Cherry Lane Theatre Announces Finalists for Mentor Project, Dec. 5
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 30, 2005
Three emerging playwrights will be introduced as the Mentor Project 2006 finalists: Sheila Callaghan (Lascivious Something), Katori Hall (Hoodoo Love), and Megan Mostyn-Brown (Girl).
The evening will also offer the opportunity to see their mentors - playwrights Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck and Michael Weller - read selections from their current work.
"Mentor Project, the cornerstone of Cherry Lane Theatre's development programs, engages pre-eminent dramatists in one-to-one mentoring relationships with aspiring playwrights for an entire theatre season. During their tenure the Mentors help the young writers hone their craftsmanship as their respective plays move toward the final phase of our program, a showcase production. Cherry Lane's Discovery Series gives new plays a premiere Off-Broadway production," according to press notes.
Previous Mentor Project success stories include Eliam Kraiem, who moved his Sixteen Wounded to a full production at the Long Wharf Theatre starring Martin Landau in February 2003, and then subsequently opened on Broadway in April 2004 starring Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton.
Other Mentor Project alumni include Christopher Shinn (Four, Other People, On the Mountain), Bridgette Wimberly (Saint Lucy's Eyes), Julia Cho (99 Histories), David Wiener (Blood Orange), and Courtney Baron (Morbidity & Mortality).
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