Brooklyn College Department of Theater to Host 'NEW WORKS' Festival, 6/22-26

The Brooklyn College Department of Theater will hold its second annual New Works Brooklyn Festival on June 22-26. This year's festival features staged readings of one-act plays written by award-winning playwrights.

Erin Courtney '03 M.F.A. is a 2012 Obie Award-winner, a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, co-founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space and an affiliated artist with the Clubbed Thumb. She teaches at Brooklyn College's M.F.A. in Creating Writing program. Kristoffer Díaz '09 M.F.A., who also holds an M.F.A. from New York University's Dramatic Writing Department, was awarded an Obie for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which was also a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Keith Josef Adkins' play, The Last Saint on Sugar Hill, received six AUDELCO nominations for its 2013 New York premiere at the National Black Theatre. He is a graduate of Iowa University's creative writing program, is a screenwriter and also the artistic director of The New Black Fest.

The recent work of Alexandra Collier '12 M.F.A. includes, Underland, Take Me Home, We Play for the Gods, and Holy Day (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist and Kilroy's List). Rehana Lew Mirza was the co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab (2011-2013), a member of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and artistic director and co-founder of Desipina. She holds an M.FA. in playwriting from Columbia University and a B.F.A. in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

The performance schedule is as follows:

• Mon., June 22, A Small Ship by Erin Courtney. Directed by Dan Rothenberg, curated by Christina Roussos
• Tues., June 23, Neighborhood Watch by Rehana Lew Mirza. Directed by Benjamin Kamine, curated by Christine Snyder
• Wed., June 24, The Final Daze by Keith Josef Adkins. Directed by Kamilah Forbes, curated by Ben Coleman
• Thurs., June 25, The Crying Lettuce by Alexandra Collier. Directed by Meghan Finn, curated by Andy Buck
• Fri., June 26, Things with Friends by Kristoffer Díaz. Directed by Lear deBessonet, curated by Joshua Bastian Cole

Brooklyn College's Department of Theater is one of New York City's leading institutions in the training of actors, directors, designers, dramaturges, performing arts managers and theater technicians. The department offers undergraduate degree programs, including a bachelor of arts in theater, bachelor of fine arts in acting, bachelor of fine arts in design and technical theater, as well as graduate degree programs that include a master of arts in theater history and criticism, and a master of fine arts with concentrations in acting, directing, design and technical theater, and performing arts management.

The Roosevelt Hall Extension is located on the Brooklyn College campus, 2950 Bedford Avenue, and accessible by the 2/5 trains to the Flatbush Avenue. For further information, visit the Department of Theater.

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