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,
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<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
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<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'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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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.