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ALUMNI JAM 1/6
Dael Orlandersmith, José Rivera, Michael Laurence
Monday, January 6, 2020 at 7:00PM
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Place
New York,
NY
10014
Monday, January 6th:
Host: Keith Randolph Smith
KEITH RANDOLPH SMITH: Broadway: Jitney; Fences; Come Back Little Sheba; King Hedley II; Salome; Piano Lesson; American Psycho. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; First Breeze of Summer; Holiday Heart; The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Intimacy. Regional: How To Catch Creation; The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey; Our Town; Water By The Spoonful; In Walk’s Ed. Film/TV: The Good Fight; Anesthesia; Malcolm X; The Warrior Class; Path To Paradise; Backstreet Justice; Journeymen; Dead Dogs Lie; Law and Order; NY Undercover; I’ll Fly Away; Cosby. Fox Fellow in Acting. Lunt-Fontanne Fellow in Acting. Member of Actor’s Center. Grad of AADA
Conservatory.
Dael Orlandersmith, sharing Watching the Watcher
Dael Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play for Yellowman. Ms. Orlandersmith is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights Fellowship and an Obie Award for Beauty’s Daughter. She has toured with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Real Live Poetry) throughout the world and has had plays produced at the McCarter, the Wilma, New York Theatre Workshop, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Orlandersmith won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick in 1999. Works Include: Liar, Liar (1994); Beauty's Daughter (1995); Monster (1996); The Gimmick (1999); Yellowman (2002); Raw Boys (2005); Stoop Stories (2008); Bones (2010); Horsedreams (2011); Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men (2012); Forever (2014-2015)
A work in progress inspired by Deb Margolin's 8 stops. Orlandersmith began work on this at the Kimmel Center in June, 2019.
José Rivera, sharing Your Name Means Dream
José Rivera received Obie Awards for Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. His plays have been produced at the Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, MCC, Rattlestick, ACT/San Francisco, INTAR, Mark Taper Forum, EST, the Goodman, Menier Chocolate Factory (London), Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, and La Jolla Playhouse. “The Motorcycle Diaries” earned a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination. He is currently writing the pilot for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Your Name Means Dream explores the sometimes humorous, sometimes dark emotional dynamics, as well as issues of mortality, when a woman near the end of her life is forced to encounter a brand new AI being who has been purchased by her children to take care of her.
Michael Laurence, sharing Cincinnatus
MICHAEL LAURENCE is the playwright/performer of Hamlet in Bed (Rattlestick & Edinburgh) and Krapp, 39 (Drama Desk nomination, Soho Playhouse/London/Dublin).Broadway: Talk Radio, Desire Under the Elms. Off-Bway: Appropriate, Book of Days, and Tooth of Crime (Signature), Opus, Morini Strad, and Discord (Primary Stages), The Few and Horsedreams (Rattlestick). Upcoming: Coal Country (Public).
Recurring TV: Shades of Blue, Damages, Heartshe Holler, Blacklist. Also: L&O SVU, Hollyhock, Elementary, Good Wife, Person of Interest.
Cincinnatus: A young NYC performance artist returns home to the Midwest in the wake of her mother's death to settle old financial and emotional accounts. All the ensuing dysfunctional family hi-jinks and conflicts are complicated by the fact that she's 3 months into a year-long "endurance-art" piece where she's tied to another performance artist (her ex!) on a 10-foot rope.
Cincinnatus is a dark (but hopeful) comedy; an interrogation of the complexity of how we think about self based on our families of origin, and our families of choice.
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