WP Theater Announces The Pipeline Festival Complete Lineup
By: Tyler Peterson Mar. 03, 2016
The culmination of the two-year WP Lab residency, the 2016 Pipeline Festival provides a unique opportunity for audiences and industry to access five new plays at various stages of development, ranging from staged readings to full-length workshop productions. The Festival, true to its name, will serve as a pipeline to funnel talented female artists and their work to the forefront of American theater.
Shelley Butler leads the Director's Lab, Stephanie Ybarra leads the Producer's Lab and Lisa McNulty leads the Playwright's Lab.
Tickets for The Pipeline Festival are now on sale via WWW.WPTHEATER.ORG/ 888.811.4111. The performance schedule is as follows: Thursday at 7:00pm, Friday at 3:00pm & 8:00pm, and Saturday at 8:00pm.
WEEK 1: MARCH 24 - 26
CYGNUS
By Susan Soon He Stanton * Directed by Danya Taymor * Produced by Liz Olson
Cydney believes an angel rescued her from an ineffable trauma, and the truth may prove stranger than she imagines. In this mythic, hilarious, and poetic new play, Susan Soon He Stanton spins a dark fairy tale where a burnt feather may illuminate the possibility of a divine intervention. #CygnusPlay
WEEK 2: MARCH 31 - APRIL 2
VEIL'D
By Monet Hurst-Mendoza * Directed by Sarah Krohn * Produced by Kristen Luciani
16-year old Dima has a rare skin allergy that compels her to hide behind her mother's old burqa. Her parents worry she's lonely and wish they could give her the perfect American upbringing they imagined when they left Afghanistan. But they don't know about Dima's secret friends: Elliot, a self-described beatnik who spends his days hawking poems on the street corner below her window, and a talking nurse shark named Speedo. With a little encouragement from her fairy god-shark, Dima and Elliot's relationship begins to blossom-but can Dima really expect a happy ending? #VeildPlay
WEEK 3: APRIL 7 - APRIL 9
KINGS
By Sarah Burgess * Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt * Produced by Pearl Hodiwala
A first term congresswoman worries for the state of our republic when she experiences Washington's political fundraising apparatus up close. When she doesn't play along with lobbyists, her numbers suffer, and her party tries to push her aside. Tries. #KingsPlay
WEEK 4: APRIL 14 - APRIL 16
THE RUG DEALER
By Riti Sachdeva * Directed by Lee Sunday Evans * Produced by Rachel Sussman
When Raba Zacharai suddenly passes away, his daughter Shiraz inherits the prominent Persian rug shop he built in Boston after leaving Iran in 1979. After diving into a love affair with a dangerously beautiful customer and discovering her mother's secret longing to return to her homeland after years in exile, Shiraz must negotiate the costly business of carpets, family, duty, and desire. #RugDealerPlay
WEEK 5: APRIL 21 - APRIL 23
UNTITLED
By Martyna Majok * Directed by Tamilla Woodard * Produced by Rachel Karpf Reidy
Martyna Majok, author of WP's current production IRONBOUND, continues her exploration of the people on the fringes of society through a fierce and funny new play about immigrant women seeking more than the American Dream.
Scenic design for the festival is by Sara C. Walsh. For Cygnus, the costume design is by Loren Shaw, the lighting design is by Barbara Samuels and the sound design is by Jeremy Bloom. For VEIL'D, the costume design is by Siena Zoe Allen, the lighting design is by Barbara Samuels and the sound design is by Jeremy Bloom. For Kings, the costume design is by Tilly Grimes, the lighting supervisor is Barbara Samuels, lighting design is by Michael McGee and the sound design is by Stowe Nelson. For The Rug Dealer, the costume design is by Deepsikha Chatterjee, the lighting supervisor is Barbara Samuels, lighting design is by Michael McGee and the sound design is by Elisheba Ittoop. For Untitled, the costume design is by Tilly Grimes, the lighting supervisor is Barbara Samuales, lighting design is by Michael McGee and the sound design is by Stowe Nelson.
