BSC’s 2022 10×10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

Show Preview of 10×10 New Play Festival

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CAST

	AZIZA GHARIB* is an actor and teaching artist based in NYC. Originally from Colorado, she got a BFA in acting from CU Boulder. Some of her favorite credits from there include Nora in A Doll’s House, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Polyxena in Hecuba and Adriana in The Comedy of Errors. She was also in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 season as Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost, the Food Seller in Cyrano de Bergerac, and various roles in Edward III. When not performing, she is traveling to colleges around the U.S. teaching consent with Speak About It. Aziza is ecstatic to be a part of 10×10 this year! A big thank you to Bloc!
	DOUG HARRIS* BSC: 10×10 2021, 2020. Recently seen as Gus P. Head in It’s Only A Play at George St. Playhouse. NYC Credits: Disco Pigs (Drama League), The Rape of The Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias (Playwrights Realm), The Glass Menagerie (Masterworks Theater Company), Unity: 1918 (Project: Theater). Regional Theatre: Pittsburgh Public, B St. Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival. Doug has developed new works with Playwrights Realm, NYTW, The Lark, Less Than Rent, Ensemble Studio Theater, CTG, Pipeline and more. Films: Spooky Action, December 1, 1969; Day One; The Wait; Viking Funeral. dougharrisactor.com
	MATT NEELY* is delighted to return to Barrington Stage! At BSC: 10×10 New Play Festival (9th year!), The Crucible. Off Broadway: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Hospital. Off-Off Broadway: The Trial, The Heart of a Dog, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), The Furies, Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Sex and Other Collisions, Spare Change, Marriage, Unreal City. When not acting, Matt is a Financial Advisor at Inspire Confidence Group in Williamstown, MA and teaches yoga. MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theater, BS in Theater from Skidmore College. Love to Margo, Allie and Tommy!
	KELSEY RAINWATER* STC: Guildenstern in Macbeth. REGIONAL: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: The Three Musketeers and As You Like It. Rutgers Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carlo At the Wedding, Balm in Gilead. INTERNATIONAL: Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. TRAINING: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and Shakespeare’s Globe: MFA in Acting.
	PEGGY PHARR WILSON* Associate Artist. BSC: Boca, America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of The American Negro, Gaslight, His Girl Friday, The Crucible, To Kill a Mockingbird, Guys & Dolls, Carousel, The Laramie Project: Epilogue and 10×10 New Play Festival (all 11 years!). Great Barrington Public: Dad. BAT: Doubt (Best Actress nominee BroadwayWorld). Shakespeare & Co: Leap Year. New York: Six Women with Brain Death (co-author, and performed it also in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City). Regional: 10 seasons with Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado performing over 50 roles, including Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Best Actress Ovation Award Denver Post), Shirley Valentine, Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Mac in Three Viewings. Many other regional including: Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre 3, Kansas City Rep, Unicorn, KC Lyric Opera, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, White River in Vermont and Rose Theatre in Chicago.
	ROBERT ZUKERMAN* BSC: Boca, If I Forget, His Girl Friday, The Crucible, Ring Round the Moon, The Importance of Being Earnest, Thief River, The Collyer Brothers at Home, 10×10 (‘12, ‘14, ‘15, ‘18, ‘19, ‘21). Other regional work includes Pittsburgh Public Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Firehouse Theatre (VA), Triad Stage (NC), Franklin (NY) Stage, Penguin Rep, Hubbard Hall, Arena Stage, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group. Two dozen plays Off Broadway at Irish Rep, Atlantic, CSC, TFANA, the Pearl, etc. Narration: Talking Books (Library of Congress). Tour: USAF bases in Greenland for the USO. Former Theatre Program Director at the NY State Council on the Arts.

