Jim Leonard
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The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Writers' Residency (Aug 19, 2024)
Circle X Theatre Co. Hosts 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series (May 30, 2024)
Circle X Theatre Co. Reveals 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group (Aug 29, 2023)
The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Writers' Residency (Aug 19, 2024)
Circle X Theatre Co. Hosts 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series (May 30, 2024)
Circle X Theatre Co. Reveals 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group (Aug 29, 2023)
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The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Writers' Residency
The New Harmony Project is now accepting applications for the 38th annual Writers’ Residency. Learn how to apply.
The New Harmony Project is now accepting applications for the 38th annual Writers’ Residency. Learn how to apply.
Circle X Theatre Co. Hosts 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series
Circle X Theatre Co. will present a live reading series from our Evolving Playwrights Group, culminating its 2023-2024 season. S
Circle X Theatre Co. will present a live reading series from our Evolving Playwrights Group, culminating its 2023-2024 season. S
Circle X Theatre Co. Reveals 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group
Circle X Theatre Co. has announced the newest participants and mentors for its 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group, a new play development program dedicated to supporting the development of ambitious, impossible new works for the stage by groundbreaking and provocative playwrights.
Circle X Theatre Co. has announced the newest participants and mentors for its 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group, a new play development program dedicated to supporting the development of ambitious, impossible new works for the stage by groundbreaking and provocative playwrights.
The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications For 2024 Conference
The New Harmony Project announced that it is now accepting applications for the 37th annual conference to be held May 22-June 2, 2024.
The New Harmony Project announced that it is now accepting applications for the 37th annual conference to be held May 22-June 2, 2024.
Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group
With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. has invited Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to the 2023 - 2024 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG).
With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. has invited Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to the 2023 - 2024 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG).
Interview: Playwright Jim Leonard on the L.A. premiere of ANATOMY OF GRAY
Jim Leonard has published eight plays, including The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, and Battle Hymn, with his theatrical honors including the Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ovation Award, the Dramatists Guild Award, and an LA Weekly Award for best play.
Jim Leonard has published eight plays, including The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, and Battle Hymn, with his theatrical honors including the Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ovation Award, the Dramatists Guild Award, and an LA Weekly Award for best play.
L.A. Premiere of ANATOMY OF GRAY to be Presented by Open Fist in November
Directed by Ben Martin (Open Fist’s Under Milk Wood), the LA premiere of Anatomy of Gray is set for a November 19, 2022 opening at Atwater Village Theatre, where performances continue through January 21, 2023.
Directed by Ben Martin (Open Fist’s Under Milk Wood), the LA premiere of Anatomy of Gray is set for a November 19, 2022 opening at Atwater Village Theatre, where performances continue through January 21, 2023.
Circle X Theatre Co. Presents 2022 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series
With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. presents: The Evolving Playwrights Group 2022 Live Reading Series
With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. presents: The Evolving Playwrights Group 2022 Live Reading Series
Playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu, Lucy Thurber & More Join New Harmony Project
The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.
The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.
Playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu, Lucy Thurber & More Join New Harmony Project
The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.
The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.
Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group Participants
Circle X Theatre Co. has selected participants and mentors for the 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group, a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays.
Circle X Theatre Co. has selected participants and mentors for the 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group, a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays.
Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2021/2022 Evolving Playwrights Group
Circle X Theatre Company invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG). The Evolving Playwrights Group is a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices in the theatre to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays-the plays that have felt 'impossible' to write.
Circle X Theatre Company invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG). The Evolving Playwrights Group is a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices in the theatre to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays-the plays that have felt 'impossible' to write.
Circle X Theatre Co. Presents 2021 Evolving Playwrights Group Virtual Reading Series
Culminating its inaugural season, Circle X Theatre Co. will present the reading series from their Evolving Playwrights Group. Five emerging and mid-career playwrights, paired with mentors/playwrights in conversation, were challenged to create the play they were scared to write. This series celebrates those stories.
Culminating its inaugural season, Circle X Theatre Co. will present the reading series from their Evolving Playwrights Group. Five emerging and mid-career playwrights, paired with mentors/playwrights in conversation, were challenged to create the play they were scared to write. This series celebrates those stories.
