing original material, honing writing skills and exploring the business of media and entertainment.
My Work to be Featured in The Car Plays at Segerstrom Center for the Arts
I was invited to submit a 10-minute play which was ultimately selected for THE CAR PLAYS, an immersive theatrical experience. Blurring the lines between theatre and real life, this unique, site-specific theatrical sensation returns to Segerstrom Center. 5 cars, 5 different 10-minute plays, and you’re right in the middle of each one. Conceived by Paul Stein and produced by Moving Arts, The Car Plays is "adventurous theatre packed into a Jeep or a Jetta or an Audi" (Huffington Post). Please join us and hop in for the ride of your life! There are 22 performances in January 2018 and tickets can be purchased at: https://www.scfta.org/events
"Slut" Featured in NYC READING SERIES
The 2017 empowHER Reading Series of Clutch Productions is dedicated to exploring hidden gender bias and features:
Slut
by Nayna Agrawal
directed by Vanessa Morosco
Webster's Bitch
by Jacqueline Bircher
directed by Vanessa Morosco
Invisible
by Jane Jeffries
directed by Julia Sears
my favorite flower
by Arika Larson
directed by Raquel Almazan
The Takeover
by Barbara Lindsay
directed by Christianne Greiert
Ensemble Cast
Raji Ahsan*, Jeanette Bonner*, Rajesh Bose*, Christianne Greiert*, Rebecca Hirota*, Esther Mira, Pooya Mohesni*, Pilar Rehert*, Jennifer Dorr White*, Miranda Noelle Wilson*, and Clint Zugel*
*Actors appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
WHEN
Sunday, December 17th
2:30pm
WHERE
Primary Stages Studios
307 West 38th Street, Suite 1510
Seating is limited and by invitation only. Please email to RSVP!
Clutch Productions, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating opportunities for emerging female artists in theatre and film.
DHARMA a finalist for the Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence
DHARMA is one of seven finalists selected from several hundred submissions for the Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence! Now in its tenth year, the program supports emerging playwrights and identifies one writer annually. Each residency is unique and writers work with the Artistic Director to build a year of activities that will be beneficial to them and their process. For one year the resident writer has the opportunity to make use of the studio's resources to advance their craft, spend time on works-in-progress or develop new work.
FIRST LOOK SERIES - CATCALL
Moving Arts presents a weekend event showcasing the work produced from MADlab, a unique 9-month program that focuses on the development of new plays from the idea up. Join us for staged readings, then stay for post-reading gatherings with food and drink.
Sunday, Oct 8th @ 11 am: CATCALL by Nayna Agrawal
What happens when you strive for more...do you become the best version of yourself or the least content version of anyone? At the intersection of girl and woman, young and old and possible and past, Nina Rao confronts this conundrum...with disastrous results.
Bootleg Theatre: 2220 Beverly Blvd, 90057
Tickets are FREE, reserve your seat HERE
Playground LA awards me a spot in their 2017-2018 Writers Pool
Playground LA has announced its 2017-18 Writers Pool! As a selected playwright, I will participate in their Monday Night series. Season 6 kicks off on October 9 (for the complete schedule, visit http://playground-la.org/monday). Each month, PlayGround-LA will announce a topic and the Writers Pool will have four-and-a-half days to respond with their original short plays. The top six scripts will be selected, matched with leading local directors and actors, rehearsed for an hour-and-a-half each, and then presented as script-in-hand staged readings as part of the monthly Monday Night PlayGround series.
"Slut" to be featured in Broads' World Ensemble's Fall Reading Series
Slut has been selected as part of the Fall Staged Reading Series with Broads' World Ensemble, an LA-based theatre collective which is geared toward providing substantive, creative opportunities for women in theatre as performers, directors, writers, producers, and all other aspects of the craft. I'll be paired with a female director and Slut will receive two performances in October 2017 at the Flight Theater at the Complex. To learn more, please visit: www.BroadsWordEnsemble.com
My Pilot, Like "Bandana" with a "V", garners Semi-Finalist status with Screenwriters Colony
My half-hour comedy about a financial analyst who chucks it all to start at the bottom of Hollywood is a semi-finalist for the Screenwriters Colony 2017 Episodic Comedy Colony! Ultimately, three writers will be invited to Nantucket to participate in a two-week long intensive in June where the selected writers will meet with showrunners, agents and executives.
Dharma selected as a Finalist in Promising Playwrights Contest
The Colonial Players, an Annapolis-based theater company, has selected Dharma as one of sixteen finalists from over 200 submissions to their annual Promising Playwrights Contest. The winning script and playwright receives $1,000 and a script workshop weekend in summer 2017. The workshop will culminate in a rehearsed public reading of the script at the theater.
I'm an O'Neill Semi-Finalist!
My full-length play, Dharma, is a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2017 National Playwrights Conference. Each year a community of professionals gathers in the serene setting of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in order to support playwrights and new works for the theater. During the Conference, playwrights live on the grounds of the O'Neill for one month and each engages in a week-long process of rehearsals culminating in two script-in-hand public readings. Up to eight playwrights are selected for this intensive laboratory each summer. Virtually every major American playwright has been part of the Conference, including Julia Cho, Rebecca Gilman, Regina Taylor, John Guare, Israel Horovitz, David Henry Hwang, David Lindsay-Abaire, Adam Rapp, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and August Wilson.