Student Tribune
The Sixth Act 2022-2023
The Sixth Act is thrilled to announce our 2022-2023 co-curricular offerings!
Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any questions and/or
to get involved....
The Sixth Act
Formed in 2004, The Sixth Act provides co-curricular support for the study of
drama across disciplines at MCC. To this end, The Sixth Act (1) develops
co-curricular events and materials for MCC faculty and students, especially
those who might teach or study plays or playwriting, and (2) provides
enrichment opportunities to encourage all MCC faculty, students, and staff to
see and talk about plays produced at MCC and in the Rochester area. The Sixth
Act seeks as its leaders faculty, staff, and students drawn from a
variety of academic disciplines and departments. The Sixth Act is supported by
MCC’s Creative Arts Committee and School of Humanities and Social
Sciences. For more information see http://www.monroecc.edu/
depts/sixthact/?a-zindex or contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu.
Bake-Off/24-Hour Play
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7 PM
The Gilman Lounge, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center
Free and Open to the Public
MCC students will meet in the Gilman Lounge 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.
Visiting Playwright, Brian Quijada
Thursday, April 27, 7 PM, Black Box Theater, Reading and Conversation
Friday, April 28, 10 AM, Black Box Theater, Playwriting Workshop
Friday, April 28, 12 PM, 8-200, Playwriting Workshop
Free and Open to the Public
Brian Quijada is an actor, playwright, and composer whose original work
has been developed and produced all across the country. His hip-hop solo
show Where Did We Sit on the Bus? has been produced at
Victory Gardens, Geva Theatre (Emmy Nomination for digital stream), Teatro
Vista (Jeff Award), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Drama Desk Nomination), Boise
Contemporary, 1st Stage, City Theatre Pittsburgh, and a digital production at
Actors Theatre of Louisville (Drama League Nomination). His play Kid
Prince and Pablo premiered at The Kennedy Center in 2019.
Brian’s plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh
CLO’s Spark Festival, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, New Stage
and Film’s Powerhouse Festival, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater
Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference. Commissioning institutions
include A.R.T., 1st Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Wooly Mammoth, and The
Kennedy Center, and he is a proud member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Brian’s song “The Always Song” was the 2021’s Hispanic
Heritage Month Song for Nickelodeon.
Sixteenth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting
Competition
Thursday, May 4, 7 PM, Black Box Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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.
2022-2023 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.
Finally, The Sixth Act will facilitate a special Undergraduate Research event
in conjunction with MCC’s Scholars’ Day 2023.
Brandt, Maria
The Sixth Act
06/15/2022