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SPACE on Ryder Farm Names Marvin González De León an Institutional Resident and Finalist for the Working Farm Residency

Theater is more than ready for a springtime reseeding – Washington Post Features National Capital New Plays Festival

Marvin featured in American Theatre Mag

Madre De Dios Will be a part of Round House Theatre’s National Capital New Plays Festival

In April 2022, Round House Theatre launches the National Capital New Play Festival, an annual event celebrating new work by some of the country’s leading playwrights and newer voices . . .

Marvin González De León Named the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow

Announcing 3 Finalists for the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

SELECTED FROM MORE THAN 300 APPLICANTS, THE THREE FINALISTS ARE VICHET CHUM, MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, AND MAJKIN HOLMQUIST.

Now in its 19th year, the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship is the company’s most prestigious award, annually supporting a playwright who has yet to have a professional premiere in New York City.

Announcing 10 Semifinalists for the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

SELECTED FROM MORE THAN 300 APPLICANTS, THE TEN SEMIFINALISTS ARE MELIS AKER, SYREETA BRIGGS, VICHET CHUM, KATE DOUGLAS, RYAN DRAKE, MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, MAJKIN HOLMQUIST, DEEPA PUROHIT, GAB REISMAN, AND HAYGEN-BRICE WALKER.

Announcing the 2021-2022 Jerome Fellows and Many Voices Fellows and Mentees

The Playwrights’ Center is pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Jerome Fellows Lucas Baisch, Marvin González De León, Gethsemane Herron, and Nubia Monks; Many Voices Fellows Zola Dee, Lester Eugene Mayers, and P.C. Verrone; and Many Voices Mentees Atlese Robinson and James A. Williams. In partnership with the Jerome Foundation, these fellowship programs have anchored the Center’s support of playwrights and theatermakers for over 40 years. 

Marvin González De León named one of five Finalists for 2021 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

SELECTED FROM MORE THAN 430 APPLICANTS, THE FIVE FINALISTS ARE BLEU BECKFORD-BURRELL, MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, JESSICA HUANG, APRIL RANGER, AND HAYGEN-BRICE WALKER.

Announcing 13 Semifinalists for 2021 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

SELECTED FROM MORE THAN 400 APPLICANTS, THE LARGEST APPLICATION POOL TO DATE, THE THIRTEEN SEMIFINALISTS ARE BLEU BECKFORD-BURRELL, LYNDSEY BOURNE, STEPH DEL ROSSO, JAHNA FERRON-SMITH, MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, DYLAN GUERRA, MAJKIN HOLMQUIST, EMMA HORWITZ, JESSICA HUANG, ROGER Q. MASON, APRIL RANGER, ANDREW SIAÑEZ-DE LA O, AND HAYGEN-BRICE WALKER.

Marvin González De León Receives Residency at Page 73 Productions

EACH RESIDENCY CULMINATES IN A LIVE NEW PLAY CONVERSATION FEATURING THE ARTISTS, AN EXCERPT FROM THE PLAY, AND QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE.

Read full press release here

Playwrights Realm Announces 2020-21 Season

With this online mentorship program, four Virtual Mentees, selected from the open submissions pool, will be led by Associate Artistic Director Alexis Williams, receiving virtual resources designed to accelerate their careers-including personalized mentorship, professional development, and industry connections. Mentees are Diane Exavier, Marvin González De León, Grace McLeod, and Haygen-Brice Walker.

Marvin González De León Included in The 24-Hour Plays: Viral Monologues at Arizona Theatre Company

Arizona Theatre Company and more teamed up with The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues for the July 14 edition of the virtual series. The performers and writers for this week’s monologues came from a dozen local theatre companies, with proceeds going to the official state theatre of Arizona.

Playwrights in Conversation: Marvin Gonzalez De Leon – Will this Crisis Create Even More Inequity in the American Theatre?

The American Theater mirrors America’s inequality drawn on racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic lines.

Join Producing Artistic Director Jeremy B. Cohen and Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Marvin Gonzalez de Leon in a discussion on the current state and future of theater in America. Will history repeat itself? Will theater become more inequitable in the fallout from this crisis, as it did during The 2007-2009 Great Recession? Will brilliant, young voices be silenced and their narratives lost as they forego education and art to support their and their family’s needs? Or will we seize the opportunity in this pandemic to discuss and address income inequality in a more transparent way? Can we create new systems of support to ensure America will hear and benefit from these new, diverse incredible storytellers and theater-makers for years to come?

