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Sixth Act Night at Geva
Thursday, March 7, 7:30 PM, Geva Theatre Center
Work with The Sixth Act to bring your class to Geva to see Stephen Karam's The Humans at only $15 per ticket. The Humans won four 2016 Tony awards, including Best Play. The New York Times review states, "With or without [its] ominous suggestions that the American family as we know it is under existential threat, 'The Humans' is a major discovery, a play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For all the darkness at its core -- a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion -- a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement."
Sixth Act Night at VaPA
Friday, April 5, 7:30 PM, MCC Theater
Join us to see VaPA's production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a breathtaking re-examination of the "Cape Fear" episode of The Simpsons. The New York Times writes, "This intoxicating and sobering vision of an American future, set during a day-after-tomorrow apocalypse, isn't just some giddy head trip.... It has depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination. At the end..., you're likely to feel both exhausted and exhilarated from all the layers of time and thought you've traveled through.... The vital instinct to pass on and share stories, inevitably reshaping them along the way, is what this show celebrates." The production will be followed by a talkback with the student artists involved.
Visiting Playwright: Mary Kathryn Nagle
Thursday, May 2, 7 PM, Monroe B, Reading and Book-Signing
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, May 3, 12 PM, Monroe B, Playwriting Workshop
Free and Open to the MCC Community
Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and also is a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle has authored numerous briefs in federal appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and is a frequent speaker at law schools and symposia across the country. As playwright, Nagle is an alumn of the 2012 PUBLIC THEATER Emerging Writers Group, where she developed her play Manahatta in PUBLIC STUDIO (May 2014). Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59, January 2014), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry, March 2017), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), and Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). In 2019, the Rose Theater (Omaha, NE) will produce her new play Return to Niobrara, and Portland Center Stage will produce the world premiere of Mnisose.
Twelfth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting Competition
Thursday, May 9, 7 PM, 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.

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The Sixth Act: Spring 2019

Please see below for an outline of Sixth Act offerings during the Spring 2019 semester. We're excited for each of these events and would love faculty, staff, and students to participate. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any questions.

Sixth Act Night at Geva

Thursday, March 7, 7:30 PM, Geva Theatre Center

Work with The Sixth Act to bring your class to Geva to see Stephen Karam's The Humans at only $15 per ticket. The Humans won four 2016 Tony awards, including Best Play. The New York Times review states, "With or without [its] ominous suggestions that the American family as we know it is under existential threat, 'The Humans' is a major discovery, a play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For all the darkness at its core -- a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion -- a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement."

Sixth Act Night at VaPA

Friday, April 5, 7:30 PM, MCC Theater

Join us to see VaPA's production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a breathtaking re-examination of the "Cape Fear" episode of The Simpsons. The New York Times writes, "This intoxicating and sobering vision of an American future, set during a day-after-tomorrow apocalypse, isn't just some giddy head trip.... It has depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination. At the end..., you're likely to feel both exhausted and exhilarated from all the layers of time and thought you've traveled through.... The vital instinct to pass on and share stories, inevitably reshaping them along the way, is what this show celebrates." The production will be followed by a talkback with the student artists involved.

Visiting Playwright: Mary Kathryn Nagle

Thursday, May 2, 7 PM, Monroe B, Reading and Book-Signing

Free and Open to the Public

Friday, May 3, 12 PM, Monroe B, Playwriting Workshop

Free and Open to the MCC Community

Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and also is a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle has authored numerous briefs in federal appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and is a frequent speaker at law schools and symposia across the country. As playwright, Nagle is an alumn of the 2012 PUBLIC THEATER Emerging Writers Group, where she developed her play Manahatta in PUBLIC STUDIO (May 2014). Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59, January 2014), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry, March 2017), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), and Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). In 2019, the Rose Theater (Omaha, NE) will produce her new play Return to Niobrara, and Portland Center Stage will produce the world premiere of Mnisose.

Twelfth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting Competition

Thursday, May 9, 7 PM, 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.

Maria Brandt
The Sixth Act
12/06/2018