F150.
Page to Stage: Pathways to Production in a Virtual and In-Person World
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Five playwrights describe their varied pathways to production before and during the pandemic. From play contests to networking to agent submissions to using directories, each will describe how their work came to be staged and how play development differs from all other creative writing forms. They will finish the session with an open discussion on how the virtual world may change how theater may be shared in the future.
Participants
Bonnie Culver’s plays have been produced nationwide. Her one-woman show, A Ticket to the Circus, based upon the memoir of Norris Church Mailer, is scheduled for production in 2021 at the Edgemar Center, California, starring Anne Archer. She is the cofounder of Wilkes University's MA/MFA program.
Matthew Hinton holds his MA and MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and is the author of Quiet Cowboy and other plays. Hinton is a founding member of Gaslight Theatre Company (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) and is coordinator of writing and assistant director of student success at Misericordia University.
Rachel Luann Strayer is a published playwright with an MFA from Wilkes University. Plays: Drowning Ophelia, The Poe Asylum, Songbird, A Decameron for the Apocalypse, and The Last Daughter (Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award Finalist). She is currently the lead writer for NYC theatre group Stage Fright.
Jean Klein has been a semifinalist in the O’Neill competition; a one-act play Snapshots was a winner in the Kernodle Play competition at the University of Arkansas. She currently teaches playwriting at Wilkes University and owns Blue Moon Plays, a dramatic publishing company.
Sérgio-Andreo Bettencourt Urbina (a.k.a. s.a.b.u.) is a US-based nonbinary, first-generation Luso-Peruvian American playwright. Their writing credits include Hungry, Hungry, Demon, Started from the Convent Now We’re Here, and CRIMSON.RUST.AMBER.