HEADSHOTS:
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BIOGRAPHIES (by show):
CYGNUS
(March 24 - 26)
Playwright: SUSAN SOON HE STANTON's plays include Takarazuka!!!, Today Is My Birthday, SEEK, The Things Are Against Us, Cygnus, The Underneath, and more. Her plays have been produced or developed at Clubbed Thumb, East West Players, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Kennedy Center, The Flea, Washington Ensemble Theater, Joe's Pub, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and others. She is a two-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient. Writing groups and residencies include Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Playwrights Center Corewriter, SoHo Rep Writer-Director Lab, Lark Van Lier Fellowship, Hedgebrook, and MaYi Playwrights Lab. Other awards include Southern Rep's Ruby Prize Runner-up, Susan Glaspell Prize Finalist, Kilroy's List, a Susan Smith Blackburn nomination, and a NET Partnership Grant with Satori Group. She is a writing consultant for Disney Creative Entertainment. She received a Feature Film Development Grant from the Sloan Foundation. Films include Dress, Dispatched, Good House, and Same Will. BFA: NYU Tisch, MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Director: DANYA TAYMOR is a director and translator. Recent work includes Brian Watkins' Wyoming (Lesser America) and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (The Flea, NY Times/Time Out Critics Pick), Anna Moench's In Quietness (Dutch Kills/Walkerspace) and Wildrose (Sheen Center/The Claque), Lucy Teitler's Engagements (Ensemble Studio Theater), I Hate f-ing Mexicans (The Flea) Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's The Tempest (NYU/Stella Adler). She is a 2014-2016 Time Warner Directing Fellow at Women's Project Theater, a 2050 fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, an Artist in Residence at Theatre for a New Audience, an Associate Artist at The Flea Theater, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a Visiting Artist at Strasberg/NYU and an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Drama League. Upcoming work: Sarah Gancher's The Place We Built (The Flea).
Producer: LIZ OLSON is a freelance producer and the General Manager/Line Producer of Tectonic Theater Project (Carmen, The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Uncommon Sense). Previously, she was the Managing Director of Studio 42, where she produced Ken Urban's Wasps and worked on productions of Bekkah Brunstetter's Miss Lilly Gets Boned and Gregory S. Moss's Billy Witch. In the past, she has worked at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYTW, Playwrights Realm, and Two River Theater Company. She is the producer for Reentry, which tours US Naval bases as part of their soldier reintegration training. This brings her full circle in life as she is a third generation Navy brat who now produces theater for the Navy. Freelance includes Couriers and Contrabands and Be A Good Little Widow. She holds an MBA in Public and Nonprofit Management from Boston University and a bachelor's from The College of William and Mary.
VEIL'D
(March 31 - April 2)
Playwright: MONET HURST-MENDOZA is a New York-based playwright from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, |the claque|, Lookingglass Theatre, The Oneness Project, The Other Mirror, The Kupferberg Center, #serials@The Flea, Amios (Shotz!), and Playwright's Playground at Classical Theatre of Harlem. She is the current Playwright in Residence for The Other Mirror, and a member of the 2016 inaugural Mitten Lab in Detroit, |the claque|'s Octo-Group, the 2017 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, and the 2014-2016 Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow. Proud member: Rising Circle Theater Collective, and |the claque|. B.A.: Marymount Manhattan College.
Director: SARAH KROHN's directing credits include Horse Girls by Jenny Rachel Weiner (the cell), The Pits by Joshua Harmon (Williamstown Theater Festival), You Remind Me of You by Matthew Capodicasa (Fordham/Primary Stages), The Next War by Kate Mulley (Columbia Playwriting); Parade (Yale Dramat), and Victor Frange Presents Gas, which she co-conceived with Dan O'Neil (Incubator Arts). Member of the 2014-16 Women's Project Theater Lab, Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab and Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab; recipient of Williamstown Theater Festival's Sagal Fellowship; co-facilitator of the New Georges Jam writer/director group. Graduate of Columbia University (BA) and Carnegie Mellon (MFA). www.sarahkrohn.com
Producer: KRISTEN LUCIANI is currently Assistant General Manager at DR Theatrical Management. She is also an independent producer and formerly served as Associate Producer to Elizabeth I. McCann. Kristen has previously worked with The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Independent credits include: Judith (Kraine Theater) and We Declare You a Terrorist (Summer Play Festival). As Management Associate to Liz McCann and Joey Parnes, Broadway credits include: Hair, The Merchant of Venice, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Kristen is also the co-founder and Executive Producer of Paradox Productions, a boutique Executive Producing and General Management firm (www.paradoxprods.com). She holds a BFA in Theater/Producing from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts.
