The 2007 - 2008 New Dramatists Resident Playwrights
Eugenie Chan
Eugenie is a 4th generation San Franciscan whose forefathers sold
slippers in Chinatown, dry goods in the desert, and love in the
bordellos. No wonder her plays tend to mix up language, reality,
tradition, and history. Eugenie has received commissions from the Magic
Theatre/Sloan Science Initiative and Cutting Ball Theatre; awards from
Mixed Blood Theater and NYU; grants from the New Works Fund and Theatre
Bay Area; and fellowships from the Berilla Kerr Foundation, the Affymax
Foundation, the Tournesol Project/Z Space Studio, Film Arts Foundation,
the E.E. Ford Foundation, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Her plays are published in Lexington Books' Asian American Drama and
North American Women Writers and Alta Mira's forthcoming Embodiments of
Asian/American and Pacific Islander/American Sexualities. Eugenie has
also written political satire for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and
screenplays which have been finalists for Nicholl and Cinestory
Fellowships. She has been a resident artist at the Djerassi Foundation,
Millay Colony, Hedgebrook, and the Exploratorium. Eugenie is a member of
the Dramatists Guild, a resident playwright at the Playwrights
Foundation, and an Associate Artist at Cutting Ball Theatre. She holds a
B.A. in Literature from Yale and an M.F.A. from NYU's Dramatic Writing
program.
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The daughter of journalists, Sarah grew
up in Hong Kong, Belgium, and South Carolina. Her first play, KUDZU,
was one of five American plays chosen for development at the
Interplay Festival in Australia. The show subsequently played a
sold-out run to South Carolina audiences as winner of the Trustus
Playwrights Festival in 2003. Sarah's recent work includes HOUSE ON
STILTS (South Coast Repertory commission), GREEN GIRL (Bay Area
Playwrights Festival, Tulsa New Works for Women Prize), and THE
EXTINCTION OF FELIX GARDEN (Iowa New Play Festival). Her short play
HUM OF THE ARCTIC won the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman
Award, and her other shorts have appeared in City Theatre Summer
Shorts, Live Girls Quickies, and Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The
Best of 2004. She has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Princess
Grace Award runner-up. Proud graduate of the University of South
Carolina (BA) and the University of Iowa (MFA), she has taught
playwriting at both schools. Now based in Brooklyn, she is thrilled
to join the playwrights at New Dramatists.
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Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac is a theatre artist working in the genre of pastiche.
This is a fancy way of saying he does a lot of different things.
He's a playwright, a librettist, an actor, a director, performance
artists, a cloon (a female clown), and is learning how to compose
music on his banjo. Taylor writes plays for others, solo-plays for
himself, and epic extravaganza's (where he is one of many
performers). Vintage Press, New York Theatre Review, New York
Theatre Experience have published his plays, he has been named one
of New York's best by the Village Voice, Time Out, and The New York
Press and is the recipient of The Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel
Award, a GLAAD Media Award Nomination, three Brighton Best of
Festival awards, PS 122's Ethyl Eichelberger award, a New York State
Council of The Arts Grant, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, The
Franklin Furnace Grant, a Peter S. Reed Grant, The Ensemble Studio
Theatre's New Voices Fellowship in playwriting, A Mabou Mines Suite
(with collaborator Elizabeth Swados) and is currently a HERE Arts
Center Resident Artist.
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Carlos Murillo
Carlos Murillo's DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS received its world
premiere at the 31st Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at
Actors Theatre of Louisville in March 2007, and will be produced at
Actors Express in Atlanta and Theatre @ Boston Court in LA in fall
2007. Carlos' other plays include: UNFINISHED AMERICAN HIGHWAYSCAPE
#9 & 32 (OR THE BROKEN TRACTOR GRAVEYARD), MIMESOPHOBIA (OR BEFORE
AND AFTER), A HUMAN INTEREST STORY (OR THE GORY DETAILS AND ALL),
OFFSPRING OF THE COLD WAR, THE PATRON SAINT OF THE NAMELESS DEAD,
SCHADENFREUDE, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES WITH LENI RIEFENSTAHL, NEVER
WHISTLE WHILE YOU'RE PISSING and SUBTERRANEANS. They have been
produced in NY (NYC Summer Play Festival, En Garde Arts, Soho Rep,
The Hangar Theatre Lab), LA (Theatre @ Boston Court, Circle X, Son
of Semele), Chicago (Walkabout Theatre, DePaul University),
Minneapolis (Red Eye), Seattle (The Group), Atlanta (Actors Express)
and Austin (dirigo group). They have been developed at The Public,
NY Theatre Workshop, The Goodman, South Coast Rep, Portland Center
Stage, Madison Rep, the Sundance Institute, The Playwrights' Center,
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, the
Chautauqua Conservatory, Annex Theatre, UC Santa Barbara, the Loyola
University Museum of Art and others. Two of his plays, A HUMAN
INTEREST STORY and SCHADENFREUDE have been published in Theatre
Forum International Theatre Journal (UCSD Department of Theatre and
Dance). He was a Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights' Center in
Minneapolis, and has received grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and is a two-time
recipient of the National Latino Playwriting Award from Arizona
Theatre Company. He has received commissions from The Public
Theatre, South Coast Rep, En Garde Arts, and Disney Creative
Entertainment. As a director, he has staged productions and
workshops of his own work in New York, Chicago and Minneapolis. He
has also staged plays at The Walker Arts Center/Intermedia Arts in
Minneapolis, The Public Theatre New Work Now! Festival, the Mazer
Theatre and Makor in NY. Carlos teaches playwriting and performance
at The Theatre School of DePaul University in Chicago, where he
lives with his wife Lisa Portes and their two children Eva Rose and
Carlos Pablo.
