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Clubbed Thumb Announces Spring Season

By: Feb. 27, 2007
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The Obie-Award winning Clubbed Thumb are proud to announce a choc-full spring theatre season including their second hefty playwright commission in as many years, the release of their newly published anthology, and their annual Summerworks festival of new plays.  Updates can be found on www.clubbedthumb.org.
Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission:
On February 28th, Clubbed Thumb will start accepting proposals for their second Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission.  The winner will receive a $15,000 commission, one of the largest in the country, to write and develop a play based upon Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission Guidelines due by July 15th, 2007.  Last year's recipient Karl Gajdusek's play Greedy will be in this year's Summerworks 2007.
Anthology:
March 31st Playscripts, Inc. is publishing an anthology of selected plays produced by Clubbed Thumb over its 11 year history called Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb with a forward written by Oskar Eustis.  The plays included are:The Typographer's Dream by Adam Bock, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan, Demon Baby by Erin Courtney, 16 Spells to Charm the Beast by Lisa D'Amour, Inky by Rinne Groff, Dearest Eugenia Haggis by Anne Marie Healy, Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer<!-- D(["mb","</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font faceu003d"Arial" sizeu003d"2">Summerworks 2007<br>May 30th - June 23rd at The Ohio Theatre, (66 Wooster St. btwn Spring and Broome)<br>Featuring productions of three plays including Amazons and Their Men by Jordon Harrison and Greedy by Karl Gajdusek, and an opening night extravaganza: America!  The 50 States of our Union</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font faceu003d"Arial" sizeu003d"2">CLUBBED THUMB commissions, develops, and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers.  In our 11 seasons we&#39;ve presented over 100 plays and 60 full productions, which have been awarded three Obies, including two this past May.  Clubbed Thumb is a groundbreaker, with an unparalleled track record for finding emerging artists and producing innovative new plays; a matchmaker, cultivating relationships between theater artists through our development and production progams; and an incubator, nurturing artists and their work, from first read-through to fully mounted production.  <br></font></div></div></div> ",0] ); D(["ce"]); //-->
Summerworks 2007
May 30th - June 23rd at The Ohio Theatre, (66 Wooster St. btwn Spring and Broome)
Featuring productions of three plays including Amazons and Their Men by Jordon Harrison and Greedy by Karl Gajdusek, and an opening night extravaganza: America!  The 50 States of our Union
CLUBBED THUMB commissions, develops, and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers.  In our 11 seasons we've presented over 100 plays and 60 full productions, which have been awarded three Obies, including two this past May.  Clubbed Thumb is a groundbreaker, with an unparalleled track record for finding emerging artists and producing innovative new plays; a matchmaker, cultivating relationships between theater artists through our development and production progams; and an incubator, nurturing artists and their work, from first read-through to fully mounted production. 






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