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January 2020
What You Are Now workshop and reading
directed by Steve Cosson
developed at New Dramatists as a part of the Playwright-Theater Partnerships project, in partnership with The Civilians and supported in part by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project
https://newdramatists.org/events/2020-01-17/what-you-are-now-sam-chanse
September 2019
Loading Dock Resident Artist / Reading
What you are now, directed by Charles Quittner
http://loadingdocktheatre.org/forklift/
July/August 2019
Ojai Playwrights Conference 2019, Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
Directed by Lucie Tiberghien
https://www.ojaiplays.org
June 2019
Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play), Lark Studio Retreat
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
https://www.larktheatre.org/whats-happening/events/monument-or-4-sisters-sloth-play/
May/June 2019
Summer Partnership in the Arts at University of Iowa’s Dept. of Theatre Arts
Director Jade King Carroll
https://theatre.uiowa.edu/production/summer-partnership-arts
April/May 19 2019
Fruiting Bodies at Ma-Yi Theater
Directed by Shelley Butler
http://ma-yitheatre.org/onstage/fruiting-bodies/
January 2019
The Pussy Grabber Plays: stories inspired by the women who came forward
Directed by Jade King Carroll
https://www.thepussygrabberplays.com
Past (more):
December 2018
Monument/4 sistersworkshop at New Dramatists
424 W. 44th Street, New York, NY
June 2 – 30, 2018
The Opportunities of Extinctionproduction with Broken Nose TheatreDirected by Jen Poulin
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
June 2018
Fruiting Bodies workshop at New DramatistsDirected by Shelley Butler
424 W. 44th Street, New York, NY
March/April 2018
The Opportunities of Extinctionworkshop production
Cherry Lane Mentor Project
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY
February/March 2018
Trigger developmental production with Leviathan Lab
Directed by Flordelino Lagundino
IATI Underground Theater
64 E 4th Street, New York, NY
January 2018
The Opportunities of Extinction reading
IAMA Theatre Reading Series
Atwater Village Theater
2369 Casitas Ave, Los Angeles, CA
December 14, 2017
Trigger workshop/reading at New Dramatists
November 10, 2017
Opportunities of Extinction workshop & reading at Ars Nova
November 1, 2017
The Other Instinct at the Lark’s Playwrights’ Week
October 20, 2017
NAMT Songwriters’ Cabaret
October 2017
SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Residency
October 8 & 13, 2017
Portland Playhouse Fall Reading Series Opportunities of Extinction
July 9-26, 2017
The Other Instinct at LeapFest
Stage Left Theatre
Chicago, IL
May 9, 2017
The Opportunities of Extinction
The Lark’s Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop readings
New York, NY
April 27, 2017 (rescheduled from original 3/14 date)
First Light Festival at Ensemble Studio Theatre
what you are now (EST/Sloan Project)
New York, NY
February 13, 2017
Lark Roundtable
New York, NY
March 25, 2017
Rattlestick annual TheaterJAM
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
New York, NY
February 28 – March 3, 2017
Creativity Fund Workshop at New Dramatists
the opportunities of extinction
New York, NY
January 18 – February 3, 2017
Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists
New York, NY
November 20, 2016
the opportunities of extinction
Ma-Yi Fall Lab Fest
260 W. 35th Street, New York, NY
September 14 – October 12, 2016
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
October 27-31, 2016
Merrimack Repertory Theatre residency
Lowell, MA
September 12, 2016, @ 6pm
New Dramatists New Playwright Welcome
424 W. 44th Street, New York, NY
August 2 – 7, 2016
SPACE at Ryder Farm
retreat with Ars Nova’s Play Group
Brewster, NY
June 27 & June 29, 2016 @ 7.30pm
FRUITING BODIES reading, directed by Jesse Jou
as part of Stella Adler’s First Breath New Play Reading Series
New York, NY
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May 19, 2016 @ 7pm
THE OTHER INSTINCT reading, directed by Sarah Krohn
as part of Playwrights Realm’s INK’D Fest May 17-20, 2016
New York, NY
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Monday, May 9, 2016 @ 4pm
WHAT YOU ARE NOW reading, directed by Colette Roberts
as part of The Civilians’ R&D FINDINGS Series, May 9-20, 2016
Brooklyn, NY
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
“What Playwrights Bring to the Composition Classroom,” AWP Panel with Normany Sherwood, Sam Chanse, Eliza Bent
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, April 2, 2016
AWP: Kaya Press/Tia Chucha Press #LitinColor Booth (1310) to Celebrate Writers of Color this AWP!
Los Angeles, CA
Friday, April 1, 2016
Kaya & Kundiman’s LITERAOKE (off-site AWP event)
Los Angeles, CA
Monday & Tuesday, March 27 & 28, 2016
LOBSTERS LIVE FOREVER at Gallery Players with LeviathanBrooklyn, NY
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
FLOPS, FAILURES, & FIASCOS with the Civilians
New York, NY
Sunday, January 17, 2016
FRUITING BODIES at Ma-Yi Winter 2016 Labfest
New York, NY
Monday, February 1, 2016
LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO San Francisco Launch with Kaya Press and Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco, CA
Monday, January 25, 2016
LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO Los Angeles Launch with Kaya Press
Los Angeles, CA
Monday, January 25, 2016
CDP 5th Anniversary Concert at Joe’s Pub
New York, NY