America2024: Playwrightson Our Country'sFuture

With Jackie Sibblies Drury, Adam Rapp, and Celine Song

Mon, Apr 22 at 7pm I 1hr 30min FishmanSpace, BAM Fisher

A Programof T: The New YorkTimes Style Magazine

Hostedby BAM In celebrationof its annual culture issue, T Magazine presents an evening of dramatic readings, hosted by BAM, which look five years into our country's future. Some of today's leading playwrights expound on the theme, America 2024, in myriad ways, from the utopian to the dystopian, the fantastical to the very real. This program comprises a series of dramatic readings of three commissioned plays, followed by a discussion with the respective playwrights moderated by Kurt Soller, articles editor of T Magazine.

RUN OF PROGRAM

Introductions Readingof "Various Pre-Apocalyptic Postcoital Scenes" by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Performed by Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Hannah Cabell, and Roslyn Ruff. Readingof "The Sand and the Snow" by Adarn Rapp. Performed by Jessica Hecht. Readingof "Adults" by Celine Song. Performed by Midori Francis and Annie McNamara. Conversationbetween Jackie Sibblies Drury, Adam Rapp, and Celine Song, moderated by Kurt Soller Questionsfrom the audience

ABOUT THE ISSUE

Great art has always emerged from tumultuous times. This isn't to say that peaceful eras (if there really are such things) inspire lesser or tepid art, but what is undeniable is that art thrives on unrest. T's Culture issue, on newsstands April 14, paid tribute to artists' inability to unquestioningly accept the society in which they live. For it, the editors asked 15 playwrights to imagine America five years into the future-in 2024-and published original commissions from the playwrights Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy 0. Harris, Naomi lizuka, Michael R. Jackson, Patricia lone Lloyd, Ted Malawer, Mona Mansour, Terrence McNally, Lynn Nottage, Adam Rapp, Paul Rudnick, Nassim Soleimanpour, Celine Song, and Sharr White.

It's not a coincidence that we chose theater as the form of literature that best expressed the anxieties and hopes of the moment. As McNally, to whom this issue also pays tribute, tells Philip Galanes in an interview in the magazine, "If you want to change minds, write a great editorial for the Op-Ed page. But if you want to get people to feel differently, reach them through the theater."

PLAYWRIGHTS

JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY is Brooklyn-based playwright whose plays include Fairview; Really; Social Creatures; We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herera of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915; and others. Her plays have been presented by LCT3, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, and Abrons Arts Center, among others, in collaboration with The Civilians, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, the Bushwick Starr, and others. She is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize and a United States Artists Fellowship.

ADAM RAPP is the author of numerous plays, including Nocturne, Finer Noble Gases, Essential Self-Defense, The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, Red Light Winter, for which he won an Obie Award and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize, and The Sound Inside. His playwriting honors include the Helen Merrill Prize, the Benjamin H. Danks Award, and the PEN/ Laura Pels International Foundation Award. Rapp is currently writing the book for the musical based on S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders, which will premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

CELINE SONG has written several plays including Endlings, which had its world premiere at American Repertory Theater, and Tom & Eliza. She has been a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova's Play Group, and the Orchard Project's NYC Greenhouse, and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Song is currently a staff writer on Amazon's The Wheel of Time and is currently developing a project with Diablo Cody and Beth Behrs. ACTORS

QUINCY TYLER BERNSTINE LCT: Marys Seacole; In The Next Room or the vibrator play. Off-Broadway includes Small Mouth Sounds; Our Lady of 121st Street (Signature); The Amateurs (The Vineyard); As You Like It; Peer Gynt (CSC); The Nether (MCC); Grand Concourse, Mr. Burns (Playwright's Horizons); Neva (The Public); 10 Out of 12, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation ... , Born Bad (So Ho Rep); Ruined (OBIE, Derwent, AU DELCO Awards, MTG). Film: Manchester by the Sea, Easy Living, Still Alice, Ned Rifle, While We're Young, Red Hook Summer, Rachel Getting Married. TV: The Code, Modern Love, High Maintenance, Power, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, The Leftovers, The Strain, Chappel/e's Show, Law & Order: SVU!Criminal Intent. Education: Brown University, UCSD.

