Another FANTASTIC Reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY @ the Lark in NYC!

A huge thanks to director Reg Douglas, the Lark's incomparable Suzy Fay, the entire cast & all the other wonderful people at the Lark - NYC's premiere play development center - for making the 2nd Roundtable Reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys a great success! 

It was an absolute joy to hear the new draft read aloud on Tuesday, November 19th by the awesomely talented cast that included Reyna de Courcy (PONG); Rachel Napolean (EDIE); Matt MacNelly (ABE); Edward O'Blenis (SAM) & Jamie Rezanour (STAGE DIRECTIONS): Their incredibly thoughtful reading will help inform the continued development of THE POWER PLAY; And we all hope that before too long, everybody gets to see/hear this exciting new play! 

A very special thanks to those foundations & friends who have so generously supported Susan Kathryn Hefti's work & to all who have so loyally followed her writings over the years! 

If you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti's plays, or make a year-end tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. And thanks again for your very generous support!

We'll be sure to keep you all posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys and we hope to see you soon for a very happy occasion!

Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY Gets 2nd Reading @ the Lark!

We are delighted to announce that Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys will have a second Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center in NYC this November!

A huge thanks to the Lark's incomparable Suzy Fay and its intrepid leader John Eisner for their continued support and encouragement on both this new piece and Susan Kathryn Hefti's overall development as an emerging American playwright. 

We also want to thank our lucky stars that the very talented and very busy Reg Douglas will be back directing this 2nd Roundtable Reading at the Lark! 

Roundtable Readings are closed to the public so that the playwright can focus solely on the text as she continues to explore and experiment with the true theatrical potential of her new play. 

Thanks again to Reg & everybody at the Lark! And thanks to all of you who have so loyally followed Susan Kathryn Hefti's writings over the years! 

If you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti's plays, or make a tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. 

We'll be sure to keep you all posted on the continued development of Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play - THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys - and we hope that before too long, everybody will have the opportunity to see/hear this exciting new play! 

Thank you again for your continued interest in the work of emerging American playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti.

Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys

Nanci Zoppi and Anthony D'Juan rehearsing THE POWER  PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys by Susan Kathryn Hefti for PLAYWRIGHTS' REVOLUTION 2013.

Susan Kathryn Hefti is busy working on her new play THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys.  

A coming of age story about four hopeful graduate students, THE POWER PLAY - which received its first public reading at Capital Stage Company's PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013 - explores the nature of power, seduction and betrayal in the context of U.S. military policies: Threading the personal through the eye of a pointedly political needle, the play wrestles with moral questions evoked by the increased reliance on unmanned drone strikes, the targeted assassination of the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the 2009 troop surge into Afghanistan.

To learn more about Susan's plays or to support her work, please visit her profile pages @ Fractured Atlas & Dramatists Guild.

Susan Kathryn Hefti: An Emerging American Playwright

An emerging American playwright, Susan Kathryn Hefti’s plays have been developed or produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater NYC; The Lark Play Development Center NYC; The Harold Clurman Playwrights Division at The Stella Adler Studio NYC; St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery Theatre NYC; Long Beach Playhouse Theatre CA; Capital Stage Company CA and in Paris at Théâtre Mélo d'Amelie & La Comédie Bastille.

Susan’s newest play THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys received a Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center NYC in July 2013. Selected by Capital Stage for its annual New Works Festival PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION, the play also received a staged reading in California in August 2013. THE POWER PLAY is scheduled to receive a second Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center NYC in November 2013.

AMERICAN DAMES, or Waiting for Dolley (2012 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival Finalist; 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Finalist & Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's 2012 Julie Harris Playwright Award Semi-Finalist) enjoyed readings at both the 2012 Harold Clurman Playwrights Division’s New Play Reading Festival in NYC and the 2012 Long Beach Playhouse Theatre’s New Works Festival in Long Beach, California.

Following a staged reading at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery Theatre, Susan’s one-act history play A DEFIANT SOUL – which explores religious persecution in 17th century New Amsterdam – was adapted to be used as a teaching tool in workshops led by theatre artist Vernice Miller and has been widely performed by students exploring early NYC history and the establishment of religious freedom in America.

A DEFIANT SOUL also brought Susan a commission from the City of NY to research, curate and write the narrative for the related exhibit on the 1657 document protesting religious intolerance in New Amsterdam. The exhibit – which Susan entitled The Flushing Remonstrance: Who Shall Plead For Us? – was designed to travel around the country following its 2009 NYC debut. In 2010, the history exhibit authored by Hefti enjoyed a NYC encore, extending again due to popular demand and was most recently on display in Philadelphia (2012).

Susan’s other plays include KEEPIN' COOL (2004 Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist), OFF THE BENCH and DEAR PRUDENCE.

  

A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights’ Center and Fractured Atlas, Susan began her professional writing career as a journalist specializing in environmental news before transitioning into writing for the stage.

In 2009, NY Theater Critic Leonard Jacobs invited Susan to write a regular column for his online magazine The Clyde Fitch Report. Happy to use the opportunity to explore yet another issue close to her heart, Susan dubbed the series The Preservation Diaries.

A 2004 recipient of a PEN American Center Writers Grant, Susan has taught at several Universities including Brown & Yale. 

  

Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY is a Huge Hit @ PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION in California!

Nanci Zoppi & Anthony D'Juan rehearsing Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys

A BIG thanks to Artistic Director Stephanie Gularte, Literary Manager Stephanie Tucker,  the entire cast & all the terrific people at Capital Stage whose talent and hard work made the  first-ever public reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys a HUGE success! 

