ELIZABETH WONG'S NEW PRODUCTIONS, PUBLICATIONS, WORKSHOPS & READINGS
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NEW 2012 COMMISSION!!!!!
DOES MY HEAD LOOK BIG IN THIS?
(Winner of Kirkus's Best Young Adult Books of 2008)
By Randa Adel-Fattah
Elizabeth Wong collaborates with Jeff Gottesfeld, author of the WWE teen novel "SUPERFAN", to adapt this teen novel about the only Muslim girl at a suburban high school who decides to wear the hijab head covering -- full time. Dramatic Publishing Co is commissioning the work and will be publishing the play.
In
2007, Orchard Books published the teen novel DOES MY HEAD
LOOK BIG IN THIS? by the Palestinian-Egyptian Australian writer Randa
Abdel-Fattah, who is an Australian-born Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-chocoholic. She is an attorney and active int he interfaith community, as well as the campaign for Palestinian human rights. She lives in Sydney. Her second novel is "Ten Things I Hate About Me."
"To our
knowledge, this will be the first play ever about the contemporary high
school experience of a Muslim teenager. The novel is set at an Aussie
high school, but we'll likely adjust it to America for the adaptation. To say we're thrilled is an understatement." -- Jeff Gottesfeld.
"Thanks for the awesome novel, and the opportunity to represent, Randa!" -- Elizabeth Wong.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! FEBRUARY 25th & 26th
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT!!!!
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF.... ZEN SHORTS
Written By
Elizabeth Wong with Rogue Artists Ensemble
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
600
Town Center Dr.
Costa
Mesa, California 92626
(714) 556-2121
ZEN SHORTS, an adaptation of John J. Muth's Caldecott Award-winning books about Zen, will have its debut at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA. The play with songs is adapted from Muth's Zen Shorts, Zen Ghosts, and Zen Ties, and tells the story of a brother and sister who meet a mysterious panda bear named Stillwater.
The play was commissioned last year by Rogue Artists Ensemble, a new cutting-edge puppet theatre based in Los Angeles. Directed by Artistic Director Sean Cawelti and Co-Artistic Director John Nobori.
ZEN SHORTS will also have a run at the Actors' Gang Ivy Substation in Culver City. Check back for more details.
NOW AVAILABLE
A Vintage Books
anthology
"SHORTER, FASTER, FUNNIER:
Comic Plays & Monologues"
edited by
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
More than 20 Playwrights from the
anthology plan to attend, including...
Billy
Aronson, John Augustine, Pete Barry, Anton
Dudley, Christopher Durang,
Halley Feiffer, Peter
Handy, Mikhail Horowitz, Ean Miles Kessler, Eric Lane,
Drew
Larimore, Michael Mitnick, Mark O'Donnell, Edwin Sanchez, Laura Shaine,
Nina Shengold, Samara
Siskind, Barbara Wiechmann, Garth Wingfield, Gary
Winter, Dana Yeaton and Elizabeth Wong
Booksigning took place this month at The Drama Book Shop - 250 West
40th St, NYC.
ONLY OUT FOR TWO MONTHS, SECOND PRINTING!!!
SECOND PRINTING!!! NEW COVER!!!!
NEW COMMISSION
FROM DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
The following writers have been commissioned by Dramatic Publishing Comany to write a 10-minute play on the timely subject of bullying for THE BULLY PLAYS:
Doug Cooney Jose Casas Steven Gregg D.W. Gregory Brian Guehring Gloria Bond Clunie Linda Daugherty Max Bush Jose Cruz Gonzalez Dwayne Hartford Werner Trieschmann Cherie Bennett Richard Dresser R.N. Sandberg Lisa Dillman Eric Coble Brett Neveu Geraldine Snyder Ernie Nolan
and ELIZABETH WONG
RELEASED THIS AUGUST! NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE at www.dramaticpublishing.com
PERFECT FINALE FOR YOUR SHOW ABOUT BULLIES NOW AVAILABLE! Looking for a short timely play requiring a large cast?
ELIZABETH WONG'S
FLASH MOB
TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL. That
is the dilemma of anyone who has ever been bullied. When her tennis racket is
stolen for the umpteenth time, Isabelle “Izzie” Pen, a sweet high school
sophomore, is fed up and finally decides it’s time to tell her tennis coach and
the girls’ dean. But instead of being protected, now she’s vilified at school
as a snitch, and her relentless tormentors follow her home via the World Wide
Web. FLASH MOB is a ten-minute play for family audiences, especially written for large casts.
FYI: AATE and TYA /USA have joined together in a first-ever three-year
initiative called “Dramatic Change: An Anti-Bullying Initiative.” The
anthology THE BULLY PLAYS was highlighted both at the recent TYA/USA conference “One
Theatre World” in Seattle and at the AATE conference in Chicago, with staged readings of a selection of the plays at both
conferences. The anthology was also mentioned at one of the general
sessions of the AATE conference. -- Linda Habjan, Dramatic Publishing Co, The Bully Plays editor
Commissioned by Dramatic Publishing Company for
“the Bully Plays.”
From a SUNY, Albany production of LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY, directed by Elizabeth Wong.
Editor/Author of a new textbook on US THEATRE...
THEATRO, KINONIA, ETHNOS: APO TEN AMERIKI STIS INOMENES POLITIES
(THEATRE, SOCIETY, NATION: FROM AMERICA TO THE UNITED STATES)
Thessaloniki: University Studio Press (expected date of publication
late 2009 or early 2010).
