Salt Lake Acting Company News Release
PRESS CONTACT: CYNTHIA FLEMING. 801 363 7522. CYNTHIA@SALTLAKEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THAT ‘THE PERSIAN QUARTER’ BY PLAYWRIGHT IN RESIDENCE KATHLEEN CAHILL HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE ATCA/STEINBERG NEW PLAY AWARD.
Salt Lake Acting Company is proud to announce that THE PERSIAN QUARTER by Playwright in Residence Kathleen Cahill has been recommended for consideration for the American Theatre Critics Association’s annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award. The prestigious award honors new scripts produced outside of New York City in 2011. THE PERSIAN QUARTER received its world premiere last February as part of the 2010-2011 Season at SLAC.
The American Theatre Critics Association has chosen new plays to be cited in their theatre yearbook’s ‘Best Plays’ since 1974. As of 1986, ATCA has chosen three such plays each year for its New Play Awards. This January, the top-ranked playwright will be awarded $15,000 and both runners-up will be awarded $5,000. The awards will be announced at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
It is quite an honor to be considered by ATCA, as only about two dozen scripts are recommended out of hundreds of new plays seen by ATCA agents. Kathleen Cahill says of her nomination, “Even to be considered for a national award feels like an honor to me, and an honor to the production team at SLAC. There are so many plays produced every year around the country.... just to be noticed is amazing.”
Congratulations to everyone involved in SLAC’s world premiere production of THE PERSIAN QUARTER. Playwright Kathleen Cahill and the company & creative team including cast members Nell Gwynn, Deena Marie Manzanares, Shane Mozaffari & Josh Thoemke; costume designer Brenda Van der Wiel; lighting designer Jesse Portillo; sound designer Cynthia Kehr Rees; choreographer Cynthia Fleming; set designer Keven Myhre; and director Alexandra Harbold.
This honor acknowledges the importance of Kathleen Cahill’s work. We are fortunate to have such a brilliant and enlightened writer in our Salt Lake City community and proud that Salt Lake Acting Company has already championed and produced 2 of her world premieres. CHARM was produced in March 2010 and won the Edgerton Best New American Play award. In February 2011 THE PERSIAN QUARTER received its world premiere and also won the Edgerton Best New American Play Award. Serving SLAC’s mission to make a significant contribution to the American theatre field, THE PERSIAN QUARTER has had continued life after SLAC’s stage. THE PERSIAN QUARTER recently opened the season at Merrimack Rep in Massachusetts in September 2011 and received a staged reading at Chicago’s Timeline Theatre Company in May 2011. SLAC will proudly present the world premiere of Kathleen Cahill’s newest play COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE in April 2012.
FACT SHEET
NOMINATION American Theatre Critics Association’s ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award
PRODUCTION THE PERSIAN QUARTER
PLAYWRIGHT Kathleen Cahill
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED October 2011
NOMINATIONS AWARDED January 2012
NOW PLAYING
GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza, with Darrin Doman, Nell Gwynn, Zack Phifer, Christy Summerhays. Directed by John Caywood.
DATES Opened: October 12, 2011
Closing: November 6, 2011
TIMES Regular: Wed – Sat - 7:30 p.m.
Sun- 1:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.
World Premiere of (a man enters) by Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch, with Joyce Cohen, Terence Goodman, Amanda Mahoney, Deena Marie Manzanares & Jesse Peery. Directed by Alexandra Harbold.
DATES Opened: November 2, 2011
Closing: December 4, 2011
TIMES Regular: Wed – Sat - 7:30 p.m.
Sun- 1:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.
SLAC NOTES
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SLAC is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 professional theatre found in 1970 and is dedicated to producing, commissioning and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC operates under a STP Actors Equity Association contract. SLAC is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group, a national organization for non-profit professional regional theatres, and the National New Play Network.
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Cynthia Fleming
Executive Producer
Salt Lake Acting Company
801.363.7522
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