In just two days the digital reading of my play TOMORROW GAME will become available to stream! If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, it’s not too late! They’re free and available here.
The video will drop at Noon EST on Thursday, January 28 and will be available to watch on-demand for 4 days. There will also be a live panel discussion of the play at 8:00 PM on Thursday!
Beyond thrilled to share that my play TOMORROW GAME will be featured by Virginia’s Barter Theatre in an online reading as part of their Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights! Tomorrow Game is one of four new plays being supported by Barter in the festival, which is entirely free online and will have events spanning Tuesday, Jan. 26-Saturday, February 6.
TOMORROW GAME is directed by Associate Artistic Director Nicholas Piper and stars Barter resident actors Kim Morgan Dean and Paris Bradstreet.
The readings are recorded and lightly edited for a smoother zoom experience, and also received 6 hours of workshop prior to the recording! So, if you’re familiar with TOMORROW GAME you may still want to drop by for the very latest draft! Registration for the festival is here. The video will drop at noon on Thursday, January 28 and audiences will have all day to watch and the opportunity to tune in at 8:00 PM for a live discussion of the play, with feedback from a panel.
I can’t wait to see you there!
Previous support for the development of TOMORROW GAME includes the Edward Albee Foundation and the Kennedy Center. TOMORROW GAME was a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award, and was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award.
I’m so proud to share my first ever audio Directing project!
ICKIpedia is a new podcast devoted to “poking fun and poking holes” in the theatrical canon. In their pilot episode they debut a Wikipedia-version of MACBETH, “MacBADth” and then share excerpts from Alex Lin’s BETH, a modern MACBETH adaptation by a Living American Playwright/
I directed the “MacBADth” portion of the podcast and my totally unbiased opinion is that it’s hilarious and much better than the original. Episode 1 is available on Spotify.
If you like the podcast, or me, or any of the actors, or Wikipedia, or just supporting new American plays and artists in general, you can donate here. 10% of proceeds go to Wikipedia and the rest is used to pay the actors and other artists who gave their time to make the ICKi pilot rad.
I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of my new blog, Brutal ‘N Scary with Brandy N. Carie!
Watching and reviewing horror movies has been a truly joyous (and terrifying) pandemic hobby. The more I watch the more I want to talk about what I’ve watched. Sometimes people even seem to want to listen! If you’re into scares (or feminist takes on body horror, or Nicolas Cage in general) Brutal ‘N Scary with Brandy N. Carie is for you!
Come for the insightful takes on modern horror and stay for the jokes!
So excited to share that I and my cohort from Carnegie Mellon have been featured on 3 Views on Theater, a new theater criticism website.
There is a cute little profile of us as a group and we were each interveiwed about our work and art in the time of pandemic! You can look at my profile and read an excerpt of my work here.
We spent a bit of time talking about my featured play HOW TO LIVE FOREVER, which was also my thesis workshop production at Carnegie Mellon. I’m deep in the middle of a big rewrite so get excited for that!
I’m excited to be embarking on yet another big adventure: I have just just moved to Los Angeles, CA!
With the Coronavirus Pandemic still in full swing it’s an extremely weird time to be moving to the home of crowds, drought, earthquakes, and wildfires! Nevertheless I’m pumped to be here and looking forward to getting acquainted with the theatre (when it revives), film/TV, and most importantly, tacos, that call this gigantic city home.
I’m confident next time I post it will be a selfie with Blake and Ryan at a casual dinner/drinks thing in their totally understated mansion. Blake and I had the same high school Show Choir choreographer so I’m sure she’s planning to give me a ring any day now.
So delighted to be working with some of my fave collaborators Joshua Brown and Lauren D’Errico on their brand-new project: The ICKipedia Theatre Podcast.
You can learn more at their website, but it’s basically a podcast designed to feature new work inspired by old work, and to poke fun at Classic Theatre by performing radio play versions of the Wikipedia article about the play!
I am proud to be the director of the spoof portion of the first episode: MacBADth, a very bad (but so so good) Macbeth adaptation. The play will be paired with an excerpt of a really actually great play, beth by Alex Lin.
The podcast will be airing sometime in September, so stay tuned!
And if you want to support the artists who are making this pristine piece of Very Serious Art (including me!), you can do that here.
Very happy to be included in this year’s digital version of In Their Own Voices, an event at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre where they showcase local talent by having playwrights read an excerpt from their own plays!
Here is me reading a bit of Act I of my play EVERYBODY’S DEAD: A COMEDY, with an introduction by Pittsburgh’s Co-Dramatists Guild Rep Mora Harris. EVERYBODY’S DEAD is part of the Bunker Cycle!
In lieu of an in-person showcase this year, CMU is hosting an online version of the event. Covid makes it impossible to travel to LA but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk, drink, and Zoom together!
Delighted to be featured on this very fancy showcase website alongside my other graduating students! (and hopeful that we can all meet up in-person soon).
Very happy to share that my screenplay RECTIFIED: AN APOCRYPHAL HISTORY OF BOURBON is a finalist for the SLOAN/CMU screenwriting competition! I will be doing a speedy rewrite and the revised version will be in consideration for the competition.
