New Play Development Workshop 6

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November 13, 2013

Our NPDW is an annual workshop where local playwrights can submit projects in need of development.  We selected the most exciting pieces and provide them with 4-6 weeks of closed-door workshop sessions in October and November.   

Then we open our doors to audiences for a public event on November 13th showcasing these projects, featuring selected scenes from the new works followed by a post-show discussion with playwrights.

announcing this year's selections:


tusk hunters
by dan caffrey

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Grimwald and Pup make their loving hunting for woolly mammoth tusks, under the impression that their employers sell the fossils as an alternative to ivory.  But when Pup makes their biggest find yet, the company's true intentions become clear, testing the duo's beliefs on nature and their own friendship.

Dan Caffrey is a Chicago playwright and the Artistic Director of The Tympanic Theatre Company.  His play MATAWAN was a Finalist for the 2013 O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference.  Other full-length plays include GREGOR & THE SQUONK, EXTINCTION FANTASIES, and ORANGE ORBS (all produced by Tympanic), as well as LITTLE TRIGGERS (produced by The Ruckus), HOBBLED, and HADDONFIELD (both workshopped by Infusion).  He's also an Ensemble Member with The Ruckus, an Associate Artist at the side project, an Editor at Groupon, and a Senior Staff Writer for the music site Consequence Of Sound.

ida and the bear
by trina kakacek

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On the dusty road between Backwards and Conspiratorial, two, thirsty, dying vagabonds join forces to infiltrate the town Progress. But Ida-Mayor of Progress, ain’t interested in strangers. Before you know it, the future of Progress is in jeopardy. Ida and the Bear explores the ironies of gender roles, and how they might be reconsidered.

Trina Kakacek is the co-producer of Small Fish Radio Theatre, founder of Courier 12 Collective, and teaches playwriting to public high school students in Chicago. And-she writes plays. Winner of the John Gassner New Play Competition, Dionysius Cup, and two-time Heidemann award semi-finalist, her plays have been featured at Chicago Dramatists, Stage Left, Lincoln Square, Victory Gardens, Infusion Theatre, Women’s Theatre Alliance, Dream Theatre, Chicago Fringe, and Atlanta Fringe to name a few.

f-gg*t
by danny bernardo

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This play explores the bullying that gay youth suffer in school, often in silence. As he loses himself in a world of video games and comics books to escape the daily torment of his everyday life, Jeremy faces his breaking point as his real and fantasy worlds threaten to collide.

Danny Bernardo is a Resident Playwright and Marketing Manager at Bailiwick Chicago. He's worked with such companies as Goodman, Victory Gardens, Silk Road Rising, About Face, Collaboraction, Route 66, Porchlight Music Theatre and has served on faculty at the Chicago Academy for the Arts and AfterSchool Matters at Gallery 37. 

the ever and after
BY RACHEL TEAGLE

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Thurston, a super-intelligent cockroach and his feral human ward Sheelar discover a robotic woman named IDA in the wreckage of civilization. Together, they venture into the belly of the new human settlement and find the truth about how we survived.

Rachel Teagle is a playwright, comedian, and storyteller who grew up in the Silicon Valley. After graduating from Carleton College, she migrated from Minneapolis to Atlanta to Connecticut, working with many supportive and distinguished theaters along the way. She was awarded the 2012 Leah Ryan FEWW Prize and helped found the first Atlanta Fringe Festival.
Please join us:

The Alley Stage
4147 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL 60613

Wednesday November 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Tickets are FREE, but there are only 60 seats available so please reserve yours in advance using the RSVP form to the right.

    rsvp form: