Student Tribune
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.
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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.
Brandt, Maria
The Sixth Act
05/21/2019