THE BROOKLYN GENERATOR - SEASON 8
The Brooklyn Generator continues to bring their new play generation project to The Tank for their Eighth (awesome) Season!
The Brooklyn Generator is the creation of Erin Mallon and Bixby Elliot. Originally started by Erin when she began making plays back in 2010 with a rotating group of 6 playwrights and 12 actors who gathered once a month on a Friday night to create six 10-minute plays in less than two days. Erin continued this way for 2 years and they collectively wrote about 140 short plays. Then, after a hiatus, Bixby and Erin put their heads together and asked each other "how can we adapt this model to support the creation of full-length plays?"
Cut to June 2014 when they re-launched The Brooklyn Generator with six great playwrights. The Generator supports each other over a six month period during which each playwright takes a turn being "Playwright-of-the-Month," bringing actors and directors to the table to create brand new full-length plays in less than 30 days. Six seasons later they are still going strong.
The Brooklyn Generator has been home to the following artists: Mallery Avidon, Eboni Booth, Karoon Briscoe, Ed Cardona Jr., Naveen Bahar Choudhury, Del Carmen, David Hilder, Bixby Elliot, Georgina Escobar, Ken Greller, Amina Henry, Stephen Kaplan, Erin Mallon, Sarah Matusek, Julian J. Mesri, Eric John Meyer, Daaimah Mubashshir, Charlie O'Leary, Noah T. Parnes, Lia Romeo, Stacey Rose, Nandita Shenoy, Diana Stahl, Melisa Tien, Juan Francisco Villa and Nathan Yungerberg
For Season Eight we have assembled an amazing line up of writers: Charlie Oh, K'yana Faulkner-Smith, Dan Marshall and Lesley Scammell as well as Erin Mallon and Bixby Elliot.
Join us for readings each month and see what our Season Six writers create. The schedule is as follows:
January Playwright - Erin Mallon
Reading: Sunday February 2nd at 3:30pm
February Playwright - Dan Marshall
Reading: Sunday February 23rd at 3:30pm
March Playwright - K'yana Faulkner-Smith
Reading: Sunday March 29th at 3:30pm
April Playwright - Charlie Oh
Reading: Sunday April 26th at 3:30pm
May Playwright - Lesley Scammell
Reading: Sunday May 31st at 3:30pm
June Playwright - Bixby Elliot
Reading: Sunday June 21st at 3:30pm
Bixby Elliot is a queer writer from New York City. An award-winning playwright, Bixby’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Edinburgh and more. His play I LOVE YOU ST. PETERSBURG! recently won the Samuel French OOB Festival and will be published in 2020. He is this year’s winner of the Carlos Anoni 2019 Italian Award for Best Comedic Play in English and was a finalist for the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Conference. TimeOut Chicago selected Bixby’s play ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A FAGGOT as one of the “Top 10 Plays of 2015” and it was Jeff Award Nominated. The New Yorker Magazine wrote that Bixby’s play SOMMERFUGL, directed by Stephen Brackett (director of Broadway’s BE MORE CHILL) and starring Wayne Wilcox (GILMORE GIRLS), “conjured the spirit of Christopher Isherwood, both in its vivid evocation of Europe between the wars and in its characters’ bittersweet yearning for the fullness of life.” His play BLUEPRINT was produced by Tony Award winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover and starred Emmy winner Peter Strauss. GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE (inspired by the rise and fall of the pop/rock duo Milli Vanilli) was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference, semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and was produced in Chicago and Seattle. Bixby is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University, co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (with Erin Mallon) and a former company member of InViolet Theater Company. Bixby is developing new works for theater, film and television. Bixby’s screenplay HAPPY, NOW was a finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab. Upcoming: The Blank Theater's reading of IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT and a film adaptation of his play AQUAMARINE shooting in Spring 2020.
K'yana Faulkner-Smith is a playwright/actor currently finishing her senior year at The New School for Drama. Originally from Northern Mississippi, K’yana grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii , graduating from Overhills High School in 2014 and moving to New York City during undergrad. Her thesis play This Little Light, will be performed in the Glassbox Theatre this coming spring.
