Under the guidance of ASU Professor and prominent playwright Guillermo Reyes, the marathon includes free staged readings of five plays and a full production of ElectroPuss, a play by ASU graduate student and acclaimed playwright Trista Baldwin. In addition, Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson and Jon Jory, producing director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, will appear on campus April 16 as part of the New Plays Marathon. This event is free. This funny, coming-of age story is set against the nightmarish background of the corporate world taken to dangerous extremes. With Dicks II have played to packed houses and rave reviews at Planet Earth Theatre.
All readings are free.
Touch, the moving story of a young man haunted by the death of his young wife, was deemed the state's best original script in the 1998 Arizona Playwrights Contest. Some performances are subject to change. The ASU Department of Theatre, now in its 36th season, continues to produce theatre for a growing community in the Valley and promotes the development of new plays in its MFA Playwriting Program. Reyes' plays, including Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, Deporting the Divas, The Seductions of Johnny Diego, A Southern Christmas and The Hispanick Zone have played to audiences across the state and nation.