Category: playwriting

SHEEPDOG at South Coast Rep this April

Posted on: Feb 09, 2018

Three readings as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival, directed by Leah C. Gardiner . Press release HERE.

Sheepdog
by Kevin Artigue
directed by Leah Gardiner
dramaturg: Jerry Patch
Friday, April 20, 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 22, at 2:30 p.m., in the Nicholas Studio
Another black man killed by a white cop. Only this time the cop is the man you love. And you’re a black woman and a cop yourself. Can you trust your heart if the story keeps changing and you don’t know who or what to believe?

About the Festival:

Created in 1998, the Pacific Playwrights Festival has grown into one of the leading festivals of new plays in the country and showcases some of the best new work on SCR’s radar. The festival offerings generate lively conversation, future world premieres and subsequent productions for numerous playwrights. Of the 131 plays presented in the first 20 years of PPF, nearly all have gone on to productions at SCR and/or other theatres nationwide.

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Irons in the fire

Posted on: Aug 25, 2017

I’ve been in a long six-month period of development with many projects. Here’s what I’ve been up to.

-an original TV pilot that puts a revisionist supernatural spin on the California Gold Rush

-an adaptation of a sci-fi book into a feature

-a new play called SHEEPDOG (just finished) about a police officer shooting

To write this play I’ve been talking with police officers – primarily officers of color – conducting interviews and diving deep into the complex issue of police violence in this country. I’ve been truly fortunate to speak with Officer Nakia Jones, whose brave testimony after the Alton Sterling shooting struck a chord with me and millions across the country.

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DANGEROUS HIGHWAY in San Francisco

Posted on: Apr 06, 2016

So excited to begin rehearsals for THE MOST DANGEROUS HGHWAY IN THE WORLD. Directed by my friend Evren Odcikin, and produced by the wonderful people at Golden Thread.

This is the culmination of three years of development, and I could not be in better hands.

The play runs May 6th-May 29th at the Thick House. More info here.

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DANGEROUS HIGHWAY – announcement

Posted on: Feb 11, 2016

Check out the press release in American Theater Magazine for Golden Thread’s 20th anniversary season, which I’m proud to be part of.

The season will start with the world premiere of Artigue’s The Most Dangerous Highway in the World(May 5–29). The play follows an 8-year-old Afghan boy who makes his living directing traffic on the highway connecting Jalalabad to Kabul. Artigue will be the first playwright produced on the Golden Thread mainstage who is not of Middle-Eastern descent. Golden Thread’s director of marketing and new plays Evren Odcikin will direct.

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Workshop @ the Playwrights Foundation + Stanford

Posted on: Nov 03, 2015

I’ll be heading out to the Playwrights Foundation in S.F. for a week long workshop in late February to develop my play THE MOST DANGEROUS HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD. The workshop is being co-produced by Golden Thread and Stanford University in anticipation of a production of the play running May 6-29th in S.F, directed by Evren Odcikin.

Readings will be Feb. 21st in S.F. and Feb. 22nd at Stanford, location and exact times to be announced.

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Spotlight Reading Series @ the Public

Posted on: Mar 05, 2015

Press release out today for the 2015 Emerging Writer Group‘s Spotlight Series of readings produced by the Public Theater. My play THE FORCINGS will be read April 13, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.

Description of THE FORCINGS…

Company man Ernie Ledezma is the public face of Exxon in Mexico. As his family gathers at his vacation home in coastal North Carolina, seventeen anti-fracking activists remain missing in Mexico. The truth behind their disappearance will set off a chain of events with shocking repercussions for Ernie and his entire family. A contemporary riff on Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, The Forcings depicts a tragedy of power, self-delusion and civilization barreling towards extinction.

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