|
Bloomington Playwrights Project
The Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) is a not-for-profit arts organization in Bloomington, Indiana. The BPP's mission states that it is "dedicated to the furthering of new original plays and theatre." The BPP only produces original work. It also holds playwriting contests and offers programs and classes in playwriting and acting. History Tom Moseman and Jim Leonard founded the BPP in 1979, seeking to create a venue for local playwrights that would serve as an alternative to Indiana University. The first productions, including Leonard's ''And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson'' and Greg Owens' ''Queen of Bakersfield'', were done on a tight budget and fast-paced schedule. Eventually, the BPP established itself as the only theater in Indiana—and one of the few theaters in the entire country—dedicated to producing only new plays. In 1993, BPP benefactor Reva Shiner helped establish an annual new play competition, the Reva Shiner Full Length Play Contest, which brought submi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kissing Frogs
A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, Passion (emotion), passion, romance (love), romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace, and good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or a sacramental. The word came from Old English ''wikt:en:cyssan#Old English, cyssan'' ("wikt:en:to kiss#en, to kiss"), in turn from ''wikt:en:coss#Old English, coss '' ("a kiss"). History Anthropologist, Anthropologists disagree on whether kissing is an Instinct, instinctual or Social learning theory, learned behaviour. Those that believe kissing to be an instinctual behaviour, cite similar behaviours in other animals such as Bonobo, bonobos, which are known to kiss after fighting - possibly t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Wright (playwright)
Craig Wright (born April 25, 1965, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a playwright, television producer and writer. He is known for writing for shows including '' Six Feet Under'' and ''Lost'' and creating the television series ''Dirty Sexy Money'' and '' Greenleaf''. He also was the screenwriter for the movie '' Mr. Peabody & Sherman'', released March 7, 2014. Biography Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, Wright attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and went on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He lives in Los Angeles and New York City. Playwright Wright is known primarily for his plays: ''Grace'', ''Mistakes Were Made'', ''The Pavilion'', ''Recent Tragic Events'', ''Main Street'' and numerous others. Wright has received awards and award nominations for his work, including the Jerome Fellowship at age 21 and apprenticeships in playwriting from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre In Indiana
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Endowment For The Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government by an act of the U.S. Congress, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 29, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951). It is a sub-agency of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The NEA has its offices in Washington, D.C. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1995, as well as the Special Tony Award in 2016. In 1985, the NEA won an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its work with the American Film Institute in the identification, acquisition, restoration and preservation of historic films. In 2016 and again in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Murray (playwright)
Henry Murray (May 30, 1948 – December 16, 2014) was an American playwright who lived in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his husbanLewin Wertheimer. Early life Born Henry Darwin Murray, Jr. in New Castle Delaware, he studied theatre at Middle Tennessee State University. He was hired by Nashville Children's Theatre as an actor and teacher of dance and mime. He was also a founding member of Nashville's Ensemble Theatre Company. Career Murray's first performed play, ''The Skeletal Remains of an American Indian by the Light of the Harvest Moon'', was presented at the Back Alley Theatre in Los Angeles. It starred James Leo Herlihy, actor and author of the novel, ''Midnight Cowboy''. In 2009, award-winning Rogue Machine Theatre produced and Artistic Director John Perrin Flynn directed Murray's play ''Treefall'' to great critical acclaim. It was named one of the ten best plays of the year by the ''LA Weekly'', is published by Dramatists Play Service, and is being taught in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Callaghan
Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT ( Regional Alternative Theatre) movement of the 1990s. She has been profiled by ''American Theater Magazine'', "The Brooklyn Rail", ''Theatermania'', and ''The Village Voice''. Her work has been published in ''American Theatre'' magazine. In 2010, Callaghan was profiled by '' Marie Claire'' as one of "18 successful women who are changing the world." She was also named one of ''Variety'' magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2010. She was nominated for a 2016 Golden Globe Award for her work on the Hulu comedy series '' Casual'', and a 2017 WGA nomination for her episode "I Am A Storm" from Season 7 of the comedy/drama series '' Shameless''. Style Callaghan's writing has been described as "comically engaging, subversively penetrating", "whimsically eloquent", "unique and completely contemporary", and "downright weird". ''The New York Times'' has said Callaghan "writes with a world-weary t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (''The League of Nathans'', ''Reading Hebron'' and ''Three in the Back, Two in the Head'') and George F. Walker George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally. Early years W ... (''The End of Civilization'', ''Better Living''). Playwright Healey trained as an actor at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in the mid -eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called ''Kicked'', was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto's theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Press-Coffman
Toni Press-Coffman is an American playwright, living and working in Tucson, Arizona. She was born and raised in New York City. Career overview Toni Press-Coffman is the recipient of several national playwriting awards. Her play ''Touch'' has been produced at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Theatre of N.O.T.E. in Los Angeles, as well as other theatres throughout the United States and Europe. Another play, ''That Slut!'' has received favorable notices. In 2000, Press-Coffman was awarded an NEA/TCG Playwright Residency Award. Additionally, she was one of 12 playwrights selected to participate in the 1995 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Toni Press-Coffman has received fellowships and awards from the California Arts Council, the Arizona State Playwriting Contest, the Negro Ensemble Theatre Company, the Invisible Theatre, Wisconsin Women in the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Peninsula Community Foundation (which later merged with Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy MacLeod
Wendy A. MacLeod (born August 6, 1959) is an American playwright. Life and career MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence. She also earned a MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Her works include the plays ''Sin'' and ''Schoolgirl Figure'', both of which premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and were directed by David Petrarca. ''Schoolgirl Figure'' was then optioned for film by HBO and Anvil Entertainment. MacLeod's ''The House of Yes'' premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show. It became an award-winning film by the same name in 1997, starring Parker Posey, which earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other works include ''The Water Children'', ''Things Being What They Are'', ''Juvenilia'', ''Apocalyptic Butterflies''. ''Apocalyptic Butterflies'' was filmed by the BBC as Nativity Blues 1988, starring Alfred Molina. Her play ''J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana, Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the List of municipalities in Indiana, seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington is known as the "Gateway to Scenic Southern Indiana". The city was established in 1818 by a group of settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Virginia who were so impressed with "a haven of blooms" that they called it Bloomington. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Bloomington is the home to Indiana University Bloomington, the flagship campus of the Indiana University, IU System. Established in 1820, IU Bloomington has 45,328 students, as of September 2021, and is the original and largest campus of Indiana University. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone. Bloomington has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after ''The New York Times'' reported allegations of sexual misconduct. Early life and career Horovitz was born to a Jewish family in Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offer ..., the son of Hazel Rose (née Solberg) and Julius Charles Horovitz, a lawyer. At age 13, he wrote his first novel, which was rejected by Simon & Schuster but complimented for its "wonderful, childlike qualities." At age 17, he wrote his first play, entitled ''The Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of '' Saint George and the Dragon'' at the Cleveland Play House. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's ''Picnic'', and he starred in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Kissing Frogs")
