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2008 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award Winner:
Letitia Sweitzer!
The 2008 Playwriting Award Winner was Letitia Sweitzer, with WEST OF EDEN. This play grew from a one-act (which won the 2005 Georgia Theatre Conference’s One-Act Competition) to the full-length work produced by Essential.
We’re proud to have supported Letitia’s work. Won’t you support ours? 39 days to go: https://power2give.org/go/p/8445
Today, to spice up the final 40 days of our fall power2give campaign, we’re kicking off a new series of Facebook and website posts:
“40 Days of Essential Playwrights”
Join us every morning at 10am for our next post celebrating a fun fact about one of the fantastic playwrights whose work we have produced over the past — can you believe it? — 27 years!
To kick off the countdown:
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Prolific playwright and Atlanta personality, Topher Payne!
Among his many other, wildly popular accomplishments, Topher acted in our first prize winning play (Lauren Gunderson’s PARTS THEY CALL DEEP) and has gone on to appear in four other Essential productions.
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Click here to read more or sign up for our mailing list at the bottom of this page!
HAPPENING NOW: Our fall power2give fundraising campaign!
Help give Georgia playwrights a voice by donating today! Every donation is matched dollar-for-dollar by funds from the City of Atlanta, so your gift goes twice as far! Click here to find out more and hear our Artistic Director, Peter Hardy, share his thoughts about giving Georgia playwrights a voice and tell you more about the work your donation will support.
…Three of them are Georgians, and two of those are Essential Theatre Playwriting Award Winners! Looks like we’re not the only ones who are fans of great Georgia writers. Congratulations to Topher Payne, Lauren Gunderson and Steve Yockey for making the Top 10 list.
Check out the full article in Southern Theatre Magazine (starting on p19).
Essential’s Artistic Director Peter Hardy was onstage with several other familiar faces in Aris Theatre’s second-ever production, the just-closed PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!
An excellent production of a classic but rarely produced play, an ArtsATL review called it “Magnetic” and “a signal of the kind of classy work the company seems capable of.”
Click here to read the full interview!
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by Jennifer Kimball
Today is September 11. Last night, the President announced that we “will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat” of ISIS. This weekend, Amber Bradshaw and Thom Stanley, whose work you recently saw on Essential’s stage in this summer’s World Premiere production of That Uganda Play, are at the 9th Micro-Festival of Unfinished Puppetry in Quebec, Canada, workshopping and presenting a full one-act length version of their collaboratively developed Learning to Fly, which premiered this past spring as a 12 minute short in XPT at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
