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 hotINK 2008, Playwrights Allan Graubard and Caroline McGee |
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The hotINK readings are curated by representatives of each of the TSOA Drama Department studios and studio affiliates. New play readings are curated by: Adler Conservatory; Atlantic Theater Company School; Classical Studio; Experimental Theatre Wing; Meisner Studio; Playwrights Horizons Theatre School; and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. In addition, each year the reading of a new screenplay is curated by the Stonestreet Film and Television Workshop. In this way, students have the opportunity to work with participating guest artists-and those artists become part of the extended Tisch School of the Arts community. |
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ADLER CONSERVATORY American Myth
by Christina Gorman Peter Nickowitz, Curator Peter Nickowitz was the 2008-2009 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and is currently head of the Studio’s Harold Clurman Playwrights Division. His plays include Songs & Statues, The Alice Complex, and Backgammon at the Louvre. Peter's poems have appeared in literary magazines including The Paris Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, Shampoo, and Slope, and he is the author of Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill (Palgrave Macmillan 2006). The Obit Writer, the latest screenplay he co-wrote with Bill Oliver, is a contemporary noir thriller and optioned by producer Susan A. Stover and HeadQuarters. Peter is a graduate of Brandeis University and New York University. He teaches at NYU. |
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ATLANTIC THEATER SCHOOL Purge
by Sofi Oksanen, translated by Eva Buchwald Jacquelyn Landgraf, Curator Jacquelyn Landgraf has been an avid fan and frequent participant of the hotINK Festival since its inception. She is an actress, director, writer, and member of the New York Neo-Futurists, the performers/writers of the ongoing show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (New York Innovative Theater Awards “Best Ensemble,” “Outstanding Performance Art Production;” nytheater.com’s 2009 “People of the Year.”). Recent credits include Too Much Light…in NY, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New Orleans, The Maids at WOW Café Theater, Suzan Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays at the Public Theater, Short Term Directions at the Ontological-Hysteric, The Treachery of Image at BRIC Studio, 1001 Nights at Bard College, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile in Princeton. She directed Monkeyland II at the Kraine Theater, Virtual Reality at the Nuyorican Poet's Café, Noel Coward's Family Album and Caryl Churchill's Blue Kettle at the Atlantic Acting School, and the New York debut of the musical Strega Nona at the Atlantic Theater Company. Jacquelyn is on faculty at the Atlantic Acting School, where she teaches Script Analysis in the NYU and Conservatory programs. B.F.A. Drama, Tisch School of the Arts. |
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CLASSICAL The Aeneid
by Olivier Kemeid, translated by Judith Miller Eve Hartmann, Curator Eve Hartmann-Crep is a director/producer and alumni of The Classical Studios at NYU. Most recent NYC projects include: Directing Misery and Good Fortune by Drew Pisarra in HERE’s Autumn Artist Lodge, producing iph.then and yellow electras by Peter Campbell (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator); co-producing “Beckett Below” (Under St. Marks), for which she directed Footfalls by Samuel Beckett and “Steinese TakeOut – Six Plays by Gertrude Stein” (The Red Room), directing I Like It To Be a Play. Other directing credits: Henry V (CSV), The Hypochondriac by Moliere / adapted by Eve Hartmann (Classical Acting Company, Dallas, TX – Leon Rabin Nomination for Best Adaptation), Christine Fall’s Running Toward Strangers (WorkShop Theater), Moliere’s Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed (Turtle Shell Productions). |
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EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE WING Five Days in March
by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa Catherine Coray, Curator Catherine Coray has been the director of the hotINK Festival of Play Readings for nine years , during which the Festival has presented work from twenty-nine countries on six continents. Catherine has taught acting at the Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing since 1991; she has also taught at Lang College, Smith College and Brooklyn College, as well as in Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean. As an actor, Catherine worked with such directors as Anne Bogart, Susan Dietz, Andre Gregory, Michael Kahn and Lois Weaver; as a director, she has staged work by Keith Curran, Richard Hoehler, Holly Hughes, Jessica Litwak and Martin Moran. She maintains an ongoing relationship with artists and companies in Cuba, Belarus and Austria, and recently collaborated with Cuban choreographer Sandra Ramy on the creation of Pregones, a dance-theatre piece about life in Havana. Catherine serves on the Board of Directors of the Epic Theatre Ensemble, as well as the Artistic Cabinet of the Lark Play Development Center and the International Collaborations Task Force of Theatre Communications Group/International Theatre Institute USA. |
