New Play Festival 2020

所产生的
曼尼·罗斯曼，22届, 托马斯·斯利斯科维奇22岁, 劳拉·米德，88年

20多年了, the Occidental New Play Festival has paired student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Focused on writer-centric rehearsal and performance, the festival provides a real-world experience of new play development as it is practiced on the national level. Through close collaboration with 洛杉矶 working artists, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theater.

戏剧 & 时间表  |  Playwrights  |  Producers  |  新游戏发展

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戏剧 & 时间表
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Saturday, February 22, 2020
Two plays about finding yourself in the most unexpected places.

6:00pm: This One's for My People with Vaginismus by 亚设Tessier
由 杰里·阿德里安娜·埃利奥特
Part love story, part comedic romp, this world unfolds between Robert and his Vagina. It’s hard enough learning to love your body but he quickly learns it’s a lot harder when your body starts talking back. 

8:00pm: Pogi男孩 作者:Sergio Perez
由 乔凡尼奥尔特加
Gabriel struggles with just about everything around him: his boyfriend, 他的父亲, his life in the Philippines. Luckily, some spirit guides appear to help him through. But when one is Jesus and the other a 400-year old drag queen, things might go from bad to worse.

Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 6:30pm 
Two plays about the lighter side of the darker side of college life.

如何得到4分.0 by 莫莉考夫曼
由 Elisa Bocanegra
At a looney fictional college, even loonier students earn a 4.0 if their roommate dies. When Juniper ropes the unsuspecting Cora into a murderous plot, their hijinx on and off campus take college life to a whole new level of fun.

约会之夜，戏剧! by 艾略特摩尔
由 阿拉娜Dietze
Co-ed bathrooms, lock-outs, exploding doors! Everything goes wrong when Rachel just wants to help Joanna get ready for a date with the most popular guy on campus. Will they find exactly what they need, in the places they’d never think to look?

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Playwrights 

亚设Tessier, 20岁

亚设Tessier is a current student at 十大正规网赌平台 double majoring in Media 艺术 & 文化与戏剧. As a determined producer of fictional narratives, 无论是在台上还是台下, Asher's work stresses deep values in the intersection of identity and representation. Seeing a lack of transgender voices in the mainstream media industry, Asher has made it a goal to create stories around the representation he needed growing up (fat, 酷儿, 反式美女!)

 

莫莉·考夫曼，20届

This is the second year Molly's play has been chosen for the New Play Festival, last year her farce 快去死吧 生产. In addition to playwriting, she founded a sketch comedy club on campus, 2爪子向上, where she writes and acts in comedic sketches. She performs stand up comedy around town while acting in on-campus productions, such as her role as Mash in Fall 2019's 愚蠢的鸟. She has written, performed, PA'ed for the sketch comedy youtube page Nightpantz while interning at various production companies hoping once she graduates, 这可能, after three short years in college, she will be employed in the entertainment business somewhere/somehow.

艾略特·摩尔20年

艾略特摩尔 is a Media 艺术 and Culture major and 剧院 minor from Seattle. She found writing as a way to bridge the gap between her love for film and theater, has dedicated her final year at Occidental to strengthening her creative voice as both a screenwriter and a playwright. She would like to thank her peers and professors from both departments, is thrilled to share this play with you.

 

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Producers

曼尼·罗斯曼，22届

Manny Rothman is a sophomore Media 艺术 & Culture major and 剧院 minor. Manny has always been interested in technical theater, especially lighting design, is excited to produce this festival!

 

托马斯·斯利斯科维奇22岁

Thomas Sliskovich is a Sophomore from Saudi Arabia, majoring in Biochemistry and 剧院. He is excited to be producing for the New Play Festival this year! Though Thomas has not done much technical work, he has performed in many shows and enjoys being a part of the theater community. The play selection this year is a strong one and he has had a lot of fun seeing everything come together.

 

 

 

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新游戏发展

Each year as part of our New Play Festival, we host a separate new play development day, a public rehearsal of plays written by our students. This year, we had to cancel the live readings and went virtual instead. We rounded up a cast of professional actors and did readings over Zoom. We are so proud of our students and their perseverance. Oxy students are truly remarkable.

This year we selected three plays.

寻求安排 由索菲亚·布朗'20

可爱的失败者 by Brendan Galbreath '20

Big P's and Little P's by Seaton Crossman '20

We'd like to extend a very special thank you to the actors who read these wonderful plays for us.

约翰阿, 苍井空Bamis, 马克·杜尔,  Rechard弗朗索瓦, 克里斯·加德纳, 马修Grondin, JoNell肯尼迪, 简•门罗, 丹尼尔过路人, Kacie罗杰斯, 贝丝Ruscio, 还有辻大辅.