Thinking Theater NYC

Playwright Natalie Margolin She NYC Arts has made a pair of announcements of interest to theater artists and audiences.  First, She NYC Arts has awarded its inaugural New Play Residency to playwright and actress  Natalie Margolin , a Kenyon College graduate and author of The Power of Punctuation , which premiered at the Davenport Theater in 2016. As New Play Resident, Margolin will create a new work to debut at the fourth annual She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival , which takes place from June 19-30 at The Connelly Theater (220 E 4th St, New York, NY 10009). She NYC will provide updates on this creative process every Wednesday through its social media accounts, using the hashtag #NewWorksWednesday. Second, as part of its mission to bring support and exposure to female theater artists, She NYC Arts has announced a new playwriting workshop called CreateHer. CreateHer is a free 6-session workshop open to high school student who identify as girls, and it will...

The third annual She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival , presented by She NYC Arts , will take place from June 19-30, 2019 at The Connelly Theater , 220 E 4th St., in Manhattan, NYC. The festival will feature work by women playwrights and composers, including eight full-length plays and staged readings of four plays written and produced by high school students. Productions include: Playwright Jen Rudin Beautiful Pasadena Written by Jen Rudin Beautiful Pasadena   tells the story of a marriage in crisis at the start of the economic collapse in 2008. As Will begins an extensive remodel on their apartment at The Castle Green, a historic building in Pasadena, he and his wife, Rachel, up for a promotion at her law firm, clash over politics, family and world values. As they wait for an expensive bathtub to arrive from overseas, their marriage, the economy, and their bathroom begin to crumble around them. Swim Before You Drown Written by Ciara Kay Swim Before You Drown  i...