Send a Playwright to the Festival

Anyone who has been following my journey knows how hard I have been working. I do not want to pass this opportunity up. So, in an effort to get myself to this amazing event, I have created a Fundraiser through Gofundme. 

A pre-thank you to anyone who has a few extra dollars to spare towards my trip.

I have a few months to raise all the funds, though I am hoping to get the money for the plane ticket soon, so that I can confirm that I will be able to be in attendance. I broke down the basic costs needed, as well as what the Play Lab entails on the fundraising page itself:

For more information on the gofundme fundraising breakdown, click here.

KNOW Theatre Playwright & Artists Festival 2020

The KNOW Theatre Playwrights & Artists Festival for 2020 will be produced virtually as staged-readings for two weekends, Nov 20-22 and 27-29. There are three pieces of art, each with a piece of music and two 15 minute one-acts inspired per piece of artwork. My play "Have You Ever Heard A Goldfinch Sing?" will be performed on Sunday the 22nd and 29th, both weekends at 8 pm.

The performances will be followed by a talkback session with the artist, writers, directors, and actors.

More information from the theatre itself here.

The virtual performances are free though the theatre, which closed it's last show on March 1st, will be taking donations for the run of the festival and I would love to see this group get some needed community support. If the arts have been a comfort to you at all during this pandemic, consider sending them a few dollars. You can follow the link to the theatre above to donate.

The performances are free but in order to receive the links to the Zoom you have to e-mail the theatre at knowtheatrebinghamton@gmail.com and put Festival Reservation in the subject line.

I hope to see some of you there. 

Chosen for the KNOW Theatre Playwright Festival of 2020!

I received great news today and I am over the moon!

I am excited to announce that I am one of six winners of KNOW Theatre's 2020 Playwright Festival in Binghamton, NY. Each year the theatre chooses three pieces of art and writers craft a 15 minute play inspired by one of them. From that pool, two plays are chosen to be produced for each art piece.

In response to the pandemic and considering the safety of the local community, this year the productions will be performed virtually as stage readings. I am excited to see these new works!

One of my favorite things about this festival is the blind submission process, where the judges don't know anything about the writer and rate the submissions on their responses to the writing and other predetermined criteria. 

The festival will be running Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for two weekends, November 20-22 and 27-29. My play will run twice, once each weekend, on different evenings. I will post more when I know more specifics.