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.
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.
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.
My play THE MOST DANGEROUS HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD, set along a treacherous highway in Afghanistan, is one of six scripts selected for the NNPN’s annual National Showcase of New Plays. The NNPN holds a unique and necessary place in the universe of new play development in this country. I’m honored to be a part.
About the Showcase: The National Showcase of New Plays is a traveling new-play festival that presents the country’s best unproduced plays in staged reading format to an intimate gathering of theater professionals. With artistic leadership from most of our 29 Core Member and 45 Associate Member Theaters in attendance, the Showcase creates a unique, invaluable opportunity for production-ready scripts to be heard by the people most willing to produce them. In addition to artistic and managing directors, we invite a group of 100 playwrights, literary managers, playwright agents, and other colleagues from around the country to network with us on behalf of the plays and playwrights we present. All scripts are read blind. The vast majority of the scripts read at the Showcase go on to professional productions within and outside the Network.