 Loose Knit Feb. 19 - Mar. 7, 2010 Professional Equity Play |
 Photo L-R: April 2009 WPS Playwright Merri Biechler, Program Director, Catherine Rust, and Playwrights Darrah Cloud and Emily Bentley (Playwright Kate Lyn Reiter not pictured) |
 Sister Week, one of many WPS developed plays performed during a regular CSC Season, was presented in Spring 2005. Photo L-R: Two of the three sisters, Becky Engborg and Maria Brodeur |
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Series (WPS) CALL FOR PLAYS 2010 Centenary Stage Company [Full Details] |
| Women Playwrights Series 2009 April 22-26, 2009 Family drama, a college comedy, and a mystery about a missing family member make up just some of the dramatic action at the Spring 2009 Women Playwrights Festival at the Centenary Stage Company, April 22- 26 in Hackettstown. |
Women writers from around the country will converge in Hackettstown for the five-day event, which will bring multiple events including dramatic workshop-presentations of 4 new full-length plays by women writers.
Plays presented in the developmental WPS program are under consideration for full production in a subsequent season at the Centenary Stage Company, the professional, Equity theatre in residence on the campus of Centenary College. The many plays which have successfully transitioned from development to production now include the popular Tillie Project about local legend, Tillie Smith, Inventing Montana, by Jeanne Murray Walker, Dreamhouse, by Darrah Cloud, Alice in Ireland, by Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding co-creator, Judy Sheehan, ++, and 2010's Loose Knit, by Theresa Rebeck. Many of these works have appeared on the stages of New York, Louisville's Humana Festival, Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Carnegie Mellon and many more.
| Past Women Playwrights Series Schedules: [WPS before 2001 not on Web Site] |
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| More Recent WPS Developed Plays as Professional Equity Play Presentations on the Centenary Stage Company stage: [WPS before 2003 not shown here] |
Each workshop performance, open to the public at no charge, is an exciting exchange of new ideas, public feedback and conversation with the playwright, which can often inspire subtle and defining alterations to the script for the final rewrite. Past playwright residents have included a wonderful array of talented writers, including:
- Bekah Brunstetter
- Eugenie Chan
- Neena Beber
- Deborah Brevoort
- Heather McCutchen
- Allison Moore
- Jeanne Murray Walker (NEA fellow)
- C. Denby Swanson (recipient of the McKnight Grant)
- Darrah Cloud
- Wendy Hammond
- Christina DeLancie
- Judy Sheehan (Tony N' Tina's Wedding co-author)
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Annual programming at the Centenary Performing Arts Guild are made possible in part through the generous support of the The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (Penn PAT) , Heath Village, Coldwell Banker and Centenary Performing Arts Guild Members and Sponsors. |
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