Additional Playwright Joins PLAYWRIGHTS' PLAYGROUND

The Classical Theatre of Harlem's popular cold reading series, Playwrights' Playground, is designed to promote the work of emerging playwrights whose works are persistently underrepresented on American stages. Writers submit up to fifteen pages and are invited to participate in readings in this Monday evening series. While having a chance to hear their own words read by industry professionals, writers also participate in a feedback session designed to encourage, inspire, and promote continued exploration of their writing process. Up to five scenes are read on each evening, Monday, November 16, 2015 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (actors arrive at 6:30).

ADDITIONAL PLAYWRIGHT ANNOUNCED!:

Maia Matsushita received her BA from Dartmouth College, where she was the 2012 Recipient of the Dodd Drama Prize in Playwriting, and the 2013 Susan DeBevoise Wright Fund for Achievement in Playwriting. Credits incude: "Playwrights Call to Activism" and "LIFTED" festivals, Shades Repertory Theater, 2014 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival. She is a proud member of the Inaugural Writers Group with The Fire This Time Festival.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PLAYWRIGHTS:

Zack Calhoon
Zack Calhoon graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with BFA in Acting. Playwriting credits: Blanquita (Staged reading - Capital Rep's 2014 NEXT ACT! New Play Summit, 2014 O'Neill Semi-Finalist), The Weird Sisters (East 3rd Productions, Orlando Shakespeare's PLAYFEST), Breaking Ranks (New Mummer Group), Violence in the Air (StageWorks/Hudson), Bodywork, Madeline, Rino (Core Creative Productions/Resonance Ensemble co-production) and Paint (2012 O'Neill Semi-Finalist).

Damon Chua
An NEA, Dramatists Guild Fund, and Durfee Foundation grant recipient, Chua's plays are published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus and the Proscenium Journal. Currently a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Chua's The Emperor's Nightingale will receive its world premiere with Adventure Theatre MTC in 2016. www.damonchua.com

Camille A. Collins
Camille A. Collins was a 2009 recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commissions' Fiction Prize for the short story. She has a BA in English from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She spent her formative years in one of Chicago's northern suburbs, and was fortunate to traverse the city often to visit relatives on the city's southernmost side.

CTH's Reading Series is presented in association with International Communications Association, owners of Dwyer Cultural Center (258 Saint Nicholas Avenue New York, NY 10027) .