Joan H Gillings Center for Dramatic Art 120 Country Club Rd Chapel Hill Nc 27599

 PlayMakers Repertory Company and The Procedure Series Present "Making Tracks"

Countdown New Play Reading Series
Featuring work from local to international playwrights tackling the issues of our time

Who: PlayMakers Repertory Visitor & The Process Series
What : "Making Tracks" A New Play Reading Series
When: April thirteen–fifteen, 2018
Where: Studios 101 and 104, Joan H. Gillings Eye for Dramatic Fine art, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC

Admission: Gratuitous, with a $5 suggested donation at the door

(Chapel Hill, NC, March 12, 2018) PlayMakers Repertory Visitor and The Process Series proudly present "Making Tracks," a new play reading series tackling some of the near prescient bug of our time. Dedicated to representing a wide variety of perspectives, "Making Tracks" volition feature readings of four plays by four vastly different voices: a UNC pupil playwright, a faculty playwright, a national playwright, and an international playwright. The series volition run from the afternoon of April xiii to the evening of April fifteen, in conjunction with "Leaving Eden," the globe-premiere of PlayMakers' first total commission, originally developed in partnership with The Process Series.

"PlayMakers' goal is to become a creative home for the development of playwrights' about socially witting and ambitious piece of work," says PlayMakers' Producing Artistic Director, Vivienne Benesch. "'Making Tracks' is a new platform that gives united states of america that opportunity, and this inaugural year provides a great taste of the exciting range of voices and stories that nosotros can expect to see. I am thrilled to be collaborating over again with the invaluable Procedure Series, whose ten-twelvemonth track tape developing pregnant work for the performing arts provides a great launching pad." Process Series artistic director, Joseph Megel, agrees, "Our collaboration is a perfect marriage, both organizations focusing on the process of creation of plays that truly makes a difference. These four compelling voices interrogate some of the most pressing issues of our time."

Performance and Special Event Schedule:

April 13th,1pm —Trial 9 – Studio 101

April 13th, 3pm – Noms De Guerre – Studio 101

April 13th, 8pm – Eights Nights – Studio 101

April 14th, 5pm – Eight Nights – Studio 101

April 14th, 8pm – Illegal Helpers – Studio 101

April15th 7pm–Noms DeGeurre–Studio101

April15th 7pm–Trial 9–Studio104

Performance Descriptions:

Trial 9

Past Jonathan Moises Olivares

Directed by Daniel Banks

Times: Apr 13, i:00pm, April fifteen, 7:00pm

Is Love Enough? Inside the earth of conversion therapy, same sex attraction is a disease, and "therapists" are determined to find a cure. When they discover one, Elijah's globe is turned upside down. He loves Orlando and Orlando loves him, but Trial 9 asks the question: is love enough?

Jonathan Moises Olivares is currently a senior at UNC Chapel Hill studying dramatic art and graphic design. He is a recipient of The Richard and Christopher Edward Adler Honour likewise as a recipient of an Honorable Mention in the Inaugural LGBTQ Performance Commission Projection. Born in Hollywood, California, he moved to North Carolina when he was very immature. His parents, Julio and Elizabeth
Olivares, are immigrants from Republic of el salvador and taught him to be proud of all his intersecting identities. He works as an creative person/activist to promote intersectionality amongst LGBTQ representation and moonlights as a graphic designer.

Noms De Guerre

By Jacqueline Eastward. Lawton

Directed by Kaja Dunn

Times: April 13, three:00pm, April xv, seven:00pm

When politics get personal, what cost must we pay? Every time Mira'south hubby returns home from war, information technology'southward a difficult transition. But this time, as her race for Governor gets underway, they are both thrust into the spotlight, which illuminates longstanding tensions, shifting allegiances and a new undercover that threatens to derail her campaign. Equally the man she knows disappears into a homo forever inverse past state of war, she must determine what price she'southward willing to pay to stand by him.

Jacqueline E. Lawton is a PlayMakers' company member as well as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Dramatic Art, UNC-Chapel Hill. She was named i of 30 of the nation'south leading black playwrights by Arena Stage's American Voices New Play Institute. Her plays include Anna Yard; Bloodbound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil'southward Sweet H2o; The Hampton Years; Intelligence; Dearest Brothers Serenade (semi-finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center'due south National Playwrights Conference); Mad Breed; Noms de Guerre. She has worked equally a dramaturg and research consultant at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Arden Theater, Arena Phase, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ford's Theatre, Horizons Theater, Interact Theatre, Kennedy Middle VSA Programme, Round Firm Theatre, Theater J, Virginia Phase Company and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, was a James A. Michener Fellow from TCG Young Leaders of Color, is affiliated with the National New Play Network (NNPN), Arena Phase's Playwrights' Arena, Center Phase'south Playwrights' Collective and is a fellow member of the Dramatist Guild of America.

