Amy Fox’s play Heights, which
premiered in Youngblood’s Thicker Than Water 2000,
has been turned into a feature film by Merchant Ivory. With a screenplay
by Ms. Fox and starring Glenn Close, Isabella Rossellini and James
Marsden, Heights premiered in the summer of 2005 to critical
acclaim. Her play Summer Cyclone, produced at EST, was
published by Dramatists Play Service. She is a member of EST.
Chris Smith, Youngblood’s
Artistic Director from 1995-2003, became Artistic Director of San
Francisco’s Magic Theatre,
one of the most prominent theatres in the nation solely dedicated
to development and production of new plays.
John Belluso has been named the
co-director of the Mark Taper Forum’s Other Voices project
and his plays are being commissioned at theatres across the country.
His The Body of Bourne was produced at the Mark Taper Forum
last season, and his Pyretown was produced by The GeVa
Theatre (Rochester) and by the Keen Co. (NYC).
Christopher Shinn’s play Four
was moved to Manhattan Theatre Club for an extended run. He has
been produced at London’s Royal Court Theatre and New York’s
Playwrights Horizons and is also a member of New Dramatists. Where
Do We Live was produced last season at the Vineyard Theatre
(NYC), and On the Mountain was produced at Playwright's
Horizons.
David Zellnik and brother Joseph’s
musical City of Dreams was produced as part of the Midtown
International Theatre Festival. They were also commissioned by Theatreworks
U.S.A. to write a musical version of Arthur Giron’s play Flight,
first produced at EST in 1997.
Lloyd Suh received a 2001 Dramatist
Guild Fellowship, and has recently received a commission from South
Coast Repertory Theatre for his new play The Garden Variety.
His play Masha No Home, produced by Youngblood in 2002,
is being produced by East West Players in L.A. He has been signed
by Writers & Artists and he recently became a member of EST.
Jeremy Soule’s play Michigan
Takedown, developed with Youngblood and through EST’s
New Voices program, has been optioned as a teleplay by Showtime.
Lucy Thurber’s play Where
We’re Born was produced by The Rattlestick Playwrights
Theatre (NYC) in their 2003-04 Season.
Ann Marie Healy’s new play
Now That’s What I Call a Storm was produced by Edge
Theatre in a double bill with Blackbird by Adam Rapp.
Current member Ross Maxwell’s
new full-length play His Occupation was produced by Purdue
University in the Spring of 2005, in Youngblood’s first collaboration
with a collegiate partner.
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