Breaking Ground Festival of New Play Readings
April 6-9, 2006
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

Plays and playwrights featured in past Breaking Ground readings have had significant success with their works.

* Melinda Lopez’s Sonia Flew, originally in the 2004 reading series, is now being produced around the country, including at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

* David Marshall Grant’s Pen, featured in the 2005 festival, is being produced this spring by Playwrights Horizons in New York.

* Etan Frankel’s Create Fate, also from 2005, was picked up for a full production last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

* David Rambo’s 2004 Breaking Ground play, The Ice-Breaker, received its premiere at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco this spring, and will be produced by the New Repertory Theatre, in Watertown, Mass., this October.

* Local actor/playwright John Kuntz’s Breaking Ground 2004 script Jasper Lake was a winning entry in last year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, where it earned several national awards.

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