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Deborah Brevoort's play The Poetry of Pizza will open at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea,
Michigan, on October 12 and run through December 22. It will then go on to productions at the Mixed Blood
Theatre in Minneapolis, Virginia Stage in Norfolk, and Theatre in the Square (Marietta, GA). In January,
Deborah will head to her home state of Alaska to spend three months doing political theatre, by working
for the Alaska Legislature.
Erin Browne graduated in October from Columbia University with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is at
work on two new plays: Reasoning and Narrator 1. Her play A Meth Play was recently one of
16 finalists out of 1,200 entries for the BBC Worldservice International Playwriting Contest. She
continues to work in TV documentary and to teach.
Stephanie Fleischmann's Red Fly/Blue Bottle (music by Christina Campanella) was performed in
a reading at Prelude '07 in September; the piece will be staged at HERE's Culturemart '08, January 19-21.
the orchard, the handkerchief, and the carbon copyists will be read at Hudson Air,
at the Hudson Opera House on October 27, and workshopped at Bates this fall.
C.S. Hanson's short comedy Apologies to Vietnam, inspired by an America-in-Play workshop, was
performed at Metropolitan Playhouse's "East Village Chronicles" in New York City in May. It was also
performed in the Samuel French One-Act Play Festival. The play will be in a reading at the ID America
Festival this fall in New York City. Hanson is America-in-Play's Associate Artist.
Les Hunter received a 2007 New Play Development Grant from the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture for To the Orchard. He completed his M.F.A. in Playwriting at Boston University in the summer
of 2007. He is currently working on several projects, including a film adaptation of Lion of the East.
Jenny Levison's documentary film, Parting the Waters, was an official selection of the IFP Market in
New York City in September. Levison recently received a Mellon Fellowship to work with student directors at
Bates College on selected plays commissioned by America-in-Play.
Quincy Long is in residence this fall at Bennington College, which will produce his play Wholehearted.
In November he begins the American Lyric Theater Composer Librettist Development program, which will include two
months of classroom training and hands-on workshops with some of the country's leading composers, librettists,
and dramaturgs. The program will also offer residencies and observerships with opera companies.
David Myers spent the summer in London, doing a writing program at the Royal Court. He recently had
a reading of his play Chosen at "Paper Beats Rock" in New York City and acted in "The Wikipedia Plays"
at Ars Nova.
Dominic Taylor is teaching playwriting at the University of Minnesota, and was also appointed Associate
Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre. He continues as Associate Artistic Director of America-in-Play.
Susan Tenneriello had a reading of her play Tick Tock in August at Club Midway, New York City.
It was part of the "Paper Beats Rock" series.
Lynn M. Thomson directed a reading of Parlor Song, a new musical she is co-writing, and another
investigation into America's cultural legacy.
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