We’ve been updating you for months now on the world premiere production of Daryl’s Split in Three, which closed last weekend at Florida Rep, but now Daryl is going international! Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg is producing the European Premiere of her play, Greyhounds, June 2-7.

This is tremendously exciting news, and we’re not the only ones who think so. Here is just some of what Actors Rep has to say about Daryl and their upcoming production:

So who is Daryl Fazio?
She is an amazing playwright, the author of the wonderful play ‘Greyhounds’,

Continue reading →

19
Daryl Fazio

Although producing new plays is the primary focus of Essential’s work to support Georgia playwrights, play readings are also a vital part of the play development process, and we do host play readings as well.

Daryl Fazio, who has performed on our stage and designed much of the graphic art you’ve seen associated with our festivals the past couple of years, is also an accomplished Georgia playwright. Last spring, her play SPLIT IN THREE, which you may remember from Essential’s own 2012 Bare Essentials Play Reading Series, was read as part of Florida Repertory’s first annual PlayLab Festival —

Continue reading →

The first weekend in May, Florida Rep held their first ever PlayLab Festival, “an intensive festival that showcases New Plays and New Voices in the American Theatre, and gives playwrights a safe environment to workshop their plays.” Out of approximately 100 plays considered for the festival, only four were chosen to be read. One of these was Daryl Fazio’s Split in Three, which Essential audiences may remember from the 2012 Bare Essentials series. Congratulations, Daryl!

A major goal of the PlayLab Festival, as with Essential’s own Bare Essentials Reading Series, is to give playwrights a chance to hear their words read aloud and receive feedback from cast and audience alike.

Continue reading →

November 9-18, check out 7 Stages’ revamping of their Home Brew series, the first Home Brew Festival.

The festival runs for two weeks and is comprised of new play readings and guest artist workshops. Featured playwrights include Essential vets Theroun Patterson, Topher Payne, Pam Joyce and Daryl Fazio.

All events in the Home Brew Festival are free of charge, so you have no excuse – see you there!

Continue reading →

Curated by Essential’s Founding Artistic Director, Peter Hardy, himself a national award-winning playwright who’s had over 30 productions of his work done around the country and has had plays chosen for the National Playwrights’ Conference and the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival and received playwriting awards from the National Playwrights’ Conference, the Festival of Southern Theatre and the New Southern Theatre Festival.

All Bare Essentials readings are free and open to the public. Be sure to stay after for exciting conversation with the director, cast and playwright!

What audiences are saying…

“It exposed me to something I didn’t know about- how plays are crafted- and the amazing talent we have in Georgia.”

Continue reading →

Hillary Simpson Bolle is the author of this week’s Bare Essentials reading, The Wayfarers. The Wayfarers is a story in which reality mixes with passionate remembrances to spin a tale of seven extraordinary characters, filled with love, manipulation and an intricate web of human relationships.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I grew up in Washington DC, where I went to Georgetown Day School, and trained at The Washington School of Ballet until I was 13, before getting involved in theatre.  I finished high school at Woodward Academy in Atlanta.  I have a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University,

Continue reading →

Musicals abound this summer, both here in town and across the country. Check out these Georgia playwrights who are making music in New York in the next few months:

Vynnie Meli’s second New York Musical Theatre Festival contribution, A Capella, will take the stage this summer as part of the 12th NYMF. Her first NYMF musical was Plagued – A Love Story, which was part of the 2009 Festival. NYMF selects upwards of 50 new projects each year to present over its three-week summer season.

Daryl Fazio’s lift is part of the lineup for the 27th Annual Festival of New Musicals, 

Continue reading →