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40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 2 – Lauren Gunderson
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Lauren Gunderson
Happy final Monday of our 40 Days of Essential Playwrights series!
In case you haven’t noticed, Monday posts, falling at the start of the week,
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 3 – Peter Hardy
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Peter Hardy
Not only is Peter the founder of Essential Theatre, he is a national award-winning playwright himself who’s had over 30 productions of his work done around the country.
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 4 – Theroun Patterson
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40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 5 – Gabriel Jason Dean
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Gabriel Jason Dean
After the Essential Theatre premiere in 2010, Gabriel Jason Dean and the folks at the Source Theatre Festival in Washington, D.D. Theatre made significant revisions to the play and presented it again in 2012.
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 6 – Matthew Myers
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Matthew Myers
Matthew Myers first came to Essential as an actor in 2010 and later contributed a couple of pieces to THE LOCAL, a collaborative theater project about Atlanta that premiered in the 2012 Essential Festival.
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 7 – Karla Jennings
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Karla Jennings
Essential first premiered a play by Karla Jennings in 2000, IMAGES IN SMOKE, and she again won the playwriting prize in 2014 for RAVENS &
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 8 – Karen Wurl
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Karen Wurl
Though Essential first produced Karen’s work in 1999, in 2005 she was chosen Creative Loafing Atlanta‘s Best Local Playwright for her world premiere of MISS MACBETH in the Essential Play Festival that year.
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 9 – Ellen McQueen
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Ellen McQueen
Long-time Essential director and friend, and one of the writers in Essential’s 2007 production, NIGHT TRAVELS, in spring of this year Ellen was one of only three artists chosen for the Alliance Theatre’s first Atlanta Writers Lab,
40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 10 – Matthew Myers
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Matthew Myers
Did you know that STRAY DOGS (2013) was originally submitted under a different title in 2011? Peter liked the script and offered some encouragement and feedback,
