Theatre Arts Program
Staged Reading at Bruce Montgomery Theatre, Annenberg Center for Performing Arts
February 14 7pm
Free admission
About this year's winning playwright:
Seung Hyun Chung is a senior majoring in English. An aspiring scholar and artist, he uses playwriting as a creative method to engage his research interests in critical race theory, psychoanalysis, and the environmental humanities. When not working on his creative and academic passions, he takes therapeutic walks to Trader Joe’s and rants about the next anime he is watching.
His play, Nighthawk Cafe, delves into the performativity of race inside an ominous, lonely bar spoken only as “the Cafe.” A seemingly ordinary interaction among three strangers starts to unravel notions of Whiteness, Blackness, and Asianness and how they are deeply entangled within each other.
PENN PLAYS FELLOWSHIP: Kelly Writers House Reading
The Theatre Arts Program and Kelly Writers House are pleased to announce the fourth year of the PENN PLAYS FELLOWSHIP, a collaborative playwriting project open to current students, faculty, and staff at the University of Pennsylvania. The PENN PLAYS FELLOWSHIP features a $500 award for the winning playwright and the opportunity to develop the winner’s script through critical feedback by Penn faculty, professional writers, and dramaturgs. The Fellowship will culminate in a staged reading or workshop production of the winning work at the Bruce Montgomery Theatre.
Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger and director David O'Connor will feature in the reading panel discussion following the reading.
This event will be the first public reading of the winning play, featuring local professional actors and refreshments following the event. Free and open to the public.
The cast for the Kelly Writers House Reading: