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FALL 2011 TREEHOUSE : CRITICAL MASS
The Treehouse reading series is a fundamental part of New Leaf's mission and season selection process. For more details on the process, read this introduction to Treehouse from New Leaf Literary Manager Josh Sobel.
The three new works selected for the Fall 2011 series - the first of six this year - address the thematic element of "Critical Mass" and will take place at New Leaf Theatre's home at the Lincoln Park Cultural Center, 2045 N. Lincoln Park West. The staged readings will be followed by a talk-back. Admission is free to all readings.
The selected plays are:
Salvation Road by D.W. Gregory
directed by Megan Smith
Wednesday, September 28 at 7 p.m.
This comic drama is the story of a talented young musician caught up in the fervor a new religious movement. Is she a victim or a willing participant? When she cuts off her family and friends as "toxic threats" to her newly discovered faith, her cynical younger brother and his best friend hit the road in search of her -- but how do you rescue someone who doesn't want to saved?.
Originally a short one-act play, Salvation Road was workshopped at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2009, but it has been revised and developed since. This full-length version has never been produced, but received a public reading in October from Active Cultures Theatre in Maryland.
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What Dies Inside Us While We Live by Jessica Hinds
directed by Krista D'Agostino
Wednesday, October 26th at 7 p.m.
In a time of great famine, drought and depression young orphan Naveen is blossoming. When she discovers the responsibilities that come with a woman's body she runs away in search of a new home where she will never have to grow up. She thinks her dreams have come true when she finds Ward, a lonely silent giant. But again her body betrays her, and once again she must decide to stay and face adulthood, or runaway, alone, into the barren landscape.
What Dies Inside Us While We Live received a reading produced by NYAC at Primary Stages in December 2010.
Untrained in Geometry by Emily Dendinger
directed by Jessica Hutchinson
Wednesday, November 30 at 7 p.m.
A gala fundraiser has been planned to reveal British archeologist Arthur Davinport’s latest find—an oracle of the god Apollo that can show you your soulmate. The financial state of Arthur’s dig hinges on the gala’s success, and yet his family and crew can’t seem to get over Apollo’s revelations enough to properly behave themselves. Set in the glittery world of the 1920s, Untrained in Geometry is a screwball romantic comedy about fate, farce and fidelity.
Untrained in Geometry has received one public reading in February 2011 with Inchworm Playreading Series.
MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS
D.W. Gregory (Salvation Road) is an award-winning writer whose plays have been presented throughout the United States and abroad. The New York Times called her a “playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke” for her RADIUM GIRLS, about watch dial painters poisoned on the job in the 1920s. THE GOOD DAUGHTER, about a Missouri farm family struggling with rapid social change after World War I, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize when it premiered at New Jersey Repertory Co. in 2003, where she is a resident playwright. Other plays include OCTOBER 1962, a psychological thriller set in the Cold War, and MOLUMBY’S MILLION, a comedy about the boxer Jack Dempsey. In addition to writing plays, Gregory has worked as a teaching artist and theatre critic, writing for The Washington Post. She is a founding member of The Playwrights Gymnasium, a process-oriented playwrights' workshop based in Washington, D.C., now in its sixth year. Her plays are available through Dramatic Publishing and her web site, dwgregory.com.
Jessica Hinds (What Dies Inside Us While We Live) Originally from Contra Costa County California, Jessica’s childhood activities included bowling, archery, baton, drama, RC car races and copious pages of bad poetry. She moved to NYC to attend Marymount Manhattan College then received her MFA in Playwriting from the New School for Drama. She currently works at Theater Row, the Daryl Roth Theatre and the Jacob Krueger Studio. Her plays have been produced/developed at Primary Stages, Cherry Lane, FringeNYC, American Globe Theater, The New School for Drama, ESPA, Marymount Manhattan College, Naked Angels T@9, The New York Artists' Community (NYAC), Riant Theatre, ReGroup Theatre, Eagles Short Play Lab, The Vagina Festival, Sage Theater, the Brecht Center, and the Sam French Festival at Playwright's Horizons and Theater Row. Theatrical achievements include; 2010 Lark Playwrights’ Week Finalist, Strawberry Festival Best Play Finalist, 2nd Act Construction Playwright, TerraNova Groundbreakers Finalist, O'Neill Conference Finalist (2008, 2009, 2010), Heideman Award Finalist (2009), Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival Top 40 (2008, 2009, 2010), 2011 Firehouse New American Play Festival Semi-Finalist. Jessica currently lives, writes and paints in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. jessicahinds.com
Emily Dendinger (Untrained in Geometry) Dendinger’s plays include Hideous Progeny, which has been produced by LiveWire Theater in Chicago, Holland Productions in Boston and will receive a staged reading with the Carlsbad Players this fall. Recently, she wrote the book for the musical The Virginia, which was a semi-finalist at the 2011 Eugene O’Neill Conference. Her play Swimming After Dark won the 2005 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I’s 1X2 One Act Playwriting Competition and 2008 Women Playwrights’ Initiative Award. Emily’s short plays have been produced around the country, including in the Boston Ten Minute Play Marathon and 20% Theatre’s Snapshots. Her one-act play Family Tree was named the Senior Theater League of America’s Best Play 2004 and is currently published by Dramatic Publishing. Emily is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Iowa.
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