Newfest 2007
Come celebrate new works by Emerson students!
March 29-31 The Rod Parker Playwrighting Award winner Lift by Kelly McCabe will premiere in the Semel Theater. Lift is the story of two brothers racing to build the first airplane. When dreams don't work out as you'd expected, how does it affect your life?
This wonderful new play is directed by Joe Antoun. Tickets are available through Ticketweb, or at the Tufte PPC Box Office. $14/$8 for the Emerson Community.
April 5-6: Caution: Our Children at Work (Alerta: Nuestros Ninos Trabajando
Come and experience the culminating event of Emerson students working with Producing Director Melia Bensussen on adapting a new work for the stage. This work derives from a variety of texts concerning labor laws and how they affect the lives of the workers.
The staged readings will take place in the Greene Theater. Tickets will be available at the Tufte PPC Box Office.
NEW WORKS IN PROGRESS
April 11-12
Emerson Stage is proud to sponsor two nights of readings of excerpts of new plays written by Emerson students, directed by Emerson students, and featuring the 2007 BFA Acting class. Each evening of readings will begin at 7pm in the Greene Theater. At the end of the evening we will have refreshments and discussion about the works. There will be 4 readings on the 11th, and 2 readings on the 12th plus a full reading of the Nicole duFresne Award-winning play, Street Sweepers by April Ranger
April 12th at 8pm in the Greene Theater — reading of Street Sweepers by April Ranger.
April Ranger is the 2006-2007 winner of the Nicole duFresne Award, which is given annually "to a socially conscious female undergraduate who is studying acting and/or playwrighting, who demonstrates a passion for learning." The scholarship was established in memory of Nicole duFresne, a talented actress, dancer and playwright who graduated from our program in 1999 with a BFA in Acting. Nicole was also the founder of our student production organization, Mercutio.
April Ranger is a Maine native with a primary interest in new plays. She has explored the craft of playwrighting through classes with Performing Arts faculty member Andrew Clarke. Having published her poetry and short fiction in The Spectrum and The Feminist Times in Maine, April is currently developing a cycle of ten-minute plays under the guidance of Performing Arts professor Melia Bensussen, Producing Director of Emerson Stage.
This past fall, April acted in the premiere of Yelena Moskovich’s (Moskovich was the first winner of the Nicole DuFresne Scholarship) play, Black Fish. She most recently appeared in the Emerson Stage production of Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha, and will act in this year’s Rod Parker Award winning play, Lift in the NewFest Festival of new plays produced by Emerson Stage in March, 2007. April Ranger will graduate in May 2007 with a B. A. in Theatre Studies, and will continue her work as an actor and playwright.
Please join us for the reading of this new work. As we do so, we remember Nicole duFresne with love, laughter and a renewed commitment to care for each other, as she did so well in her work and in her life. If you wish to contribute to the Nicole duFresne Scholarship fund, you can do so online. Under Fund Account Designation, click on the Nicole duFresne Scholarship. Thank you.
