Established in 2023, the Origins New Works Program at CVRep is a safe, creative, and collaborative environment for writers, directors, and composers to hear their work out loud and see their work reach its full potential.
Each season, four new, undiscovered works will be invited to participate in a 29-hour staged reading in the Coachella Valley, fully funded and produced by CVRep. One of these four projects will be selected to be produced the following theatrical season on our Main Stage. It is a true ‘page to stage’ program that is committed to seeing the full development of the next Broadway Show.
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UCROSS FELLOWSHIP FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS - SPRING 2027
Current work is requested. An applicant's work sample and project description are the most significant feature of their application. Unless work is interdisciplinary, i.e. the various genres interconnect, each applicant is encouraged to apply in a primary discipline and submit a work sample and project description that emphasizes this single discipline. Competition for residencies varies annually and with the number of applications. While only one Fellowship winner will be selected, all applicants will have the option of being considered for a general Ucross residency.
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Masque & Spectacle seeks 10-minute plays - Playwrights may submit one previously unpublished 10-minute play for consideration. The script should be accompanied by a cover letter, which includes your name, address, phone number, and email address.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** CHERRY JONES ***
Out lesbian actor Cherry Jones has long been one of Broadway’s most-lauded performers, but she has also long been a celebrity lesbian to be proud of. When she accepted her first Tony Award in 1995 for Best Actress (she played the role of Catherine Sloper in The Heiress), she publicly thanked her female partner in her acceptance speech.
In June 2005, Jones took home a second Tony for her leading role in Doubt, which is now touring nationally.
The night she received her Tony for Doubt, Jones was accompanied by her current girlfriend, Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), and the two have often been seen together at industry events.
Jones does more than acknowledge her life as a lesbian; she isn’t afraid to play one on stage or on TV, either. In 1993 she played a lesbian mom in lesbian playwright Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven, and in 2001 she played another lesbian mom while co-starring with Brooke Shields in the Lifetime movie What Makes a Family.
AfterEllen.com recently talked with Jones about her role in Doubt, which tells the story of Catholic school principal Sister Aloysius (Jones), who suspects that the school’s charismatic priest may be paying inappropriate attention to one of the male students. Riveting, unflinching and occasionally humorous, Doubt – and Jones’ presence in it – is simply unforgettable.
AfterEllen.com: You are touring in the play Doubt, for which you received much acclaim and a Tony Award. You must feel very strongly about the play and the role to continue performing it. Cherry Jones: I’m right at about 555 performances already of this play. [Laughs.] We started at the Manhattan Theater Club, and then Broadway, and the tour began in September in Los Angeles. We’re not even halfway through with it yet. And the extraordinary thing about this play and this role is that I never get tired of it. Maybe there’s something wrong with me [and] I’m just incredibly obsessive/compulsive. I think most stage actors are, or have to be a little bit. I was just talking to my fellow cast members about this the other night. Because of what we get back from the audience, it is the most rewarding experience any actor will almost ever have in the theater.
More...
https://afterellen.com/interview-with-cherry-jones/
Each season, four new, undiscovered works will be invited to participate in a 29-hour staged reading in the Coachella Valley, fully funded and produced by CVRep. One of these four projects will be selected to be produced the following theatrical season on our Main Stage. It is a true ‘page to stage’ program that is committed to seeing the full development of the next Broadway Show.
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UCROSS FELLOWSHIP FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS - SPRING 2027
Current work is requested. An applicant's work sample and project description are the most significant feature of their application. Unless work is interdisciplinary, i.e. the various genres interconnect, each applicant is encouraged to apply in a primary discipline and submit a work sample and project description that emphasizes this single discipline. Competition for residencies varies annually and with the number of applications. While only one Fellowship winner will be selected, all applicants will have the option of being considered for a general Ucross residency.
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Masque & Spectacle seeks 10-minute plays - Playwrights may submit one previously unpublished 10-minute play for consideration. The script should be accompanied by a cover letter, which includes your name, address, phone number, and email address.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** CHERRY JONES ***
Out lesbian actor Cherry Jones has long been one of Broadway’s most-lauded performers, but she has also long been a celebrity lesbian to be proud of. When she accepted her first Tony Award in 1995 for Best Actress (she played the role of Catherine Sloper in The Heiress), she publicly thanked her female partner in her acceptance speech.
In June 2005, Jones took home a second Tony for her leading role in Doubt, which is now touring nationally.
The night she received her Tony for Doubt, Jones was accompanied by her current girlfriend, Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), and the two have often been seen together at industry events.
Jones does more than acknowledge her life as a lesbian; she isn’t afraid to play one on stage or on TV, either. In 1993 she played a lesbian mom in lesbian playwright Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven, and in 2001 she played another lesbian mom while co-starring with Brooke Shields in the Lifetime movie What Makes a Family.
AfterEllen.com recently talked with Jones about her role in Doubt, which tells the story of Catholic school principal Sister Aloysius (Jones), who suspects that the school’s charismatic priest may be paying inappropriate attention to one of the male students. Riveting, unflinching and occasionally humorous, Doubt – and Jones’ presence in it – is simply unforgettable.
AfterEllen.com: You are touring in the play Doubt, for which you received much acclaim and a Tony Award. You must feel very strongly about the play and the role to continue performing it. Cherry Jones: I’m right at about 555 performances already of this play. [Laughs.] We started at the Manhattan Theater Club, and then Broadway, and the tour began in September in Los Angeles. We’re not even halfway through with it yet. And the extraordinary thing about this play and this role is that I never get tired of it. Maybe there’s something wrong with me [and] I’m just incredibly obsessive/compulsive. I think most stage actors are, or have to be a little bit. I was just talking to my fellow cast members about this the other night. Because of what we get back from the audience, it is the most rewarding experience any actor will almost ever have in the theater.