As Capital Stage is renown for producing bold & exciting new work (most recently staging Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop and Kristoffer Diaz' Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Obie-winning The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), we were thrilled when the theater announced that Susan Kathryn Hefti THE POWER PLAY had been selected for PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION. 

Thanks again to Stephanie (both Stephanies!) and everybody else at Capital Stage for the great care and artistry with which they have embraced THE POWER PLAY. 

If you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti plays, or make a tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. And thanks again for your very generous support!

We'll be sure to keep you posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY & we hope you all get to see this exciting new play sometime soon!

Thanks again for your continued interest in Susan Kathryn Hefti's work!

Capital Stage Company's Artistic Director to Helm Staged Reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY in Annual New Works Festival PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013!

Capital Stage Company Founding Artistic Director,
Stephanie Gularte, to direct Susan Kathryn Hefti's
THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys
for PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION

We are delighted to announce that Capital Stage Company's very talented Artistic Director, Stephanie Gularte, will be directing the first-ever public reading of emerging American playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys, for the theatre's annual New Works Festival PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013! 

As Capital Stage Company does some very exciting work - most recently producing Katori Hall's The Mountaintop & Kristoffer Diaz' The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity - it's a great honor to have THE POWER PLAY included in this year's festival! 

For more information about tickets to the festival, please click on this link or simply call the Capital Stage box office at 916.995.5464!

And if you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti's plays, or make a tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. And thank you for your very generous support!

We'll be sure to keep you posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY & we hope to see you soon for a very happy occasion!

Thanks again for your continued interest in Susan Kathryn Hefti's work!

Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY is Selected for PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013 at Capital Stage in California!

We are thrilled to announce that Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys has been selected for Capital Stage's annual New Play Festival PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013 in Sacramento, California where the play will receive a stage reading this August!

THE POWER PLAY is in very good company as Capital Stage does some very exciting work, most recently producing Katori Hall's The Mountaintop & Kristoffer Diaz' The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity! 

To learn more about how you can get tickets to PLAYWRIGHTS REVOLUTION 2013 at Capital Stage in Sacramento, California, please simply click on this link!

And if you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti's plays, or make a tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. And thank you for your very generous support!

We'll be sure to keep you posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys and we hope to see you soon!

Thanks again for your continued interest in the work of emerging American playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti! 

First-Ever Reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY: a Gigantical Success!

A HUGE thanks to Reg Douglas, Suzy Fay, the entire cast & all the wonderful people at the Lark - NYC's premiere play development center - whose talent and hard work made the first-ever reading of Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys a GIGANTICAL success! 

To hear the characters brought to life by such a talented cast - Zoe Winters (PONG), Jenni Putney (EDIE), Matt MacNelly (ABE), & Keith Leroyal (SAM) - provided fresh insights and a brand new perspective on the play's multilayered narrative which will help to inform the continued development of this exciting new theatrical work. 

And we do hope that before too long, you all get to see/hear THE POWER PLAY! 

In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more about Susan Kathryn Hefti's plays, or make a tax-deductible gift to support the continued development of her work, please visit The Emerging American Artist's Fund by simply clicking on this link provided by her fiscal sponsor, the non-profit arts organization Fractured Atlas. And thanks again for your very generous support!

We'll be sure to keep you all posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY & thanks again for your interest in Susan Kathryn Hefti's work!

Susan Kathryn Hefti's THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys Gets Reading at the Lark!

We are thrilled to announce that Susan Kathryn Hefti's new play, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys will have a Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center in NYC on July 23rd!

An odyssey through the lives of four hopeful graduate students, THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys, explores the nature of power, seduction and betrayal in the context of U.S. military policies: Threading the personal through the eye of a pointedly political needle, the play wrestles with moral questions evoked by the increased reliance on unmanned drone strikes, the targeted assassination of the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the 2009 troop surge into Afghanistan.

The Roundtable reading of THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys will be directed by the awesomely talented Reginald Douglas! And Pong - a character aptly described as a "badass" by the actress who will be reading her - will be given voice by the fiercely talented Reyna de Courcy!

A huge thanks to the Lark's intrepid leader John Eisner and his merry band of theatre professionals including Suzy Fay, Michael Robertson, et al - all of whom made this glorious opportunity possible for Hefti's new play! 

Roundtable Readings at the Lark are the perfect way to begin the process of developing a brand new play as these script sessions provide the playwright an opportunity to hear her new play read aloud with the support of professional actors and a professional director under the nurturing guidance of Lark staff members. Please note that at the Lark, Roundtable readings are closed to the public so that the playwright can focus solely on the text as she begins to explore and experiment with the true theatrical potential of her new play.  

If you are not familiar with the amazing work they do at the Lark, please take a moment & click on this link to learn more about NYC's premiere play development center. It's a totally awesome place that all theater lovers should generously support! In fact, if you'd like to make a tax-deductible gift to the Lark, please click on this link. 

And if you'd like to make a tax-deductible gift to the continued development of the playwright's work, please click on this link. And, thanks!!!

We'll be sure to keep you all posted on the continued development of THE POWER PLAY, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys. And hopefully before too long, there will be an opportunity for everybody to hear/see this new play! 

In the meantime, stay cool & please keep in touch!

And thank you all for your continued interest in the work of emerging American playwright Susan Kathryn Hefti.