Clubbed Thumb Announces Full Line-Up for 2018 SUMMERWORKS Festival
By: Julie Musbach Mar. 05, 2018
Five-time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Bulger, Associate Artistic Director) is proud to announce the line-up for SUMMERWORKS, its annual series of new plays. Now in its 23rd season, SUMMERWORKS will run May 19 through June 30 at The Wild Project (195 E 3rd Street) in Manhattan, and will feature productions of three new plays: TIN CAT SHOES by Trish Harnetiaux and directed by Knud Adams; WILDER GONE by Angela Hanks; and PLANO by Will Arbery and directed by Taylor Reynolds.
Festival passes are now on sale at: https://www.artful.ly/clubbedthumb/store/passes.
With its track record for discovering and supporting new playwriting talent - in many cases providing writers with their very first production in New York or anywhere - SUMMERWORKS is one of the most eagerly anticipated theatrical offerings of the year.
Highlights from the previous 22 festivals include the NYC premieres of Gina Gionfriddo, Jordan Harrison, Lisa D'Amour, Jason Grote and Sarah Ruhl; professional debuts of Rinne Groff, Sylvan Oswald, Clare Barron, Susan Stanton and Ariel Stess; and new works by Anne Washburn, Adam Bock, Gregory Moss, Jenny Schwartz, Ethan Lipton, Erin Courtney, Sheila Callaghan, Tanya Saracho, Jaclyn Backhaus, and Heidi Schreck, whose production of WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is slated to premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre later this spring. All of these artists continue to make Clubbed Thumb an artistic home.
Past SUMMERWORKS directors include Pam MacKinnon, Lee Sunday Evans, Lear deBessonet, Anne Kaufman, Davis McCallum, Leigh Silverman, and Ken Rus Schmoll.
The full SUMMERWORKS 2018 line-up includes:
TIN CAT SHOES
By Trish Harnetiaux
Directed By Knud Adams
MAY 19 - MAY 29
Blessed with the can-do American spirit, a troop of dedicated shoe store workers embark on a madcap odyssey of personal (employer-mandated) expansion. But when "work is your life" and systems break down, all that remains is you, nachos, and the truth.
TRISH HARNETIAUX's full length plays How to Get into Buildings (New Georges / The Brick / Soho Rep Lab) and Welcome to the White Room (Theatre of NOTE) have been published by Samuel French. Additionally, her play If You Can Get to Buffalo (Incubator Arts Project / Son of Semele Ensemble / The Acme Corporation) is forthcoming, Samuel French. Other works include Weren't You in My Science Class? (Ars Nova / Prelude Festival), Straight on til Morning (78th Street Theatre Lab / Broadway Play Pub.) and an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel, The Bird's Nest. Tin Cat Shoes was developed at Ars Nova and Playwrights Horizons / Clubbed Thumb Superlab. Harnetiaux has been a fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. She was a member of the Ars Nova Play Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Affiliate member of New Georges. MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. She is currently developing her new play Bender and Brian, an epic tale of subversive Breakfast Club fanfiction as well as And So I Did. - a play about David Mamet writing a play about Harvey Weinstein. www.trishharnetiaux.com
Knud Adams is a director of new and experimental plays. RECENT PRODUCTIONS: The Workshop (Torrey Townsend, softFocus, New York Times Critics' Pick), Asshole (Justin Kuritzkes, JACK), On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba (Eliza Bent, The New Ohio), Every Angel is Brutal (Julia Jarcho, Clubbed Thumb), Tom & Eliza (Celine Song, JACK), Snore (Max Posner, Juilliard), An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary (Carl Holder, The New Ohio), That Poor Girl and How He Killed Her (Jen Silverman, U. of Rochester), Krazytown (Jenny Schwartz, NYU), and Salome of the Moon (Nick Jones, Waterwell). ASSISTING: André Gregory, Elizabeth LeCompte, Richard Foreman, Sam Gold, Sarah Benson, and Rachel Chavkin. AFFILIATIONS: Currently, Adams is a Drama League Next Stage Resident. Previously, a Drama League Directing Fellow, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Playwrights Horizons Directing Resident. He has developed new work with dozens of theaters throughout NYC and regionally, including Ars Nova, The Atlantic, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Realm, The Public, P73, and The New Group. NEXT UP: Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen (Eliza Bent, Abrons Arts Center). www.knudadams.com
WILDER GONE
By Angela Hanks
JUNE 4 - JUNE 14
Thalia wants to build a farmhouse in the middle of the great big city. Mabel is on a quest to become its first female preacher (although her rampant sexual thoughts are having a real impact on her sermonizing). And little Peanut Brittle is digging around in the past. It is only twenty years into the new century, and these ladies are going a bit wild.
