Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays [Paperback]

Amy Wagener (Editor), Tanya Palmer (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1575252996 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252995 | Publication Date: April 2002

Every play in some fashion marks the passage of time. In the transitory world of theatre, these manuscripts are all that remain of those intense experiences that marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. We offer them here for your eyes and imagination so that they may be reborn again in other incarnations. - Marc Masterson, Artistic director, Actors Theatre of Louisville

Editorial Reviews

Review

If New York is the captial of American theater, then Louisville is its unlikely New Frontier. -- The Boston Phoenix

The Humana Festival is theater on the edge; theater that makes a stand; theater that points the way toward tomorrow. -- Stage and Screen

The center of the nation's playwriting universe. -- The Miami Herald

This... festival has enlivened and enriched stages... around the world for the past quarter of a century. -- The Irish Times

About the Author

Amy Wegener is the Dramaturg/Director of New Play Development at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she has been on staff since 1997. During that time, she has worked on five Humana Festivals, serving as the dramaturg on numerous new play premieres and actively participating in the reading/script selection process for this annual event. She has also been involved with many projects in Actors Theatre's mainstage seasons, Free Theatre productions, and Apprentice/Intern Company shows. Her writing has appeared in such journals as TheatreForum and Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, and she has co-edited seven published collections of plays. Ms. Wegener is a graduate of Princeton University, and she holds an M.A. in Theater from Northwestern University.

Tanya Palmer is the Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville. During the 1994-95 season, Ms. Palmer was a Literary Management intern, and served as the assistant dramaturg on a number of shows including From the Mississippi Delta, Beast on the Moon, and Dancing at Lughnasa. As a playwright, her work has been produced at Actors Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Solar Stage, The Montreal Fringe Festival, and it has been workshopped at The Harbourfront Centre, HERE, and The Wilton Project. She holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 454 pages
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575252996
• ISBN-13: 978-1575252995
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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