13P presents Young Jean Lee

One question for: Young Jean Lee, cabaret neophyte

(from Time Out New York)

Lascivious Something (and other things)

Now available from Soft Skull Press.

13P is four stories high

Perseverance may the most important quality you can cultivate as a playwright. For example, stick with your dream of being a producing collective long enough, and you may find yourself attracting a spectacular staff of unpaid volunteers who will work 16 straight hours to pull off a gorgeous and glamorous benefit.

It seems like just a few moments ago (though it was actually seven years) that Joy Katz was designing the 13P logo on her laptop. Last week that logo was projected four stories high on the outside of the building across the street from 3LD in downtown Manhattan. (With animated falling leaves, yet.)

Last chance! Three discount codes for the 13P Fall Formal

The 13P Fall Formal is tomorrow night!

Option 1: Use code THIRTYP for $30 tickets (we will card you)!

Option 2: Buy one ticket, get a second for your date for half the price with code CHPDATE!

Option 3: If you get three friends to buy $30 tickets, you get in for free. (Code: email Sailor Dog the names of your three friends who bought tickets.)

Tickets at http://13p.org


Details on all the cool people who will be there:

Sheila Callaghan • Erin Courtney • Madeleine George • Rob Handel

Ann Marie Healy • Julia Jarcho • Young Jean Lee • Winter Miller 

Sarah Ruhl • Kate E. Ryan • Lucy Thurber • Anne Washburn

Gary Winter • Maria Goyanes, Executive Producer

The faculty and staff of 13P cordially invite you to

Our 2010 Fall Formal

13P is FALLin' for You

an evening of spiked punch, slow dances, limp corsages, and the electric slide, hosted by 

VICE PRINCIPAL

Mr. Murray Hill

He puts the "yes" in polyester!

featuring the crowning of your

HOMECOMING QUEEN

Justin Bond

with a special appearance from 

Guidance Counselor

Ms. Lisa Kron

to benefit the 13P Graduating Class

Young Jean Lee (P#11)

Sarah Ruhl (P#12)

Erin Courtney (P#13)

sweet sounds by DJs 

Jo Lampert

and Theo Stockman

Monday, November 8

3LD Art and Technology Center

80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street)

6PM Prom Committee Cocktail Hour

7PM - 10PM Dancing, entertainment, and refreshments

10PM Mandatory breathalyzer tests

Festively Formal Attire 

(Dress Weird)

$150 - Prom Committee Member 

(access to VIP Cocktail Hour, table seating)

$50 -  General Admission

For tickets, visit www.13P.org 

Boardwalk Empire of the Senseless

Young Jean is ready for the Fall Formal

What do these things have in common? An insider tour of the set of Boardwalk Empire – A pilot script of Showtime's United States of Tara signed by Diablo Cody, Toni Collette, and cast members – VIP tickets to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report – Tickets for Shakespeare in the Park opening night and afterparty? You can get them (and help us produce our plays, our way) at the 13P Fall Formal silent auction.

To say nothing of emcees Murray Hill, Justin Bond, and Lisa Kron. The party starts Monday night, so hurry.

embarrassing prom photos of the 13P

If you are not on the 13P email list you should join now because you are missing hard-to-believe stuff like this video.

13P in the house (in the next room, of course).

13P onstage at Joe's Pub. Ruhl above head standing in way of camera. (Photo: Jim Baldassare)

Are there any young writers that you are particularly interested in? Maybe anybody you've mentored or whose work you just enjoy watching and following?
SARAH RUHL: Yes. I just did a panel yesterday with Annie Baker, who I think is really something. I thought Circle Mirror Transformation was really lovely. And all my colleagues at 13P — a group of writers. There are 13 of us, and we're our own artistic directors of our own plays. The group came about because we were all sick of [the endless development of our plays], so here, we don't just develop our plays but can throw them up without a huge budget. Young Jean Lee is in the group. Rob Handel, Winter Miller, Anne Washburn. I'm really fascinated by everything that that group does.

(Complete interview at Playbill.com)

Strange Days, Strange Plays. Take Julia Jarcho's class.

Julia Jarcho knows strange. You live in the year 2010, so you know strange too. Take her class "Strange Days, Strange Plays" in strange San Francisco.

I can't act and hate performing, so it should be interesting to see what happens.

Career advice from Young Jean Lee on Adam's blog: Don't fall into the trap of feeling entitled to career success solely on account of your talent. There's a huge market for mediocre art, and the less-talented wipe the floor with the more-talented every day.

