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The Northlight Reading Series
Now entering its second season, this program introduces five brand new plays by accomplished and emerging American playwrights, giving audiences a glimpse into the critical stages of play development. Interplay attendees have the chance to talk with playwrights, actors and directors and participate more fully in the creative process. Be a part of Interplay, and witness brand new work on a whole new level!
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2007-08 Season
OCTOBER 22, 2007
Po’ Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin
Two lonely souls find comfort and friendship through the exchange of food inspired by their diverse cultures. |
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Kenneth Lin's plays have been developed and/or commissioned by South Coast Repertory, The Wilma Theater, The Flea Theatre, The Hangar Theatre and The New Group. He is the author of Agency, Sun Is the New Apollo and …,” said Saïd, winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, the Princess Grace Award and the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger Award. He is an alumnus of the Fulbright Scholarship program, Cornell University and the Yale School of Drama where he was awarded the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize for excellence in playwriting.
Po' Boy Tango will feature actor
George Takei (Heroes, Star Trek), along with France Nuyen (South Pacific, The Joy Luck Club) and Jacqueline Williams (currently appearing in Northlight's The Miser)
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DECEMBER 17, 2008
Better Late by Larry Gelbart and Craig Wright
See this brand new romantic comedy while still in development, then return for its World Premiere at Northlight in April!
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Larry Gelbart is a prolific American comedy writer with over sixty years of credits. Career highlights include the Broadway farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the television series M*A*S*H, the noir musical City of Angels, and the screenplays for Oh, God! and Tootsie.
photo by Sasha Gelbart
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Craig Wright’s plays Grace and Lady have appeared at Northlight in the past two seasons, and his plays Orange Flower Water, Molly’s Delicious and The Pavilion have received dozens of productions around the country. He is the recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play for Melissa Arctic, and was nominated for an Emmy for his work on HBO’s Six Feet Under. His most recent work, The Unseen, appeared at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival.
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FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Three Italian Women by Laura Maria Censabella
Three generations of women fight to preserve their view of the family history. |
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Laura Maria Censabella's plays include Abandoned in Queens, Posing, Jazz Wives Jazz Lives, Every Girl Should Know, The Actual Footage and Some Girls. She is a three-time participant in The O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of The Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting, the Tennessee Chapbook Prize for Drama, and two Emmy Awards (for her work on the daytime soaps Another World and As The World Turns). Her half-hour independent film Last Call is currently screening in festivals throughout the world.
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APRIL 21, 2008
Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl
Playwright Bess Wohl returns to Northlight for a reading of her new play, in which a young woman tries to help her older sister reacclimate to the world after a decade-long stay in a mental institution.
Touch(ed) will be directed by Edward Sobel, Director of New Play Development at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Bess Wohl is an active playwright and actor in New York City. Her play In appeared in Northlight's 2006-07 Interplay Series, and has had public readings at the Geffen, Pittsburgh Public, the Vineyard Theater and Apple Girl Productions in New York City. Her play Cats Talk Back (with original songs by Michael Friedman) was a recent New York Fringe Festival hit and winner for Best Overall Production. As an actor, she has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater, Drama League New Directors/New Works, Prospect Theatre and in the films Heights, Must Love Dogs, Flightplan and The Shaggy Dog, as well as numerous television shows. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama.
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JUNE 9, 2008
Ground (A Play about Borders) by Lisa Dillman
Tensions rise within a small New Mexico community as the border issue heats up. A Northlight commission from one of Chicago’s most exciting playwrights. |
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Lisa Dillman’s plays include Detail of a Larger Work, Half of Plenty, Flung, Rock Shore and Six Postcards. Her work has been produced and developed in Chicago at Steppenwolf, American Theatre Company, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and Collaboraction; in New York at the Hypothetical and Summer Play Festival; the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and elsewhere around the country. Dillman has received the Sprenger-Lang New History Play Prize, the Sarett Playwriting Award, the Julie Harris Award, and two Illinois Arts Council playwriting fellowships. Her work is published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith and Kraus, and Heinemann.
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All readings are held at 7:30 pm in the Northlight Theatre. Tickets include post-show discussion and light reception.
Read about the plays included in Interplay's 2006-07 Season.
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To Order:
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Tickets for the Interplay Series are now on sale, and can be purchased through our Box Office at 847/673-6300.
A 5-reading Interplay package is available for only $50 for subscribers, $60 for non-subscribers, or $15 per reading at the door. Student tickets are available with valid ID for $10 per reading or $50 for the series.
*all actors and plays subject to change
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