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Qualities of Success: Gabriel Jason Dean
Winner of the 2010 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, Gabriel Jason Dean‘s plays have been produced or developed at Theatre Row, Hangar Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Lark Play Development Center, New York Stage and Film, People’s Light & Theatre, ASSITEJ International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, the Kennedy Center, Dallas Children’s Theater, A Red Orchid Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Dad’s Garage Theatre, Actor’s Express Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre Company, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Source Festival in Washington, D.C., and Essential Theatre. Dean received the Kennedy Center’s ACTF 2012 Paula Vogel Prize, Theatre for Young Audience’s Award and was runner-up for the Steinberg/ATCA National Playwriting Award.
Our Fall Power2Give is now live!
Essential Theatre is the longest-running theatre dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of Georgia playwrights. Although we only produce plays during our summer festival, we work year-round to provide important opportunities to Georgia playwrights and Essential audiences.
Funds raised through this campaign are matched 1:1 by the City of Atlanta and will help to fund Essential’s two staff positions and cover expenses for our non-festival readings, panels and conversations. Even better, your support today helps us keep these events admission-free throughout the year.
For more details on the work we’re doing now and what, specifically,
Lauren Gunderson: In Good Company
“August Wilson is the No. 1 playwright in America this season, but San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson isn’t far behind” claims the October issue of American Theatre Magazine. Read more…
Sandwiched between August Wilson, the number one most-produced playwright of 2016-17, and Arthur Miller, Essential’s own Lauren Gunderson clocks in as the second most-produced playwright of 2016-17 according to American Theatre Magazine.
Aug 6 Talkback following DISPOSSESSED
Join Essential Theatre, Peter Hardy, Karen Wurl and special guests Dr. Donald McManus and Mira Hirsch for a post-show conversation about the Yiddish theatre tradition, its role in American theatre and its history here in Atlanta following the August 6 performance of Karen Wurl’s Dispossessed.
To purchase tickets for the show that night, visit www.EssentialTheatre.Tix.com.
Donald Cameron McManus is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Emory University and Resident Actor/Director/Dramaturg at Theatre Emory. Born in Montréal, Quebec, Dr. McManus has worked professionally as an actor, director, musician and clown in Canada,
2016 Festival Opening Night with Kosher Gourmet
Join Essential Theatre and Kosher Gourmet at the West End Performing Arts Center on Friday July 29 for opening night of the world premiere production of Karen Wurl’s Disopssessed.
ABOUT OUR RECEPTION SPONSOR, KOSHER GOURMET:
Snuggled between Broadway Café and Tuesday Morning in the Briarvista Shopping Center you’ll find more than just a mom and pop shop. The Kosher Gourmet, run by Mr. Steve Gilmer, is a door between the old Jewish world and the new. Through the years, The Kosher Gourmet has had different locations and names, but the approach in serving the Atlanta community has been persistent since 1983: Steve strives to provide his customers with the highest quality products,
PROFESSIONAL WORLD PREMIERE: DISPOSSESSED
DISPOSSESSED // ESSENTIAL THEATRE PLAY FESTIVAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- ATLANTA, GA
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DISPOSSESSED, written by Karen Wurl:
PROFESSIONAL WORLD PREMIERE
Join us for the professional world premiere of Dispossessed, by Atlanta playwright Karen Wurl, opening July 29.
Dispossessed is a romantic comic-fantasy, set in 1928 New York City, about a Yiddish theater company that is rehearsing the classic play “The Dybbuk” (in which a bride is possessed by the ghostly spirit of her dead true love on the day she is supposed to marry another man).
