Seven New Plays Slated To Appear In 16th Annual New Stages Festival At Goodman Theatre by BWW News Desk Sep. 5, 2019   Tweet Share      This fall, Goodman Theatre presents its New Stages Festival-a free annual celebration and discovery of new plays by some of the country's finest established and emerging playwrights, now in its 16th year. Audiences experience a first look at seven new works-including two fully staged developmental productions (performed in repertory) Incendiary by Dave Harris and In the Sick Bay of the Santa Maria by Rajiv Joseph. In addition, four staged readings are presented during the last weekend of the festival (November 8-10) including The Garden by Charlayne Woodard; Engines and Instruments of Flight: A Fantasia in Three Acts by Calamity West; The Humanities by Zayd Dohrn; and Fannie by Cheryl L. West-plus a special work-in-progress showing, (the) FAIR created by Sandra Delgado and Sojourn Theatre Company. The 16th annual New Stages Festival runs October 23 - November 10 in the 350-seat Owen Theatre; free reserved tickets will be made available to the general public on September 13; call 312.443.3800, visit GoodmanTheatre.org/NewStagesFestival or the box office (170 N. Dearborn). For more information about "Industry Professionals Weekend," visit GoodmanTheatre.org/Professionals.   "Over the past 16 years, our New Stages Festival has become a quintessential [...]

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Announces 2019 Summer Season BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS WATERFORD, CONN.: The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced its summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development. “This summer in Waterford, Conn., the O’Neill, the launchpad of the American theatre, will continue our work with exciting new musicals, plays, puppetry, and cabaret,” said executive director Preston Whiteway in a statement. “I’m delighted to welcome audiences from around the world to experience these vital new works during our 55th anniversary season. I am grateful to each of our artistic directors for their bold vision in selecting these pieces and artists that will impact the field for decades to come.” The National Playwrights Conference, led by artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, will present eight new works (July 3-27). The plays were chosen from 1,416 plays received through the O’Neill’s open submission process. Isaac Gomez (The Way She Spoke) will join as this year’s writer-in-residence. Death of the Republic by Craig LucasThe Humanities by Zayd Dohrnit’s not a trip it’s a journey by Charly Evon SimpsonTender Age by George BrantAntigones by Anna ZieglerBlack Dick by Tearrance ChisholmUntitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play by Kimber LeeWinter People by Laura Neill

Review: Zayd Dohrn Plumbs Muslim-American Rifts in ‘The Profane’ By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES, APRIL 10, 2017 Oh, poor Sam. He’s traveled all this way at Thanksgiving to meet his girlfriend’s parents, and her father won’t even shake his hand. Good-looking, polite, pre-med, Sam seems eminently presentable — but not to this family. He gets zero points for being smitten with their daughter Emina. “Of all the guys you could have picked?” her sister Aisa (Francis Benhamou) says in “The Profane,” Zayd Dohrn’s approachably eloquent, frequently comic new drama at Playwrights Horizons. “You know this is Pa’s worst nightmare.” Raif (Ali Reza Farahnakian), their father, is a famous novelist who came to the United States as a student, leaving the Islam of his youth behind. Naja (the extraordinary Heather Raffo), their mother, was a dancer. Everything about this immigrant couple — their spacious Greenwich Village apartment, teeming tastefully with books and art; their accents, by now standard American — suggests comfortable assimilation into an elite stratum of secular society. These are not people who hoped that a child of theirs would fall in love with a son of conservative Muslims, yet Emina (Tala Ashe) has. Away at college, she has started to remake [...]

The Profane by Zayd Dohrn February 27, 2017, 7:30 pm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Safe in the liberal fortress of Manhattan, Raif Almedin is a first-generation immigrant who prides himself on his modern, enlightened views. But when his daughter falls for the son of a conservative Muslim family, two households are forced to confront each other’s religious beliefs and cultural traditions, and to face their own deep-seated prejudice. Aasif Mandvi moderates a discussion with playwright Zayd Dohrn and director Kip Fagan illuminating the creation of The Profane. Members of the cast perform excerpts from this sharp and timely tale.$40, $35 members and Friends of Works & Process. BUY TICKETS A PART OF THE WORKS & PROCESS SERIES

Horton Foote Prize Goes to 2 Playwrights By ANDREW R. CHOW, SEPT. 13, 2016 The playwrights Jordan Harrison and Zayd Dohrn have won the 2016 Horton Foote Prize, which honors excellence in American theater every two years. Mr. Harrison won the outstanding new play award for “Marjorie Prime,” which was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Critics’ Pick when it arrived at Playwrights Horizons last fall. The play centers on an 85-year-old woman, portrayed by Lois Smith in last year’s production, who confronts memory loss through storytelling and artificial intelligence. In his review for The Times, Ben Brantley called it “elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling,” adding, “this production keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you’ve seen it.” Mr. Dohrn received the promising new play prize for “The Profane,” which will have its premiere at Playwrights Horizons in March. The play follows a romance that develops amid differing cultural and familial values. The prize comes with $20,000 for each playwright and is named after the Pulitzer-winning playwright who died in 2009. (A production of Foote’s play “The Roads to Home” starts previews at Primary Stages on Wednesday.) The judges were the actress Stockard Channing; [...]

