The O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has set the 2015 slate of plays to be showcased in developmental readings this summer, lining up eight titles including new works by Steven Sater (Spring Awakening) and Wendy MacLeod (The House of Yes).
One of the highest-profile new-play development programs in the country, the National Playwrights Conference often proves a summertime draw for New York theater producers on the hunt for writers and titles to watch. The conference, which shows off each play in a public reading following a week of developmental work, has previously helped launch the careers of playwrights including August Wilson, John Guare, Wendy Wasserstein and David Henry Hwang.
The two plays by Asian American playwrights (both have been members of Ma-Yi’s Writer’s Lab) are
- Cardboard Piano, by Hansol Jung, about two teenage girls in northern Uganda, torn between love and the war zone around them. Cole Lewis directs.
- Nomad Motel, Carla Ching’s play about an unlikely friendship between two high schoolers.
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