Student Blog: The Whole Truth
The intrigue that authenticity alone brings to a performance is enough to make any actor stop and study it like their life depends on it.
The intrigue that authenticity alone brings to a performance is enough to make any actor stop and study it like their life depends on it.
BWW Blog: Coming Full Circle
This pandemic hasna??t just affected Broadway. Ita??s postponed and even cancelled performances nationwide. Community theaters had to close their doors.
This pandemic hasna??t just affected Broadway. Ita??s postponed and even cancelled performances nationwide. Community theaters had to close their doors.
Circle X Theatre Co. Announces Evolving Playwrights Group
Circle X Theatre Co. invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our emerging and mid-career writers' group. We seek writers who align with a shifting professional identity-that is, artists whose careers are on their way to becoming what they seek to be. We encourage playwrights to pitch the 'play they are scared to write,' the play that has been sitting in their imagination for some time or has come about in this moment of stillness and for whatever reason-impossibility of language, form, or subject-has not been written.
Circle X Theatre Co. invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our emerging and mid-career writers' group. We seek writers who align with a shifting professional identity-that is, artists whose careers are on their way to becoming what they seek to be. We encourage playwrights to pitch the 'play they are scared to write,' the play that has been sitting in their imagination for some time or has come about in this moment of stillness and for whatever reason-impossibility of language, form, or subject-has not been written.
BWW Interview: GOING DARK, Part 17 - Maryjane Burton
GOING DARK Part 17 features Choctaw High School Performing Arts Director Maryjane Burton. This exclusive interview series features out-of-work performing artists and their COVID-19 impact stories. In their own words, they explain the hardships faced during this uncertain time. These are the real human stories behind COVID-19. This is GOING DARK.
GOING DARK Part 17 features Choctaw High School Performing Arts Director Maryjane Burton. This exclusive interview series features out-of-work performing artists and their COVID-19 impact stories. In their own words, they explain the hardships faced during this uncertain time. These are the real human stories behind COVID-19. This is GOING DARK.
Lynn University's B.F.A. In Drama Program To Present ANATOMY OF GRAY
Lynn University's College of Arts and Sciences invites guests to weather the storm as the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in drama program presents Anatomy of Gray Nov. 20-22. When June's father dies in the late 1800s, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray, Indiana. After a tornado passes, a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town's preacher becomes ill with a mysterious plague.
Lynn University's College of Arts and Sciences invites guests to weather the storm as the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in drama program presents Anatomy of Gray Nov. 20-22. When June's father dies in the late 1800s, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray, Indiana. After a tornado passes, a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town's preacher becomes ill with a mysterious plague.
BWW Review: THE DIVINERS at Wichita Community Theatre, A splendid drama
On a rainy night, The Diviners was presented by Wichita Community Theatre, a play written by Jim Leonard, Jr. and set during the depression era of a small town named Zion, Indiana. The play has a rich production history having been performed on the upper east coast during the year 1980 when it was first written for the American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. Many theatres and high schools subsequently followed and produced The Diviners until of course Wichita Community Theatre decided to wisely include it into their current 2018-2019 season. The show has similar themes seen earlier in the season and centers mainly around the relationship of C.C. Showers, a former preacher, and Buddy Layman, a mentally challenged young boy whose mission is to divine or search for running water yet at the same time has fears of water himself.
On a rainy night, The Diviners was presented by Wichita Community Theatre, a play written by Jim Leonard, Jr. and set during the depression era of a small town named Zion, Indiana. The play has a rich production history having been performed on the upper east coast during the year 1980 when it was first written for the American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. Many theatres and high schools subsequently followed and produced The Diviners until of course Wichita Community Theatre decided to wisely include it into their current 2018-2019 season. The show has similar themes seen earlier in the season and centers mainly around the relationship of C.C. Showers, a former preacher, and Buddy Layman, a mentally challenged young boy whose mission is to divine or search for running water yet at the same time has fears of water himself.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many shows has Jim Leonard written?
Jim Leonard has written 1 shows including V & V Only (Playwright).
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