2016 Rough Reading Series at Stanford University to Conclude with BR'ER COTTON

Playwrights Foundation and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford conclude their 2016 Rough Reading Series with an April 11, & 12th reading of Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm on Monday, April 11 - 7:30pm at Stanford and Tuesday, April 12 - 2:00pm at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.

Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm is a playwright for whom Theatre is the filter through which he sees and interprets the world. In his play Br'er Cotton the former site of a thriving cotton mill, Lynchburg, Virginia is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14 year old "militant," incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boy's anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one seems to notice but him.

As a playwright, Tearrance Arvelle Chisholmis interested in exploring the many facets of the African American experience. He feels that race is double edged sword, equipped with its advantages and shortcomings. It is the exploration of this theme that permeates all of his work. His works includes Burning Books (MU New Play Series), Liddy's Samiches Potions & Baths (Arkansas Rep; Voices on the River), Vulpicide (MU New Play Series), Month of Sundays (Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival; NYC) and In Sweet Remembrance (Endstation Theatre Company and Sweet Briar College). Tearrance has also been published in interJACtions: 75 Monologues by some of America's Finest Playwrights and Arcadia Magazine. He has worked closely with Endstation Theatre Company (Lynchburg, VA), Theatre Alliance (Washington DC), The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and has held residencies at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Playwright Observer). Tearrance is currently an MFA Playwriting candidate at The Catholic University of America.

The April Rough Reading of Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm will be performed on Monday, April 11, 7:30 PM at Roble Hall in Stanford University, and on Tuesday, April 12, 2 PM at the Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

For information visit us at http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org.

Rough Readings bring playwrights and theatergoers together in an intimate setting to showcase work that is still at a very early stage of development, giving audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with the artistic process of bringing a play to life. The Rough Reading Series is presented in partnership with the National Center for New Plays at Stanford, a producing partner of the National New Play Network, helping to foster a thriving relationship between Stanford University and the greater San Francisco theater scene.

The Readings are open to the public and are always pay-what-you-can. Monday and Sunday readings take place at Roble Hall on the Stanford University campus, and Tuesday and Saturday readings are held at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.

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