CREATIVES

JULIANNE BOYD† (Director) is the Founder (1995) and Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) where she has directed many productions, including the critically acclaimed West Side Story (2018) and the 2017 hit production of Company, starring Aaron Tveit. She also directed the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, which won the Laurents-Hatcher Award for Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright in 2016. Other productions include the world premieres of Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons, The Best of Enemies and Dr. Ruth, All the Way and the critically acclaimed revival of Goldman and Sondheim’s Follies. In 1997 she directed BSC’s smash hit production of Cabaret, which won six Boston Theater Critics Awards and transferred to the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge for an extended run.

Boyd conceived and directed the Broadway musical Eubie!, a show based on the music of Eubie Blake which starred Gregory Hines and garnered three Tony nominations. She also co-conceived and directed (with Joan Micklin Silver) the award-winning Off Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice (Outer Critics’ Award) and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice.

In 2000 Ms. Boyd created the Playwright Mentoring Project, BSC’s underserved youth program that won the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award in 2007. In 2015, the Playwright Mentoring Project also won the Commonwealth Award for Creative Youth Development. From 1992 to 1998 Ms. Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national labor union representing professional directors and choreographers in the U.S.

She and her husband Norman have three grown children.

MATTHEW PENN† (Director) BSC: 10×10 2017–21, Judgment Day, Typhoid Mary. Penn most recently directed The Sweet Taste of Freedom, a film shot entirely in the Berkshires. Penn is an Emmy-nominated director and has directed and/or produced over 200 hour-long dramatic television shows. He has worked for every major network as well as Netflix and HBO. He began his television career at Law & Order where he earned an Emmy nomination for directing the show’s 200th episode and became the show’s Executive Producer. Penn’s TV credits include: The Mist, Queen of the South (Co-Executive Producer/Director) Orange is the New Black, Blue Bloods, Damages, Royal Pains, Secrets and Lies as well as classic series like The Sopranos, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. On stage Penn directed Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid at New York’s Public Theater starring Glenn Close. Berkshire theatre audiences also know Penn from his work at many of the region’s most significant theatres: Shakespeare & Co.: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike. BTG: The Actor’s Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You. Penn was a Co-Artistic Director of Berkshire Playwrights Lab for 13 seasons.

NICOLE SLAVEN (Costume Designer) is a Brooklyn-based costume designer and theatre artist. Previous collaborations include NAATCO, Lesser America, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The New School of Drama, Warren G. Miller PAC, The Tank and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Nicole received a Drama Desk nomination for her costume design of NAATCO’s Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts. She is a teaching artist, a resident designer with Two Headed Rep and a proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and United Scenic Artists 829. NicoleSlaven.com

LUCAS PAWELSKI (Lighting Designer) BSC: 10×10 2020, Holiday Getaway, Love Letters. Lucas is a local lighting designer best known for his work at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield as the Staff Lighting Designer from 2016 to 2019 and currently for his designs at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington where he serves as the Production Manager and the Resident Lighting Designer. Other design credits include the lighting design of Ghostlit Theatre’s Production of The Tempest and The Fabulous Invalid’s Production of Call Fosse at the Minskoff.

ALEXANDER SOVRONSKY (Sound Designer) BSC: 10×10 (2017–present), Boca, The Supadupa Kid 2, Harry Clarke, The Glass Menagerie, The Cake, Typhoid Mary. Original Music/Sound Design credits include: Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline). Off Broadway: Mother of the Maid (The Public); Bottom of the World (Atlantic); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre); King Lear, Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem); As You Like It (Happy Few Theatre Co); Cyrano de Bergerac (Resonance Ensemble). Regional: Arena Stage, KC Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare & Co., Ancram Opera House, Berkshire Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Wharton Salon, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Off-Square Theatre Co., WAM Theatre. AlexanderSovronsky.com

RENÉE LUTZ* (Production Stage Manager) Associate Artist. Over 55 productions for BSC including Eleanor, Fall Springs, Into the Woods, West Side Story, The Royal Family of Broadway, Gaslight, Company, Ragtime, American Son, Tribes, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Cabaret, Follies, etc. Recent credits: GNIT (directed by Oliver Butler), Skin of Our Teeth (directed by Arin Arbus) and Pericles (directed by Trevor Nunn; Theatre for a New Audience). Other credits include: Merchant of Venice (directed by Darko Tresnjak — national tour and the Royal Shakespeare Company), Hamlet (directed by Darko; Hartford Stage), ART, New York Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature, Classic Stage, Vienna Festwochen, BTF, Yale Rep., Coconut Grove, etc. Her very best credit and longest run is her husband, actor Gordon Stanley.

