The Fresh Eyes Project is a bold, new workshop process designed to create and develop plays that are innovative in form or subject. Our directors, dramaturgs and actors work alongside our resident playwrights to customize a rehearsal period best suited to the exploration of a particular play. Over their six month residency, the playwrights will receive three workshops or readings of their play and work with Red Tape Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director John Rooney and Literary Manager Molly Mullen to get their work into the hands of potential producers.
Current Playwright in Residence: Brooke Allen
Past Fresh Eyes Project Plays:
2012
Phenomenon Project
Director: Lindsey Barlag
Dramaturgs: Libby Hladik (Ford) and Erika Schmidt
Choreographer: Kristyn Hegner
Devisors: Chris Acevedo, Jillian Burfete, Carrie Drapac, Amanda Jane Dunne, Mac Gerber, Kristyn Hegner, Pat King, Nicole Ripley and Sergio Soltero
Off the Spectrum
Director/Co-Writer: Elizabeth Lovelady
Co-Writer: Makena Levine
Dramaturg: Michael Manocchio
Devisors: Lauren Bourke, Paulette Hicks, Laura Matthews, Johnard Washington, Jayme Wojciechows
Matawan
Playwright: Daniel Caffrey
Director: Allison Shoemaker
Production Designer: Casey Bentley
Dramaturg: Jessica Reese
Devisors: Dan Chlebanowski, Josh Davis, Hilary Hensler, Brian Hurst, Elise Mayfield, Kevin Murray, Susan Myburg, Derek Van Barham, Christine Vrem
2011
Blue Birds
by Paul G. Miller
Directed by Gretchen Wright
Clown Noir
by Aaron Weissman
with Carly Ciarocchi and Katie Spelman
Now billed as Egg & Alfie. For more information visit http://www.eggandalfie.com/.
Making of a Modern Folk Hero
by Martin Zimmerman
Directed by Nathan Green
Subsequently workshoped at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the Source Festival in Washington, DC and the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, ID.
The Narrows
by Nicholas Bailey
Directed by Josh Altman
2010
A Twist of Water
by Caitlin Parish
Directed by Keira Fromm
After a sold out run at Theatre Wit, A Twist of Water transfered to the Mercury Theaer. The Jeff-Recommended production of A TWIST OF WATER was named one of the 5 Best Shows of The Year So Far by The Chicago Tribune.
The Avifauna of Perpetuity
by Mishelle Apalategui
Directed by Rebecca Stevens
City Lights, Receding
by Cory Tamler
Directed by Kyle Land
2009
Demon’s Crystal
by Paul G. Miller
Directed by Mark Chaitin
Mechanical Angels
by Mishelle Apalategui
Directed by Lavina Jadhwani
Mouse in a Jar
by Martyna Majok
Directed by Daria Jolan Davis
Had a Jeff Award Winning production at Red Tape Theatre in 2009. In 2010 the show was produced at the LIDA Project in Denver, Co.
2006
Baden Lehrstuck
by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by James D Palmer
2005
Click
by Jed Alexander
Directed by Shawn Galligan
Eroica
by David Alex
Directed by Doug Long
Jesusland
by David Starkey
Directed by James D Palmer
Subsequent reading at Stage Q in Madison, WI.
