235 Park Avenue South Diane has previously been “living off the grid with a bunch of lesbian separatists in consensus-based community” but now she’s determined to save the world before it’s too late. George’s script states that “Diane may be played by any masculine person who does not identify as male.” And the night I saw the play this was not a concept that flummoxed the audience at all. NYTW: The House That Will Not Stand. WP debut. Nearly every prolific female theater artist has been through our doors, including Eve Ensler, María Irene Fornés, Katori Hall, Pam MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage, Leigh Silverman and Anna Deavere Smith.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards. Please try again later. These powerful women found an early artistic home at WP, and are a testament to our role as a driving cultural force. There is …

Diane has previously been “living off the grid with a bunch of lesbian separatists in consensus-based community” but now she’s determined to save the world before it’s too late. “People crave encounter now more than ever,” she says. 3:48 PM. Sound Design Bray Poor It’s a tonic for our culture to see that the larger human questions can be asked and played out in that environment. Fifth Floor She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. Recent notable work: The Last Match (Lortel nom), original music for Mary Page Marlow and The Amateurs, Office Hour (Lortel nom), plus work regionally and in Europe. She was also founding member of 13P (Thirteen Playwrights), a now-defunct group of (mostly female) mid-career playwrights who took matters into their own hands by producing, over a period of ten years, one play by each member playwright. Choreography Raja Feather Kelly George wondered what would happen if “Dionysus came back at this exact moment and if they did, what form would they take?”, Commissioned to write the play by Two River Theater, a New Jersey theatre company shortly after Hurricane Sandy, George wanted to combine two big interests—environmentalism and queer identity—in a “shameless comedy.”. Lighting Design Barbara Samuels This estimator is only for non-equity/amateur productions. What impact do the activities of the human race have on the Earth’s climate? Broadway: True West, Latin History for Morons, The Real Thing, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). “If you want to know what terrible things women are capable of,” says George, “Ask a lesbian. Silverman is an out lesbian director and George sings her praises. The cost and license availability quoted are estimates only and may differ when you apply for a license. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Becca works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. “Leigh is a chameleon genius of a director, passionately devoted to writers. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards. It’s been around for thousands of years now. Residencies: Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Off-Broadway: Wild Goose Dreams, Jersey Boys, Pacific Overtures, Dead Poets Society, Nathan the Wise, Once Upon a Mattress, Silence! Everybody had an uproariously good time. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Two River, Pig Iron, Crossroads Repertory, Gulfshore Playhouse, Barnstormers. As the premiere launching pad for some of the most influential female theater artists today, our work has had a significant impact on the field at large. Obie for Sustained Excellence. Off-Broadway: Rags Parkland Sings…(Ars Nova); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons, Hewes Nom); Singlet (Bushwick Starr); The Rape of The Sabine Women (Playwrights Realm), Orange Julius (Rattlestick/ P73, Hewes Nom); Caught (PlayCo); O, Earth (Foundry Theatre, Hewes Nom). Kate is thrilled to reprise her role as Beth in Hurricane Diane after its premiere at Two River in 2017. Off-Broadway: The Other Josh Cohen (Drama Desk nom), Clever Little Lies, Ordinary Days, Tatjana in Color, and Sarah, Plain and Tall. Kate is the co-creator, writer, director and star of the comedy Submissions Only (currently streaming on The Stage Network), as well as co-author of the Jack & Louisa book series for Penguin Workshop. - Vulture. By James Hebert. Original Music The Bengsons Upcoming album: Every Feeling. The New York Times cheered Hurricane Diane as an “astonishing new play,” and New York magazine hailed it as “hilarious and full of keen observation and profound human affection.” Contains strong language. “We see that in the way people are taking part in national and global demonstrations, in their desperate attempts to make contact with the natural world with things like ‘forest bathing.’ I have real confidence in theater as a deathless art form. In 2010 we purchased Curve Magazine, North Americas best selling lesbian Magazine. And that possible partly because we’re standing on the same side of this [lesbian] identity.”. Broadway: Violet by Jeanine Tseori/Brian Crawley (Roundabout; Tony nomination), Chinglish (David Henry Hwang), Well (Lisa Kron). Encores: Really Rosie, The Wild Party, Violet. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? Recent: Fairview (Soho Rep), Everybody (Signature), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature; 2017 Lortel Award), UGLY (Bushwick Starr), Another Fucking Warhol Production (nominated ‘Most Innovative Dance Performance of 2017’ by Dance Magazine), among others. Indiana State University Alumnus. Composer: 36 Questions. TV: “So You Think You Can Dance.”, MADELEINE GEORGE’s plays include Hurricane Diane, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). And it does, in the form of a monster storm such a la Hurricane Sandy. Its explorations of gender and sexuality aside, it is very entertaining and satirizes everything from HGTV and its suburban aspirations to “real housewives” as well as tropes of Sapphic seduction. It’s an intriguing premise, especially in our current political climate, which includes calls for more diverse voices on our main stages, including women, queer women, and women of color.

Regionally, Danielle has worked at The Studio, Premiere Stages, Two River, The McCarter, StageWorks/Hudson, Cleveland Playhouse, The Old Globe. Madeleine George (Playwright) plays include Hurricane Diane, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). NYTW & WP debut.

NYTW: All the Wrong Reasons, Beckett Shorts, and Forever. WP empowers female-identified artists to reach their full potential and, in doing so, challenges preconceptions about the kinds of plays women write and the stories they tell. There are many amusing moments in Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane.That's to be expected, given its premise: sending the Greek god Dionysus — here rendered as the butch lesbian Diane … NYTW: Othello. Today, WP accomplishes its mission through several fundamental programs, including: the WP Lab, a two-year mentorship and new play development program for women playwrights, directors, and producers; the Domestic Partner residency program; the Developmental series; and the Mainstage series, which features a full season of Off-Broadway productions written and directed by extraordinary theater artist. Danielle was last seen on Broadway in All My Sons. In an all-female world, we run the gamut of human experience, just like men. What happens to us and to our communities during natural disasters, especially when we are partly to blame for the increasing instability of the natural world and yet we refuse the call to action, resisting change and transformation? Hurricane Diane is a co-production with WP Theater. NY credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public); world premiere of A Kid Like Jake (LCT3); As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic Bridge Project); Much Ado About Nothing (TFANA); Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble); The Changeling (Red Bull); Uncle Vanya (Pearl); The Sentinels (59e59). For nearly four decades we have served as leaders at the forefront of a global movement towards gender parity, and the example we set and the artists we have fostered have grown into a robust and thriving community of artists in theater and beyond. Costume Design Kaye Voyce Tony nominee and NYTW Usual Suspect Leigh Silverman directs. So enjoy the spectacle of four women and one gender-nonbinary demigod ruling the roost for this rare occasion. Full of keen observation and profound human affection, the play both lifts us up and wrings us out." She co-wrote/directed the film Sam & Julia with Randy Harrison. Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. The kitchens of four identical houses (a single set represents all four): The surfaces inside, the natural world beyond. - Jesse Green, The New York Times "Hurricane Diane is fantastic, heartbreaking. Hurricane Diane—a new play and the first co-production of a two-play collaboration between New York Theatre Workshop and WP Theater—takes us to a well-appointed cul-de-sac in New Jersey where the god Dionysus is working as a landscape gardener with a preference for permaculture. New York, NY 10003. Hurricane Diane premiered off-Broadway in 2019 at New York Theatre Workshop, under the direction of Leigh Silverman.