Filed under: Dramaturgy, HD Clients, HD Staff, NYC Theatre, Script Development, Theatre, TheatreNow! Podcasts, Women Theatre Artists | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Cate Cammarata, Director, Dramaturgy, Educator, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, HD Staff, http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, Playwright, Producer, Production Dramaturgy, Screenplay, Script Development, THE STACY PLAY, TheatreNow!, Translator, Walter Byongsok Chon, www.hamiltonlit.com
Hamilton Dramaturgy has expanded its staff by appointing Walter Byongsok Chon as Associate Dramaturg, and Cate Cammarata as Assistant Dramaturg. Both artists have made significant contributions to the company and its projects, performances and programming for the last two years, leading to their official appointment. Their contract is non-exclusive, and the dramaturgs will continue to develop their careers fully with many other organizations and artists. Hamilton Dramaturgy wiill be able to offer more expertise to serve all the needs of its growing client list. Welcome, Walter and Cate!
BIOS
Walter Byongsok Chon is a doctor of fine arts candidate at the Yale School of Drama, where he is writing his dissertation, “Behind Romantic Irony: How 18th-Century English Self-Reflective Satire Anticipated a New German Drama.” He received his MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama, where he was production dramaturg on Yale Rep’s Rough Crossing and Eclipsed and several YSD and Yale Cabaret productions. His other accomplishments include new play development (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Great Plains Theater Conference), translation (Serpent At My Thigh, Inching Towards Yeolha, from Korean into English; Charles Mee’s True Love from English to Korean), conference presentation (ATHE, PTRS), and publication of his articles in Praxis, Theater, The Korean National Theatre Magazine, and The Korean Theatre Review, among others. Walter holds a BA in English from Sungkyunkwan University, and an MA in theatre studies from Washington University in St. Louis. He recently served as Artistic Coordinator at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
Cate Cammarata is a Producer, Director and Dramaturg, and is also an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Stony Brook. She is the Literary Manager for Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and Jana Robbins Productions, and is in development with MY LIFE IS A MUSICAL as an Associate Producer. Cate has previously worked with the HERE Arts Center, The Active Theater, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!, Hughes/Moss Casting, Syracuse Stage, the Emelin Theater, and the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island. She holds a MFA in Dramaturgy from SUNY Stony Brook and a BFA in Acting/Directing from Syracuse University, and is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute.
Hamilton Dramaturgy is an international consultancy based in New York City. It was founded in 1991 by Anne Hamilton, who holds an MFA from Columbia University of the Arts. The company’s clients have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Tony ® Award, and a Royal Court International Residency. Selected client list: Andrei Serban, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Institute, Michael Mayer, Lynn Nottage, and Classic Stage Company. Hamilton produces and hosts Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!, a podcast series featuring some of the most important contemporary female theatre artists working in America. http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, http://www.hamiltonlit.com, hamiltonlit@ hotmail.com.
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Theatre, TheatreNow! Podcasts, Women Theatre Artists | Tags: Activists, Advocacy for Women, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, HowlRound, http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, Playwright, TheatreNow!, Twinbiz, Women's Studies, Yvette Heyliger
Here is a new HowlRound article by TheatreNow! Season One guest Yvette Heyliger.
Excerpt: “Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.” so said singer, actor, social activist, lawyer and athlete, the great Paul Robeson. Robeson may not have been the first, but he was certainly one of the most outspoken citizen-artists of his day, choosing to set aside his theatrical career to become politically involved—fighting for the causes he believed in, even though it meant his own financial ruin.
What makes a human being, against his own “best interests,” fight for those less fortunate, for the voiceless and the downtrodden?
– See more at: http://howlround.com/artist-as-activist-civilization%E2%80%99s-radical-voice#sthash.ijwCZ3oF.dpuf
Filed under: Dramaturgy, NYC Theatre, Script Development, Theatre, Translations, Women Theatre Artists, Works by Women | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy, International Tour, Italian Theatre, Margaret Rose, New York City theatre, NYC, NYC Theatre, Play Reading, Playwright, Translations, Translator
THE NARRATING SCENE. READINGS FROM ITALIAN STORYTELLING THEATER
SCINTILLE / SPARKS by Laura Sicignano
Author reading & discussion “Meet the Author” / Lettura e discussione con l’autrice
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 / Hours: 6:00 pm / Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York / Organized by: ICI
In collaboration with: Regione Liguria and Comune di Genova
RSVP / prenota http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_NewYork/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=679&citta=NewYork
SCINTILLE / SPARKS a play by Laura Sicignano, translation by Maggie Rose, with thanks to Anna Jardine
New York, 25 March 1911, 4.40 pm: in fifteen minutes workers at the T.S.C. (Triangle Shirtwaist Company) , a blouse factory, will be finishing their shift. There are almost six hundred people, mostly young women immigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe, many Jewish girls, all exploited and underpaid.
