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The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers. Each play is lovingly prepared in the Lab with the help of the nation's top directors and the Twin Cities' sharpest actors, and brought to the public for an exclusive sneak peek into the theater of tomorrow.

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THE RUTH EASTON NEW PLAY SERIES 2009-2010

Staged readings of new plays written by the nation's leading playwrights

October 5, 2009 – May 3, 2010

The Sense of What Should Be by Dominic Orlando
Space by Keli Garrett
Ady by Rhiana Yazzie
The Bay of Fundy by Sherry Kramer
Then Waves by Kevin Anthony Kautzman
The Dwindles by Barbara Field
Rich Girl by Victoria Stewart
Little Eyes by Cory Hinkle

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New Play Trailers!

The trailers for Dominic Orlando's The Sense of What Should Be, Rhiana Yazzie's Ady and Sherry Kramer's The Bay of Fundy are up on our website now, and more will arrive soon. The new trailers are shorter and filmed in a theatrical setting.

Click here to watch the new trailers!

All-star cast on board for reading of Sherry Kramer's THE BAY OF FUNDY

Actors Sally Wingert, Steve Yoakam, Phyllis Wright, Terry Hempleman, and Mo Perry to be featured in the January 11 Ruth Easton New Play Series reading.

Two January events to highlight collaboration between playwrights and ensembles

Panel Discussion on January 14; fundraiser presentation of Fissures (lost and found) on January 22.

Playwrights' Center Fellow Reginald Edmund Headed to MacDowell Colony

2009-10 Many Voices Fellow will use residency to continue work on his seven-play series.

Six Playwrights' Center Artists to be Featured in Humana Festival

Works by Steven Epp, Cory Hinkle, Dan O'Brien, Dominic Orlando, Deborah Stein, and Victoria Stewart to see production

The Playwrights' Center Seeks Part-Time Administrative Assistant

The Playwrights’ Center is currently seeking to fill the position of Administrative Assistant.

Aditi Brennan Kapil wins Stavis Award

Winning play Love Person was created at Playwrights' Center and commissioned for further development by Mixed Blood Theater.

Congrats to Jerome Fellow Kristoffer Diaz

The Playwrights' Center would like to congratulate Jerome Fellow Kristoffer Diaz, whose THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY opened at Victory Gardens to rave reviews!

Management Consultants for the Arts to Lead the Playwrights' Center Search for Producing Artistic Director

The Playwrights’ Center has retained Connecticut-based Management Consultants for the Arts, Inc. (MCA) to assist the board of directors in a national search to replace Producing Artistic Director Polly Carl.

Dominic Orlando

Dominic Orlando is a 2009-10 Jerome Fellow and a former McKnight Advancement Grant recipient. His plays have been developed and produced at The Guthrie Theater (commission), Here Arts Center (NYC), The Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row (off-Broadway), The Lincoln Center/American Living Room (multi-year), New York Theatre Worksh...MORE

Keli Garrett

Keli Garrett’s plays and adaptations have been produced and developed at Dixon Place in NYC, Zoo District in L.A., Penumbra Theatre, the LAByrinth, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Rites and Reason Theatre, Victory Gardens, City Lit Theater, Chicago Theater Company, Organic Theater, and the Cali...MORE

Rhiana Yazzie

Rhiana Yazzie is a Navajo playwright based in Minnesota. She is a Playwrightsâ€™ Center Core Member and is commissioned by the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater to write a play for American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. In the 2008/09 seasons, Rhiana will see the...MORE

Barbara Field

Barbara Field, has had work produced across the United States, Canada and Europe. She served as playwright-in-residence at the distinguished Guthrie Theater from 1974 to 1981, creating a number of pieces: her translations include Marriage (Gogol), Monsieur de Moliere (Bulgakov), and Pantalgleize (Ghelderode). Ad...MORE

Mat Smart

Mat Smart is the author of ten full-length plays, the book & lyrics of one musical, and numerous one-acts. Recently, The 13th of Paris premiered at City Theatre in Pittsburgh (dir. by Melia Bensussen). The Hopper Collection is published by Broadway Play Publishing and a monologue from the play will be included in Smith ...MORE

Cory Hinkle

Cory Hinkle is the recipient of two Jerome fellowships and received his MFA in Playwriting fromBrown University. His plays include Cipher (SPF Summer Play Festival, Illusion Theater),Phosphorescence (developed at Rattlestick and Salvage Vanguard) SadGrrl13 (Workhaus Collective) and&n...MORE

Victoria Stewart

Before graduating from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Victoria Stewart was a professional stage-manager, working with David Rabe, Anne Bogart and Peter Sellars among others. Her play Hardball was recently named a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and she has received the Francesca Primus Awar...MORE

Trista Baldwin

Trista Baldwin Trista Baldwin is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships (04-05 and 05-06) and a 2006-2007 McKnight Advancement Grant. Commissions include WADE THE BIRD (The Guthrie), published by Playscripts), TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITO (The Production Company) and STU AND RAY (New Georges). Her work has a...MORE

THE BAY OF FUNDY

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