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MEISNER Liberation, or The Circle Jerk
by Kevin Kuhlke Fritz Ertl is a director and educator. He has produced or directed world premieres of plays by Steven Drukman, Erik Ehn, and Paula Vogel, and has worked at theatres such as Berkshire Theatre Festival, BACA Downtown, and HERE. Among others, at NYU Fritz has directed PENTECOST, by David Edgar, THE PAINS OF YOUTH, by Ferdinand Brukner, and MAD FOREST, by Caryl Churchill. In recent years, he has focused his energies on developing new plays for production with student actors. The first of these projects, YOUTH IN ASIA: A TECHNO FANTASIA (aka the resistance project) was written by Steven Drukman and was produced by the NYU mainstage; the second project, FOXHOLLOW (aka the animal project), was also by Steven Drukman, and was presented at PHTS as a 4th year Company Project; lastly, he returned to the NYU mainstage with THERE WAS AND THERE WASN‘T: AN OLD IRAQI FOLK TALE (aka the queeraq project), by Daniel Glen. Fritz has been teaching at NYU since 1990, and in that period has taught a wide range of courses, including acting, directing, and dramatic literature. Additionally, from 1996-1999 he was the Managing Director of the Drama Department at Tisch, and he spent the 2005-06 academic year in Dublin, where he was the program director of the Tisch Dublin Acting Conservatory. He currently teaches at both Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, where he is the head of Acting, and The Meisner Studio. |
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PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL God of Meat
by Sam Hunter Jeni Mahoney, Curator Jeni Mahoney is a Head of the Playwriting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School and Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, which has developed more than 80 new plays since 2001 and is featured in Michael Wright’s book Playwriting: At Work and Play. Her plays including The Feast of the Flying Cow… and Other Stories of War, Mercy Falls, The Martyrdom of Washington Booth, Running in Circles Screaming, Salty and LIGHT have been variously presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center, InterAct Theatre, Source Theater Festival, L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival, The Lark’s Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, hotINK, Old Vic (Denver) and London’s Greenwich Playhouse among others. Published plays include: Throw of the Moon and American Eyes, commissioned by GorillaRep, in Plays and Playwrights 2001; Light in Great Short Plays: Volume 6 (Playscripts.com) and Best Short American Plays 2007-2008; Come Rain or Come Shine in Best Short American Plays 2005-2006; and RUNNING IN CIRCLES SCREAMING which will be published in Applause’s upcoming Best Short American Plays anthology. Jeni is a member of the Dramatists Guild where she was a panelist for their Art of the Synopsis seminar. She has been featured in Stage Directions Magazine, The Loop and The Dramatist. |
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STONESTREET Drifters a screenplay
by Susie Moon Misha Zurabev, Curator |
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STRASBERG Beautiful Little Lies
by Judith Rudakoff Lorca Peress, Curator Lorca Peress is an across-the-boards theatre artist specializing in new works. She is Founder and Artistic Director of MultiStages, a multidisciplinary and multicultural theatre company; and teaches in the NYU Tisch Strasberg Studio and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. 2009 Directing: Anne Hamilton’s AND THEN I WENT INSIDE (featuring Obie Winner Kathleen Chalfant, LPTW Festival at Cherry Lane); Earl Robinson‘s THE LONESOME TRAIN (featuring Ruby Dee and Sam Waterston, Riverside Church Lincoln Bicentennial); THE ISLAND OF NO TOMORROWS (12/2 Reading, Repertorio Español). Upcoming: HELL AND HIGH WATER… by Jamuna Yvette Sirker (MultiStages New Works Winner 2010). As hotINK Strasberg Curator, she has presented over 25 new works by Jeffrey Hatcher, Arthur Kopit, Susan Yankowitz, Migdalia Cruz, Israel Horovitz, et al. Peress has had a career as an actor and singer with Regional and NYC theatres, opera companies, and as a concert narrator. Memberships: League of Professional Theatre Women, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, SSDC eligible. Grants/Awards include 2008 MCAF from LMCC and DOCA, La MaMa INKY Award. She studied professionally with Gene Frankel, Shelly Winters, at Strasberg, National Theatre Institute, and holds a BA in Drama from Bennington College. |
