The second group of three plays by young playwrights aged 16–19 will be available to stream on Vimeo July 16–23.
Casting has been announced for week two of The Blank Theatre's 29th Annual Young Playwrights Festival. Being presented as digital shorts, the second group of three plays by young playwrights aged 16-19 will be available to stream on Vimeo July 16-23. The plays are Mama Bushwick is Dead by Elizabeth Shannon (age 17, from Frederick, MD); The Waiting Room by Abigail Milne (age 16, from Palo Alto, CA); and Las Mujeres de Los Ángeles by Lourdes Castillo (age 19, from New Orleans, LA).
Mama Bushwick is Dead will feature (in alphabetical order) Marguerite Moreau (Wet Hot American Summer, Grey's Anatomy, Shameless, Parenthood, The Mighty Ducks), Scott Victor Nelson (The Mentalist, Private Practice), Mandy June Turpin (Heathers, Lucifer, Nashville, Jane the Virgin, MacGyver, Chicago Med, Hawaii Five-0), Audrey Wasilewski (Mad Men, Infinity Train, Good Girls, Doc McStuffins, My Dead Ex, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Big Love), and Tamara Zook (Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, Desperate Housewives, Criminal Minds). When the matriarch of the family passes on, five siblings come back home to pack up the house and unpack their family history as they try to figure out how to eulogize a woman who was a different person to each of them. Directed by Ryan Bergmann.
For a complete schedule and to register for watch codes, go to www.theblank.com.
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