Nashville Repertory Theatre’s Ingram New Works Festival—Air Space—Tori Keenan-Zelt—May 15, 2015
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2015-05-17

Nashville Repertory Theatre’s Ingram New Works Festival presents the latest new plays born from our Ingram New Works Project’s playwrights lab livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on May 11, 12, 15, and 16.

The Ingram New Works Festival is a celebration of new work born and fostered in our Ingram New Works Project under the care and guidance of Nashville Rep’s Producing Artistic Director René D. Copeland and our 2014-15 Ingram New Works Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies. The Fest presents staged readings of each new work from our lab playwrights featuring our fantastic Nashville actors. Each reading will be followed by a talkback, bringing the audience right into the conversations about these new plays!

Friday, May 15 at 5pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 7pm CDT (Chicago) / 8pm EDT (New York)
Air Space by Tori Keenan-Zelt
A young couple buys a $500 foreclosure in a small Rust Belt city. As they try to flip the house, they discover that the couple who built it never left and has been secretly living in the walls. A darkly surreal comedy about weird smells, lost things, family, and what we hold on to when nothing that we do is enough.

About the Playwright

Tori Keenan-Zelt is an internationally-produced playwright from Pittsburgh, by way of Singapore, Virginia, and New York. She writes question-based plays. Recent work includes The Egypt Play (Lark, WTF, Somersault, Sanctuary), Truth Dare... (Best Ensemble, Pittsburgh Fringe), Everything You Were Looking For (NYMadness), Beautiful Tomorrow (5D), Burning Lines (Cold Basement), Times Square Tango (Arthur Seelen Theatre), I Didn’t Know I Was the Antichrist (#serials @theflea), and others. She writes for Colonial Williamsburg’s Emmy Award-winning series and was recently a Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice, Lark Dramaturgy Fellow, Jerome Finalist, PoNY Nominee, Kilroys List Nominee, Lark Playwrights Week Finalist, Princess Grace Semifinalist, and two-time O’Neill Semifinalist. She is a proud member of Bastard Playground, Part-Time Box, Propulsion Lab & the Dramatists Guild. Currently, she is developing an original web series with Stage17TV and is a 2014-2015 member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit. Several of her short plays are published by Next Stage Press. Tori is also founding Co-Artistic Director of Panglossian Productions, a non-profit developing new work in Williamsburg, VA. BA, Harvard. MFA, NYU Tisch. tk-z.net

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