Eight Nights

By Jennifer Maisel

Directed by Joseph Megel

Times: April 13, 7:00pm, April 14, 5:00pm

When all y'all can do is hope. In a cramped flat on the Lower Eastward Side, a young refugee woman yearns to start a new life in the United states. As she works to crush the past that haunts her, she is accompanied by her father, husband, friends, daughter, and granddaughter. Set in a unmarried apartment and spanning the years 1949 – 2016, Eight Nights tells the story of refugees from the past and present, taking disparate circumstances and laying bare their all also similar horrors. Life is brutal, but they live with the promise that a better futurity awaits.

JENNIFER MAISEL's Pen Westward Literary Accolade finalist There or Here was workshopped at PlayPenn before critically acclaimed runs with New York's Hypothetical Theatre and London's Special Relationship Productions at The Park Theatre. Her The Last Seder premiered Off-Broadway later productions in Chicago, D.C. and LA. Plays include Goody Fucking Two Shoes (ATL's Humana Festival), birds (Rorschach Theatre), Eden (Theatre of Note, Original Works Publishing) and Friction match (UArts New Play Festival, Berkshire Playwrights Lab). Awards: Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays Honour, Charlotte Woolard and Roger L. Stevens awards; SCR's California Playwrights Competition; three time PEN West Literary Accolade finalist; v time Heideman Award finalist, STAGES International finalist.
Jennifer received an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan foundation commission for Out of Orbit, which won the Stanley Award for Drama, made the 2016 Kilroy List for best unproduced plays by women and trans writers, and won the 2017/eighteen Woodward/Newman Drama award. Out of Orbit will premiere at Williamston Theatre and be produced by Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2018. Jennifer also writes for moving-picture show and television receiver; her Prodigal Son, was produced by Mar Vista Entertainment starring Virginia Madsen and she recently sold an original pilot with MomentumTV. She is a fellow member of the Dramatists Society, Ensemble Studio Theatre – LA Project, DogEar Playwrights Collective, Playwrights Union and the WGA. 8 Nights was workshopped at Berkshire Playwrights Lab and at Antaeus Theatre Visitor in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a new play as one of five playwrights invited into the prestigious Humanitas PlayLA Workshop.

Illegal Helpers

By Maxi Obexer,

Translated by Neil Blackadder

Directed by Talya Klein

Times: April 14th, 8pm

We call them criminals for one reason: they help people. They save migrants without legal status from displacement. They provide shelter. They bring them across the border when all other options are wearied. Some of them have been bedevilled on several occasions; others take a chance their profession and condition. They come from the heart of society: doctors, judges, social workers, students. Only what they do brings them to the brink of the police force and sometimes beyond. They take these risks because they must and considering they dream of a earth where compassion is not a crime. Prize-winning High german-Italian playwright Maxi Obexer weaves together documentary interviews in this passionate entreatment for human dignity in the face of the refugee crunch threatening to engulf Western Europe.

Maxi Obexer, born in Brixen (Southward Tyrol, Italy) is the author of essays and plays for theater and radio. Her political works have won numerous awards, including the 2016 Robert Geisendörfer and Eurodram Prizes for Illegal Helpers, and the 2017 Potsdamer Theater Prize for Gehen und Bleiben [Leaving and Staying]. In 2014, Maxi founded the Neue Institut für Dramatisches Schreiben, Nids. Her first novel Wenn gefährliche Hunde lachen ["When dangerous dogs laugh"] appeared in 2011, and her 2nd in 2017: Europas Längster Sommer ["Europe's longest summertime"]. Obexer lives in Berlin.

Neil Blackadder translates drama and prose from German and French, specializing in contemporary theatre. His translations of plays by Lukas Bärfuss and Ewald Palmetshofer have been produced in London, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere, and he has received grants from the Howard Foundation and PEN, and held residencies at the Banff Centre and Fine art Omi. Other playwrights Neil has translated include Rebekka Kricheldorf, Evelyne de la Chenelière, and Thomas Arzt. Neil grew upwardly in England and since 1994 has taught theatre, first at Duke University, then at Knox College.

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PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence at the Academy of Due north Carolina at Chapel Hill, and N Carolina's premier resident theater visitor for more than than xl years. We produce relevant and mettlesome piece of work that tells stories from and for a multiplicity of perspectives and creates transformational impact in our immediate and extended communities. Developing new work is central to our mission. PlayMakers has been named ane of the "best regional theatres in America."

About The Process Series

Defended to the evolution of new and significant works in the performing arts, The Process Serial features professionally mounted, developmental presentations of new works in progress. The mission of the Series is to illuminate the ways in which artistic ideas take form, to examine the creative process, to offer audiences the opportunity to follow artists and performers equally they explore and detect and by and so doing to enrich the development process for artists with the ultimate goal of improve art and a closer human relationship between artists and audiences.
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