KINGS
(April 7 - April 9)
Playwright: SARAH BURGESS's play Dry Powder premieres at the Public Theater this March. Dry Powder was a recipient of the 2016 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, and a finalist for the Blackburn prize. Other plays include Camdenside (Ground Floor selection, Berkeley Rep; Kilroys List 2015) and FAIL: Failures (ANT Fest). Writer for The Tenant (Woodshed Collective) and "Naked Radio," Naked Angels' podcast series. Burgess has been a writer-in-residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. Member of the WP Lab; Ars Nova Play Group alum.
Director: ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur, a Brooklyn-based theatre company. Upcoming: world premiere of Cal in Camo (co-pro Rattlestick & Colt Coeur), Dear Elizabeth (Dorset Theater Festival). Recent world premieres: Theresa Rebeck's The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), How to Live on Earth by MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur @ HERE, September 2015), Chiara Atik's 52nd to Bowery (EST Marathon), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur @ HERE, NYC), Greg Moss' REUNION (South Coast Rep), Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur @ HERE), Recall by Eliza Clark (Colt Coeur @ Wild Project), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur @ HERE). Other productions: Red starring Tim Daly (Dorset Theater Festival, VT), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), world premiere of Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Emerging America Festival, Huntington Theatre Company and Colt Coeur @ HERE). Adrienne is a Time Warner/Women's Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Underground, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights' Center and EST. She is also the director of #makeitfair. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.
Producer: PEARL HODIWALA is from Sydney, Australia and has a background in development, fundraising and producing and theatre management. Pearl has worked as Philanthropy Coordinator at Belvoir Street Theatre, and Producing Fellow at The Public Theater. Currently, Pearl is Strategy and Business Development Coordinator with Disney Theatrical Productions and Managing Director of Kaimera Productions (www.kaimeraproductions.com). Selected works: Jupiter (a play about power) (La Mama), The Fall (Flamboyan Theatre) and Underland (59E59). Member of the Women's Project Producers Lab 2014-2016. Bachelor Arts and Science from Sydney University and Masters of Arts Administration from Columbia University.
THE RUG DEALER
(April 14 - April 16)
Playwright: RITI SACHDEVA is a theatre maker, dancer, and cultural worker. She has developed work with the Public Theater, The Civilians R&D Group, PlayWrights Center, National New Play Network, University of Hawaii Asian Theatre Program, American Theater Company, Working Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Works, and Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Her play Parts of Parts & Stitches received The Kennedy Center's Quest for Peace award. She is a recipient of a TCG On the Road grant and recently traveled to Kerala, India to start adapting elements of Kathakali to her stage play Other Farmers' Fields. Acting highlights include work with DisneyChannel, HBO, various awesome indie films, National Hispanic Cultural Center, MTWorks, Honest Aaccomplice, EarSay, Hybrid, and performances of her original works with MidNites cHiLd Productions in LA, Toronto, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and NYC. Riti continues to write, act, and study her beloved flamenco.
Director: LEE SUNDAY EVANS is a director and choreographer. Credits Include: Wellesley Girl by Brendan Pelsue at Humana/Actors Theater of Louisville, a workshop production of Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew at Alley All New, D Deb Debbie Deborah by Jerry Lieblich at Clubbed Thumb; A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks... by Kate Benson at New Georges/Women's Project Theater (OBIE Award), The Play About My Dad by Boo Killebrew at 59E59 Theatres; God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz at Juilliard; Family Play (1979 to Present) by CollaborationTown; and The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht with original music by Nicholas C. Williams. Additionally, her work has been presented/developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Institute Theater Program, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, CATCH, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Robert Wilson's Watermill Center. She is currently developing new projects with Andy Bragen, Kate Benson and Matthew Paul Olmos among others, As the resident director for CollaborationTown, she is currently developing a new musical as part of New Victory's LabWorks, and working on a commission from LCT3. Upcoming: Macbeth at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
Producer: RACHEL SUSSMAN is a New York-based producer committed to nurturing diverse work through creative collaboration. She serves as the Director of Programming for The New York Musical Theatre Festival and is a co-founder of The Indigo Theatre Project as well as The MITTEN Lab, a new emerging artist residency in her native state of Michigan. Rachel has worked with such companies as Second Stage Theatre, 321 Theatrical Management, RKO Stage, Goodspeed Musicals' Mercer Colony, Lincoln Center's American Songbook, The Tony Awards, and CREATE-Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. Producing credits include: Talk to me about Shame (FringeNYC, Overall Excellence Award), Lemon Cake (133rd St. Arts Center), The Imaginary Menagerie (Joe's Pub), and, most recently, The Woodsman (59E59 & New World Stages). She is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Shaina Taub. Rachel is a trustee for The Awesome Foundation NYC and sits on Advisory Boards for The Musical Theatre Factory and Strangemen & Co. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch.
