Theater Arts Department
- Featured Artist Event
Workhaus Collective
Tuesday, September 27
7-8:30 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
Each
year, the Theater Department at Augsburg College hosts several professional
theater artists as part of the Theater
Artist Series. This season for our evening Featured Artist Event we are proud to have the Workhaus Collective.
Please join us for an extended discussion with Alan Berks, Carson Kreitzer, Dominic Orlando, and Tory Stewart
from Workhaus.
About Workhaus
Visit their website: http://www.workhauscollective.org
Workhaus is a diverse group of nationally recognized playwrights based in the Twin Cities: Trista Baldwin, Alan Berks, Jeannine Coulombe, Christina Ham, Cory Hinkle, Carson Kreitzer, Dominic Orlando, Deborah Stein, and Victoria Stewart.
We are fueled by our desire, as playwrights, to communicate directly with our audiences with shows that are adventurous and event-driven: a full-bodied experience that can only happen in live theatre.
City Pages Feature:
http://www.citypages.com/2007-08-22/performing-arts/breaking-all-the-rules/
Visiting Workhaus Collective Artist Bios:
Alan M. Berks is the author of nine full-length plays, six one-acts, and numerous short plays and monologues that have been seen in Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Indianapolis, and New York. The solo show Goats, about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, was produced by the Production Company in New York and nominated for a 2006 New York Innovative Theater Award. The plays 3 Parts Dead, written in collaboration with Burning House Group, and Everywhere Signs Fall, at Gremlin Theatre, were both named in the Minneapolis Star Tribune "Year in Review" as some of the best theater of the year. Other awards include: Minnesota State Arts Board Grant (Ringtone), MacDowell Colony Fellow (They Want), and Jerome Fellow (Mourning Rituals). His one-act play for high school students, Home of the Brave, was commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre, published by Playscripts, Inc., and produced by schools from Minnesota and Iowa to Texas and California. Other work includes: How to Cheat, Fugue, Almost Exactly Like Us, and They Want (based on The Oresteia by Aeschylus). He co-created Thirst Theater, which produced more than 60 new short plays over three years, and is currently Editor of MinnesotaPlaylist.com.
Carson Kreitzer's THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER won the Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics' Steinberg Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus' "New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004" and by Dramatic Publishing. SELF DEFENSE (or death of some salesmen) has been produced across the country, and is published by Playscripts and in Smith and Kraus' "Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002." Other work includes FLESH AND THE DESERT, 1:23, THE SLOW DRAG (New York and London), VALERIE SHOOTS ANDY, HEROIN/E(KEEP US QUIET), FREAKSHOW, SLITHER, DEAD WAIT, and TAKE MY BREATH AWAY, featured in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival. Ms. Kreitzer has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA, TCG, and the Jerome and McKnight foundations. BA:Yale University, MFA: Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin. A resident playwright at New Dramatists, and a member of The Workhaus Collective, The Playwrights' Center and the Dramatists Guild, Ms. Kreitzer is currently under commission from The Guthrie Theater, Chicago's Next Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Ms. Kreitzer was the first Playwrights Of New York (PONY) Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center.
