New Play Development with CCNY Educational Theatre Graduate Students

New Play Development with CCNY Educational Theatre Graduate Students

by Louise Schwarz

Over the summer, I held a virtual cold reading and discussion of a new one-act play that I wrote called Waiting for Glory. The play is about a team tasked with casting a new show and forced to hold open calls – with ridiculous results. The participants were mostly CCNY Educational Theatre graduate students, but I did invite a few other friends of mine who are actors and teachers or teaching artists, both locally and nationally. The mission was to think through the play for an educational theatre market; I’ve been writing plays for decades, but I have not typically written plays primarily for that context. I work in college admissions for The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the high school I graduated from didn’t have a theatre program at all so I’ve only recently been directly exposed to high school thespian festivals (main lesson learned so far from my festival visits: I’m jealous!)

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