Ithaca College Theatre Arts presents the 2020 IC New Play Incubator as a Zoom webinar on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 at 8 PM EDT.Ithaca College Theatre Arts presents the 2020 IC New Play Incubator as a Zoom webinar on Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 at 8 PM EDT.
This annual event, produced by Saviana Stanescu Condeescu, Associate Professor of Playwriting and Theatre Studies, features (virtual) presentations of short plays by Playwriting students and alumni, acted, directed, dramaturged and stage managed by Theatre Arts students.
OBIE and National Latinx Playwriting Award Winner CARIDAD SVICH* is our Distinguished Playwright Judge, selecting the 2020 Golden Egg Award and 2020 Silver Egg Award winners from the following finalists:
Soon Again Not Yet by Aaliyah Warrington ('21)
Directed by Rafael López ('21)
CAGED by Callie Considine ('19)
Directed by Sophia Egner ('22)
Tuesday Night, 3:30 AM by Lucy Gladstone ('20)
Directed by Lexi Leitner ('21)
Learn to Live With It, Louie by Noah Alfred Pantano ('21)
Directed by Paul Andrews ('20)
Frozen Nowhere by Kaylah Marr
Directed by Katherine Nevils ('21)
Death Only Lasts So Long by Sebastián De la Paz ('22)
Directed by Miriam Goldstein ('21)
who's mom and who's mama by Audrey Lang ('20)
Directed by Marley Schwarz ('22)
Actors: Alaysia Duncan ('23), Carter Crane ('23), Lucas Hakoshima ('23), Sierra Martinez ('23), Liam Roberts ('23), Tessa Lynn Coleman ('22), Regan White ('24), Jeremy Noel ('21), Oscar Izenson ('23), Noa Webner ('24), Sabina Lueras ('22), and Ali Louis Bourzgui ('21).
Stage Managers: Kimberly Scaglione ('21), Zach De Brino ('23), Thomas Bertron ('22), Brian Hanshaw ('21), Elaina Kaehler ('22), Christina Johns ('22), and Julia O'Keeffe ('23).
Dramaturgs: Rachael Powles ('22) and Nellie Speers ('21)
Producer: Saviana Stănescu Condeescu
Assistant Producer: Rebekah Wittman ('23)
Production Manager: Rose Howard
Production Stage Manager: Christina Johns ('22)
Poster/Trophy Designer: Rebecca Gottbetter ('22)
Stage Management Mentor: Amanda Spooner
Dramaturgy Mentor: Walter Byongsok Chon
Directing Mentor: Wendy Dann
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You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Oct 3, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: New Play Incubator Performance
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N-rN3FwRS-ieLp0yo4yW8g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The “house” will open at 7.45 pm.
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*Caridad Svich has received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, Tanne Foundation Award, 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende’s novel, and NNPN rolling world premieres for RED BIKE and Guapa, as well as the Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre from ATHE. She has twice won the National Latinx Playwriting Award, for her plays SPARK and MAGNIFICENT WASTE. Other key plays in her repertoire include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls, and The Way of Water. A significant body of her work focuses on human and environmental rights and the ‘fragile shores’ upon which many of us live. Her works in English and Spanish have been produced internationally.
Her first independent feature film (as co-screenwriter) Fugitive Dreams, based on her play, receives its world premiere at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and its US premiere at the 2020 Austin Film Festival. The film stars April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepard, O-Lan Jones and David Patrick Kelly and is directed by Jason Neulander.
Caridad is also a theatrical translator, chiefly known for English-language translations of the plays of Federico Garcia Lorca. Her plays have been seen across the US and abroad at diverse venues, among them Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, 59E59, The Women's Project, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Milagro Theatre Group, Borderlands, Cervantes Theatre (London), Imago Theatre (Montreal), Teatro Mori (Chile), Artheater (Cologne), Ilkhom Theatre (Uzbekistan), and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has adapted for the stage novels by Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Leon Sanchez, and Rosario Ferre.
Caridad Svich sustains a parallel career as a lyricist, editor, freelance arts journalist, educator and artivist. Her works are published by TCG, Smith & Kraus, Broadway Play Publishing, Intellect UK, Manchester University Press, Eyecorner Press, Seagull Books, StageReads and more. She has edited & authored several books on theatre and performance, among them FIFTY PLAYWRIGHTS ON THEIR CRAFT (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama), Mitchell & Trask's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (4th Wall Series, Routledge). She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, Associate Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review for Routledge UK, Drama Editor of Asymptote literary journal, contributing editor of TheatreForum, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, and serves on the advisory boards of the US-Mexico Exchange Program at the Lark Play Development Center, and Global Performance Studies journal. She holds an MFA from UCSD, and also trained for four consecutive years with Maria Irene Fornes at the legendary INTAR Hispanic Playwrights In Residence Laboratory. Her archives are housed at the University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection in Florida, and partially at Ohio State University's Lawrence & Lee Theatre Collection.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20201001225522406