A spark, just one spark and suddenly the factory skyscraper is up in flames. In the building there is no fire alarm. Since all doors are locked and the goods lift has broken down due to overweight, there is little chance of escape.
In 18 minutes 146 people died, mostly young women.
The T.S.C. owners were let off, even if they had failed to respect basic security measures.
The episode became one of the historical events related to International Women’s Day.
Many other stories are connected with the March 8th celebrations, but there is no other event in women’s history that so significantly underlines this turning point.
At the same time the story is hardly remembered.
SCINTILLE \SPARKS is about current, important issues: health and safety measures at work, discrimination of migrants in the USA, the first examples of Trade Union Organizations, the memory of women who made History , the hopes of migrants from every age and from all over the world, women’s liberation.
A Note from Curator Dina Del Monte: In the narrative theatre, the fundamental point of stage language is the body and voice of the actor. Because of this, the performer is able to evoke visions that capture and involve the imagination of the spectator. Still little known outside the European context, the narrative theatre is one of the most interesting artistic movements and one of the most vital to world of contemporary Italian theatre. Because of this, the Italian Cultural Institute wishes to bring to New York a selection of works that will be shown in their original version with English subtitles. They are brought directly from their authors – who are often the main interpreters. The wealth and the cleanliness of the utilized language also make these three meetings a particularly interesting opportunity to practice and improve the awareness of our language.
Laura Sicignano Graduated in Theatre History at the University in Milano and is a freelance journalist for specialized magazines related to theatre. She collaborated with the Theatre Agency QP. She has been production’s assistant for Santagata and Morganti, Elio De Capitani Teatro dell’Elfo; Federico Tiezzi – Magazzini; Tonino Conte Teatro della Tosse. She has been working for many years at Teatro Stabile in Genova, in the areas of Marketing, Public Relations and Cultural Activities. She is one of the founders of TEATRO CARGO and at present she manages the company. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore. She collaborates with Editor Laterza for a series of conference related to the History of Genova.
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Filed under: About Anne, Dramaturgy, NYC Theatre, Recent Successes, Script Development, STAGE DIRECTIONS Magazine, Theatre, TheatreNow! Podcasts, Women Theatre Artists, Works by Women | Tags: America-In-Play, Anne Hamilton, Columbia University School of the Arts, Dominic Taylor, Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, LMDA, New Works, New York City theatre, NYC, NYC Theatre, Production Dramaturgy, TheatreNow!
America-In-Play has expanded and reconfigured its artistic staff and happily welcomes two dramaturgs to our team. Joining as Senior Dramaturg is Anne Hamilton, a New York City-based freelance dramaturg and the Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy. STAGE DIRECTIONS magazine named her a “trailblazer” in American dramaturgy, and AMERICAN THEATRE profiled her TheatreNow! podcast series.
Anne has worked with Andrei Serban, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Institute, Michael Mayer, Lynn Nottage, Yehuda Ne’eman, Classic Stage Company, B.T. McNicholl, Tina Andrews, NYSCA, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, Leslie Lee, Andrew Barrett, Warren Bodow, Tom Cavanaugh, The New York City Public Library’s Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She produces and hosts Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!, which features some of the most important contemporary female theatre artists working in America. She holds an MFA in theatre criticism and dramaturgy from Columbia University.
Ms. Hamilton will work closely with Artistic Director Lynn Thomson and Associate Artistic Director Dominic Taylor and will be production dramaturg for next May’s presentation of A Time Traveler’s Trip to Niagara Falls.
AIP also welcomes Andy Buck as Dramaturg. Mr. Buck worked with AIP this past year, including serving as production dramaturg on Exodus Code, Advice for Wanderers. He has been an editor and writer for such publications as PLAYBI LL, STAGEBILL and IN THEATER.
Elizabeth Bojsza, who has served as staff dramaturg for two years, is now Lead Dramaturg for The Recovery Project and was this season recipient of a grant from Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America to help launch this initiative.
