Deneen Reynolds-Knott. 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, William Burke, and Machel Ross – the selected playwrights 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, CPR is partnering for the fourth season to co-present this program, which 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.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott: WHILE WE'RE HERE
When the Hummingbird Triangle, a field in a small town, transforms into an anonymously donated rain garden, a chorus of detractors emerge to commence a stealth mission to reveal the secret donor. WHILE WE'RE HERE is an exploration of suburban paranoia, the privatization of good deeds and the uniting properties of negativity.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott’s plays include SHOEBOX PICNIC ROAD SIDE: ROUTE ONE, (World Premiere at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Fall 2021), BABES IN HO-LLAND (2020 BAPF, Upcoming 2024 Production, Shotgun Players), and PARTICULARLY MEDDLESOME ANCESTORS ( 2023 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2022 Ingram New Works Festival, Nashville Rep).
Additional Spring 2024 Starr Reading Series programs:
Weds, February 28 at 7 P.M.
Aeon Andreas: GODSPUNK
Thurs, February 29 at 7 P.M.
Utkarsh Rajawat: lil nagins: a photorealist rendering of the Tutor Time near Yardley, PA circa 1999
Tues, March 5 at 7 P.M.
Avi Amon: MOTHER/ROAD
Weds, March 6 at 7 P.M.
Genevieve Simon: THIS BUG IS GAY