The Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project

 

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News

• "A Thousand Words," by 2008 Award Recipient  Gwen Rice,  is being premiered and co-produced by Forward Theater and  Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. The production opens in Madison with performances  January 19-February 5 in Promenade Hall at the Overture Center and then moves  to Milwaukee with performances running February 16-March 11, 2012.     
  
• On September 19 Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presented a staged reading of October, Before I was Born, by 2011 Wisconsin Wrights Award Recipient Lori Matthews. Learn more
  
• Gwen Rice (2008 Award Recipient) and Bruce Murphy (2007 Award Recipient) were selected to participate in the Dramatists Guild – Chicago Workshop held September 12-15, 2011.  The Dramatists Guild Fund, the Dramatists Guild of America, and Northwestern University select five playwrights and five composer/lyricists/bookwriters from across the Midwest to participate in a four-day intensive workshop. 
• The world premiere of The Kid Thing by Sarah Gubbins, who was featured at 2011 Wisconsin Wrights, was presented by Chicago Dramatists from September 9-October 16.  Gubbins was 2010-2011 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing's Carl Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at UW-Madison. Learn more
  
• October, Before I was Born, by 2011 Award Recipient Lori Matthews, was selected by Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, for as reading as part of their 2011 Appalachian Festival of Plays. 
• Edenfred, Madison’s only artist residency, closed at the end of 2010.  We are saddened by this great loss to the arts community, not only to Wisconsin Wrights but also the countless arts organizations and individual artists which the Terry Family Foundation and Edenfred have supported over the years. Learn more

About Wisconsin Wrights

The Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project offers an incredible opportunity to Wisconsin playwrights as it focuses on the development of new works through extensive workshops and public readings.

Created in Fall 2006 through a partnership between the UW–Madison Division of Continuing Studies in Theatre, the UW–Madison University Theatre/Department of Theatre and Drama, the Madison Repertory Theatre, and Edenfred/Terry Family Foundation, Wisconsin Wrights fosters the development of new works by Wisconsin playwrights. Joining us as a producing partner in Fall 2007 was the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and in 2009 was Forward Theater Company. The first three years of Wisconsin Wrights were generously supported by the UW–Madison Anonymous Fund, the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, and the Madison Arts Commission.

Play submission will be accepted on a biannual basis with our next round opening in November 2012 for consideration for workshops in May 2013. Each of the three award recipients will be awarded a one week residency in Madison, Wisconsin. The three plays will be featured as part of the University Theatre summer season with each receiving an intensive one week workshop (with a cast, dramaturg, and director) which culminates in public readings.

In alternate years Wisconsin Wrights will support further development of work by past award recipients and work to provide resources for playwrights to develop their craft. Our next workshop will be in spring 2012.

For more information

Contact Sarah Marty, Program Coordinator for Continuing Studies in Theatre at UW–Madison, at 608-263-2790 or smarty@dcs.wisc.edu

 

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