HANNAH KATZ (Producer) BSC: Artistic Associate & Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director, Director of The Laramie Project (BSC Youth Theatre), Assistant Director Harry Clarke (dir. Julianne Boyd). Hannah is the returning producer of the 10×10 Festival, and is very happy to be working on this project again. Previously, Hannah has directed The Laramie Project (BSC Youth Theatre), See Rock City and Other Destinations (Independent Production) and The Bald Soprano (Act Two at Florida State University). She has also worked as a line producer for BSC’s Celebration of Black Voices and looks forward to continued collaboration in the future.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 20 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshire Press Representative/Associate Artist) (17th Season) joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 130 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999–2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, Surflight Theatre and Two River Theater Company. He serves as Press Rep for Wagner College Theatre, The Minty Awards, Ghostlight Productions and In The Wings Productions. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. Last year he was appointed Director of Alumni Relations for his alma mater, Moore Catholic High School.

THE PRESS ROOM (National Press Representatives) Broadway: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon and upcoming productions of The Brothers Size, Chasing Rainbows, Born for This, Paradise Square and Working Girl: The Musical. Recent Broadway credits: The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Farinelli and the King. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Beyond Babel. Other clients include: Vineyard Theatre, The Wooster Group, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Row, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Hunter Theater Project, NY Classical Theatre, Southern California’s 3-D Theatricals, the award-winning web series “Indoor Boys,” actor/pianist Hershey Felder, Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata for the Shaw Festival, and Miami New Drama’s world premiere musical, A Wonderful World.

PLAYWRIGHTS

ELLEN ABRAMS (Liars Anonymous) BSC: Lizzie Borden Gets Engaged (10×10 2021). Ellen Abrams’ plays Hamlet Investigations, Inc. and Lizzie Borden Gets Engaged have been published by Smith & Kraus, and next summer her children’s play Take a Seat will be published by Big Dog Publishing. Her short play Bernie and Carlo Play Canasta was named Honorable Mention by Broadway On Demand, and a one-hour version of her play Eleanor and Alice: Conversations With Two Remarkable Roosevelts, was produced as an audio play by Urban Stages. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

LAURIE ALLEN (Stealing a Kiss) is a West Texas playwright with nine books of plays and scenes published for young adults. Book titles include Power Plays, Acting Duets for Young Women, and Comedy Scenes for Student Actors. Her powerful collection of monologues, Quaran-teens, Dramatic Teen Perspectives On The Pandemic was released in 2021 by Pioneer Drama Service. Also, her ten-minute play, Go to the Light, was published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. Laurie’s works include a wide spectrum of interests from comedy to intense drama with noted popularity for teens and young adults. For more information, visit Laurie-Allen.com.

GLENN ALTERMAN (Love Me, Love My Work) Glenn is the author of 31 theatre-related books, including 11 books of original monologues. RecordSetter.com: “Author of the Most Published Original Monologues for Actors.” His plays have been performed in hundreds of theatres throughout the U.S. and around the world. He has received two international arts grants, The Arts and Letters Award in Drama and the Reva Shiner Award (Bloomington Playwrights Project). His plays have won over 100 playwriting competitions. His monologues/plays have appeared in over 40 “Best of the Year” anthologies. Recently his plays The Danger of Strangers and Like Family were optioned to be made into movies.

