Anacostia Playhouse New Works Festival
Anacostia Playhouse is pleased to announce the winners of our first-ever new play festival, Visions/Revisions! Eight new and non-produced 10-minute plays have been selected and will be presented as staged readings with professional actors and directors.
These plays address the themes of deterioration and renovation, both physically and socially, over the course of Anacostia’s long history. Anacostia has undergone many physical and social changes from the time of the Nacochtank Native American settlement along the Anacostia River, to the founding of Union Town, to today. These submissions examine the impact of revisionist history on Anacostia and its residents.
This New Works Festival will be held November 15–17 at the Anacostia Playhouse located in historic Anacostia in Washington DC. The festival is an opportunity to introduce new playwrights to Washington’s theater community and establish relationships between writers, producers and directors.
Our winning line up:
Anacostia Bound
Playwright: Debbie M. Jackson
Director: Bryanda Minix
Struggles on the Stoop
Playwright: Breonna Young
Director: Bryanda Minix
Anacostogia
Playwright: Deidre “Creative Soul” Gantt
Director: Jared Shamberger
What to Old Ana is the Lion of Anacostia
Playwright: John H. Muller
Director: Jared Shamberger
Modern Geography
Playwright: Darien Mitchell
Director: Charlotte La Nasa
The Water of Her Noblest Rivers
Playwright: Andrew Martineau
Director: Charlotte La Nasa
Grand Opening
Playwright: Alan Sharpe
Director: Teshonne Powell
The Eight
Playwright: Rahima Rice
Director: Teshonne Powell
Plays are separated into Group A and Group B.
Group A, performing November 15 at 8 PM and November 17 at 3 PM includes
Anacostia Bound, Grand Opening, Modern Geography, and What to Old Ana is the Lion of Anacostia
Group B, performing November 16 at 8 PM and November 17 at 8 PM includes
Struggles on the Stoop, Anacostogia, The Water of Her Noblest Rivers, and The Eight
All tickets are PWYC and available by clicking here.