Maya Lawson. Image courtesy the artist.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators, currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, and William Burke, 4-8 playwrights are selected each year, and receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, the 2023 Starr Reading Series will take place at, and is co-presented by, CPR – Center for Performance Research. Now in its second year, this collaboration unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Maya Lawson: For Du
For Du is a play for two in three parts, staged site specifically at the revelry of a wedding after-party during which two people remeet to discover their shared past unlocks unexpected games of catharsis and fantasy...In a world of music, animal masks, secrets and loss, how much choice do we have in loving or letting go?
Maya Lawson is a playwright and performer whose plays include Come Home to Me; Lotusland; Iphigenia: A Play for Adults; and When We Were Small No One Noticed. She has performed across the country, and in new work in NYC with The Mad Ones (The Essential Straight and Narrow, New Ohio Theatre); William Burke (Untitled American Flag Craft Project, The Brick); Johnny Klein (Auto Graphic Novel, Theater for the New City); Christiana Axelson (Tundra, Invisible Dog Art Center, BAX, Dixon Place), and Lily Gold (Lily Gold Project, Art@Renaissance). Films include: Brand Upon the Brain!, directed by Guy Maddin and ZBird, co-written with director Wyatt Troll. She has a BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts, and is a recent graduate of the Hunter College MFA in Playwriting program with the class of 2022.
Additional Starr Reading Series programs:
Mon, March 27 at 7:30 P.M.
Marissa Joyce Stamps: Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis
Tues, March 28 at 7:30 P.M.
Alba Delia Hernández: I've Been Giving Puerto Rican History Lessons for Free
Weds, March 29 at 7:30 P.M.
Divya Mangwani: The Nation Needs to Know
Mon, April 3 at 7:30 P.M.
Daniella De Jesús: GOOEY’S TOXIC AQUATIC ADVENTURE at Wasteland!™ (presented by amazon)
Weds, April 5 at 7:30 P.M.
Jesús I. Valles: untitled table play
The Bushwick Starr is grateful to partner with CPR in co-presenting and hosting the annual Starr Reading Series as they build their new permanent home in Bushwick! The grand opening of The Bushwick Starr’s new venue will take place in about a year, but you can be a part of the celebration today! Please consider joining the Starr Giving Galaxy, a community of donors, friends, and audiences making an ongoing commitment to the Starr's future. Your support will help our artists create groundbreaking new performances, and establish a lasting home for the arts and culture in North Brooklyn for all to enjoy.