![]() Featuring passages drawn from interviews with real members of Red Sox Nation, Hot Dog Christmas is an examination of responsibility, privilege, and a tumultuous era in America, all through the lens of what it means to root for your hometown team.ĮTHAN WARREN’s first play, Why Are You Nowhere?, won the Playwright’s Award for Staged Reading at the 2016 Midtown International Theatre Festival, as well as the Inkslinger Award from Southeastern Louisiana University, where in February 2017 it had its premiere production. When Heather, a wealthy college student haunted by a recent trauma, gets a job as a fan photographer, Joey and Grace recognize her as a powerful influencer in their connection to the team, and decide for the first time to expand their closely-guarded circle. Joey and Grace are cousins and longtime Fenway Park employees who believe their daily superstitious rituals influence the fate of the Boston Red Sox. She also crochets, is a journalist, and enjoys obscure history. She is also the recipient of the Bly Creative Capacity Grant, the Early Career Dramaturgs Grant, the Comegys Bight Fellowship and the Frederick Douglass Fellowship for her work on August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. Phaedra is a contributor for WBUR’s The ARTery. Directing credits Include: She: A Choreoplay (HERE Performing Arts), Weightless (TC2), I Don’t Know (Company One), and Every 28 Hours (Company One/MFA). Recent dramaturgy credits include Homecoming and Jass (New Harmony Project), OLE WHITE SUGAH DADDY (The Boston Project), How Soft The Lining? (Bad Habit Productions), and Can You Forgive Her? (Huntington Theatre Company). An all-around Renaissance woman, Phaedra has been a part of the artistic departments of Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre Company, and Company One Theatre. PHAEDRA SCOTT is a Boston based writer, dramaturg and director. Created identity and biological fact all come into question in their journey to find truth, acceptance, and selective honesty. ![]() Janae, her niece, is a Black Studies major with a specific set of world views that Sunny does not fit into. Our hope is that this project will put more of them into the theatrical ecosystem.ĭIASPORA explores the world of Sunny, a writer on the edge of success, whose life is shaken when she discovers where she came from. The overwhelming response to our call for proposals demonstrates that there are many stories to be told about Boston. Read more about all three plays and playwrights below. Once again this year, The Boston Project has been made possible through funding from the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Work on each play will build toward a two-week developmental workshop, culminating in invited staged readings in June 2018. The playwrights will also benefit from the input and support of SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault. Throughout the process, SpeakEasy Stage will provide directors and dramaturgs dedicated to each project, research assistance, developmental readings, and other support as needed. The three Boston Project playwrights will each receive a commission and will have nine months to write and develop their proposed plays. We are thrilled to announce the return of Obehi Janice, a 2016-2017 Boston Project Playwright, who will continue development of her play OLE WHITE SUGAH DADDY. is separately incorporated from Mensa in Georgia, but the majority of the board members are also members of Mensa in Georgia.SpeakEasy’s Boston Project is back for a third season, featuring two brand new locally-set plays by playwrights Phaedra Scott and Ethan Warren. Georgia Gifted Students Scholarship Fund, Inc. ![]() John passed away a few years ago, and bequeathed the residual of his estate to this fund. In its final year of operation, John himself, supplied the money for the scholarships to keep the fund alive. In the mid 80's, several needy students received scholarship aid through his efforts. ![]() This scholarship fund was envisioned by a local Mensa in Georgia member, John B. ![]() Each year, the Mensa Foundation awards college scholarships, awards prizes for research in intelligence, sponsors colloquia, and supports other activities including training of teachers of the gifted. Mensa member donations, as well as other outside donations, support this independent 501-c(3) organization. Mensa Education and Research Foundation, Inc. For more details click hereĮach year for the last several years, local members volunteer to be helpers in the Metro-Altanta MathCounts competitions. In the past few years, flooding in the Midwest and in Georgia has created quite a need for this project. This is an ongoing nationwide Mensa project to collect and supply new and good used books to libraries in need. ![]()
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