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Parking Lot Plays: A Reading
Conceived & Directed by Gus Heagerty
plays by Liz Maestri, David Robinson, and Noelle Viñas
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gus Heagerty (Director) was the 2010-2011 William R. Kenan Directing Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He is a Washington, DC based director. He spent three seasons working at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, assisting over ten productions. He has worked with some of the world's foremost directors including Michael Kahn, Jonathan Munby and Maria Aitken. He has worked at many theatres across the country including Playwright's Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Studio Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Gus is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
David Mitchell Robinson (Playwright) goal to write a play about every place he's ever lived has resulted in Carapace (Minneapolis), The Imaginary Music Critic Who Doesn't Exist (Chicago), Animals Nobody Loves (Southeast Ohio), Olympic Village (Atlanta), and Terminals (airplanes). These and other plays have been produced, developed, or commissioned by the Alliance Theatre, Center Theatre Group, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Primary Stages, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Actor's Express, Theater J, B Street Theatre, the Inkwell, Rep Stage, Field Trip Theatre, the Source Festival, and Ohio University, where he received his MFA. A current member of Playwrights' Arena at Arena Stage, David is a past winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and the Scott McPherson Playwriting Award. He has also been a nominee for the PoNY Fellowship, the Lanford Wilson Award, the Terrence McNally Award, and a Suzi Bass Award. www.davidmitchellrobinson.com
Liz Maestri (Playwright) full-length plays include SINNER-MAN, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, FALLBEIL, CONDO CONDO CONDOLAND, SOMERSAULTING, and OWL MOON (Original Works Publishing). Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed at The Artists' Bloc, Capital Fringe Festival, CENTERSTAGE, E.M.P. Collective, Field Trip Theatre, Forum Theatre, Glass Mind Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, INTERSECTIONS Festival, The Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival, Primary Stages/ESPA, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Source Festival, SWAN Day, Taffety Punk, Theater Alliance, and Theater J. Liz was awarded a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, Horton Foote Scholarship, Weissberg Foundation Award, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Young Artist Program Award, and has been a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer's Award and a semifinalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Liz studied playwriting with the 24 With 5 Collective at New Dramatists, and received a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland. She is a member of the Playwrights' Arena at Arena Stage and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Noelle Vinas (Playwright) received her Bachelor's Degree in Acting and Playwriting from Emerson College and is currently the theatre arts teacher and program director at Annandale High School. As a Uruguayan immigrant, she spent most of her life growing up in the DC Theatre Scene. She occasionally slams poetry, sings in bands, and acts as well. She's worked with the GALA Hispanic Theatre, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Arena Stage, and was HowlRound's staff assistant in their inaugural year at Emerson College. She is currently the Dramatist Guild Ambassador for the Washington, D.C. Area along with Gwydion Suliebhan. She's collaborated with The Inkwell on her science fiction play, Apocalypse, Please and is currently developing a new play, break room, with the Inkwell as part of the Wellspring Intensive. Her biggest growing moment to date was the production of Nevermind: a problem play for twentysomethings, adolescents and other child-adults with Atomic Age Theater in Boston, MA in April of 2013.
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LocationCafe St. Ex (View)
1847 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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