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MEET GROUNDBREAKER ENRIQUE URUETA
Enrique Urueta
From Halifax County, VA.
Groundbreaker play:
The Danger of Bleeding Brown
What was the first memorable theatre production you saw and why does it stick with you?
My Upward Bound program took us to see Jelly's Last Jam on Broadway. I think I was 14 or so. That was pretty memorable because, well… Savion Glover!
He wanted to share this with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHPpnwYVV8s
Enjoy!
Got to love the Groundbreakers!
Georgette Kelly
New York, NY (Yorkville)
GeorgetteKelly.com
@georgettevkelly
What is play are you developing in Groundbreakers?
Ballast
Can you give us a quick (Twitter friendly) Synopsis of Ballast:
"It’s about being in a romantic partnership with someone who is undergoing a gender transition…and learning how to fly."
Can’t get enough of Georgette?? Neither can we! Check out what is coming up for her:
I am currently writing a 10-minute play based on the story of Skylla and Kharybdis from The Odyssey for RedLeaf Theatre. Performances of that play will be coming up in March, as part of a larger evening of one-acts.
I’m also looking forward to readings of Ballast as part of The Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition as well as a reading at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in February and another in New York in the spring, location tba.
A little more about Georgette:
"The first theatrical role I ever played was a paper clip in a short play at day camp. I was about five years old, and I have no idea what the play was about. All I remember is that I came on (with all the other paper clips, en masse) when someone said "Bring on the paper clips!" It sticks in my memory like a fragment of some crazy dada-esque performance art...the dark room, the bright lights, the disembodied voice calling for paper clips. And my totally awesome costume made of rolled tin-foil."
"My favorite writers are Jeanette Winterson and Paul Auster!"
"Oh and I don’t have a pet but whenever I visit a dog beach I seriously consider stealing the French Bulldogs and Boston Terriers."
The first official session of Groundbreakers Playwright Group 2014-2015! Table read of BALLAST by Georgette Kelly.
This week's featured Groundbreakers Playwright:
Mfoniso Udofia
Mfoniso Udofia is a 1st Generation Nigerian-American storyteller, actress and educator.Mfoniso attended Wellesley College for Political Science and obtained her MFA in Acting from San Francisco's Tony Award winning, American Conservatory Theater. During this stay in the Bay Area, she pioneered a youth initiative, The Nia Project, which provided artistic outlets for youth residing in Bayview/Huntspoint.
Some of Mfoniso's plays include, The Grove, Sojourners, runboyrun, and Lilyvine. Her work has been developed and/or presented by the Sundance Theatre Lab, Playwrights Realm, Makehouse, Soul Productions, terraNOVA, Page 73 Development Programs, The New Black Fest, Rising Circle's INKTank, At Hand Theatre Company, The Standard Collective and Liberation Theatre Company.Please follow her at @mfudofia and check out her site www.mfonisoudofia.com for the latest news.
Excerpts from RUNBOYRUN
by Mfoniso Udofia
"From a divine broken came our WORLD it's from that, that we come to be ourselves."
"...There is something in this house that- I tried to use my computer and the whole thing just "pyam" like that. Everything gone. And then this strange feeling as something started running up my leg.
... Are you hearing me? ... Mbok, this is serious."
"You used to sit just like this, put your arm around me and ask me to tell you a story. Every night. You knew my home. You knew the color and make of my daddy's Peugot and the size and animals of mmami's farm. You knew my church. You would sit, arms around me, drinking my nothing stories like water. And I never asked you to tell me anything. I hated it here. I hated the smell of this place. And your story-telling made me better."
Hear the whole play at Groundworks, coming at you this summer!
ALEXANDRA COLLIER is an Aussie who has developed her plays at Sydney Theatre Company, Women's Project, New Georges, the Lark and Dixon Place. Recent credits: Take Me Home (a mobile site specific show in a New York city taxi, Other Forces Festival, Incubator Arts Project), We Play for the Gods (Off Broadway, Women's Project Lab, Cherry Lane), Underland (developed at Sydney Theatre Company and Dixon Place). Other awards and fellowships: Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist (Holy Day), UCROSS Foundation, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat, MacDowell Fellowship. Playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College and member of '10-'12 Women's Project Playwrights Lab.
Excerpts from CRYING LETTUCE
by Alexandra Collier
"I didn't seek to hurt anyone but I do know that people often recognize themselves in fiction and fail to see themselves in truth. I have never tried to write the truth."
"Things hang in the balance from nanosecond to nanosecond. Things are fabulous and then they're a shitshow."
"Anna: ...he was a fruit-atarian.
Ivy: A what?
Anna: You know. A fruit-atarian.
Ivy: What's that?
Anna: They are waiting for fruit to fall off trees before they can eat.
Ivy: (Giggling) What?!
Anna: They are (she mimes staring blankly at fruit tree) sitting... sitting... sitting in orchard all day and waiting for fruits to fall.
Ivy: You're kidding me. What the fuck do they eat?
Anna: Nothing. We did not go to restaurant. We did not do anything. He ate many mushrooms.
Ivy: Mushrooms?
Anna: He said it is ok, because mushrooms are not so stuck in earth, so you can, like, pull them softly from the ground without them knowing. "
Hear the whole play at Groundworks, coming at you this summer!
