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A User's Guide to Hell: Featuring Bernie Madoff

BY LEE BLESSING

In the time after his downfall, Bernard Madoff is taken on a tour of hell (New York City) by Verge and encounters its various denizens before he learns the truth.

May 25, 2012 at 2 pm
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Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Varsity Theater to celebrate our 40th Anniversary! Together, you commissioned dozens of new plays and raised thousands of dollars for playwrights.

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Jordan Harrison, Jeffrey Hatcher

Former Jerome Fellow Jordan Harrison and Core Writer Jeffrey Hatcher are among the writers contributing works to STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS, running May 31-June 16 at the New Century Theatre.

David Adjmi

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents 3C, by Core Alum David Adjmi, in association with Piece by Piece Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory, June 6 - July 15.

Cory Hinkle & Victoria Stewart

CLANDESTINO (SECRET, ILLEGAL, UNDERGROUND), co-created by Core Writers Cory Hinkle and Victoria Stewart, will run June 14-23 at Mixed Blood Theatre. CLANDESTINO was developed at the Playwrights' Center.

Aditi Brennan Kapil

BRAHMANI by Core Writer Aditi Brennan Kapil will be featured in Playwrights Foundation's 35th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival in July.

Kristen Palmer

Women's Project presents WE PLAY FOR THE GODS June 1-23. The project is conceived and created by the Women's Project Lab, including Jerome alum Kristen Palmer.

Cory Hinkle

Core Writer Cory Hinkle contributed text to the Moving Company's collaboratively created THE WAR WITHIN/ALL'S FAIR, running May 10 - June 10 at the Southern Theater.

Lee Blessing

Core Writer Lee Blessing's COURTING HARRY, developed at the Center in 2010, will be produced next March as part of the History Theatre's 2012-13 season.

Jerrie Steele

Jerome Many Voices fellow Jerrie Steele's short play OROMIYA'S RETURN will be presented by Bedlam Theatre's Cedar Riverside Art Zone for Youth and the Minnesota Historical Society on April 29.

Carlyle Brown

The Carlyle Brown & Co. production of Core Alum Carlyle Brown's ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ... (developed in PlayLabs 2007) will run at the Guthrie Theater May 4-20.

Dan Dietz

Core Writer Dan Dietz's CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9 will run May 23 - June 15, 2013 at Forum Theatre in Silver Spring, MD.

Jessica Huang

In the Lab: May 21-22
Project: Zero-Infinity Flight Path

Jessica Renee Huang writes plays cross-legged on the kitchen floor, often wearing one sock and chewing her cuticles. She and her laptop have survived higher education at the University of ... Bio »

Rhiana Yazzie

In the Lab: May 21-23
Project: TBA

Rhiana Yazzie is a Navajo playwright based in Minnesota. She is a Playwrights' Center Core Member and is commissioned by the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public ... Bio »

Lee Blessing

In the Lab: May 25
Project: TBA

Lee Blessing's play's include: A Walk In The Woods (Broadway and London's West End), Going to St. Ives, (Outer Critic's Circle Award, Best Play, Obie for ensemble performance); Thief River ... Bio »

Kate Fodor

In the Lab: May 30 - June 4
Project: TBA

Kate Fodor's newest play, Rx, was produced Off-Broadway as part of Primary Stages' 2011-12 season. 100 Saints You Should Know was produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and was ... Bio »

Ain Gordon

In the Lab: June 5-6
Project: Not What Happened

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA Fellow and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting ... Bio »