Theatre Exile's New Play Development Series Kicks Off Season

Theatre Exile is thrilled to produce a reading of Jacqueline Goldfinger's Click directed by Deborah Block.

What will we do when our physical and online identities meet? Set in the underground world of virtual graffiti, Click is a techno-epic that follows college students involved in a frat rape that goes viral; exploring how the event changes their lives from 2016-2031 as new technologies allow them to create identities that walk through the computer screen and into reality.

Click will be presented on October 23, 2017 at 7pm. The reading will be held at the Latvian Society, 531 N. 7thStreet.

Jacqueline Goldfinger's a Philadelphia-based playwright, dramaturg and teaching artist. She teaches playwriting at University of Pennsylvania and is the Director of Education at PlayPenn. She's a co-Founder of The Foundry at PlayPenn and is a traveling mentor for the Kennedy Center's ACTF. Her plays include Babel (Smith Prize for Political Theater, current NNPN Commission), Bottle Fly (Yale-Horn Drama Prize for Emerging Playwright, The National Theatre New Work Studio (London), Yale Press, PlayPenn New Play Conference), The Arsonists (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage, La MaMa, NNPN Showcase, Sewanee Writers Conference, Disquiet (Lisbon), Kenyon Playwrights Conference, Perseverance Theatre, Azuka Theatre, Capital Stage, Know Theatre, Benchmark Theatre, Leah Ryan Prize Runner-up, Blackburn Prize nomination), Click (current Weissberger Award nominee, Emerson Stage Residency, Drama League Residency, McNally Award Commendation), Skin & Bone (Azuka Theatre, Bloomsberg Theatre Ensemble, Orlando Shakespeare PlayFest, Arden Theatre Writer's Room, Philadelphia Critics Award Best New Play), Slip/Shot (Seattle Public, Flashpoint Theatre, Temple University, Montgomery College, PlayPenn New Play Conference, The Lark's Playwrights Week Barrymore Award Outstanding New Play, Brown Martin Award, Weissberger Nomination), The Oath (Manhattan Theatre Works, Acadiana Rep, Last Frontier Writers Conference), and The Terrible Girls (Azuka Theatre, Spotlight Theatre, NYC International Fringe Festival, San Diego Playwrights Collective). She has worked on public art projects with FringeArts/Reading Terminal Market, Missing Bolts/After Orlando, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. For more information: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com

Deborah Block has been a consistent figure in the Philadelphia arts community for over 25 years as a dramaturg, producer, curator, choreographer, educator and a director where she has worked on over 60 professional productions. She has received much recognition for her professional and educational work including receiving the Independence Fellowship in the Arts and the Albert Benzwie Award for playwriting. She is one of the founders of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe (now FringeArts) and was the program director for ten years. She received her MFA at Temple University. Deborah has been with Theatre Exile for 10 years and has directed Guards at the Taj, Smoke, Red Speedo, Cock, The English Bride, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Iron, Hunter Gatherers, dark play or stories for boys, Roosters and collaborated on Hearts & Soles.

Studio X-hibition is focused on exporting the newest ideas from Philadelphia to the larger national theatrical community and importing work that can impact the artists living and working in Philadelphia. The program has grown to include staged readings, workshop development programs, and writers' workshops; cultivating new, edgy, and non-conformist theater. The series brings Philadelphia's own local writers, playwrights who are part of the national dialog, and non-traditional theater makers together into one series that seeks to push the boundaries of theater, both in form and in content.

Tickets are $10. Ticket are available at Theatre Exile's Box Office by calling 215-218-4022; visiting theatreexile.org; coming to the Theatre Exile Administrative Office, located at 2329 South 3rd Street on the third floor; or arriving to the Box Office for Click an hour before each performance, located at the Latvian Society, 531 N. 7th Street.

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