August brings the whirlwind that is the New York International Fringe Festival with its 197 productions in a period of just over two weeks. It’s the most exciting, looked forward to event of the summer. And it gets better each year. The choices are varied and exciting. Of course, nytheatre.com will help guide you by publishing the previews written by the participants. And we’ll have lots more online as we get closer to the opening.
I thought I would give you a bit of advance notice as to the playwrights we have published here at NYTE Small Press who will have new plays produced in the festival. Make a note, so you can try to see some of their newer work come August.
Chad Beckim (his play ‘nami is published in Plays and Playwrights 2007) will be represented twice. Look for Cookie and A Matter of Choice.
Boo Killebrew (her play They’re Just Like Us is also in 2007) is part of the ensemble theatre company, Collaboration Town, and their new piece, for which she is part of the writing team is called The Momentum.
Arlene Hutton (her short play Faerie Tale is included in Plays and Playwrights 2001 as part of Washington Square Dreams) will have a new play to check out entitled Running.
Leslie Bramm who wrote the Foreword to our latest anthology and whose play, Marvelous Shrine, we published in Plays and Playwrights 2008 will be at the festival with his work, Venus and Mona.
Stan Richardson whose play Another Brief Encounter we also published in PP ’07 will present Veritas and you can listen to him talk about this play with his director Ryan Davis on a recent nytheatrecast episode.
That’s a whole bunch to look forward to. Hope you’ll be able to catch some or all in August.
Hi. My partner and I are producing for the first time ever at the FringeNYC 2010! Our show (Mobius: A play in Two Acts By Michael Lopez Saenz) is getting fantastic feedback since our staged reading last weekend. Coming across your article hear has me even more excited!
Not only am I excited to be a part of the Fringe and be associated with Michael’s amazing script, i can’t wait to see as much of the Fringe as possible!
Best!