The New Harmony Project

announcing the 2011 writers!

The New Harmony Project Board of Directors is especially pleased to announce the writers for our 25th Anniversary year: Writers in-full-development are Alex Lewin with his play Alexandria; Dan O’Brien with his play The Body of an American; Theresa Rebeck and her play Dead Accounts ,and John Walch with his play In The Book Of. Writers-in-residence include Paola Mendoza, Lina Patel, Robert Schenkkan, Andrea Stolowitz, and Meredith Stiehm.

Artistic Director Paul Walsh says, “We are pleased to have such distinguished writers with us this year. Five writers — Alex Lewin, Lina Patel (semi finalists for Sundance Theatre Institute), screenwriter Paola Mendoza who produced and wrote the screenplay for the award-winning film Entre Nos, playwright Andrea Stolowitz and John Walch — are with us for the first time. Award-winning playwrights Theresa Rebeck, Dan O’Brien, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, screenwriter Robert Schenkkan, and Meredith Stiehm are returning. Each of these writers exemplifies the mission of The New Harmony Project by offering complex and insightful works that celebrate what it means to be human.”

The twenty-fifth annual New Harmony Project will be held May 23 through June 4, 2011, in New Harmony, Indiana. Free and open readings are held throughout the Project. A 25th Anniversary Benefit Celebration will be held on Saturday, June 4 beginning at 6 p.m.

The event includes dinner and readings: there is a charge for this event, and reservations are required by May 22nd. If you are interested in attending, please contact Joan David

Please click here for the full news release, including the bios of our writers.

productions of shows workshopped at the project 2006-2010:

Ludmilla Bollow: Choke Cherry Corners (2006)* Staged reading, The Actors Group, Sunset Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, April 2006

David Brandes: The Quarrel (1997)* DR2 Theatre, NYC, September 2008

David Caudle: Likeness (2006)* World Premiere, The New Theatre, Burstein Family Stage, Coral Gables FL, October 2007; NYC Premier, Voices from the Writers’ Forum Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, January 2009

Russell Davis: Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven (2005)* Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, April 2006, Epic Theatre Ensemble at Signature Theatre’s Peter Norton Space, NYC September-October 2009

Suzanne Bradbeer: Full Bloom (1999)* World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company, MA, New York Premiere at Vital Theatre Company, NYC March-April 2006

Jim Leonard: Battle Hymn (1993)*, Circle X Theatre, Los Angles, CA, January– March 2009; Anatomy of Gray (2004)* published by Samuel French, multiple productions around the country including University of Evansville Theatre (IN) and Kennedy Center Theatre, Washington D.C., April 2006

Laura Harrington: The Book of Hours (2005)* World Premiere by Wellesley Summer Theatre, (MA), Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Wellesley College, January 2006

Arlene Hutton: See Rock City (2004)* and Gulf View Drive (2006)* The Berkshires, Chester, MA, April-May 2006; New York Premiere at 78th St. Theatre Lab, NYC, April 2007; Theatre Conspiracy, Foulds Theatre, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL, and Echo Theatre in Dallas, TX produced the entire Nibroc Trilogy in February 2009.

John Pielmeier and Matty Selman: Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup (2004)* Indiana University Bloomington, IN launched a New Musical Development Workshop with a fully staged production of Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup, August 2008. It was also selected for the Next Wave New Musicals Festival in Montreal 2009

Theresa Rebeck: Mauritius (2005)* Broadway debut, Manhattan Theatre Club, Biltmore Theatre NYC, September-November 2007; The Understudy (2007)* World premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA, July 2008 and New York Premiere at Roundabout Theatre Co., NYC, October 2009

Tammy Ryan: Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (2009)* National Network of New Plays 2009 National Showcase of Plays, Atlanta, GA, December 2009.

Lynn Rosen: Puddy Tat, (2007)* Workshopped, New George Theatre, NYC, February 2009

Mat Smart: The 13th of Paris (2005, 2006)* World premiered at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, January-February 2008; Horizon Theatre, Atlanta, GA, February-March 2009, Public Theatre of Maine, March 2009, Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC, May 2010 and Seattle Public Theatre, WA, May-June 2010.

James Still: The Velvet Rut (2006)* Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, NY, December 2006; Illusion Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, April 2009; Iron Kisses (2004)* Illusion Theatre, Minneapolis, MN April 2007

Y York: …and LA is Burning (2007)* Main Street Theatre, Huston, TX, January 2008; it also won the Smith Prize awarded by the National New Play Network.

*Dates in parentheses indicates year the play was workshopped at The New Harmony Project.

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