WILDER GONE was commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, made possible by The New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo & The New York State Legislature.
ANGELA HANKS is a playwright from Dallas, Texas. Her selected plays include: Good Latimer, Devil Music (Ensemble Studio Theatre's 35th Marathon of One Act Plays), breathe into this bag, Myrna in Transit, Big Tex, and Heloise Sails the Boat. Her plays have been produced and/or developed at Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, the Flea Theater, New York International Fringe Festival, Stockyards Theater Project in Chicago and the Big Funk Company in Paris, France. She is an alumna of Obie Award-winning Youngblood, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, an alumna of Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writers' Group, a Lincoln Center Director's Lab member, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She is the recipient of a NYSCA commission, through Clubbed Thumb, for Wilder Gone, as well as a recipient of the 2017 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. M.F.A., Playwriting: The New School for Drama.
PLANO
By Will Arbery
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Developed through the 2017/18 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship
JUNE 20 - JUNE 30
Tonight, and later, and earlier, three sisters (no, not those ones) are stricken with a series of strange plagues: Isabel's got pains. Anne's got slugs. And Genevieve doesn't want to talk about hers. She just wants you to eat the damn hummus (she made it!). Let's talk about family nightmares. I mean, uh, memories.
WILL ARBERY is a playwright + performer + filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming. His plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The New Group, EST/Youngblood, The Bushwick Starr, Alliance/Kendeda, White Heron, 100W Corsicana, Two Headed Rep, and Tofte Lake Center. He's a member of Youngblood, Calliope Theatre, and a former member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group. He was a 2016-2017 winner of the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, and a recent finalist for the P73 Fellowship. His play Wheelchairis forthcoming from 3 Hole Press, with an introduction by Bill Callahan. His dance work (with Matty Davis) has been seen at Pioneer Works, The Watermill Center, and MCA Chicago. MFA: Northwestern University. BA: Kenyon College. He grew up the only boy among seven sisters. willarbery.com
TAYLOR REYNOLDS is a New York-based director/theatre maker from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of The Movement Theatre Company, a Harlem-based company dedicated to developing and producing new works by artists of color. She has worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator with companies including Ally Theatre Company, The Atlantic Acting School, Single Carrot Theatre, NY Madness, JAG Productions, The United Solo Festival, Reign or Shine Productions, and The 24 Hour Plays. Selected directing credits: Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser), Kids on Bikes by Nicole Daniels, Things I Don't Want to Talk About by Gina Femia, An Informal Presentation...(Or, BURN) by Pascale Smith, FOOD by Rhonda Marie Khan, The Body Unbound (co-devised with Deadria Harrington), Accidental Burlesque by Gina Femia (developed through the Audrey Residency at New Georges). She is a member of the Habitat Theatre's Directors Playground and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow. BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. iamtaylorreynolds.com.
SUMMERWORKS 2018 is running May 19 through June 30 at The Wild Project, located at 195 E. 3rd Street, New York 10009 - between Avenues A and B in Manhattan's East Village. Full casting will be announced soon. Festival passes are on sale now for $60 at https://www.artful.ly/clubbedthumb/store/passes.
ABOUT CLUBBED THUMB
Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops and produces funny, strange and provocative new plays by living American writers. Since its founding in 1996, the company has earned five Obies including the Ross Wetzsteon Award for sustained artistic excellence. We have presented plays in every form of development, including almost 100 full productions.
Clubbed Thumb is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additionally, Clubbed Thumb receives major support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, SEG Voices, and the Mental Insight Foundation.
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