CYNTHIA FAITH ARSENAULT (Escape from Faux Pas) BSC: Digital Detox (10×10 2020). Cynthia Faith Arsenault, psychologist by day, writer by night, is a co-founder of the long-standing north of Boston playwriting group, aptly named Group. She is published in Best 5 Minute Plays for Teens, Best 10 Minute Plays of 2017, A Solitary Voice, Best Women’s Monologues of 2019, monologuebank.com and Best New Ten Minute Plays of 2020. In addition to her many directing and producing credits, there have been over 120 readings and productions of her monologues and plays in most of the U.S. states, Canada, London and Australia. NewPlayExchange.org/Users/2521/Cynthia-Faith-Arsenault

JOHN BAVOSO (An Awkward Conversation in the Shadow of Mount Moriah) (he/him/his) is a Washington, DC-based playwright, marketer and aspiring wrangler of unicorns. He mostly writes plays about women and queer people who are awkwardly attempting (and generally failing) to engage with serious subject matter, using only their dry wit and impeccably timed combative taunts. His plays have been produced and/or developed in theatres across the country, as well as Canada, Japan, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Australia and the UK. For more information, please visit John-Bavoso.com.

STEVEN KORBAR (Honestly) BSC: Twas the Day After Christmas (10×10 2019), Old Aquatics (10×10 2018), When Babies Fly (10×10 2016). Steven’s full-length and one-act plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. His short plays, Table for Four, Mrs. Jansen Isn’t Here Now and What are You Going to Be? have all been published in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Short Plays” series. Other productions include Hard at Elephant Stageworks in LA, Mrs. Jansen… at The Barrow Group Theatre in NYC, Yellow at Pop Culture Theatre in Melbourne, Mother and Child at the Fury Theatre in Chicago and The Disappearance of Small Objects at the Odyssey Theatre in LA.

MARK HARVEY LEVINE (Misfortune) BSC: Oy Vey Maria (10×10 2020). Mark Harvey Levine has had over 1900 productions of his short plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest. His plays have won over 45 awards, been produced in more than ten languages and have been published in over two dozen anthologies. Full evenings of his work, such as Didn’t See That Coming and A Very Special Holiday Special have been shown around the world, including at the Edinburgh Fringe and in a multi-year tour of Brazil. A Spanish-language film of The Kiss (El Beso) premiered at Cannes and aired on HBO.

CHELSEA MARCANTEL (Climax) is an LA-based writer, director and collaborator. Reared by Cajuns in southwest Louisiana, Chelsea has lived and worked among the peoples of the Midwest, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic and now the West Coast. In 2016, she completed a Fellowship at The Juilliard School. Her plays include Airness (2018 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award), Everything is Wonderful, Tiny Houses (2018 Roe Green Award), Devour and Citizen Detective (NY Times Critic’s Pick). Chelsea’s current theatrical projects include commissions for the Geffen Playhouse, Cleveland Play House and the new play The Upstairs Department, which will have its world premiere at Signature Theatre in 2022. In 2021, she won a Richard Rodgers Award for the original musical The Monster, currently in development at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ChelseaMarcantel.com

CARY PEPPER (The Voice of the People) has had work presented throughout the United States and internationally. How It Works won the 2012 Ashland New Plays Festival; Small Things won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 2006 One Act Play Contest; and Party Favors won the 2016 Goshen Peace Play Contest. Most recently, Death Does Larry became his second production by Drip Action Theatre Trail in their Arundel Festival (UK) presentation, and Crossed was named a winner in Drury University’s 2019 One-Act Play Competition. Cary is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and a four-time contributor to Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays series.

ROBERT WEIBEZAHL (Gown) is a playwright and fiction writer. His play And Lightning Struck: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Creation, first commissioned and presented by Lit Live in Simi Valley, California, won the 2020 Quarantine Playwriting Competition at the Grand Theatre, Cartersville, Georgia. Other full-length plays include Which Way the Wind Blows, a finalist for the Dayton (Ohio) Playhouse’s FutureFest 2019, and Hold On, featured at the 2019 Palisades Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles. Weibezahl’s short plays have been performed live and virtually by theatre groups in New York, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan and Australia. RobertWeibezahl.WordPress.com

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