More...
https://afterellen.com/interview-with-cherry-jones/
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FRESH AIR ARCHIVE - JUNE 24, 2002
Actress Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones is currently appearing in Lysistrata at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia. Jones is a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre and has appeared in 23 A.R.T. productions. Shes won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards. Jones has starred or appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Her film appearances include The Perfect Storm, Cradle Will Rock and the upcoming Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
https://freshairarchive.org/segments/actress-cherry-jones
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One woman's monumental certainty shines as harshly as a naked light bulb amid the shadows of "Doubt, a Parable," the tight, absorbing and expertly acted new drama by John Patrick Shanley. And it will probably surprise no one that this rigidly assured figure is both a nun and the head of a grade school.
The doctrine-wielding, terror-inspiring Sister who knows best has been the subject of jokes, after all, for as long as there have been parochial schools. But Sister Aloysius, who sets "Doubt" in motion by pursuing her intuition that a priest is molesting a boy in her school, is of a different order from those wimple-wearing gargoyles.
As written with an uncanny blend of compassion and detachment by Mr. Shanley, and as acted by the splendid Cherry Jones, Sister Aloysius is no monster from a child's nightmare. A steely effortfulness courses through her clipped, brisk speech; her tautly set mouth; her way in conversation of hugging herself into a sloped, stony barricade against the words of others. Sister Aloysius is a triumph of hard-won conviction over human indecisiveness. She is also a testament to the pressures of remaining sure in a world where, to borrow from Oscar Wilde, the truth is never pure and rarely simple.
The year is 1972, and a new age of feminism is dawning as women grope to find voices to match their evolving identities. Well, some of them are groping. The female characters in “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” Sarah Treem’s debate-driven new play at City Center Stage 1, appear to have little difficulty articulating their viewpoints or making sure that we know exactly where to place them on a shifting scale of political consciousness.
Such meticulously laid-out clarity may be a boon to those who like the assistance of road signs in finding their way to a theme. But it subverts the potential narrative power of this earnest, thoughtful drama, which opened on Tuesday night in a Manhattan Theater Club production starring the formidable Cherry Jones and directed by Pam MacKinnon.
More...
https://archive.ph/uMHZO#selection-4553.0-4567.0
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A seven-story fire escape is the first thing you notice on the set of “The Glass Menagerie,” which has opened at the Booth Theatre after a lauded run at the American Repertory Theater outside Boston. The steel stairs spiral to the sky, each platform growing smaller and twisting as the steps soar toward the heavens.
The fire escape is where family breadwinner Tom Wingfield (Zachary Quinto, in his Broadway debut) goes to smoke and avoid his conniving mother, Amanda (Cherry Jones). And it’s where daughter Laura (Celia Kennan-Bolger), who wears a metal brace on her foot, ushers into the home her unrequited high school crush, Jim (Brian J. Smith), the gentleman caller of Tennessee Williams’ semi-autobiographical play.
In this heartbreaking production helmed by John Tiffany (“Once”), those stairs conjure notions of escape and infinite possibility -- Tiffany has described their appearance as a "unicorn's horn" -- but down below in the Wingfield tenement, any thoughts of ascension or aspiration are as hopeless as the old cotillion dress, missing its ornamental flowers, kept by Jones’ faded belle. (The wistful scenery and costumes are by veteran designer Bob Crowley.)
More...
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/broadway/glass-menagerie-review/1985656/
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Cherry Jones is too modest to dwell on the star-making reviews she has collected for her performance in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of The Heiress. “The real story,” says Jones, “is that this is the year of women on Broadway: Mary Alice, Gloria Foster, Mercedes Ruehl, Kathleen Turner, Eileen Atkins, Helen Mirren, Laurie Metcalf—and me!” As she talks about her career over coffee and a hastily smoked cigarette, this warm and unpretentious actress seems genuinely surprised to find herself starring in a hit play “uptown,” as she refers to Broadway.
Still, Jones admits with a laugh that she has read the reviews. “I thought I was hallucinating,” she says of John Simon’s rave, which declared that her “long-shining, awesome talent should finally be obvious to even the most dense.” As Catherine Sloper, the painfully shy title character who is betrayed by those closest to her, Jones grabs the heart. She seems to undergo a life change in full view of the audience, gaining strength from adversity.
“People love a transforming heroine,” the actress says, adding that The Heiress, Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s 1947 dramatization of the Henry James novel Washington Square, is “a real Broadway play. As Gerald [Gutierrez] has directed it, it’s like a spider web—the audience gets drawn in quickly, and they’re not released until the curtain call.”
More...
https://playbill.com/article/from-the-archives-a-conversation-with-the-heiresss-cherry-jones
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Cherry Jones - TV Tropes
Linda Winer, Newsday theater critic: What I started to think is, "is it possible that Cherry Jones is going to be typecast a 'warrior woman'?
Cherry Jones: I think probably I was for a while...I think I was born to it because I grew up in the woods of Tennessee and we would, you know, have our wooden swords and ropes and creeks to splash in. I was always sort of playing "warrior woman" in the woods.
— "Women in Theatre" on CUNY TV, January 10, 2003.
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956 in Paris, Tennessee) is a two-time Tony award winner and one of the grande dames of the Broadway stage...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/CherryJones
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Women in Theater - Cherry Jones
Actress Cherry Jones received her first Tony Award nomination in 1991 and has won the award twice, for her roles in "Doubt" (2005) and "The Heiress" (1995). She discusses being cast as "single gals" and "warrior women," and her tendency to work primarily with female playwrights because they create more interesting and stronger female characters. Ms. Jones also speaks of the importance of government funding of the arts. (Tape Date: 1/10/2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ONIPQDKdg
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