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the Final Draft Production Series
Broken Watch Theatre Company will celebrate its tenth season by unveiling its newest and most ambitious project to date: The Final Draft Production Series.
The Final Draft Production Series will serve and support accomplished but not-yet-widely recognized playwrights by bringing them out from the shadow of perpetual readings, workshop and dramaturgical guidance, and into the light of full professional careers in company with an established working dramatist. The selected Final Draft play gets a full production, as well as continuing professional guidance, introductions to agencies, producers, and theatres around the country.
Under the guidance of the project’s chair, Christopher Kyle, Michael Weller and BWTC’s Drew DeCorleto The Final Draft Production Series solicited admired-but-unproduced plays from literary managers around the country—the best plays their theatres aren’t doing. Submissions were received from institutions including the Denver Center, The Goodman, Huntington Theatre, the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, to name a few. The submissions have been vetted by a selection committee and three of the top submissions have been selected and will be given a public reading. After the readings, BWTC will determine which play will receive a developmental reading and will be slated for a full production in the summer of 2010.
January 19th
Look, we are breathing by Laura Jacqmin
Directed by Michael Sexton
January 20th
Honey Brown Eyes by Stefanie Zadravec
Directed by Martha Banta
January 27th
Rich Girl by Victoria Stewart
Directed by Thomas Kail
All Readings we begin at 7pm and take place at the
Frederick Loewe Room
1501 Broadway, 7th Floor
email finaldraft@brokenwatch.org to reserve
Free Admission
"During this inaugural season of The Final Draft Production Series, as a selection committee we were extremely excited by the quality of the plays submitted. And with a general lack of opportunity for female playwrights I am doubly proud that all of this year’s finalists are women. Although we did not set out to choose plays by women; they just happened to be the best ones we read." Christopher Kyle, Selection Committee Chair.
About the Playwrights
Laura Jacqmin
Chicago-based playwright Laura Jacqmin is the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given to recognize an emerging female playwright. She graduated cum laude from Yale University and earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. Her play SKI DUBAI was produced in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s 5th Annual First Look Repertory of New Work.
Other full-length plays include HAPPYSLAP, 10 VIRGINS, AND WHEN WE AWOKE THERE WAS LIGHT AND LIGHT, PLUTO WAS A PLANET, LOOK, WE ARE BREATHING, FOLK SONG, and MILVOTCHKEE, VISCONSIN. Her plays have been produced and developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Northlight Theater, the side project, Kitchen Dog Theater, American Theater Company, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the inaugural NNPN University Playwrights Workshop at Stanford University. Her short plays have been produced in Ars Nova’s A.N.T. Fest, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Perishable Theatre’s International Women’s Playwriting Festival, The 24 Hour Plays Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater, Old Vic/New Voices, Source Festival, Culture Project, Collaboraction’s Sketchbook Festivals: 5, 6 and 8, Estrogenius, Collective: Unconscious, and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Her short play SPACE is a current finalist for the 2010 Heideman Award, and is published in 24 by 24: The 24 Hour Plays Anthology.
Jacqmin has received grants, commissions and residencies from the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the MacDowell Colony, the Page 73/Rockefeller Brothers Fund residency at the Rockefeller Brothers Estate, Victory Gardens Theater, Collaboraction, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and UWM’s Center on Age and Community, where she was the artist in residence in Fall 2009. While in residence, Jacqmin wrote a play about the experience of dementia and memory loss (MILVOTCHKEE, VISCONSIN).
Jacqmin has taught playwriting at Ohio University, the Center on Halsted, 826CHI, the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, and Chicago Dramatists, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Carthage College. From 2007 to 2008, she was a contributing writer for The Onion A.V. Club and A.V. Club Chicago. She is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a founding member of At Play Productions.
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Stefanie Zadravec
Stefanie Zadravec's plays have been produced and developed at The Kennedy Center, Theater J, The Barrow Group, Working Theater, Bay Street Theater, Vital Theater, The Phoenix Theater, Garson New Works, and Jackson Rep. Stefanie made her Off-Broadway debut in 2006, as a contributing writer for the critically acclaimed, The Fear Project. Her full-length, Honey Brown Eyes, won the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play, and was published in American Theatre magazine. It was a finalist for the 2007 Smith Prize and a Semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award. Her full-length, Save Me, won the the Phoenix Theater’s National Playwriting Competition, Baltimore Playwright’s Festival’s Carol Weinberg Award and was a nominee/finalist for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Futurefest, and the Jane Bingham Award. Stefanie received both a Dakin Fellowship and a Tennessee Williams scholarship to the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is published in two Playsource anthologies and is currently a contributing writer for 167 Tongues, a series of new works about the most diverse spot on earth. She is developing two new plays with The Barrow Group and the Working Theatre and working on a television pilot. She is an associate member of The Dramatists Guild and a company member with The Barrow Group in NYC. www.szadravec.com
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Victoria Stewart
Victoria Stewart graduated from the Playwrights’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her plays include LIVE GIRLS (Urban Stages, WHAT, Stage Left), Hardball (SPF), 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick, (Workhaus Collective, Hourglass Group, Live Girls Productions, named one of the top ten productions of 2009 by Citypages), Leitmotif (South Coast Rep, Page 73), Nightwatches (Overlap Productions), The Last Scene and an adaptation of Henry James’ The Bostonians. She has received the Francesca Primus Award, a McKnight Advancement Grant, the Helen Merrill Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (finalist), and the Jerome Fellowship as well as residencies at Ucross/Sundance, Hedgebrook, Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Donmar Warehouse. She is a producing member of the Workhaus Collective and a core member of the Playwrights' Center. In 2009, she was the Martha R. Ingram Artist-in-Residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre where she developed Rich Girl. She is one of the collaborators on Fissures (lost and found) which will be presented at the 2010 Humana Festival. She is now working on a screenplay for HBO about the recording industry’s battle with Napster.