Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop

 

Road Less Traveled Productions is proud to announce its

2012 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop playwrights:

Katherine Boswell

Susan Fenster

Donna Hoke

Anne Moot

Thomas Scrivani

Adam Seidel

Darryl Schneider

Michael Votta

 

 

Named for WNY’s legendary playwright, Emanuel “Manny” Fried, RLTP’s Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop supports the development of original dramatic works by local playwrights. Under the supervision of Workshop Director Kyle LoConti and Literary Manager/Resident Playwright Jon Elston, playwrights provide peer support to one another during the composition and revision of their original plays over a nine month period. RLTP then presents readings of these new plays to the public, directed by and featuring some of WNY’s finest theatrical talent. Audience members who attend these readings are invited to enjoy a glimpse of tomorrow’s world premiere productions and to offer their constructive feedback — an integral component of each playwright’s process.

Since 2004, the NPW has supported thirty-three local playwrights in the development of over forty original plays. Six of those plays have received world premiere productions by Road Less Traveled Productions; three of those – Darryl Schneider’s War Room, Annette Daniels Taylor’s A Little Bit Of Paradise, and Ibn Shabazz’ Insidious – have won the prestigious Artie Award for Best New Play, with two others receiving a nomination for the same award. In addition, multiple plays developed in the NPW have subsequently received world premiere productions outside of RLTP.

Applications for admission to the 2012 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop will be accepted beginning December 1st, 2011. Please check back here for application guidelines, or contact Jon Elston at genman@roadlesstraveledproductions.org for more information.

NPW PARTICIPATING PLAYWRIGHTS

• Eric Appleton (06/07)
• Dana Block (06/07, 2009)
• Frank Canino (05/06,06/07, 2011)
• Annette Daniels Taylor (05/06,06/07, 2010)
• Cindy Darling (05/06, 2009)
• Philip Durgan (2009)
• Michael Fanelli (05/06, 2008, 2010)
• Hunter Fernandez (2009)
• Rosa Fernandez (2011)
• Tom Paul Fox (2008)
• Billy Horn (2008)
• Donna Hoke (2008, 2009, 2011)

• April Jones (04/05)
• Justin Karcher (2009, 2010)
• Moira Keenan (2011)
• Aaron Krygier (2008)
• Christopher LaBanca (2008)
• Alex Livingston (2008, 2009, 2010)
• James Marzo (2010, 2011)
• Melissa Mawhinney (2009)
• Shaun McLaughlin (2011)
• Andrew Novell (04/05)
• Jose Rivera (2011)
• Gary Earl Ross (2008)
• Steve Roylance (2010, 2011)
• Vincent Scarsella (2010)
• Darryl Schneider (04/05, 05/06, 2010)
• Ibn Shabazz (2008)
• Lisa Vitrano (04/05)
• Melody Von Smith (06/07, 2008, 2010)
• Neil Wechsler (2010)
• Wendy Weinstein (2009)
• Mark Witteveen (2011)
• Jon Zelasko (2011)