Brooklyn College Department of Theater presents New Works Brooklyn: A Festival of Readings

June 19, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Obie Award-winning playwright Erin Courtney will present her work at Brooklyn College’s New Works Brooklyn Festival on June 22. The festival runs through June 26. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn College/Craig Stokle

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The Brooklyn College Department of Theater will hold its second New Works Brooklyn Festival from June 22 to 26. This year’s festival features staged readings of one-act plays written by award-winning playwrights.

Erin Courtney (’03 MFA) is a 2012 Obie Award-winner, a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, co-founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space and an affiliated artist with the Clubbed Thumb. She teaches at Brooklyn College’s MFA creative writing program. Her work “A Small Ship” will be featured at the festival on June 22.

Kristoffer Díaz (’09 MFA), who also holds a master’s degree from New York University’s dramatic writing department, was awarded an Obie for “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,” which was also a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. His work “Things with Friends” will be featured on June 26.

Keith Josef Adkins’ play, “The Last Saint on Sugar Hill,” received six AUDELCO nominations for its 2013 New York premiere at the National Black Theatre. He is a graduate of Iowa University’s creative writing program, is a screenwriter and also the artistic director of The New Black Fest. Adkins’ play “The Final Daze” will be featured on June 24.

The recent work of Alexandra Collier (’12 MFA) includes “Holy Day” (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist and Kilroy’s List). Her work “The Crying Lettuce” will be featured on June 25.

Rehana Lew Mirza, whose play “Neighborhood Watch” will be featured on June 23, was the co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab (2011-13), a member of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and artistic director and co-founder of Desipina. She holds an master’s degree in playwriting from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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