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Monteze Freeland is among five playwrights whose work is featured in Homegrown Stories 2, a collaboration of City Theatre Company and Pittsburgh Playhouse.
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After the success of last summer’s “Homegrown Stories,” City Theatre and Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse have commissioned five additional playwrights to write 10-minute plays for “Homegrown Stories 2.”
With a company of Point Park alumni and Pittsburgh-based artists, a digital reading of the works will take place at 7 p.m. May 25 in partnership with City of Asylum. The plays are conceived for a digital medium and offer responses to the current world.
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William DeMeritt plays Nathan Wolfe in “The Catastrophist,” City Theatre’s co-production with Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre.
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Spring virtual offerings from Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company include collaborations with local artists and theater groups in other cities.
The season will open with the world premiere of a work about virologist and epidemiologist Nathan Wolfe, an early proponent of pandemic insurance, created by his playwright wife, Lauren Gunderson.
“With this spring season, I am excited to share a mix of digital content that features both local voices as well as collaborators from City Theatre’s history, such as Lauren Gunderson and my dear friends at SITI Company,” said Artistic Director Marc Masterson. “We continue to find new ways to meet our mission, inv