New Play Development

Project History

Promise
Based On: Our Town
Guest Artist: Michael Rhod
Workshop: September 2001 – April 2002
Script Development: August 2002 – August 2003
HS Production Tour: February 2004

We Are Antigone
Based On: Antigone
Guest Artist: Tammy Ryan
Workshop: Summer 2003
Script Development: July 2003 – August 2004
HS Production Tour: April 18 – May 2, 2005

Defy You, Stars
Based On: Romeo & Juliet
Guest Artist: Lauren Gunderson
Workshop: Summer 2004
Script Development: July 2004 – August 2005
HS Production Tour: April 12 - 26, 2006

The True Chronicle History of Hip Hop Lear (or the King of Blingland and his three daughters )
Based On: King Lear
Guest Artist: OyamO
Workshop: June 13 – July 2, 2005
Script Development: July 2005 – August 2006
HS Production Tour: February 5 - 16, 2007

17
Based On: Death of a Salesman
Guest Artist: Chay Yew
Workshop: June 12 – 30, 2006
Script Development: July 2006 – August 2007
HS Production Tour: Spring 2008

Memorabilia
Based On: The Glass Menagerie
Guest Artist: Ken Weitzman
Workshop: June 11 - 29, 2007
Script Development: July 2007 – August 2008
HS Production Tour: Spring 2009

Children of the Dream
Based On: “I Have a Dream” Speech
Guest Artist: Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Workshop: June 30 – July 18, 2008
Script Development: July 2008 – February 2009
HS Production Tour: Spring 2009

Around Atlanta on Eighty Dollars
Based On: Around the World in 80 Days
Guest Artist: Mark Valdez
Workshop: June 29 – July 18, 2009
Script Development: July 2009 – February 2010
Production with HS Acting Ensemble: July 2011

The Short Story of Michael Fish
Based On: Cyrano de Bergerac
Guest Artist: Janece Shaffer
Workshop: June 28 – July 17, 2010
Script Development: July 2010 – June 2011

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: an inside/outside improvisational collaboration
Based On: The Declaration of Independence
Guest Artist: Pearl Cleage
Assistant Director: Patrcik McColery
Workshop: June 27 – July 17, 2011