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2014-2015 Alumni Playwrights About the Alumni Playwrights Group W e love the playwrights we produce, and after we do their shows, we just can’t say good- bye. That’s why we started the Alumni Playwrights Program! Our past writers meet once a month to read and discuss their latest work. Then, once a year, we get to help nurture and develop their exciting new plays in The Next Edition Festival, a series of readings designed to provide the next step in their playwriting process. T he greatest impact we can have on a playwright’s career is a full-scale production, so this season, The Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production. This full Off-Broadway production will be dedicated to mounting work by our Alumni Playwrights, starting with Anton Dudley’s City Of in January of 2015! TABLE OF CONTENTS anton DUDLEY ethan LIPTON gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO jen SILVERMAN christopher WALL lauren YEE anna ZIEGLER 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

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2014-2015 Alumni Playwrights

About the Alumni Playwrights Group

We love the playwrights we produce, and after we do their shows, we just can’t say good-

bye. That’s why we started the Alumni Playwrights Program! Our past writers meet once a month to read and discuss their latest work. Then, once a year, we get to help nurture and develop their exciting new plays in The Next Edition Festival, a series of readings designed to provide the next step in their playwriting process.

The greatest impact we can have on a playwright’s career is a full-scale production,

so this season, The Realm is doubling down on our commitment to playwrights with the addition of the Alumni Production. This full Off-Broadway production will be dedicated to mounting work by our Alumni Playwrights, starting with Anton Dudley’s City Of in January of 2015!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

anton DUDLEY

ethan LIPTON

gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ RISCO

jen SILVERMAN

christopher WALL

lauren YEE

anna ZIEGLER

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