BBC AMERICA, May 31, 2016 BBC AMERICA ANNOUNCES ORIGINAL SCRIPTED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND UPCOMING SUMMER AND FALL PREMIERE SLATE New development projects come to BBCA from high-profile talent including Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, Neal Baer, and See-Saw Films, the producers of Top of the Lake, among others. Projects include: Foreign Babes in Beijing Rachel DeWoskin and Zayd Dohrn are developing a series set in Beijing based on DeWoskin’s memoir of the same name, which chronicles her personal experiences as a soap opera actress on Chinese television. Manage-ment’s Dan Halsted is producing along with Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men). Junk Junk is a satirical look inside the world of the soda and junk food industry. Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral) is set to write, and Neal Baer (Under the Dome, Law & Order: SVU, ER) will executive produce. Memoria Adam Barken (Killjoys, Flashpoint) is set to write Memoria, an emotionally driven sci-fi drama about a man who begins to unravel after his memories conflict with technology. Temple Street, the company behind BBCA’s Orphan Black is producing. Quatermass Nicola Shindler’s RED Production Company (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Queer as Folk) and Simon Oakes’ Hammer Films (The Woman in Black, The Resident) [...]

Playwrights Horizons Announces a Season of Premieres for 2016–17 The slate includes new works from Julia Cho, Adam Bock, the Debate Society, Dan LeFranc, Zayd Dohrn, and Kirsten Childs. BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS NEW YORK CITY: Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of artistic director Tim Sanford and managing director Leslie Marcus, has announce the six productions of its 2016–17 Season, all but one a world premiere. The season kicks off in August with the New York premiere of Julia Cho’s Aubergine, about the links between food and family. It will be directed by Kate Whoriskey. The world premiere of Adam Bock’s A Life follows in September. This tale of a lonely young man who turns to astrology for answers will be directed by Anne Kauffman. Dan LeFranc’s Rancho Viejo, another world premiere, follows in November. Daniel Aukin will direct this play about the parents of a young couple going through a breakup, set against the backdrop of an affluent Southwestern suburb. The Debate Society’s newest offering, The Light Years, will have its world premiere in February 2017. This new play by company members Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler retells the true story of Steele MacKaye, a now forgotten impresario behind an audacious invention at the [...]

Increíble 'Reborning' 16/1/16 - 12:00 AM Malky Zebede es hija de tigre y está mostrando sus rayas.Por años estuvo acompañando a su padre, el actor, director y productor teatral Aaron Zebede, ... Keitha Kushner, Valerie Troncoso y Rob Getman darán vida a los personajes de esta producción de Nikki de Roy y Diana Abouganem. / Malky Zebede. Valerie Troncoso y Keitha Kushner, en la obra de Zayd Dohrn. Rob Getman y Valerie Troncoso se lucen en esta comedia. Rosalina Orocú Mojica (rosalina.orocu@epasa.com) | @PanamaAmerica Malky Zebede es hija de tigre y está mostrando sus rayas. Por años estuvo acompañando a su padre, el actor, director y productor teatral Aaron Zebede, en los proyectos que él emprendía. Para ella ir al teatro y verlo ensayar era un gozo indescriptible. Momentos mágicos. Así, casi sin darse cuenta, quedó Malky también prendada del teatro. Eso sí, la mayor parte de las veces su trabajo, de asistente, tenía lugar tras bastidores. Aduce que es asunto de personalidad. Es tímida. Pero eso no fue barrera. Dio los pasos necesarios, hizo lo que tenía que hacer para llegar a esta fase: estrenarse como directora. El gran día llegó. Fue este jueves cuando se corrió el telón [...]

Review: ‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional By BEN BRANTLEY MAY 22, 2015 There’s no hiding in the dark this time, and none of the usual safety in numbers. It’s just you and her — or him — eyeball to eyeball, in a closed, red space the size of a confessional. If you blush or yawn or wipe tears from your eyes, she sees it; that means, of course, that she feels it, too. The responsibilities of being an audience rarely weigh as heavily as they do in “I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,” the series of short (roughly five-minute) plays that opened this week at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan. The self-contained, tiny (4 feet by 8 feet), mobile structure in which these solo dramas take place resembles a confessional in more ways than one. As this mini-theater has been created, by the inspired designer Christine Jones and the architectural firm Lot-ek, you find yourself in immediate proximity to someone who has every intention of confiding in you. He or she materializes when a screen slides away, revealing a person seated, as you are, and as close as the image in your [...]