The Vagrancy Announces New Co-Literary Managers

The Vagrancy, a critically acclaimed and award- winning theatre company, proudly welcomes Abbey Fenbert and Kyle Wilson on board to serve as the new Co-Literary Managers.

The Vagrancy creates visceral work that seeks to touch the human spirit by forging new, lesser-known, and classical works with that ineffable something - DUENDE. This season The Vagrancy is producing Shakespeare's MACBETH in October 2016 and the World Premiere of Cort Brinkerhoff's HORSE in June 2017.

Abbey Fenbert is a writer from Detroit, MI. Her work celebrates empathy, comedy and women having lots of lines. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and a BA from NYU. Her thesis play, Sickle, was a Finalist for the 2016 National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center. Her latest play, Child, was developed with the 2015-16 Vagrant Writers and presented at the Blossoming Reading Series in July. Other original plays have been produced or developed by the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, Matrix Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights' Theatre and the Boston Theater Marathon. She's received multiple honors from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, including the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. Her short dramatic works are published in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and her humor writing has been featured online at The Toast and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She's currently based in L.A.

Fenbert states, ""I'm excited and honored to be joining the Vagrancy's creative team as Literary Manager. It's a great training ground and artistic home, thanks to the company's commitment to new play development, stylistic innovation and fostering a community of writers and actors. The Vagrancy embraces theatricality and understands the unique shared experience that defines embodied performance -- something particularly important to an arts scene on the edge of Hollywood. I'm looking forward to collaborating with the Vagrant artists, supporting other writers and cultivating imaginative, surprising works for the stage. And reading a massive amount of new plays!"

Kyle T. Wilson has been reading scripts for as long as he can remember, and he freelanced for years for a few literary offices, including Theatre@Boston Court, Celebration Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and Sundance Theatre Lab. He also worked with local playwrights through his writer's group, Fell Swoop Playwrights, leading workshops, hosting readings and collaborating on two scripts for production in the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2013 and 2014, The Miss Julie Dream Project and The Last Temptation of Paula Deen. His own plays have been workshopped or performed at several L.A. theaters, and he loves sharing pages from his new scripts at Naked Angels Tuesdays@9 L.A. in Atwater Village. MFA Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University.

Wilson add, "The Vagrancy has stood out to me since I first saw their work in 2013. The intensity of their vision and their adventurous spirit make them an essential L.A. theater, and I greatly admire their commitment to developing and producing innovative new plays. I look forward to working with their impressive team."

The Vagrancy is a bold and daring Los Angeles-based theatre company that creates visceral work that seeks to touch the human spirit. Caitlin Hart, Founder/Artistic Director; Rani O'Brien, Managing Director; Abbey Fenbert and Kyle T. Wilson, Co- Literary Managers; Steve Madar, Assistant Literary Manager; Karina Wolfe, Public Relations; Doug Oliphant, Resident Movement Director; Arthur Keng, Master of Website; Danielle Gonzales, Resident Stage Manager; Maia Kazin, Assistant to Artistic Director; Rebecca Everhart, Social Media; Blaine Nicholls, Company Photographer; Jenny Soo, Company Photographer; Amy Knutson, Apprentice Artistic Director; Miranda Stewart, Apprentice Artistic Director.

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