Matt Walker & Jonghoon Han, The Model American( Foeller Fellowship play, 2016), photo by Daniel Rader
FRIDAYS @ 3 NEW PLAY READINGS
JUL 7, 14, 21, 28, AUG 4, 11, 18, 3PM THE CLARK FREE($ 5 DONATION ENCOURAGED)
WTF’ s Fridays @ 3 reading series is a renowned program for the development and discovery of new work! Many Festival productions started as Fridays @ 3 readings, including this season’ s Where Storms are Born and Actually. Spend the afternoon up close and personal with a play in development, read by brilliant actors!
JUL 7: SEARED by THERESA REBECK directed by MORITZ VON STUELPNAGEL featuring STEVEN PASQUALE
Facing mounting pressure to expand his restaurant, a passionate chef clamors to keep his cuisine on point.
JUL 14: THE FIT by CAREY PERLOFF
Sakina struggles to find her place in the“ boys’ club” at a venture capital firm, pinning her hopes on a bold, new idea.
JUL 21: NOURA WTF’ s 2017 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award winner by HEATHER RAFFO( WTF’ s 2017 Jay Harris Commission recipient) directed by JOANNA SETTLE
An Iraqi immigrant living in America makes the complicated decision to welcome a young refugee into her home.
JUL 28: BLUE SKIES PROCESS by ABE KOOGLER
Three employees must brainstorm their way to success at a startup while navigating office politics and water cooler alliances.
AUG 4: LEMPICKA music by MATT GOULD book and lyrics by CARSON KREITZER directed by RACHEL CHAVKIN
Fleeing a violent revolution in Russia, Tamara Lempicka starts a new life in Paris alongside the two great loves of her life.
AUG 11: OVERJOYED by ETHAN LIPTON directed by OLIVER BUTLER
Stacey is a new mom. Stacey likes to take her baby to the park. Stacey is 93 years old.
AUG 18: SCREENPLAY BY STALIN by TOM FONTANA directed by LAURA SAVIA
Vasilij and Fyodor have been hired for a very important project; they just need a little more time— and vodka— to complete it.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED; LIMITED AVAILABILITY
See calendar on pages 17 – 20 for venue information
COMMISSIONS, WORKSHOPS, & RESIDENCIES
Play development is a year-round activity at WTF. Every summer, through WTF’ s New Play Development Initiative, dozens of artists developing new work for the Festival participate in residencies and workshops in and around Williamstown.
Among the artists are members of WTF’ s New Play Commissioning Program— playwrights, composers, and collaborative devisers from across the career spectrum. This summer, our biggest group of commissionees yet— Big Dance Theatre, Nathan Alan Davis, Meghan Kennedy, Justin Levine, Marsha Norman, Zoe Sarnak, and Bess Wohl— joins us in the Berkshires. We are thrilled that the first production born of our commissioning program, Halley Feiffer’ s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, will be seen this summer on the Nikos Stage.
In addition to commissionees, select writers and composers are invited to spend a week at the Festival for an intensive work session on a project they are developing. For WTF, it’ s about starting a relationship. For these artists, we offer time and space to work with actors and to hear their work out loud. The Festival provides housing, rehearsal space, actors, and dramaturgical and directorial support. In exchange, we ask only that the week be interactive, collaborative, and goal-oriented. This is not a solitary writer’ s retreat in the Berkshires, but an active engagement designed to advance the work. Recent participants have included: PigPen Theatre Company, Martyna Majok, Jessica Dickey, Sharon and Michael Counts, Melissa James Gibson, Caroline V. McGraw, Nell Benjamin and Lawrence O’ Keefe, Rachel Chavkin, Carson Krietzer, Jesse Lenat, Adam Rapp, and Karen O. Look for information about who will join us and how you might experience their work at wtfestival. org.
WTF also hosts a Playwright-in-Residence, who works and lives at the Festival for the duration of the summer. 2016 Playwright-in-Residence, Harrison David Rivers’ new play, Where Storms Are Born, will premiere at the Festival this summer. In 2017, we welcome writer / composer Michael R. Jackson to Williamstown.
Watch www. facebook. com / wtfestival for information about occasional, spontaneous presentations of the exciting new work being developed in Williamstown!
Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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