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<p>Bake-Off/24-Hour Play</p>
<p>Saturday, October 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m., Forum, Free and Open to the Public</p>
<p>MCC students will meet in The Forum at 7 PM on Friday, October 4, to begin the process of creating a series of short plays from nothing. 24 hours later, those plays will be ready for an audience. Come laugh with us, cry with us, and help us celebrate the magic of co-curricular, interdisciplinary collaboration at its most immediate.</p>
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<p>Visiting Playwright: Nathan Yungerberg</p>
<p>Reading and Book-Signing</p>
<p>Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7:00 p.m., Monroe B, Free and Open to the Public</p>
<p>Playwriting Workshop</p>
<p>Friday, February 14, 2020, 12-12:50 p.m., 8-200, Free and Open to the MCC Community</p>
<p>Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include <i>Esai's Table</i>, <i>The Son of Dawn</i>, <i>Pousada Azul</i>, <i>Orchids and Polka Dots</i>, <i>Seven Pools of Lebanon</i>, and <i>Isosceles</i>. Nathan's work has been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre (2017 Mentor Project with Stephen Adly Guirgis), Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwrights' Center, JAG Productions, Crowded Fire Theater, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, The Lark, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours in Harlem, Climate Change Theatre Action, The National Black Theatre, The August Wilson Red Door Project, The Bushwick Starr, and BBC Radio Afternoon Drama. Nathan is one of seven black playwrights commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments which was published by Samuel French. Awards and honors: The 2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist), Ken Davenport 10-Minute Play Festival (Winner), 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, and 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.</p>
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<p><i>Commanding Space</i>, Reading and Conversation</p>
<p>Friday, March 20, 2020, 12:00 p.m., Black Box Theater, Free and Open to the Public</p>
<p><i>Commanding Space: The Rise of Annie Easley and the Centaur Rocket </i>tells the story of Annie Easley's early years at NASA as a human computer during the Space Race and the Civil Rights Movement. Join us for a reading of this compelling, lyrical play, followed by a conversation with the playwright, Stephanie Leary, who was born and raised in Rochester, New York. Leary rediscovered her love of writing while attending Monroe Community College and discovered her love of plays while reading <i>Fences</i> as a student at SUNY Brockport. She obtained her MFA in playwriting from Goddard College and was commissioned by Syracuse Stage to write <i>Commanding Space </i>as part of their Backstory program.</p>
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<p>Thirteenth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting Competition</p>
<p>Thursday, May 7, 2020, 7:00 p.m., Black Box Theater, Reservations Required</p>
<p>This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed as staged readings with an eye towards future play development, and to offer VaPA students the opportunity to participate in the new-play-development process. Three winning playwrights receive cash prizes. One winning playwright also will have his/her play submitted to a nationwide competition. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.</p>
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<p>2019-2020 Special Projects</p>
<p>The Sixth Act will continue to develop curriculum-support materials and post-production talk-backs for both VaPA's and Geva's 2019-2020 seasons in an effort to encourage faculty across MCC to teach these plays in their individual courses and to enrich this process for all involved.</p>
<p>The Sixth Act also will continue to develop Drama on Demand, now as a Video Library. This popular program now features web-based, filmed versions of VaPA students performing scenes from published plays so these scenes can be used as co-curricular tools across campus.</p>
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The Sixth Act Announces its 2019-2020 Programming!

The Sixth Act is thrilled to share our programming for the 2019-2020 academic year. We'd love for MCC faculty, staff, and students to participate in any/all of these events and/or services. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu for more information and/or to get involved!

Bake-Off/24-Hour Play

Saturday, October 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m., Forum, Free and Open to the Public

MCC students will meet in The Forum at 7 PM on Friday, October 4, to begin the process of creating a series of short plays from nothing. 24 hours later, those plays will be ready for an audience. Come laugh with us, cry with us, and help us celebrate the magic of co-curricular, interdisciplinary collaboration at its most immediate.

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Visiting Playwright: Nathan Yungerberg

Reading and Book-Signing

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7:00 p.m., Monroe B, Free and Open to the Public

Playwriting Workshop

Friday, February 14, 2020, 12-12:50 p.m., 8-200, Free and Open to the MCC Community

Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include Esai's Table, The Son of Dawn, Pousada Azul, Orchids and Polka Dots, Seven Pools of Lebanon, and Isosceles. Nathan's work has been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre (2017 Mentor Project with Stephen Adly Guirgis), Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwrights' Center, JAG Productions, Crowded Fire Theater, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, The Lark, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours in Harlem, Climate Change Theatre Action, The National Black Theatre, The August Wilson Red Door Project, The Bushwick Starr, and BBC Radio Afternoon Drama. Nathan is one of seven black playwrights commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments which was published by Samuel French. Awards and honors: The 2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist), Ken Davenport 10-Minute Play Festival (Winner), 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, and 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.

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Commanding Space, Reading and Conversation

Friday, March 20, 2020, 12:00 p.m., Black Box Theater, Free and Open to the Public

Commanding Space: The Rise of Annie Easley and the Centaur Rocket tells the story of Annie Easley's early years at NASA as a human computer during the Space Race and the Civil Rights Movement. Join us for a reading of this compelling, lyrical play, followed by a conversation with the playwright, Stephanie Leary, who was born and raised in Rochester, New York. Leary rediscovered her love of writing while attending Monroe Community College and discovered her love of plays while reading Fences as a student at SUNY Brockport. She obtained her MFA in playwriting from Goddard College and was commissioned by Syracuse Stage to write Commanding Space as part of their Backstory program.

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Thirteenth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting Competition

Thursday, May 7, 2020, 7:00 p.m., Black Box Theater, Reservations Required

This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed as staged readings with an eye towards future play development, and to offer VaPA students the opportunity to participate in the new-play-development process. Three winning playwrights receive cash prizes. One winning playwright also will have his/her play submitted to a nationwide competition. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.

--

2019-2020 Special Projects

The Sixth Act will continue to develop curriculum-support materials and post-production talk-backs for both VaPA's and Geva's 2019-2020 seasons in an effort to encourage faculty across MCC to teach these plays in their individual courses and to enrich this process for all involved.

The Sixth Act also will continue to develop Drama on Demand, now as a Video Library. This popular program now features web-based, filmed versions of VaPA students performing scenes from published plays so these scenes can be used as co-curricular tools across campus.

Maria Brandt
The Sixth Act
05/21/2019