THE HEARTH COLLECTIVE

 

The Hearth Collective, founded by theatremakers Courtney Freed, Megan Kate Ward and Jill Westerby, present The Kilroys List: A Festival of Contemporary Plays, proudly hosted by Portland Center Stage with support from the  JAW Playwrights Festival in the Ellyn Bye Studio, Gerding Theater at the Armory. This exciting new festival will feature three thoughtfully chosen and dynamic plays from The Kilroys List: I ENTER THE VALLEY by Dipika Guha, THE OREGON TRAIL by Bekah Brunstetter and BLISS (or EMILY POST IS DEAD!) by Jami Brandli. 

 

 

The Kilroys were born last year with the release of a list of 46 unproduced or under-produced plays by female-identified playwrights, as a step toward addressing the “systemic underrepresentation of female voices in the American theatre.” The 46 on the list were selected from more than 300 new plays, identified and nominated by industry leaders for consideration, and many have seen production since their appearance on the list.

 

When you register for tickets to The Kilroys List Festival through Eventbrite, you enter to win 2 tickets to one of the following shows: SEX WITH STRANGERS by Laura Eason at Portland Center Stage, THE GRAND CONCOURSE by Heidi Schreck at Artists Repertory Theatre, Or, by Liz Duffy Adams at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, YOU FOR ME FOR YOU by Mia Chung at Portland Playhouse or THE CALL by Tanya Barfield at Profile Theatre!

 

 

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:

 

What:  The Hearth Collective presents three staged readings from the Kilroys List, proudly hosted by Portland Center Stage with support from the JAW Playwrights Festival.

 

Where:  The Ellen Bye Studio, Gerding Theatre at The Armory, Portland Center Stage

128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209

 

When:  July 12, 2015

 

12:00 pm – I ENTER THE VALLEY by Dipika Guha, Directed by Olga Sanchez

 

4:00 pm – BLISS (or EMILY POST IS DEAD!) by Jami Brandli,  Directed by Jill Westerby

 

8:00 pm – THE OREGON TRAIL by Bekah Brunstetter, Directed by Megan Kate Ward

 

Admission:  FREE

 

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS:

 

BEKAH BRUNSTETTER'S plays include The Oregon Trail (The O’Neill) Be A Good Little Widow (The Old Globe, Ars Nova,Collaboration) House of Home (Williamstown Theater Festival, Rough Reading Series), and OOHRAH! (Atlantic Theater, Steppenwolf Garage/ Livewire Productions), She was a New York New Voices Fellow through the Lark Play Development Center and is an alumna of the Women's Project Writer's Lab, the Ars Nova Play Group, and the Playwright's Realm. She is currently a story editor on ABC Family's Switched at Birth, a member of the CTG Playwright’s group, and writing a new play for South Coast Repertory. BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. bekahbrunstetter.com

 

 

JAMI BRANDLI’S plays include Technicolor Life, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!), S.O.E., M-Theory, ¡SOLDADERA!, and Sisters Three;  her short plays are published with Smith & Kraus.  Her work has been produced and developed at HotCity Theatre, WordBRIDGE, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Aurora Theatre Company, Launch Pad, Milwaukee Rep, Rogue Machine Theatre, among other venues.  She received the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, the Holland New Voices Award and most recently The Aurora Theatre Company's 2014 Global Age Project (GAP) Prize. Technicolor Life will receive its world premiere at Rep Stage as part of Washington DC’s 2015 Women’s Voices Theatre Festival. BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) was just named in The Kilroy’s THE LIST, which highlights the 46 most recommended new female-authored plays for this year. She was a finalist for the Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Fellowship, Princess Grace Award and O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.  She was also nominated for the 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Award and a finalist for the Disney ABC TV Fellowship.  A proud member of the Playwrights Union and Moving Arts, Jami teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program and is represented by The Gersh Agency.

 

 

DIPIKA GUHA was born in Calcutta and raised in tea drinking countries. Her plays include I ENTER the VALLEY (Weissberger nom ’14), MECHANICS of LOVE (Roundabout Underground Reading Series), BLOWN YOUTH (New Georges/Barnard, published by Playscripts) and THE RULES (SuperLab Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, Joust Theatre). She is the inaugural Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship recipient, a current Playwrights Foundation Resident, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, Time Warner Fellow at the Women’s Project Lab, Ars Nova Playgroup and Young Writers Program at the Royal Court Theatre alum. Her work has been developed at OSF, Old Vic New Voices, Fault Line Theatre, the Lark, Cutting Ball Theatre, the Flea, Hedgebrook Women’s Playwriting Festival, One Coast Collaboration and the Tobacco Factory (UK) amongst others. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, SPACE at Ryder Farm, the Rasmuson Foundation and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. BA: English Literature (UCL) MFA Playwriting (Yale School of Drama) under Paula Vogel. Current work in progress: UNRELIABLE through the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab and LIFTED with New Professional Theatre. Despite a long run in the north east of the United States she still drinks tea. 

 

For more information on the Kilroys and The List, please visit their site at http://www.thekilroys.org/