Playbill: INTAR Names 2011 Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence
January 5, 2011— written by Adam Hetrick for Playbill
INTAR Names 2011 Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence
Julissa Contreras, Fernanda Coppel, Beto O’Byrne and Lisa Ramirez have been named INTAR Theatre's 2011 Maria Irene Fornes Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence.
“As part of the residency, each writer is afforded the opportunity to workshop his or her play prior to three public performances. Lucy Thurber will lead the first of three residency sessions, which will focus on fine-tuning and workshopping a new play. A pre-production session will follow, centering on collaborating with designers, directors and casting agents. Casting director Billy Hopkins will work with the playwrights to cast their works in preparation for the final session, which will mark a public presentation of the respective plays.
Here's a look at the playwrights:
Julissa Contreras is an actor/playwright/director, who is a LaGuardia HS alum and current Brooklyn College student. Contreras is a also a former member of the Manhattan Class Company’s Youth Company where she appeared in In The Moment, Uncensored ’08 and Uncensored ’10 (which she assistant directed), and had her first full length play, Daniel, presented at the company’s FreshPlay festival. Contreras has had her writing presented at RattleStick’s Play Jam Festival 2010, and Rebel Verses at Developing Artist Theater.”