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Livestreamed on this page Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 00:00 GMT (Sunday, May 12)

Nashville, TN, United States
Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013

Tennessee Rep's Ingram New Works Festival

Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013
Poster for Ingram New Works Festival featuring four performers in lab coats.

 

Tennessee Rep in Nashville presented the Ingram New Works Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Saturday 11 May through Tuesday 14 May 2013.

The Ingram New Works Project was created by Tennessee Rep co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for emerging playwrights to develop new theatre works with the artistic support of Tennessee Rep and under the tutelage of a Playwriting Fellow of national standing. Past Fellows include David Auburn, John Patrick Shanley, Steven Dietz, and Theresa Rebeck.

Schedule

Saturday, May 11:

  • Unraveled by Jennifer Blackmer. What really happens when the person we love most unravels before our eyes? A spirited woman clings to her memories as her sick mother slips away. A powerful play about Space, Time, and the ties that bind. 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 00:00 GMT (Sunday, May 12)

 

 

Sunday, May 12:

  • Ultrasound by Garret Schneider. Jolene and Maddy plan to have a baby. Once their planning works, Jolene gets cold feet about it. It’s only the arrival of their future daughter that helps Jolene realize what it takes to be a good parent. 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 00:00 GMT (Monday, May 13).

 

 

Monday, May 13:

  • The Future Mrs. by Nate Eppler. Tomorrow isn’t what it used to be. A young Victorian newlywed travels to the future to save her struggling marriage, but the future isn’t at all what she expected. A hilarious rollercoaster through the past and future as the newlywed struggles to find her perfect present. 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 00:00 GMT (Tuesday, May 14).

 

Tuesday, May 14:

  • The Friend Factory by Brian Walker. Jonas and Amy are going through a best-friend breakup and find themselves in the services of a company that matches people in their dreams. The lines between dreaming and waking life blur as the lines between friend and enemy become clear as day. A sharp comedy about best friends, bad decisions, and couch eating. 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 00:00 GMT (Wednesday, May 15).

About the Playwrights

Jennifer Blackmer is a playwright and director, and an Associate Professor of theater at Ball State University. Her latest play, Alias Grace (based on Margaret Atwood’s novel) received its first performance this summer with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. In addition, her plays have been seen in New York (The Lark, EstroGenius Festival, MSP Emerging Female Voices), Minneapolis (The Playwrights’ Center), and the Chicago area (Museum of Science and Industry, Illinois Wesleyan University) among others. Other plays include O’Neill finalist The Human Terrain, Elegy No. 5, and Delicate Particle Logic. Recent directing credits include the American premiere of Lost: A Memoir at Indiana Repertory Theatre, and the musical Spring Awakening at Ball State. 

Garret Schneider was born in Maine, a state where carnivorous moose roam the country side, lobsters attack unwary swimmers, and where modern technology still has not penetrated. Plied deep with northeast values and folklore, Garret became a writer. He found an artistic home at Ohio University, where he directed readings for over sixty of his short plays. In 2009, Garret presented “On the Weekly Execution and Generation of New Plays at Ohio University” at the Mid-American Theater Conference, a paper deconstructing the new works process at Ohio University. In 2010, he returned to the conference to present his ten-minute play A Stone’s Throw, in 2011 for his play Call Him ‘Gene’, and again in 2012 for A Small Drop. Garret is now teaching algebra in Nashville, Tennessee and incorporating mathematics, education, and science into his next theater project. The idea of children raising their parents and exploring the definition of family is at the artistic heart of Garret’s work.

Nate Eppler is a playwright and teaching artist based in the southeastern United States. Eppler' s plays are fierce and funny comedies that explode our most fundamental anxieties. Full of surreal imagery and constantly surprising invention, Nate’s plays are roller coaster rides that delight and frighten in equal measure. His plays include Long Way Down (2011 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award semi-finalist), Larries, Sextape (& Other Stories), and Keeping Up With the Joneses. Nate is a passionate supporter of locally grown theater in his adopted hometown and is proud a recipient of both the Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Development Support Grant and the Individual Artist Fellowship. Nate is one of the curators of The Ten Minute Playhouse, a quarterly festival of new plays by Tennessee Playwrights, and is an executive director of Playhouse Nashville, an organization devoted to producing new works for the stage and elevating the voices of playwrights in the south. Nate currently serves as the very first Playwright-in-Residence for Tennessee Repertory Theatre where his play Larries will have its world premiere, September 2013.

Brian Walker is the artistic director of Louisville, Kentucky-based Finnigan Productions. He has written and produced several full length plays in the Louisville area, including: Smoke this Play, dirty sexy derby play, Great American Sex Play, and my daddy’s name is Big Oil. Brian is the creator of Finnigan's Festival of Funky Fresh Fun, a ten-minute play festival celebrating Louisville theater artists, now in its sixth year. Brian's plays have also been seen in Chicago, IL (Appetite Theatre), Albuquerque, NM (FUSION Theatre Company), Baton Rouge, LA (LSU), Madison, WI (StageQ), Cleveland, OH (Arenafest), Detroit, MI (The Ringwald), Houston TX (Theatre Southwest), Omaha, NE (Great Plains Theatre Conference), Brooklyn, NY (Truffle Theatre Company), Lewiston, ME (Bates College), Valdez, AK (Last Frontier Theatre Conference), Berea, KY(Kentucky Playwrights Workshop’s New Play Contest), and Louisville, KY (The Bard’s Town Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Louisville Repertory Theatre). His play fb: a ghost story was one of three finalists for Kentucky Theatre Association’s 2012 Roots of the Bluegrass New Play Contest. He was awarded the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Emerging Artist Award for playwriting by the Kentucky Arts Council in July 2010. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights’ Center, and The Kentucky Playwrights Workshop.

 

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.

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