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Julie Marie Myatt
Julie was raised all over the United States and abroad, as a result
of her father's military career. She currently lives in Los
Angeles, California. Her play Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter recently
premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and will tour to the
Kennedy Center this summer. Her play My Wandering Boy premiered at
South Coast Rep, and was featured in the 2007 Summer Play Festival
in New York City. Her play Boats On A River premiered at the
Guthrie Theater. Her ten-minute play, Mr. and Mrs. premiered at the
2007 Humana Festival. Her play The Sex Habits of American Women was
produced by the Guthrie Theater, Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA,
and premiered at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. She is working
on commissions for Cornerstone Theatre Co, The Guthrie, Denver
Center Theatre, ACT Seattle, and South Coast Rep.
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J.T. Rogers
J. T. Rogers is the author of THE OVERWHELMING, MADAGASCAR, WHITE
PEOPLE, and other plays. His works have been produced in London by
the National Theatre and Out of Joint, and on the radio for the BBC;
in New York at the Roundabout Theatre and the SPF Summer Play
Festival; and regionally at the Philadelphia Theatre Co., the New
Rep (Boston), the Road Theatre (L.A.), New Theatre (Miami), the
Adirondack Theatre Festival (NY), and many times at the Salt Lake
Acting Co., where he was an NEA/TCG playwright in residence. Recent
honors include the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American
Theatre Critics Association's M. Elizabeth Osborne Award, the
William Inge Center for the Arts Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the
Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's Theatre Visions Award, and a
fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His plays are
published in both the UK and US by Faber and Faber, and in acting
editions by Dramatists Play Service. He lives in
Brooklyn.
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Deborah Stein
Deborah Stein's plays include GOD SAVE GERTRUDE, BONE PORTRAITS, THE
AERODYNAMICS OF ACCIDENT, and WALLFLOWER. Her work has been produced
and developed nationally at Seattle Rep, the Women's Project, the
Wilma Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, the Red Eye, 1812
Productions, Dance Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Walkerspace, and
Theatre Artaud; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh
(the Traverse) and most recently in Prague, where she produced a
festival of new Czech and American playwriting. She has collaborated
with the Pig Iron Theatre Company on six new works including ANODYNE
and THE LUCIA JOYCE CABARET (both nominated for the Barrymore Award
for Best New Play) and SHUT EYE, directed by Joseph Chaikin. She has
been a resident artist at Hedgebrook, Lexington Center, Princeton
University, and Swarthmore College, and her writing is published in
Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American
Poetry of 1996. Currently working on commissions from the Children's
Theatre Company, the History Theatre, and the Guthrie, Deborah
received her MFA from Brown University and is a two-time Jerome
Fellow at the Playwrights' Center.
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John Walch
John Walch's plays include THE DINOSAUR WITHIN,
CIRCUMFERENCE OF A SQUIRREL, THE NATURE OF MUTATION, JESTING WITH
EDGED TOOLS, CRAVING GRAVY OR LOVE IN THE TIME OF CANNIBALISM, ALICE
THREW THE LOOKING GLASS (a parody of Strunk and White's The Elements
of Style), as well as numerous one-acts, collaborations, and shorts.
His plays have been produced at theatres such as The Mark Taper
Forum, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Playwrights Theatre of New
Jersey, the State Theater, Kitchen Dog Theatre, the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, and off-Broadway at Urban Stages. His work has been
developed or commissioned through the Public Theater, Manhattan
Theatre Club, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, Shenandoah International
Playwright's, The Playwrights' Center/PlayLabs, the Mark Taper
Forum, and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. Awards include:
Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; the American Theatre
Critics Association's Osborn Award; the Charlotte Woolard Award from
the Kennedy Center recognizing a promising new voice in the American
theatre; the Marc Klein Playwriting Award; and three Austin Critic's
Table Awards. He was a Sloan playwriting fellow at Manhattan Theatre
Club and a James Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers
at UT @ Austin, where he earned his MFA in Playwriting. John served
as artistic director of Austin Script Works and has taught
playwriting at UT @ Austin/Michener Center for Writers, Florida
State Univeristy, and the Playwrights Workshop at University of
Iowa. His plays are published through Playscripts and other works
have appeared in various anthologies including: Humana Festival
2004: Complete Plays, Best Stage Scenes, and Best Men's Stage
Monologues. John currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and is a resident
playwright of New Dramatists.
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