Erin Mallon is a writer and voice artist. Her plays have been presented with Urban Stages, New Georges, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Collective, Cherry Picking, Great Plains Theater Conference, Samuel French #OOB Short Play Festival, Project Y Theater, Mile Square Theatre and more. Erin’s play Branched (dir. Robert Ross Parker) premiered with InViolet Theater at HERE Arts Center in NYC and is in print with Original Works Publishing. Her new play, The Net Will Appear is an Honorable Mention on the 2016 Kilroys List and had its NYC Premiere in December at 59E59 Theaters. Other full-length plays include: Good Riddance, Hand Me Down (a commission for Ethical Culture Fieldston School), Stunning Displays of Prowess, Skin Hungry, The Other White Meat and Come Find Me. Erin is the narrator of over 400 audiobooks, the founder and co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (a playwriting engine that creates “plays in less-than-30-days”) and one half of the newly launched Theater Husband / Theater Wife Project. She was proud to be one of The Farm Theater's commissioned playwrights for their '18/'19 College Collaboration Project, where she wrote Soft Animals, a play about four medical misfits at a self-healing workshop. She is currently developing Pale Blue Dot(s), her play about an all-female astronaut team (with special appearances by Elon Musk and David Bowie).
Daniel Marshall is co-author (with Becca and Julian Blackmore) of QUIZ BOWL, winner of Best New Musical at the 2014 New York Musicals Festival; SNOW WAY OUT (MicroMusical Show); THE PECULIAR TALE OF THE PRINCE OF BOHEMIA AND THE SOCIETY OF DESPERATE VICTORIANS (Goodspeed FNM14); SWISH (with Joel Derfner and Tim Acito); THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES; and #NOFILTER: THE STORY OF TORIANNE GRAY. PRESIDENT MOM, co-authored with Ms. Blackmore, won the Ronald M. Ruble Prize for young audiences,2015. He He is the manager of Education and Outreach for the Metropolitan Opera. MFA: Tisch.
Charlie Oh is a playwright/lyricist/actor. He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, a SongSpace Grant recipient, a participant in the Catwalk Writer’s Residency, winner of the Disney/NMI 2018 New Voices Project, and The Craig Carnelia Songwriting Award. His work has been presented across New York at venues such as 54 Below and Lincoln Center. A graduate of Northwestern University, he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt. Acting: The King and I directed by Bartlett Sher, All These Small Moments (Tribeca Film Festival), Lauren Yee’s song of summer (Queens Theatre). He is a 2016 magna cum laude graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt and musical theatre writing under Ryan Cunningham.
Lesley Scammell received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts for her first play, Make Me an Angel and spent the next three years writing for several theatre companies; Garter Lane Arts Center, Waterford, Ireland; Bluebarn Theatre in Omaha, NE and Circle Rep in Seattle, WA before returning to New York to do an MFA in Playwriting at The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School. Lesley’s plays have been seen at The Shooting gallery, Show of Strength Theatre in Bristol, England, Blue Barn Theatre in Omaha and Circle Rep in Seattle. Her plays have had readings and workshops at Luna Stage, The Shooting Gallery, MCC, New Dramatists, The Great Plains Theatre Conference and Fallen Angel Theatre Company in New York City. The German Lullaby, a short film for which she wrote the screenplay, aired on the BBC Film Network, received Best Short film awards in the following festivals; 2008 International Film Festival, England; 2008 Reelheart International Film Festival, Toronto; Silver Award Best Short International Filmmakers; Honorable mentions in New York Downtown Short Film Festival 2008; and Accolade Awards 2007. She has been afinalist for EST’s Marathon, a Jerome Fellowship, and a Princess Grace Award. She recently attended the 2017 Great Plains Theatre Conference with A Perfect Existence. Lesley is a 2018 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Her play A Perfect Existence was shortlisted for the 2019 Theatre503 Playwriting Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Henley Rose Playwriting Competition.
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