terraNOVA Collective Announces 2012-13 Season
By: Kelsey Denette Aug. 29, 2012
terraNOVA Collective, now in their 10th year, has announced its season for 2012-2013. Producing Artistic Director, Jennifer Conley Darling says, "This is terraNOVA's biggest and most daring season yet. The line-up of new work by Robert Askins, Adam Szymkowicz and Ken Urban, as well as partnering with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and One-Eighth. From a new comic book superhero story to a steak-eating tyrant to a ghost inhabiting another's body, this season promises to spark imagination and push boundaries!" For more information visit http://www.terranovacollective.org.
In spring 2013, terraNOVA Collective presents the World Premiere of The Correspondent by Ken Urban (The Happy Sad at Playwrights Horizons/SPF, The Wasps with Target Margin), in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The Correspondent is directed by Stephen Brackett (After with Partial Comfort, American River with Lesser America) and runs March 20 - May 4 (opens April 4) at Rattlestick (224 Waverly Place).A grieving husband hires a dying woman to deliver a message to his recently deceased wife in the afterlife. When he receives letters signed by his wife, describing events that only she could know, he's faced with determining if the correspondence is from a con artist or actually from a ghost. Now in its 4th year, terraNOVA's Groundbreakers Playwrights Group is a playwriting intensive that puts six innovative voices in a room once a week for eighteen weeks to work on each individual writer's play. Each writer receives three opportunities to bring their play to the group to be read by professional actors and receive feedback from the writers group and terraNOVA's artistic staff. Each playwright will have a workshop and staged reading of their play in terraNOVA's Groundworks New Play Series in spring 2013."After the most competitive selection process in the history of Groundbreakers, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to cultivate a relationship with six talented playwrights and to be involved in the development of their wonderful new plays. We've assembled a group writing in a variety of styles and we're eager to share this varied collection of exciting work with terraNOVA audiences in the spring," says Jessi D. Hill, Associate Artistic Director. Playwrights in this year's group are Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Lynn Rosen, Andrew Rosendorf, Jen Silverman, Susan Soon He Stanton and Anna Ziegler. To round out the season, terraNOVA will present their 10th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival in May 2013. Stay tuned for this 10th Anniversary celebration of New York City's premier solo performance festival.terraNOVA is an ever-expanding collective of artists devoted to nurturing distinct and innovative theatrical voices. They are dedicated to cultivating environments where the art of storytelling thrives, and actively seek stages for the new theatre they develop.
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