View the recording of the conversation here.

Announcing the 2020-2021 McKnight National Residency and Commission and 2020-2021 McKnight Fellowships in Playwriting

The McKnight Foundation and Playwrights’ Center are continuing to invest in the future of theater by supporting some of today’s most promising playwrights through the McKnight National Residency and Commission and McKnight Fellowships in Playwriting. The awards are all the more pertinent as many theater-makers face unprecedented challenges during this moment of crisis.

The 2020-2021 McKnight National Residency and Commission has been awarded to Gracie Gardner and the 2020-2021 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting recipients are Marvin González De León and Savannah Reich.

Announcing the 2020 Interstate 73 Writers Group

The eight incredible playwrights we’ve invited to join next year’s group were selected from over 330 applicants, and we can’t wait to get to know them better over the course of 2020. They’ll share their newest pages with each other and Page 73’s artistic staff at our office in Brooklyn. In addition to providing the snacks and drinks essential to any good writers group, we’re proud to pay a stipend to each Interstate 73 playwright.

Announcing 12 Semifinalists for 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

SELECTED FROM MORE THAN 400 APPLICANTS, THE LARGEST APPLICATION POOL TO DATE, THE TWELVE SEMIFINALISTS ARE BLEU BECKFORD-BURRELL, SERENA BERMAN, SARAH BERNSTEIN, MARISA CARR, VICHET CHUM, EMMA GOIDEL, MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN, MORGAN GOULD, AMINA HENRY, STEFANI KUO, SOFYA LEVITSKY-WEITZ, AND JULIANY TAVERAS.

The finalists and the Fellowship recipient will be announced in January 2020. Page 73 will also announce members for the 2020 Interstate 73 Writers Group in January. 

Pan Genesis Selected for the Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs New Works Festival

For 36 years, the Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs Festival has been one of the nation’s most comprehensive play development programs. Playwrights receive 30 hours of workshop time with a team of collaborators (including designers) and two public readings with time for rewrites in between. Over 70% of the plays featured in PlayLabs over the past decade have gone on to production, and the festival has become a must-attend event for theater leaders and fans both locally and from around the country. We hope you can join us for this year’s festival!

Pan Genesis Selected As a Finalist for the Playwrights Realm’s Scratchpad Series

Scratchpad finalists include Andrew Kramer (The Pitchforks), Chloe Hung (Model Minority), Hannah Kenah (Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil), Haygen-Brice Walker (the extinction of the white bison a queer love story), Marvin González De León (Pan Genesis), and Preston Choi (You Will Get Used To It).

Announcing Our New Playwrights’ Center Core Writers

Gina Femia, Emily Feldman, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Marvin González De León, Rachel Jendrzejewski, Jake Jeppson, Daaimah Mubashshi, and James Anthony Tyler.
 
The Core Writer Program at the Playwrights’ Center provides play development workshops and professional support over a three-year term. Work by Core Writers composes the Center’s public season (the PlayLabs new play festival in October and the Ruth Easton New Play Series, which runs December through April). 

Announcing the 2018-19 Jerome and Many Voices Fellows at the Playwrights’ Center

Please help us welcome 2018-19 Jerome Fellows Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Casey Llewellyn, and Philana Imade Omorotionmwan; Many Voices Fellows Marvin González De León and Haygen-Brice Walker; and Many Voices Mentee Antonio Duke.

Jerome and Many Voices Fellows spend a year in residency in the Twin Cities, working in an individualized and hands-on way with the Playwrights’ Center artistic staff—some of the most experienced and connected theater professionals in the country. In addition to an $18,000 stipend, fellows receive $2,000 in play development funds to workshop new plays with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors.

Marvin González De León Talks about His New Play Haboob on KJZZ’s “The Show”

We’re still a couple of months away from our first haboob of the year, and most of us try to avoid being in the middle of the huge dust storms.

But a new play called “Haboob” is actually trying to draw us into the storm — in a magical realism sort of way.

It’s written by Marvin Gonzalez De Leon, and it’s being performed Thursday night through Sunday by ASU’s School of Film, Dance and Theatre at the Nelson Fine Arts Center on the Tempe campus.

ASU playwright Premieres Play on Latino identity, Magic

Marvin González De León, an MFA student at ASU, explores Latino identity and magical realism in his new play “Haboob”.

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