The Virginia Stage Company has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help commission and produce a new play about the military. Deborah Brevoort's new play, with a working title of "The Comfort Team," will "explore the challenges and joys that families face when a loved one is serving their country," says Managing Director Keith Stava.
A story about the search for identity in the last frontier, set against the evocative and extreme landscape of the Alaskan wilderness. Written through the New Dramatists screenplay mentor program. [...]
A story about two middle-aged women—one white, one black—who become suddenly single and try to negotiate their way through the middle-aged singles scene. Commissioned and optioned by Fox Searchlight and [...]
Wet Willies
Encounters with bears in Alaska, the terrors of writing and a trip to Wet Willies carwash are told in this one-woman solo performance piece about fear, deliverance and the power of language.
The Cheechako Treatment
A creative response to The Contrast by Royall Tyler (written in 1787) and several skits from late 19th century minstrel shows. A 10-minute play commissioned by America-in-Play (Artistic Director, Lynn Thompson.) and produced at Bates College, Maine
