Some scholarships available. It's a freewheeling exchange of ideas for contemporary playwrights and their allies. Coffee and bagels will be served. Both events are free. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the discussion near the end of the event.
Admission is free.
This year's Festival is under the leadership of new co-artistic directors Arturo Catricala and Amy Mueller. This summer, he was invited to develop new work at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. Employing movement, text, and powerful visual imagery, the play takes journeys to where identities are born and where they die, leaving behind residues that become the collective American memory. Venus Opal Reese is a performer, choreographer, and playwright of 15 years. She is a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in Directing and Dramatic Criticism at Stanford University.