The Top Earners in Nonprofit Theater

This chart is being widely linked for good reason. It's worth bearing in mind that some of these names may be the artistic directors who are quoted in Outrageous Fortune (and in articles about the Outrageous Fortune backlash) as saying that American playwrights are a bunch of whiners.

I think Outrageous Fortune is widely misinterpreted. It's not actually a book about plays being messed up by the theatre system. It's a book about money. It's a book about who gets a salary.

By the same token, I've always felt that 13P is a project about money. It's an attempt to show what it looks like when money is used to advance new American plays — by the radical method of actually producing them.

Hint on starting your theatre company

If your name begins with a number, you'll often come first in an alphabetical list of companies. Like this one announcing 13P's grant from the never-boring MAP Fund. Mazel tov to Erin Courtney and Ken Rus Schmoll, who will collaborate on our 13th and final production in 2012.

Free American beer with the all-American Nazis.

Come celebrate the 4th of July with 13P!

Cold beer.

Hot girl-on-girl action.

God bless America.

Use code FOURTH13P for 2-for-1 tickets and a free American beer on 7/2 and 7/5 at 8PM.

Tickets: www.13P.org

13P's
THE ZERO HOUR
by MADELEINE GEORGE (P#10)
directed by ADAM GREENFIELD

"Four out of five stars"

– Time Out NY

"bold, thoughtful, and incredibly beautiful" 

– CurtainUp

Maria Goyanes will eventually rule the world.

...but for now, this.

The clock is ticking.

 

"Ambitious and sprawling... A work to savor" — Backstage

 13P's The Zero Hour

through July 10 only

Fourth of July special:

for performances on 7/2 & 7/5
Use code FOURTH13P
for 2-for-1 tickets & a FREE American beer

Tickets at 13p.org

Love, Hitler, Martha Stewart, and virtuoso performances. Now playing.

Use code FRIEND13P
at www.13P.org

for 2-FOR-1 TICKETS
through Friday 6/25 only

13P's
THE ZERO HOUR
by MADELEINE GEORGE (P#10)
directed by ADAM GREENFIELD

Featuring
HANNAH CABELL* and ANGELA GOETHALS*

Sets MIMI LIEN
Lights BEN KATO
Costumes SYDNEY MARESCA
Sound ASA WEMBER

Production Stage Manager SUNNEVA STAPLETON*
Casting Director KELLY GILLESPIE
Press Representative BLAKE ZIDELL
Associate Producer PRESTON COPLEY
Producer RACHEL KARPF

* Member, Actors’ Equity Association
 
June 22 – July 10
Walkerspace
46 Walker Street (between Broadway and Church)

June 22–25, 27–30, July 1–2, 5–10
All performances at 8PM

FOR TICKETS and MORE INFO:
www.13P.org

The relationship between a container and what’s inside.

The Brooklyn Rail's interviews are always great, but this one is particularly so because the online formatting melds the interview and the quoted dialogue from the play together, so on first reading it seems that the interviewer is suddenly asking Madeleine "How'd it go with Hitler today?"

The Brooklyn Rail: The Shipwrecked Experiments of Madeleine George

In which old Dot and the weird kid from the neighborhood become friends.

Kate E. Ryan's astonishing play Dot starts tonight at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks. Characteristically killer Thumb pedigree:

Dot by Kate E. Ryan
directed by Anne Kauffman
original music by Mike Iveson
With David Brooks, Kate Hopkins, Birgit Huppuch, Ed Jewett, Lynne McCollough, and Mary Shultz
Sets by Jason Simms
Lights by Garin Marschall
Costumes by Olivera Gajic
Sound by Jessica Paz

June 6 – 12, 2010

Young Jean Lee is invited to all tomorrow's parties

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson curate the Sydney Opera House festival Vivid Live

YJL's The Shipment in Vivid Live

It's getting later and later.

 

 Buy tickets for 13P's The Zero Hour

13P's charming Nazis

Tickets are now on sale.

13P's 

The Zero Hour  

by MADELEINE GEORGE (P#10)

directed by ADAM GREENFIELD

 

An almost-love story

Featuring:
HANNAH CABELL* and ANGELA GOETHALS*

Sets MIMI LIEN
Lights BEN KATO
Costumes SYDNEY MARESCA  

Sound Design ASA WEMBER

* Members, Actors' Equity Association

Rebecca and her chronically unemployed butch girlfriend, O, have created a happy nest in their run-down Queens walk-up. But domestic bliss starts slipping as their daily lives are overtaken by charming Nazis, family ghosts, and the secrets they keep. The two women fight for, and against, each other in this sharp, moving almost-love story.

June 22 – July 10
Walkerspace 

46 Walker Street (between Broadway and Church)

Buy tickets.