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arrow Arriving at SNL, February 2020. Jen Carlson / Gothamist
There is a term in Portuguese, saudade, which my Portuguese-American sister-in-law tells me has no absolute English translation. But it is meant to describe a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves, according to Wikipedia, which also notes that, Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It s safe to say the feelings of saudade are all over the place right now as we hit the one year mark of life in pandemic times. And those final days lived in ignorant bliss are both a salve and melancholic trigger.
NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench.
The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop the monologues during this time of lockdown, with the goal of having them ready for live performance as soon as theatres re-open.
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“Queen Latifah and I shot scenes from the movie Just Wright at the Izod Center,” Debra Martin Chase says of her current office, inside a converted sports arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where she was photographed Jan. 19.
The president and CEO of Martin Chase Productions became the first Black woman to produce a film to gross more than $100 million ( Courage Under Fire ) and score a deal at a major studio, and now she s never been busier.
Now in her fourth decade in entertainment, Debra Martin Chase has produced blockbusters and awards bait, making comfortable homes for herself in Manhattan and the Hollywood Hills along the way. But on this late January afternoon, she s in a trailer in suburban New Jersey speaking by phone during a break from shooting her new Queen Latifah drama for CBS,
Dorset Theatre Festival Announces Commissioning & Fellowship Program and Welcomes Resident Artist Jade King Carroll
The Commissioning and Fellowship Program has welcomed its first two Fellows, playwrights Jihan Crowther and Josh Wilder.by BWW News Desk
Dorset Theatre Festival has announced the launch of its new Commissioning and Fellowship Program, welcoming returning director Jade King Carroll as Resident Artist, who will design and oversee this program in collaboration with Artistic Director Dina Janis. Carroll will also work with Janis in producing the Festival s new StageFree Audio Plays.
The Commissioning and Fellowship Program has welcomed its first two Fellows, playwrights Jihan Crowther and Josh Wilder, who join the Festival s Commissioned Playwrights, Cusi Cram and Sarah Gancher, in the launch of this innovative program. The Festival is excited to announce two additional commissions by renowned playwrights Chisa Hutchinson and Theresa Rebeck, the first of Dorset s StageF