New City, New Blood Reading Series Continues On 4/6

For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please join us!

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS:
Next Reading Monday, April 6th, 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5
Rot-wood by Matthew Swan

Principal Wallace Friday is the coolest guy in school. Everybody loves him, from his championship basketball team who got a new hot-tub in their locker room, to the local politicos who have a front row seat at every game. You want to make bets, or sell drugs? Merely kick up a piece to the Principal's office, and you'll be left alone. But when his empire is threatened by an idealistic history teacher, determined to end the corruption in his school, Friday reinvents himself as the champion of all the lost, forgotten children, and uses their voices to destroy his enemies.

Bio

Matthew Swan is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwright's Program under Christopher Durang and Marsha Norman. His movie, "Ball in the House" (a.k.a. "Relative Evil"), starring David Strathairn, Jennifer Tilly and Jonathan Tucker, premiered at Toronto, won best picture at the D.C. film festival. His film "Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler" starring Larry Pine, and Anna Thompson, is based on his play of the same name. NYC Theater productions include: "Ball in the House" at the Vivian Beaumont, "Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler", at New York Performance Works; "The Soft Sell", at the Samuel Beckett/Playwright's Horizons; "This Property is Bauhaus!" at P.S. 122; and "Rx", at the 2002 Fringe Festival, for which he won Best Actor.

This performance reading is directed by Rosalie Purvis.

Rosalie Purvis has directed plays and choreographed dance-theatre performances at the Brick, the Henry Street Settlement, Manhattan Theatre Source, and many other venues in New York City, Philadelphia and Amsterdam. She has directed readings at the Culture Project, New Dramatists and the Atlantic Theater's Second Stage. She has worked as a movement coach at the White Horse Theatre Company, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Prospect Theatre, and elsewhere. Recent projects include solo dance theatre piece; "5; the Topography of a Terrible Thirst", new plays by Jacob M. Appel, Mya Kagan snd TD Mitchel and a 2 hour play version of "Life of Pi" which she created from scratch with and for 25 students in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Rosalie is a graduate of Bard College (BA in drama/dance; winner of the Ana Itelman Award for Directing and Choreography) and the MFA program in Theater Directing at Brooklyn College. She teaches theater, writing and literature classes at Lehman College, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice the New York Institute of Technology and Pace University.

She is currently directing BAX artist in residence VictorIan Libertore in "My Journey of Decay" a solo show about teeth and mortality that will be performed at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange April 24-26. On May 21st, she will be performing at Dixon Place with Tom X. Chao in his new play: "Callous Cad." She can be reached at rosaliepurvis@earthlink.net.

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Please rsvp to: literary@theaterforthenewcity.net

FUTURE NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS :

Some of the future playwrights include:
Johnny Klein
Aurin Squire
TNC will premiere the performance series: Scratch Night at TNC in May.