UNTITLED
(April 21 - April 23)
Playwright: MARTYNA MAJOK (pronounced "my-oak") was born in Bytom, Poland, and aged in Jersey and Chicago. Her plays have been performed and developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, LAByrinth Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Women's Project Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The John F. Kennedy Center, Dorset Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Yale Cabaret, The Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, Round House Theatre, Satori Group, Red Tape Theatre, and The LIDA Project, among others. Awards include the inaugural Women's Invitational Prize at Ashland New Play Festival, Marin Theatre's David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Network's Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, and The Merage Fellowship for the American Dream. Commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Marin Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New Yorker website, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Foundry Theatre. Publications by Samuel French and Smith & Kraus. Residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fuller Road, and Ragdale. BA: University of Chicago; MFA: Yale School of Drama. Martyna is currently part of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright Program at The Juilliard School. She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale. Alumna of EST's Youngblood. Member of Women's Project Lab, Ars Nova's Uncharted, The Dramatist Guild, and New York Theatre Workshop's Usual Suspects. Martyna was the 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence at NJRep. She is the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center.
Director: TAMILLA WOODARD is a theatre director working nationally and internationally. Currently, she is serving as the Artistic Director of The Five Boroughs/One City Project, a multi-year initiative of The Working Theater. The project supports the commissioning and development of 5 Playwright/Director teams working in collaborations and creating theatrical works in response to and inside of working class communities in all 5 boroughs. She is co-founder of PopUp Theatrics, a partnership creating site specific and immersive productions and collaborations around the world. She is a current Time Warner Directing Fellow at the Women's Project Theater Lab, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, alumnus of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab and former Audrey Fellow at New Georges. She graduated from The Yale School of Drama's Acting program and is the recipient of The Josephine Abady Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women and The Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists. Her work has been presented and developed at the Working Theater, NYTW, New Georges, HERE, The Lark, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, PS122, DR 2, The Culture Project, Urban Stages, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen Theatre and for festivals and theater's around the US and Internationally. Most recent work includes: A Midsummer Nights Dream, NY Times Critics Pick, Cherry Smoke by James McManus and La Ruta, by Ed Cardona Jr, for Working Theater, NYC- NY Times End of Year List of Notable productions. For PopUP: Broken City: Harlem, a site specific commission by The Harlem Arts Festival. Long Distance Affair, a Skype immersive performance with editions in Romania, Argentina, Mexico, Scotland and the US; INSIDE, a site specific production with editions in Bucharest and Madrid. Upcoming: The Block, by Dan Hoyle, Working Theater, Harbur Gate, by Kathleen Cahill, Salt Lake Acting Company and Broken City: Wall Street, PopUP Theatrics.
Producer: RACHEL KARPF REIDY works with artists and cultural institutions to produce theater and live performance pieces that inspire, delight, and move audiences. Recent works include Todd Almond and Courtney Love's Kansas City Choir Boy (ART/Beth Morrison Projects) and Jay Scheib and Keeril Makan's Persona (M.I.T & National Sawdust/Beth Morrison Projects). As Associate Director of Page 73: Clare Barron's You Got Older, directed by Anne Kauffman (2 OBIE Awards, 4 Drama Desk Award noms., Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); George Brant's Grounded, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll (Drama Desk Award nom.); Cori Thomas' When January Feels Like Summer, directed by Daniella Topol (co-produced with EST). With the Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure, she has produced large-scale site-specific performance adventures including in the Brooklyn Museum (BEAT Festival), PRELUDE, Stony Brook University, and throughout the DUMBO neighborhood. For 13P: Lucy Thurber's Monstrosity, Julia Jarcho's American Treasure, and Madeline George's The Zero Hour. Other projects at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theater Workshop, and the Commonweal Theatre. Creator of the lecture series Saloon; grant review panelist for NSYCA and others. BA: Dartmouth College.
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