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NEW
CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES
For
35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured
hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In
June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading
series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated
by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will
provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development.
Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists
will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check
www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please
join us!
NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS:
Next Reading Monday, February 20th at 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5
SEEDS
by Kate Bell
The world is changing, and the gods must adjust to the new times. Olympus has crumbled. ZEUS, unable to believe he’s no longer the center of the universe, has lost his mind, and wanders the streets of New York City as a beggar. As life on earth becomes more toxic, HADES gains more power in his underworld. PERSEPHONE grows more enthralled with the power of being his queen, and more hesitant about returning to her mother DEMETER, the goddess of the earth and fertility, who has now fallen to living among mortals in a third-floor walk-up on the Lower East Side. Enraged that PERSEPHONE is not returning home to bring the spring, DEMETER covers the earth with a harsh blizzard. DEMETER’s mortal neighbor, CHARITY, convinces DEMETER to spare the human race and to journey to the underworld to convince PERSEPHONE to come home. DEMETER agrees to this plan, but only if CHARITY, and her daughter, SPECIAL, accompany her to Hades.
Bio
Kate Bell’s plays have appeared in New York at Manhattan Theater Source’s Estrogenius Festival, New Perspectives Theatre’s Girl Power Festival, the Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival (with Feed the Herd Theatre), and at Baruch College (with Committed Theatre). Past honors include 2009 Semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theater Conference (for Lions of Babylon), 2008 Honorable Mention in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (for Lions of Babylon), membership in New Perspectives Women’s Work Lab 2008-09, runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Award (for Estrella, My Refugee), and two Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan, where she earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 2000. Kate also writes songs, sings, and plays a variety of instruments; her current musical project is the rock trio, RECESS (www.myspace.com/recessbrooklyn). Kate has been a teaching artist in the New York City Public Schools since 2004.
FUTURE NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS :
The TNC selection process for 2011/2012 New City, New Blood readings season is ongoing. |