HANNAH CABELL Broadway: The Father, A Man for All Seasons. Off-Broadway credits include: Fairview (Soho Rep), As You Like It (CSC), Venus (Signature), The Moors (Playwrights' Realm; Lucille Lortel nom.); Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons), Grounded (Page73; Drama Desk nom), 3C (Rattlestick), Compulsion (Public Theater), Zero Hour (13P), Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: World premieres of The Moors, Marie Antoinette, Compulsion (BACCA nom), Sarah Ruhl's Three Sisters and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (BACCA nom). TV: Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, The Path, Mr. Robot, Happyish, The Leftovers, Law & Order: Cl. Film: The Surrogate, Luce (upcoming). Training: MFA, NYU. Recipient of the Annenberg Fellowship for Young Artists.

MIDORI FRANCIS Usual Girls (Roundabout), The Wolves (LCT) directed by Lila Neuberger (Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Best Ensemble), Connected (59E59), (NYIT Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress). Regional: Before the Meeting (Williamstown, 2019), Peter and the Starcatcher (Virginia Stage Col, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Syracuse Stage). Film: Seth Rogen's Good Boys for Universal (to be released theatrically August 2019), South Mountain (SXSW, 2019), Ocean's Eight. TV: Younger (TV Land), Gotham (FOX), Divorce (HBO). Training: BFA in theater from Rutgers.

JESSICAHECHT She is known to television audiences as "Susan Bunch" on the iconic television series Friends and "Gretchen Schwarz" on Breaking Bad. She has also played memorable roles on Bored to Death, High Maintenance, Red Oaks, and Succession. Her upcoming Netflix series Special aired April 12. Film performances include Anesthesia, J. Edgar, The Grey Zone, Dan in Real Life, Sideways, and the upcoming The Atlantic City Story. Hecht has appeared on Broadway in revivals of The Price, Fiddler on the Roof, The Assembled Parties, Harvey, After the Fall, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Julius Caesar, and A View from the Bridge for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She recently appeared on stage at Lincoln Center Theater in Admissions, for which she received an Obie Award and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. Her foundation, The Campfire Project, brings theater and wellness into Greek refugee camps (campfire-project.org).

ANNIE MCNAMARA McNamara played the role of Alana in Jeremy 0. Harris' Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop. Other theater credits include: GATZ, Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf and The Sound and The Fury: April Seventh, 1928, all with Elevator Repair Service. She was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in Jenny Schwartz's Iowa at Playwrights Horizons. McNamara is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist. Film/TV: Blue Jasmine, Orange Is the New Black, The Knick, Mozart in the Jungle.

ROSLYNRUFF Broadway: All The Way, Romeo & Juliet, Fences (standby for Viola Davis). Off-Broadway: Fairview, X or Betty Shabazz v The Nation (2018 Drama League Nomination), Death of the Last Blackman in the Whole Entire Word aka The Negro Book of the Dead, Macbeth, Familiar, Scenes from a Marriage, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Things of Dry Hours, The Piano Lesson (2013 Lucille Lortel, Audelco Award; Drama League nomination), Macbeth, Seven Guitars (2007 Obie Award), The Cherry Orchard. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Two River Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf, People's Light and Theatre Company (Barrymore Award), Kennedy Center, Indiana Rep, Old Globe, Alliance Theatre, Mccarter Theatre, ACT, Yale Rep. Film: Untitled Noah Baumbach, The Help, Salt, Life During Wartime, Rachel Getting Married. TV: Lincoln (NBC pilot), The Godfather of Harlem, The Code, Pose, Divorce, Red Blooded (ABC pilot), Madame Secretary, Doubt, Elementary, Masters of Sex, The Big C. I lnr.nmino FvPnts TALKS

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