First Full Concert Reading

Playbill

The concert reading of ELLIPSES on July 15, 2021. Working Title Playwrights Artistic Managing Director: Amber Bradshaw. Playwright-Composer: David Quang Pham. Director: Aliyah Curry. Dramaturg: Jordan Alexandria Ealey. Stage Manager: Alexis ‘Lexi’ McKay. Cast: Daniela Cobb, Abby Holland, Jason-Jamal Ligon, Sofia Palmero, Skye Passmore, Evan Phillips, Kait Rivas, Daniel Sakamoto-Wengel, Parris Sarter, Vallea E. Woodbury.

Conference: New Musicals Inc.

For the last 15 years, NMI has hosted the Musical Theatre Conference in Los Angeles for musical writing teams to to prepare, practice, and present pitches of their new musicals to industry professionals.

Residency: Tusen Takk

The application was submitted on Friday, July 30.

1st choice: Summer 2022; 2nd: Spring 2023; 3rd: Fall 2022; 4th: Fall 2023.

Grant: IDEA Opera Grants

The intent to apply application was submitted on Wednesday, August 4.

This is the second attempt at this grant. The first was in 2019 for TOUR for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City. The intent to apply was rejected.

Residency: Death Valley National Park

January 6-27, 2022

An application is unlikely to be submitted due to the steep fee. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service.

Residency: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Residency: INHABIT at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

An application is submitted.

Festival: Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival

Workshop: National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill

Reading-Workshop-Production: San Diego State

The plan is to collaborate with a creative team in three stages from reading to workshop to full production. We are looking for completed scripts and scores from a team that is interested in developing their work in conjunction with our graduate students. The committee considers a host of factors in the selection process, including representation of writers and stories from a range of cultural, ethnic, racial, and other affinities, as well as the gender balance of the writers whose work is presented in a given theatrical season.

ELLIPSES Junior: The Galaxy family

Script-in-Progress

A science fantasy comedy, THE GALAXY FAMILY centers Singularity, their kids, and tidal pups. Singularity has birthed a brand-new cluster of stars: Milky Way. When JD accidentally knocks out Singularity while playing fetch with Gravity, Milky Way is left in the care of their siblings. The supermassive heart of this children’s story is caring for one another.

Audio Episodes: (Parenthesis)

Each episode tells the thesis that Singularity has in store for each of their Galaxy. This helps character relationships.

Episode 1: SPT0615-JD

Episode 2: Cartwheel

Episode 3: Whirlpool

Episode 4: Triangulum

Episode 5: Andromeda

Episode 6: Milky Way