DNA New Work Series | La Jolla Playhouse

Name: DNA New Work Series | La Jolla Playhouse
Start: 2024-12-05T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-05T20:30:00-08:00
Location: La Jolla Playhouse

Schedule

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

La Jolla Playhouse | La Jolla, CA

DNA offers playwrights and directors the opportunity to develop a script by providing rehearsal time, space and resources, culminating in public readings. This process gives audiences a closer look at the play development process, while allowing the Playhouse to develop work and foster relationships with both established and up-and-coming playwrights.
The DNA New Work Series has been a launching pad for numerous projects that have gone on to full productions in future Playhouse seasons, including Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & The What; Chasing the Song, by the Tony Award-winning team of Joe DiPietro and David Bryan (Memphis, Diana); Michael Benjamin Washington’s Blueprints to Freedom; UC San Diego MFA graduate Jeff Augustin’s The Last Tiger in Haiti; Miss You Like Hell, by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown; K*ll Local, by UC San Diego MFA graduate Mat Smart; What Happens Next, by UC San Diego MFA graduate and faculty member Naomi Iizuka; The Luckiest by Melissa Ross; The Coast Starlight by Keith Bunin; SUMO by Lisa Sanaye Dring; this season’s Derecho, by Noelle Viñas; and next season’s All the Men Who’ve Frightened Me, by Noah Diaz. In addition, Marike Splint’s 59 Acres was developed in the DNA Series prior to its premiere in the 2024 WOW Festival.
The readings of the DNA New Work Series take place at the Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center (PDC) at La Jolla Playhouse.