{"id":104794,"date":"2023-10-11T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=104794"},"modified":"2023-10-11T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:41:56","slug":"behind-the-curtain-with-the-next-stage-workshops","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2023\/behind-the-curtain-with-the-next-stage-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting New Works of Theatre with the Next Stage Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin is-style-emphasis-on-text has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1650\" height=\"1080\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1.jpg 1650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1-636x416.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Edward-Sturm-1-1528x1000.jpg 1528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\"><em>The cast of <\/em>Priscilla<em>, by Edward Sturm (CFA\u201924)<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Students<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUplifting New Works of Theatre with the Next Stage Workshops\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Go behind the curtain and into the writing process of the new plays by BU graduate and undergraduate students that were workshopped as part of CFA&#8217;s annual Fringe Festival<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">October 11, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/authors\/lana-sage\/\">Lana Sage (CFA&#8217;24)<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph news-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-dropcap-dimensional has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-primary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>As part of the 27th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/music\/opera\/fringe-festival\/\">Fringe Festival<\/a> and Boston University School of Theatre&#8217;s fall 2023 semester, undergraduate and graduate students produced the Next Stage Workshops, wherein new works are uplifted, celebrated, and workshopped.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As the (unofficial) next step in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/cfa\/theatre\">School of Theatre<\/a>\u2019s (SOT) undergraduate new work processes &#8211; after the bi-annual Springboard Festival &#8211; the Next Stage Workshops (NSW) have offered playwrights the opportunity to see their pieces on their feet for the first time. Usually consisting of an assigned or chosen production team of a director, dramaturg, actors, and designing consultants for limited sound and lighting design, NSW focuses on how the words of the play, along with limited staging, stage directions read aloud, and scripts in hand, impacts an audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to playwright and Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/kirsten-greenidge\/\">Kirsten Greenidge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/academics\/degrees-programs\/playwriting\/\">Playwriting<\/a> program director, chair of Theatre Arts, co-chair of Performance, and facilitator of NSW, the goal of the workshops is multifaceted. The workshops are playwright-centered, in that they\u2019re \u201cdesigned for playwrights to work on their plays, but it is also for writers to work with directors on developing text, and for a company of artists to collaborate with each other on a play that is not yet fully realized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote news-block-bu-pullquote alignwide has-image-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><figure><\/figure><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">The workshops are designed for playwrights to work on their plays, but it is also for writers to work with directors on developing text, and for a company of artists to collaborate with each other on a play that is not yet fully realized.<\/div><footer class=\"caption\"><br\/>Kirsten Greenidge<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With this&nbsp;year being the first time BU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MFA Playwriting<\/a> students participate in NSW, it has more than doubled the amount of new works presented compared to previous years. Throughout the four weeks of the festival, graduate playwrights presented their works in the David Copeland Black Box Theatre and undergraduate playwrights presented in BU&#8217;s Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 1 of the NSW (September 22 &#8211; 24) consisted of graduate playwright Maggie Kearnan\u2019s (CAS\u201925) <em>Like Flies: A Rage Play<\/em> and undergraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/academics\/degrees-programs\/theatre-arts\/bfa-performance\/\">Theatre Arts<\/a> major Edward Sturm\u2019s (CFA\u201924) <em>Priscilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay news-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-thirds-3\">\n<div class=\"photo-3\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-Maggie-Kearnan-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\"><em>The reading of <\/em>Like Flies, a Rage Play, <em>by Maggie Kearnan<\/em><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 2 (September 29 &#8211; October 1) presented <em>DOWN NECK <\/em>by graduate playwright Tina Esper (CAS&#8217;25) and <em>Cars, Candy, and Other Colorful Things<\/em> by undergraduate Theatre Arts major Gaby Tovar (CFA\u201925).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 3 (October 6 &#8211; 8) rounded out the undergraduate presentations with Theatre Arts major JoJo Leaito\u2019s <em>Delinquents Never Stay Long<\/em> and continued the MFA playwrights presentations with Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens\u2019 <em>broke (not broken), lost n found<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final weekend (October 13 &#8211; 14) brought Brandon Zang\u2019s <em>Ginkgo Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay news-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-thirds-3\">\n<div class=\"photo-3\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Next-Stage-Workshop-JoJo-Leiato.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\"><em>Workshopping Jojo&#8217;s<\/em> Delinquents Never Stay for Long<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no expected \u2018product\u2019 of the new works presented in NSW. From fully memorized and staged performances to simply entering and exiting the stage, Greenidge expects that, within each respective two week rehearsal process, the companies use their \u201ctime to learn about the play and have discussions that will further the play\u2019s development.\u201d With this, she believes that students \u201cgo so deep into process that \u2018product\u2019 is seconding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undergraduate and graduate students alike heartily took that challenge to heart for the 2023 NSW. MFA Playwriting candidate Maggie Kearnan says that her play, <em>DOWN NECK<\/em>, is \u201cin its earliest stages of development,\u201d especially considering how much of an experimental play it is for her. Maggie found that the safe, creative space NSW offered as well as the enthusiasm from her director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/academics\/degrees-programs\/directing\/mfa\/\">MFA Directing<\/a> candidate Gregg Wiggans, and their cast about the development process really helped her to play with the storytelling challenges her source material, a short story by Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jojo Leaito, undergraduate Theatre Arts major and playwright of <em>Delinquents Never Stay for Long<\/em>, has had a similar experience with the process, noting \u201chow much dedication and hard work the New Works cast put in to each presentation and how much care and excitement is shared for each process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">Jojo and many of the other presenting playwrights reflect on how refreshed, inspired, and joyful they are and have become from their own NSW processes as well as observing their fellow playwrights\u2019 processes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside news-block-editorial-aside has-primary-background\">\n<h4>About CFA&#8217;s Fringe Festival<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\">The annual Boston University Fringe Festival, now in its 27th season, is a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School of Music:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/music\/opera\/\">Opera Institute<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/theatre\/\">School of Theatre<\/a>. Fringe\u2019s mission is to produce new or rarely performed significant works in the opera and theatre repertoire, bringing performances and audiences together in unique theatrical settings. For over two decades, Fringe Festival at BU has celebrated and amplified new work, shown in spare and minimal productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\">Spurred by the dynamic and diverse programs within BU College of Fine Arts, this year\u2019s Fringe features additional programming from BU&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/visual-arts\/\">School of Visual Arts<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/music\/\">School of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-button wp-block-bu-button news-block-button is-style-outline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/music\/opera\/fringe-festival\/\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three news-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li 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