National New Play Network Selects Sacramento Theatre for Membership

By: Aug. 20, 2012
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The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN),the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, has selected Sacramento's CAPITAL STAGE for associate membership.  This action makes the seven-year old professional theatre company the first in the Capitol region to become affiliated with the highly regarding NNPN.
 
Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has paid nearly a half million dollars to theaters and playwrights, providing employment for hundreds of artists across the country where NNPN's 26 member theaters are located and beyond. It's member theatre's include  Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C., Mixed Blood Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and Magic Theatre in San Francisco among others. The Associate Membership program, launched in August 2012 increases the Network's reach to every corner of the United States.  NNPN has targeted a small number of theatres for Associate Membership in its pilot year and plans to build that population to around 15 theatre companies nationwide in future years.  Capital Stage is among the first companies invited to become an Associate Member.

 

"The National New Play Network launched its Associate Membership program on August 1 to expand our programs' impact on behalf of new plays and playwrights to every corner of the country" said NNPN executive director Jason Loewith.  "Cap Stage received one of our first invitations because of their commitment to bold, gutsy theater, their importance to the Sacramento cultural scene, and their recent growth. We think Cap Stage is on an upward swing, and we're proud to begin a relationship with them in the service of new plays." 

 

An alliance with NNPN will provide Capital Stage an opportunity to participate in the organizations rolling world premieres and to collaborate with Core Members of the Network.  "Our relationship with NNPN will substantially increase Capital Stage's access to quality new work and will position us to establish meaningful partnerships with other professional theatres across the country," said Capital Stage found artistic director,Stephanie Gularte. "We are particularly excited about the opportunity to stage rolling world premieres together with other NNPN member theatres, bringing the best new plays to the Sacramento community."

 

Previous NNPN rolling world premieres have included the works of Steven Dietz, Theresa Rebeck, Yussef El Guindi, Luis Alfaro, 2012 Pulitzer prize-winner, Quiara Alegría Hudes and others.
 
The timing of this announcement comes just as Capital Stage' prepares to present its 4th Annual Playwrights' Revolution, a series of staged readings of four new plays.  The readings of The Melting Point by Kristen PalmerGoodness by Sean Christopher Lewis (an NNPN playwright), Adele's Way by Dennis Porter, and Freshly Fallen Snowby M.E.H. Lewis will be held Tuesday-Friday, August 21-24, 2012 at PM at Capital Stage's midtown theatre at 2215 J Street. 
'About Capital Stage Company

 

Founded in 2005, Capital Stage Company's mission is to be a dynamic leader in the evolution of the contemporary live theatre landscape in the Capital region and to passionately engage audiences in the art of live storytelling with bold, innovative plays performed by professional artists, in an intimate, up close setting. With a strong commitment to expanding the base of working artists in the greater Sacramento region, we shall develop a company of actors, directors, writers, designers, and technical staff who are dedicated to bringing bold, lively productions of contemporary and classic plays to our community.
 
About Capital Stage's Playwrights' Revolution
As Sacramento's leader of bold, thought-provoking theatre, Cap Stage created the Playwrights' Revolution. This series of staged readings is designed to identify and develop exciting new plays and playwrights. Each year, several new plays are selected to participate in the series and audiences are invited to take part in the new play development process by attending readings and participating in post-reading discussions.
 
2012 Playwrights' Revolution:  August 21-24  PM
Tickets:

Individual Staged Readings: $12 
Festival of Four Staged Readings: $40

By Phone:  916-995-5464
Online:  www.capstage.org

About National New Plays Network

The National New Play Network is the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays. We strive to pioneer, implement and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights.

 

Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has commissioned eighteen playwrights, provided more than twenty MFA graduates with paid residencies, and supported over 100 productions nationwide through its innovative Continued Life of New Plays Fund, which creates "Rolling World Premieres" of new plays. Through these activities and others, NNPN has granted over a half million dollars to theaters and artists in the past ten years. All told, hundreds of artists have gained employment through these efforts in the 24 regions of the country where NNPN member theaters are located.

 



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