Lark's 2009-10 Playwright Workshop Participants Announced

The Lark Play Development Center announced the selected playwrights for the 2009-10 Playwrights' Workshop. This year's writers are Michi Barall (Ma-Yi Writer's Lab), Madeleine George (13P founding member), Katori Hall (Lark's 2009 PONY Fellow), Sarah Treem (HBO's "In Treatment") and David Wiener (Extraordinary Chambers).

Playwrights' Workshop is founded and led by Lark Playwright Advisor Arthur Kopit, and co-hosted by other Lark Playwright Advisors writers including David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, and Doug Wright. It brings together a community of professional playwrights to create a rigorous, yet flexible, environment for sharing, supporting, and discussing each other's work as part of the playwright's creative process. Highly competitive, writers included in this program are nominated for inclusion in the Workshop by the Lark's esteemed pool of Playwright Advisors, artistic directors at regional theatres, and members of the Lark leadership team. Fellows participate in bi-weekly sessions over an eight-month period and present new work developed in the workshop in public readings in May 2010.

2008-09 Playwrights' Workshop fellow Samuel D. Hunter, who presented his play God of Meat in last year's Workshop public readings, said of his experience, "It is one of the most exciting groups I've ever been a part of. The chance for emerging writers to be working on tenuous first drafts alongside writers like Arthur Kopit and Lisa Kron is truly inspiring. The Lark takes plays and makes them to soar by having them read by some of New York's most talented and respected actors."

For more information of Lark Play development Center, please visit www.larktheatre.org.

A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the Lark Play Development CenterB provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner, Managing Director, Michael Robertson, and Artistic Program Director Megan Monaghan.

 

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