COMING SPRING 2021
A mythical allegory about finding hope in a world turned unrecognizable.
Previously postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we close out our 2020-2021 Season with this moving play by Jennifer Fawcett, Atlas of Mud. |
Synopsis
Ten years after the world flooded and people fled to the boats, the desperation to find land has become lethal but the satellites still see nothing but water. Guarded by the military, one boat holds special cargo: seeds to plant when land is found, birds to find the land, and a child called Mud. A mythical allegory about finding hope in a world turned unrecognizable.
National Science Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, 2008
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The Company
DIRECTING Repertory Theatre of Iowa: The Diary of Anne Frank, That Championship Season; Des Moines Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire; Duluth Playhouse: Singin' In the Rain; Yellow Tree (MN): Expecting Isabel; Williamston (MI): Five-Course Love; Guthrie Theatre (Studio): Hopscotch; Other Professional: Seven Year Itch, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Do! I Do!, Noises Off, Lysistrata the Bluegrass Musical!, Mother Courage, Night at the Carlton With Ray Charles; Guest Residencies; The 39 Steps, One Man-Two Guvnors, On The Razzle, As You Like It, Antigone; Simpson College: Peer Gynt, Learned Ladies, Henry 5, Into the Woods, Trojan Women, Godspell, Quilters, The Woman in Black, Twelfth Night; Other Academic: Machinal, The Winter's Tale, The Marriage of Figaro, The Bacchae; ACTING Goldfinch Theatre: Macbeth; Stagewest: Time Stands Still; Other: Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Brigadoon, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Equus, A Flea In Her Ear. Homepage tomwoldt.com
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TheatreMidwest is committed to maintaining the casting and production positions from last spring, pending the continued availability of the individual artists.
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JENNIFER FAWCETT, Playwright
READINGS/WORSHOPS ATLAS OF MUD: The Inkwell, Lied Center (KS), Central Square Theatre, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Lark PLay Development Center, Kennedy Center Lab, Union Eight Theatre; PRODUCTIONS ATLAS OF MUD: Working Group Theatre (Iowa City), Collin College (TX), OTHER PLAYS: Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Phoenix Theatre (Indiana), Source Festival, Centenary Stage Company, Available Light Theatre, Uprising Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project, The Drilling Company, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Alcyone Festival (Chicago), Theatre Masters, Hatchery Festival, Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Residency, Banff Playwrights Colony, The Inkwell, Lark Playwrights' Week, Cultural Conversations (Penn State), National New Play Network MFA Workshop at the Kennedy Center; AWARDS Kennedy Center National Science Playwriting Award (ATLAS OF MUD), National New Play Network Smith Prize for Political Theatre, Susan Glaspell Award (APPLES IN WINTER), NEFA National Theatre Project Award (OUT OF BOUNDS), ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award Nominee (BIRTH WITCHES); TRAINING University of Iowa (MFA Playwrights Workshop); Curious Theatre Company-Denver (National New Play Network Emerging-Playwright-In-Residence). |