This expansion reflects the achievements of the company’s last season and speaks also to our ambitious coming year to include a new cohort of theatre artists for a three year residency. The ongoing efforts of The Recovery Project will culminate in readings of reconstructed lost plays and a full production of our newest devised play at The Hudson Guild Theatre In May 2014. For more information please visit our website at americainplay.org.
Filed under: Dramaturgy, HD Clients, NYC Theatre, Script Development, Theatre | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg, Dramaturgy, Festivals, Hamilton Dramaturgy, HD Clients, Kristian O'Hare, LIKE POETRY, New Works, New York City theatre, NY International Fringe Festival, NYC, NYC Theatre, Playwright, Review, Script Development, The New York Times, www.hamiltonlit.com
Anita Gates wrote a wonderful review of LIKE POETRY in The New York Times on August 15th. Read the review here: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/new-york-fringe-festival-report-like-poetry/?_r=1
Congratulations, playwright Kristian O’Hare, and the whole production team. I dramaturged the play in its pre-production stage in May, 2013.
Excerpt: “This highly promising production, which concluded its run on Wednesday night, is beautifully structured, with an impressive blend of poignancy and humor, nicely distinct performances, and respectfully playful direction by Audrey Alford.”
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Theatre | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Archives, ATAP, Digital Tools, Dramaturg, Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Ken Cerniglia, Research, www.hamiltonlit.com
Here is a wonderful new resource, released this week by Ken Cerniglia and Susan Brady, Co-Chairs of the American Theatre Archive Project Steering Committee!
After three years of development by ATAP archivists and documentarians, the organization has released its first edition of “Preserving Theatrical Legacy: An Archiving Manual for Theatre Companies”.
Download the free PDF from www.americantheatrearchiveproject.org/ and please spread the word!
You may also view it here: Manual_ATAP 08-13-13_0
The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) supports theatre makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of artists, scholars, patrons, and the public.
Goals:
- To preserve records of current theatrical process and product for future generations.
- To employ theatre legacy to develop theatres’ fiscal health and support new work.
- To promote a better understanding of theatre as a vital element of cultural history.
- To encourage scholarly research in contemporary American theatre.
- To increase funding for establishing and maintaining theatre archives.
- To support collaborations among theatre archivists, dramaturgs, and scholars.
Filed under: Adaptations, Dramaturgy, Script Development, ScriptForward! Enewsletter, Women Theatre Artists, Works by Women | Tags: Adaptations, Anne Hamilton, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Italian Theatre, Margaret Rose, Myth, New Roles for Women, New Works, Playwright, Script Development, ScriptForward!, Translator, UK Theatre, Women Theatre Artists, Works by Women
Margaret Rose, an English playwright working in Italy, has been a guest columnist for ScriptForward!, sharing her expertise on the subject of international translation and collaboration. One of her new translations from Italian to English will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month.
An Italian-Scottish collaboration, Europa, Our First Migrant is a brand new play, drawing on the Greek myth, ‘The Rape of Europa”. Europa, daughter of the King of Phoenicia, is abducted by the god Zeus, disguised as a bull. Having settled on Crete, this young woman gives birth to three children, including the Minotaur, so engendering the first Europeans. Her brother Cadmus sets off to find her and circulates the alphabet in the new Continent.
The play rewrites the myth, exploring what it means to be European today in a continent which is fast changing. In an often surprising game between past and present, a modern-day Europa and Zeus undertake the journey of the mythical figures from Phoenicia (modern-day Lebanon) to Crete, ending up in Scotland. Here Europa discovers that her new country is very different from the Fantarcadia she had been dreaming of.
Europa our First Migrant (English adaptation by Maggie Rose) is based on an Italian play, Europa Migrante (by Salvatore Cabras). Directed by Joe Gallagher and produced by Glasgow’s Replico Company, the play will be performed at the Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street in Edinburgh on the 23rd and 24th of August at 5pm. It will then embark on a two week island and Highlands tour. The production is funded by Creative Scotland, with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture.
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Theatre | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Apps, Center Theatre Group, Digital Tools, Dramaturg, Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Los Angeles Theatre, Marketing, Ticketing
Center Theatre Group Unveils Facebook App to Organize Theatre Trips
Center Theatre Group in L.A. has unveiled a new Facebook app that will help friends organize a night to the theatre, and gives each friend the ability to purchase their own tickets—yet will keep the group seated together. The app was developed in conjunction with the Tessitura Network, JCA (Jacobson Consulting Applications) and six national theatre partners, and “allows a user to suggest theatre outings with Facebook friends, and then decide on a performance, select seats and purchase tickets–all on Facebook. Depending on a user’s chosen privacy setting, performance and seating locations can be shared with other Facebook friends.” The Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Kennedy Center, Stratford Festival, San Francisco Ballet, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Seattle Repertory Theatre were the other theatres that provided resources and direction for the project. In addition to CTG, the Segerstrom Center and the Stratford Festival also currently offer the Facebook app. A link to the app is available by visiting Center Theatre Group’s Facebook page at CenterTheatreGroup.org/facebooktix.
