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Welcome back to Next Rung's seventh year of local playwright mentorship! This time we have a table reading and talkback discussion for SACRIFICES, OR LONG TERM NUCLEAR WASTE WARNING PLAY by Katie Myers, and it's once again free at the Borderland Playhouse (where the possum is). Come join the fun!WHEN: Wednesday, October 28th at 7:00 PM Eastern
WHERE: Borderland Playhouse (802 Sevier Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920)
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BLURB: 700 years in the future, a man and his daughters guard a toxic dump in what was once East Tennessee. Is nuclear waste the only god left? Maybe.
PLAYWRIGHT: Katie Myers is a playwright, audio producer, reporter, and misc. writer in the mountain South. She's developed work through sheATL Arts, Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective, Primary Stages Echoes Writers Group, the Tennessee Stage Company, and Chattanooga Theatre Centre, among others. You can also find her words at Grist, NPR, and the New Republic. She writes about memory, history, ghosts, wilderness, climate grief, and smalltown politics.
PLAYWRIGHT DEVELOPMENT MENTOR: Harrison Young (he/him) supported his first annual playwright with Next Rung Productions in 2020. His service for new plays and local playwrights includes seven years as the Knoxville Ambassador and Tennessee Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild of America. He’s worked with the Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival every year since 2009, including four plays as a playwright and three years as their Literary Manager during the pandemic. Blank News named him "Knoxville's Finest Dramatist" in their 2024 readers' poll, and he currently interviews playwrights for them in his monthly column THE WRITER’S WAY. His most recent plays in town include productions of ANOTHER LETTER (Silver Stage Players) and THE FESTIVAL (Tennessee Stage Company’s Night of Shorts) as well as the table reading for AFRAID OF THE STORM (Next Rung Productions -- Share Our Stages-grant recipient). www.nextrungpro.com
[This event will be recorded -- your attendance will count as permission to record for all purposes, including promotional and archival purposes.]
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802 Sevier Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920-2083, United States
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