| Manhattan Theatre Club announces 2025 Ted Snowdon Reading Series lineup | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:21 pm EST 02/13/25 | |
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| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR 2025 TED SNOWDON READING SERIES ACCLAIMED SERIES KICKS OFF MONDAY, MARCH 10 AT MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER (131 WEST 55TH STREET) (New York, NY - February 13, 2025) – Manhattan Theatre Club – Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Chris Jennings , Executive Producer – is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2025 Ted Snowdon Reading Series. The readings kick off Monday, March 10 and will be held on Mondays through March 31 at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). All readings are free and open to the public, but space is limited, and RSVPs are required. To RSVP, please visit https://forms.gle/TLVyZtXc5D8hAcA48. Now in its 27th year, this rehearsed reading series is dedicated to the support and development of innovative new work, offering each playwright a week-long rehearsal period with directors and actors. This year, the series will feature four new plays, including one MTC commission, by an exceptional group of writers. MTC is grateful to Ted Snowdon for his generous support of the reading series. Several plays developed in this reading series have gone on to full productions at MTC, including David Auburn's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof, Joe Hortua's Between Us, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story, Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Abe Koogler's Fulfillment Center, Jaclyn Backhaus' India Pale Ale and Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties. Plays featured in this reading series that have been produced elsewhere in New York and around the world include Aurora Real de Asua's Wipeout , a.k. payne's Furlough's Paradise, Lloyd Suh's The Heart Sellers, Christine Quintana's As Above, Jonathan Spector's This Much I Know, Lauren Yee's Young Americans, Jessica Dickey's Nan and the Lower Body, Brittany K. Allen's Redwood, Paola Lázaro's There's Always the Hudson, Sharyn Rothstein's Right to Be Forgotten, Kimber Lee's to the yellow house, Jen Silverman 's Dangerous House, Nick Gandiello's The Blameless, Jocelyn Bioh's Nollywood Dreams, Nicky Silver's This Day Forward, Michael West's The Chinese Room, Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Joshua Harmon 's Significant Other, Ethan Lipton's Tumacho , Rachel Bonds' Five Mile Lake, Ayad Akhtar 's The Who and the What, Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, Rona Munro's Donny's Brain, Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation, The Civilians' The Great Immensity, Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, Eric Simonson's Fake, David Adjmi's Stunning , Naomi Iizuka's Strike-Slip, Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Little Flower of East Orange, Julia Cho's Durango , Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter, and Theresa Rebeck's The Scene. March 10 at 4 PM: How to Draw a Triangle By Jake Brasch, directed by Colm Summers Aaron is a musical theatre-obsessed fifth grader who pogo sticks to school and wears a fanny pack at all times. Unable to write legibly or catch a ball, he is sent to work with Ms. Jimenez, a burnt-out occupational therapist. After a rocky start, the two form an unlikely bond. How to Draw a Triangle is a comedy about emerging queerness, the wreckage of our past, and the heroes who go out on a limb to help us become ourselves. JAKE BRASCH (Playwright) (he/they) is a writer + performer + composer + clown and a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. His play The Reservoir is in co-production between the Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, and Denver Center. They recently won both national awards named for Paula Vogel – from the Kennedy Center and The Vineyard Theatre. Jake is the inaugural recipient of the Terrence McNally Recovery Commission and was recently named a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition. He's a proud alum of the Page 73 Writers Group and Youngblood at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Jake is currently developing work with the Manhattan Theatre Club, Alliance Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center, South Coast Repertory, The Acting Company, The Farm Theater, and the EST/Sloan Project. With playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Jake is a Co-Founder of American Sing-Song, a collective that writes and performs filthy hour-long comedic musicals. Jake has long worked as a birthday party clown in the Tri-State area and is developing a sitcom based on his exploits. He has three brothers, owns 18 pairs of glasses, and lives in Brooklyn with his brilliant husband, Tyler Brasch. BFA: NYU Tisch. jakebrasch.com . COLM SUMMERS (Director) (he/him) is an award-winning queer, Irish director, based in NYC, and the new Artistic Director of the Working Theater. Recent credits include Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan (Geffen Playhouse) and The Comedians by Philip Dawkins (Raven Theatre). Colm has developed work with Berkeley Rep, Rattlestick Theater, Abbey Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and more. He was a 2023 Ground Floor cohort member at Berkeley Rep and was the inaugural Resident Director at both the Geffen Playhouse and the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. In 2023, he won Ireland's most prestigious bursary for emerging artists, the Next Generation Artist Award. March 17 at 4 PM: Let's Ride By Alex Lin, directed by Laura Dupper A rideshare driver determined to get to the bottom of his unjust firing brings together a gang of unlikely allies, united against a powerful tech company. Following our heroes on a freewheeling cross-country quest, Let's Ride investigates automation in algorithms and the unseen ways they shape our lives. Commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club through the Alfred P. Sloan Initiative. ALEX LIN (Playwright) is just a girl from Jersey. Lin's plays have been developed at Roundabout, Second Stage Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick, the O'Neill, Two River, South Coast Repertory, Ojai, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theater, and Theater Mu. She has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, and Union College. As an actor, Lin has appeared at NYTW, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Victory, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Ma-Yi, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Amphibian Stage, Ojai, and Cape Cod Theatre Project. She was last seen in an industry workshop of a new musical about Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, playing the titular role. Lin is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Commission, a Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan commission, and the Working Theater inaugural playwright residency. Lin is a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, Weissberger Award nominee, BMI Bookwriting Fellow, and Colt Coeur Resident Artist. LAURA DUPPER (Director) is a NYC-based director originally from Tennessee. She has worked at Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theater, LCT3, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Drama League, HERE Arts, Dallas Theater Center, Columbia University, NYU, Ars Nova, and Playwrights Horizons; she has also worked with Playwrights Realm, Barrington Stage, P73. Some favorite assisting credits include The Minutes and Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts, Morning Sun by Simon Stephens, and Stereophonic by David Adjmi. Most recently, she was the Associate Director on Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. She was a 24/25 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow and directed Jeana Scotti's A Necessary Killing for Winterworks. Laura has her Masters in Social Work and BFA from Southern Methodist University. March 24 at 4 PM: the dowagers By Justice Hehir, directed by Joan Sergay Salome, Tara, and Chris share an apartment building and a system for navigating the unspeakable. A pandemic-era play about neighbors, proximity, and the many permutations of care, the dowagers is a meditation on loss and lust - set on a single stoop. JUSTICE HEHIR (Playwright) is a playwright and doula whose work explores sexuality and resilience. She is a Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, member of Youngblood at EST, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Her play WATCH ME was produced as part of Clubbed Thumb's Winterworks Festival in January 2024. In March 2024, her play the dowagers received a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She received a Clubbed Thumb Constitution Commission from Heidi Schreck and the producers of What the Constitution Means to Me in 2021, and with the support of New Georges co-authored the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater, a free, downloadable play about abortion rights post-Roe, released online in 2022 (winner of the 2023 A is For Playwriting Prize). Her plays have been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, the Miranda Family Fund, and Clubbed Thumb. She graduated from Hunter College in 2018 with an MFA in Playwriting (under the tutelage of Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) and from Rutgers University/Douglass College in 2016 with a BA in Women's and Gender Studies and English. JOAN SERGAY (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director of new work. She has directed and developed work at New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, No Guarantees, The TEAM, Colt Coeur, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Westport Country Playhouse. On Broadway, Joan has served as the US Associate Director to Sam Mendes on The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth as well as the Associate Director to Rachel Chavkin on Lempicka. She has also been an associate/assistant to directors including Danya Taymor, Les Waters, and Lee Sunday Evans at theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group, The Play Company, Primary Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Studio Theatre. As an audiobook director, Joan has directed over 150 titles for Penguin Random House. Joan is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a 2024-25 Resident Artist at the cell theatre, a 2023-24 Audrey Resident at New Georges, a 2023 New York Theatre Workshop Adelphi Resident, and a former Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. BA: Northwestern University. March 31 at 4 PM: THE MONSTERS Written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she's been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep. THE MONSTERS is a sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons. NGOZI ANYANWU (Playwright and Director) is a multihyphened storyteller, and most recently a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Anyanwu recently had the world premiere of her newest play Leroy and Lucy at The Steppenwolf Theatre, in the fall of 2024. Previous productions include Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic Theater Company), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre in NYC / Center Theatre Group in LA) in which she also starred, and The Homecoming Queen (sold-out world premiere run at the Atlantic Theater). Good Grief was on the Kilroys List 2016 and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and won the Humanitas Award. The Homecoming Queen was on the Kilroys List in 2017 and was a Leah Ryan Finalist. Her play Nike… (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and Space on Ryder Farm. Ngozi also has been commissioned by NYU, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, Atlantic Theater, and Steppenwolf. Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She attended Point Park University (BA) and received her MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego. TED SNOWDON READING SERIES ASSETS TED SNOWDON has supported new plays and playwrights his entire career, working in both the commercial and non-profit sides of theater. His Broadway producing credits reach back to 1979's Tony Award-winning The Elephant Man and include many plays and musicals like Chita Rivera in The Visit, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Mountaintop, Reasons To Be Pretty, The Little Dog Laughed, Spring Awakening, and Souvenir. With MTC he co-produced Master Class, Time Stands Still, and LoveMusik. Broadway offerings include two White House plays, The Great Society starring Brian Cox as LBJ and Selina Fillinger's farce POTUS. Off-Broadway presentations were Michael Urie in Jon Tolins's Buyer & Cellar, Charles Busch's three capers The Tribute Artist, The Confessions of Lily Dare, and Ibsen's Ghost, plus Daniel's Husband, My Parsifal Conductor, On That Day in Amsterdam, Robert Montano's solo hit Small, and last season's acclaimed Sondheim-Ives-Mantello musical Here We Are, heading to London this spring. Currently on until April 13 is Chisa Hutchinson's provocative Amerikin at 59E59 Theaters. Ted has long championed the arts and LGBTQ causes, and he serves on the boards of Primary Stages and the Glimmerglass Festival. ABOUT MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Director Chris Jennings, Manhattan Theatre Club produces seasons of new work for the theatre both on and Off-Broadway, and in the 2023-24 season, all three of its Broadway shows were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, representing three of the five nominees in the category. MTC's not-for-profit mission, which Meadow created in 1972 and has implemented over five decades of award-winning productions, is to develop and present new work in a dynamic, supportive environment; to identify and collaborate with the most promising new as well as accomplished artists; and to produce a diverse repertoire of innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking plays and musicals by American and international playwrights. Since 1989, MTC Learning and Community Engagement, which uses the power of live theatre and playwriting to awaken minds, ignite imaginations, open hearts, and change lives, has also been an important corollary to MTC's work. MTC's over 600 world, American, New York and Broadway premieres have earned 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 30 Tony Awards, 51 Drama Desk Awards and 49 Obie Awards amongst many other honors. MTC has homes on Broadway at its Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and Off-Broadway at New York City Center. MTC is an anti-racist organization that respects and honors all voices and upholds the values of community and equity. For more information, please visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com. WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA Website: www.manhattantheatreclub.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/MTC_NYC Facebook: www.facebook.com/ManhattanTheatreClub X: x.com/mtc_NYC Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mtc-nyc.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/mtcbroadway |
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