Filed under: Dramaturgy, Playwrighting Awards, Script Development, Theatre | Tags: ADAM & YOSHI, Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg, Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy, HD Clients, New Works, Script Development, Tom Cavanaugh, www.hamiltonlit.com
Congratulations to long-term Hamilton Dramaturgy client Tom Cavanaugh, whose ADAM & YOSHI has been gaining attention all over the country. I dramaturged the play to prepare it for submission to festivals and workshops.
THE NEW AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT SELECTS L.A. PLAYWRIGHT TOM CAVANAUGH
CAVANAUGH CHOSEN FOR A SECOND TIME!
ADAM & YOSHI
By Tom Cavanaugh
Directed by Aaron Galligan-Stierle
August 22, 23, 30, 2013 • 10 a.m.
Utah Shakespeare Festival
351 West Center Street • Cedar City, UT 84720
800-PLAYTIX • 435-586-7878
The New American Playwrights Project at the Tony Award-winning, Utah Shakespeare Festival has selected L.A. playwright Tom Cavanaugh for the second time to participate in the company’s premiere development theater workshop. He will develop his new play ADAM & YOSHI. Cavanaugh is the first out-of-state playwright to attend the program for a second time. In 2010, the Project developed his play BEHOLD, which explores what happens to a family when it loses a child in a school shooting caused by bullying. BEHOLD is now being considered for an Off-Broadway production in New York City and a TV movie with major cable networks in Los Angeles.
ADAM & YOSHI is a full-length stage play about a young law graduate who falls in love with a woman who believes she is a Japanese Anime Super Hero from another planet. It was inspired by visual artists on Deviantart.com who participate in “COSPLAY”. Cosplay, short for “costume play,” is an activity in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent specific characters or ideas from a work of fiction. Cosplayers create a subculture centered on role playing in everyday life.
“Cosplayers dedicate themselves to the perfection of their art in front of the camera and beyond. They create and recreate pop culture personas and other characters to perfection through costumes, make-up and even set construction, but show real guts when they walk out into the world dressed in character,” explains Cavanaugh. ”However, Yoshi in the play takes it to whole new level and starts to live it… all the time.”
ADAM & YOSHI won the 2012 Make the House Roar Prize for Comedy from the Lionheart Theatre in Georgia. ADAM & YOSHI was then chosen for its first staged reading by Play Club West in North Hollywood, CA and went on to become a finalist in the 2013 McKinney Repertory Theatre Festival in Texas.
ADAM & YOSHI explores the ideas of the self and alternate self while asking many questions: How do dreams and practical needs intersect in everyday life? How does one become brave enough to develop a vision and then live it out? And can love be the bridge which helps people live out their dreams? The play also illustrates the power of love and how Adam’s love for Yoshi gives him the courage to pursue his own vision for his life.
In 2009, Cavanaugh’s one act play WONDER won the Irene Bashore Award for Playwriting from Firstage Los Angeles, and he received his first commission from Twilight Productions in Gilbertsville, Kentucky for writing the one act play ACE OF HEARTS.
Cavanaugh is an accomplished screenwriter as well, and has won many screenwriting competitions since 2002. His coming-of-age story THE WILDERNESS TREATMENT won an Honorable Mention at the 2012 L.A. Movie Awards and was a finalist at the 2013 Beverly Hills Film Festival. In 2006 he was featured as a “Writer to Watch” in the March/April issue of “Script” magazine, and his screenplay THE SHIFT received financing and was professionally produced as a 22-minute short film. THE SHIFT won Best Short at the 2007 Garden State Film Festival, was a finalist at the San Fernando Valley Film Festival, and was shown as part of the Exposition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Cavanaugh is a graduate of The Actors Studio Drama School in New York where he received his M.F.A. in Playwriting and studied under Romulus Linney, Jeffrey Sweet, Jim Ryan and Laura Maria Censabella. Cavanaugh has been a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. since 1998, and he is currently a member of the Actors Gym Workshop in Hollywood, California.
Media Contact: Ron Martino, 908-472-4840, theconcern@mac.com
