Michael Robertson News

The Lark Play Development Center announced that seven plays-in-development have been chosen for its 18th annual Playwrights' Week, which will kick off on Tuesday, September 20 at 8pm with the Meet the Writers event and reception, where writers will read excerpts from their work.

hotINK at the LARK will showcase work by nine playwrights from outside the United States in afternoon and evening readings.

hotINK at the LARK will showcase work by nine playwrights from outside the United States in afternoon and evening readings.

Seattle-based playwright Yussef El Guindi, author of numerous plays including Our Enemies (Osborn Award), Back of the Throat, and Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, has been selected to receive the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. Honorable mentions went to playwrights Nastaran Ahmadi, Denmo Ibrahim, Ken Kaisser, Mona Mansour, and Heather Raffo. The prize, which is granted every other year to an American writer of a Middle Eastern background by a consortium composed of San Francisco's Golden Thread Productions, New York's Lark Play Development Center, and Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project, comes with a $10,000 commission to write a new play of the author's choice, artistic development support for two years and possible productions at both Silk Road and Golden Thread.

The Lark Play Development Center today named award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh its Director of Onsite Programs, effective immediately.

The Lark Play Development Center is pleased to host Belarus Free Theatre for a public reading of Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin, directed by Lisa Rothe, with original translation by Yuriy Koliada and Rory Mullarky and dramaturgical and translation assistance by Erik Ehn. The reading takes place at 7pm on Wednesday, September 22 at the Lark Studio.

The Lark Play Development Center is pleased to host Belarus Free Theatre for a public reading of Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin, directed by Lisa Rothe, with original translation by Yuriy Koliada and Rory Mullarky and dramaturgical and translation assistance by Erik Ehn. The reading takes place at 7pm on Wednesday, September 22 at the Lark Studio.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce the 2010-11 Playwrights Workshop Fellows, which include Neena Beber (Jump/Cut), Carla Ching (2G Artistic Director), Greg Kotis (Urinetown), Tommy Smith (P73 Fellow, Lark PONY Fellow), and Playwright-in-Residence Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife).

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to present two free staged readings of LOVE KILLS, book, music & lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, on Friday, July 30 at 4pm & Monday, August 2 at 7pm in the Lark Studio.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce that five Mexican plays from its U.S./México Playwright Exchange will be presented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre from July 23 - 25, presented in partnership with several local companies Aguijón Theater Company, 16th Street Theater, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, and Urban Theater Company.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce that five Mexican plays from its U.S./México Playwright Exchange will be presented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre from July 23 - 25, presented in partnership with several local companies Aguijón Theater Company, 16th Street Theater, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, and Urban Theater Company.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to present two free staged readings of LOVE KILLS, book, music & lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, on Friday, July 30 at 4pm & Monday, August 2 at 7pm in the Lark Studio.

Middle East America: A National New Plays Initiative, created by Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, the Lark Play Development Center in New York, and Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago, is gearing up for the second round of the program which represents the first national effort to actively cultivate and support the development of Middle Eastern-American playwrights and their plays.

The Lark Play Development Center will host French-African playwright Koffi Kwahulé in New York City on May 13 and 14. Free public readings of Kwahulé's play, THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC, translated by Chantal Bilodeau will be presented at the Lark Studio. The readings are part of Lark's 7 year project to translate, develop, and publish seven of Kwahulé's plays in an effort to both encourage international exchange and to bring to the forefront a unique theatrical voice.

The Lark Play Development Center will host French-African playwright Koffi Kwahulé in New York City on May 13 and 14. Free public readings of Kwahulé's play, THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC, translated by Chantal Bilodeau will be presented at the Lark Studio. The readings are part of Lark's 7 year project to translate, develop, and publish seven of Kwahulé's plays in an effort to both encourage international exchange and to bring to the forefront a unique theatrical voice.

The Lark Play Development Center will host French-African playwright Koffi Kwahulé in New York City on May 13 and 14. Free public readings of Kwahulé's play, THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC, translated by Chantal Bilodeau will be presented at the Lark Studio. The readings are part of Lark's 7 year project to translate, develop, and publish seven of Kwahulé's plays in an effort to both encourage international exchange and to bring to the forefront a unique theatrical voice.

The Lark Play Development Center, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute New York (RCI), with support from CEC Artslink, is pleased to host Romanian playwright Andreea Valean in New York, as part of its Eastern European Exchange Program.

The Lark Play Development Center, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute New York (RCI), with support from CEC Artslink, is pleased to host Romanian playwright Andreea Valean in New York, as part of its Eastern European Exchange Program.

Middle East America: A National New Plays Initiative, created by Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, the Lark Play Development Center in New York, and Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago, is gearing up for the second round of the program which represents the first national effort to actively cultivate and support the development of Middle Eastern-American playwrights and their plays.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the professional not-for-profit American theatre, which also serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), is pleased to announce the recipients of the TCG/ITI Travel Grants for Fall/Winter 2009.