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THE POOL 2.0

Pool 2.0

About

THE POOL 2020 was a consortium of playwrights presenting three arresting plays in rep. 

Carrying on The Pool's legacy of artist-driven production, KATE CORTESI, BRENDA WITHERS,

and EMILY ZEMBA  joined forces to bring their works to life at the NEW OHIO.

Fewer than a third of plays produced in the US are written by women.  The Pool battles this inequity with exuberance by putting female voices into conversation - rather than competition - with each other. 

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Plays: GREAT KILLS (Princess Grace Award), A PATRON OF THE ARTS (Cherry Lane Theatre), ONE MORE LESS (NYFA, Relentless finalist), LOVE (Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, Kilroys List, Marin Theatre Co.), CITIZENS UNITED (KeenTeens Theater) & IS EDWARD SNOWDEN SINGLE? (The Jungle Theater, Single Carrot Theater, Dorset Theatre Fest). Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Keen Co., South Coast Rep. Resident playwright at New Dramatists & Huntington Playwriting Fellow. 


http://katecortesi.com

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Brenda is a writer, actor & co-founder of the Harbor Stage Company. Plays: JORDAN (Northern Stage), THE KRITIK, STRING AROUND MY FINGER (Portland Stage, Clauder Prize), NORTHSIDE HOLLOW (Urbanite Theatre), and MATT & BEN. Dev't & Productions: Hudson Valley Shakespeare, HERE, Amphibian Stage, Two River. Huntington Playwriting Fellow, Dartmouth College grad.

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https://www.bwithers.com/

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Plays: DEER AND THE LOVERS (First Floor Theater), CLOCKWORK (Local Lab), ON LOSS AND MICE AND MONSTERS AND LOVE (LPAC), HAVE YOU BEEN THERE (F*ck!ng Good Plays Festival); Dev't: ANT Fest Ars Nova, Exquisite Corpse, GPTC. Commissions & Memberships: 2019 Theater Masters Visionary Playwright Commission, 2020 Two River Theater Emerging Playwright, Society, Playwrights Center, New Georges, Middle Voice at Rattlestick. MFA: Yale School of Drama


https://www.emilyzemba.com/

About

The first Pool Plays were produced at THE FLEA in New York City November 14 - December 16th 2017

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READ about The Pool in The Brooklyn Rail!

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HEAR The Pool on New Dramatists' ND: In Depth podcast!

Susan Bernfield's TANIA IN THE GETAWAY VAN

directed by Portia Krieger
Annie McNamara, Caitlin Morris, Courtney G. Williams, Madeline Wise 


time travel through TANIA with Susan and Portia

Our production team: taking on the whole rep are set designer Devin August Petersen, lighting designer Christina Watanabe, co-costume designers Lillian Prentice & Ilana Breitman, props designer Peter McNally, line producer Aaron Rossini, production manager Corinne Woods, associate production manager Joyce Miller & intern Mylan Gray. 

TANIA is "thoughtful and tender!"

WASHED UP is "snappy" and "sharp!"

RAFA has "campy pleasures" and "hothouse performances!"

 

"Acting as producers, the authors certainly have done elegantly by their plays."  -- The Village Voice

Peter Gil Sheridan's

THE RAFA PLAY

directed by Morgan Gould
Juan Arturo, Olli Haaskivi, Tommy Heleringer, Annie Henk,

Megan Hill,
Tommy Russell swing it like RAFA with Peter and Morgan!

RAFA has sound design by Mark Van Hare and is stage managed by Fatimah Amill, while TANIA features composer Rachel Peters, sound design by Fan Zhang, assistant director Dylan Zwickel and PSM Elizabeth Emanuel and shares projection designer David Bengali with WASHED UP -- which has original songs by Matt Schatz, sound design by David M. Lawson, dramaturgy by Sarah Lunnie, and is stage managed by Kaila Galinat. 
 

Pool 1.0

THE POOL 1.0

Lynn Rosen's WASHED UP ON THE POTOMAC

directed by José Zayas
Austin Blunk, Crystal Finn,

Adam Green, Jennifer Morris,
Debargo Sanyal, Jacque Emord-Netzley are WASHED UP's
cubicle dwellers with

Lynn and José

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The Pool 1.0 press Rep: David Gibbs/DARR Publicity.  david@darrpublicity.com

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