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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 18-21, 2017 The Park Record Acting Company readies lab Gate” by Kathleen Cahill, “Boy About Ten” by Jon Tuttle, “Bull Shark Attack” by Troy Deutsch, “Ready Steady Yeti Go” by David Jacobi, “Wild Goose Dreams” by Hansol Jung, and “Laura and the Sea” by Kate Tarker. Salt Lake Acting Company is extremely grateful to the Weinholtz Family Foundation, the National New Play Network, and the Dramatists Guild Fund for their support of the SLAC Lab. The lab will also explore four new works: “Magic City” by Hilary Bettis, “Silent Dancer” by Kathleen Cahill, “Trees in Their Youth” by Dominic Finocchiaro and “No One Is Forgotten” by Winter Miller. In addition to the actors, directors, dramaturgs, and stage managers, the playwrights have access to a team of resource artists who will offer their insights. This year’s resource artists include Milbre Burch (storyteller), David Kranes (playwright), Corinne Penka (choreographer/ movement specialist), Steffan Soule (stage magician), and Jeff Wirth (improvisation artist). About the playwrights • Hilary Bettis writes plays, TV and movies. She is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and is a 2015 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship at The Juilliard School. She is currently working on a commissioned adaptation of Miss Julie with Michel Hausmann/Miami New Drama. • Kathleen Cahill’s awards include the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Play- writing Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, two Edgerton Foundation Awards and a Drama League Award. Her play “Charm” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and her play “The Persian Quarter” was nominated for a Steinberg Award. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company. • Dominic Finocchiaro’s fulllength plays include “Brother Brother,” “Complex,” “The FOund Dog,” “Ribbon Dance” and more. His writing has been produced and developed around the country, including with Roundabout Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Lark Play Development Center, the National New Play Network and the Amoralists. • Winter Miller is an awardwinning playwright, 2016 NYFA grant recipient and founding member of the Obie-recognized collective 13 Playwrights. She is best known for her drama “In Darfur,” which premiered at The Public Theater, followed by a standing room only performance at their 1800-seat Delacorte Theater in Central Park, a first for a play by a woman. Miller is also Certified Core Energetics Facilitator. The group Voices of Uganda invited Miller to northern Uganda to write short plays for a group of youth living in a refugee camp whose lives were devastated by the LRA and AIDS. The work is chronicled in the 2013 documentary After Kony: Staging Hope. For information, visit www. saltlakeactingcompany.org. Opera education department, which annually introduces more than 140,000 of Utah’s school aged children to opera through Resident Artist presentations, as well as to orchestral music through Utah Symphony concerts at schools throughout the state. “I’m proud to be a part of Utah Opera’s 40th anniversary season celebrations,” said Utah Symphony | Utah Opera President rector Thierry Fischer. The program will include Rich- and CEO Paul Meecham. “It is ard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs,” an ideal opportunity to look back and pay homage to the legacy of among other works. ConcertLidia proceeds will help sup- founder Glade Peterson, and at Yuknavich Half.pdf 1 2/13/2017 8:16:10 AM port the Utah Symphony | Utah the same time to look toward the future with new productions such as the Utah premiere of the 21st century’s most popular opera to date, ‘Moby-Dick'. “Of all art forms, perhaps it is opera, with its theatrical blend of song and words, that has the most potential to express emotions in vivid, affecting colors,” Meecham said. “The collaboration of the artists assembled for Utah Opera’s 2017-18 season promises to realize spectacular live experiences for our audiences worthy of an anniversary celebration.” For information, visit www. utahopera.org. Workshop will explore four new theatrical works Submitted by Salt Lake Acting Company Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) prepares to welcome 40 theatre artists from Utah and across the country for its third annual Playwrights’ Lab (SLAC Lab) that will be held Feb. 19-26. The SLAC Lab began in 2015 after SLAC Executive Artistic Director Cynthia Fleming asked David Kranes to help create something like the Sundance Theatre Lab (which Kranes founded and ran for its first 14 years) at Salt Lake Acting Company. What has developed over the last three years is an intensive, exploratory developmental workshop in which playwrights are given the all-too-rare time and space to experiment without the pressure of an impending audience. SLAC gathers a company of talented and generous artists (local and national) to spend a week of 12-hour days investigating four new plays; lending their minds, voices, and bodies as artistic tools for the playwrights to deepen their scripts. The SLAC Lab has developed six scripts thus far, four of which have gone on to full productions either at SLAC or at theatres across the country – “Harbur Continued From C-5 Opera announces new season C-9 |