THE TEXTBOOK WILL INCLUDE ANALYSIS OF "LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY"
"I must tell you that your play LETTERS... is one of the primary texts
I frequently teach in my course on Theatre and Globalization on
Theatre and Postcolonialism. My students really enjoy the way you
handle your heroines and how you foreground differences and
similarities. They find the weaving of their friendship very clever
and enlightening." -- Savas Patsalidis, Aristotle University.
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NEW COMMISSION
DRAGON/SKY
by Elizabeth Wong
A New Play for Family Audiences About Ancient Chinese Astronomers and Chinese Legends AND Videogames!!!
COMMISSIONED BY SILK ROAD THEATRE PROJECT
JAMIL KHOURY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MALIK GILLANI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Dragon/Sky is a comedy for young audiencies and families. A brother and sister get sucked into a videogame set in ancient China where myth meets science.
CHECK BACK SOON FOR DETAILS!!!
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MONKEY MADNESS!
From the Honolulu Theatre for Youth production of Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King. Jonathan Clarke Sypert plays Monkey.
THE MONKEY RULES!!!
AMAZING ADVENTURES OF THE MARVELOUS MONKEY KING
By
Elizabeth Wong
PRODUCTIONS IN 2012
LAKE CITY HIGH SCHOOL, COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO - Feb 4 to May 10 ALASKA THEATRE OF YOUTH - March 30 to April 7
PRODUCTIONS IN 2011: BAY ST. LOUIS LITTLE THEATRE BAY ST. LOUIS, MS
Mount Royal University Theatre Department Calgary, AB, Canada West Performing Arts Academy, Santa Cruz, Academy of the Pacific Rim, Hyde Park, MA
FOR PURCHASING AMAZING MONKEY FROM PLAYSCRIPTS, INC THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING (partial list):
Plymouth High School, Plymouth, IN Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School, Belgrade, MN LAKE CITY HIGH SCHOOL, COEUR D'ALENE, ID ALASKA THEATRE OF YOUTH, ANCHORAGE, AK HOMER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HOMER, NE ENRICKSON HIGH SCHOOL, PGLUGERVILLE, TX SCHILLER PARK COMMUNITY CENTER, BUFFALO, NY United World College of South East Asian, Singapore University of Kentucky, Department of Theatre, Lexington, KY The Pingry School, Somerville, NJ RUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL, METUCHEN, NJ JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES, CA NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, MESQUITE, TX
ALSO IN THE BOOKSTORES...AND ONLINE!!!!
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FROM DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, A NEW COVER AND LOOK FOR THE 2008 REISSUE OF 10 X 10! Ten 10-minute Plays about Ethics for Teen Audiences. Edited by Jeffrey Gottesfeld.
New cover.
Premiered at Lawrence Arts Center -- Lawrence, Kansas -- Artistic Director Ric Averill
Original debut cover.
Participating Playwrights include:
Ric Averill Mary Hall Surface Jose Cruz Gonzalez Elizabeth Wong
Y York Cherie Bennett Sandra F. Asher James DeVita
Caleen Sinnette Jennings Barry Kornhauser
10 X 10
Edited by Jeff Gottesfeld
Commissioned by Gayle Sergel of Dramatic Publishing Company.
Spiritual guidance for young audiences. Ten playwrights were commissioned by Dramatic Publishing Company, to take spiritual questions to a young theatre-going audience. Playwrights were randomly assigned a commandment from the Bible, and given carte blanche to interpret their assignment, resulting in funny, sad, poignant short plays that will inspire and uplift.
Elizabeth Wong's funny and quirky "Quick-Draw Grandma" explores the meaning of the Sixth Commandment - You Will Not Murder.
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BILL OF (W)RIGHTS -- Congratulations on your production -- Warrensburg, MO - University Of Central Missouri
Published by Playscripts, Inc.
Bill of (W)rights
...is a collection of ten short plays, written by nine playwrights and performed in 10 different settings exploring the relevancy of the Bill of Rights.
Janet Allard Rebecca Gilman Jeffrey Hatcher Syl Jones Thomas W. Jones II Gavin Lawrence Melanie Marnich Jane Martin Kelly Stuart and Elizabeth Wong's "Freedom to Bare Arms (and asses.)"
"One of the top 14 plays outside New York City," -- The American Theatre Critics Association.
"Bill of (W)rights is a prickly production by Renegade Theatre Experment at its best...Have no doubt, Renegade's bold production makes waves.." -- Mariane Messina, Metro (9/13/06)
PRODUCTIONS IN 2010 Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
The Playwright Wishes to Thank the following for purchasing BILL OF (W)rights from Playscripts, Incwww.playscripts.com: University Of West Georgia Bookstore, Carrollton, GA PITMAN HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA DEPT, TURLOCK, CA HITS THEATRE, HOUSTON, TX Jackson Library UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
ADAM ROEBUCK PRODUCTIONS - WATCHUNG, NJ
Notre Dame Preparatory School, Timonium, MD Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO Vex Theatre, NFP, Palatine, IL
FRESNO CITY COLLEGE, FRESNO CA UNIVERSITY THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, SHEBOYGAN, WI
DRAMA BOOK SHOP, NYC, NY Albuquerque High School, Albuquerque, NM NorthStar High School, Lincoln, NE
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MILWAUKEE, WI Illinois Central College, Forensics, East Peoria, IL STAGECOACH THEATRE, BOISE, ID NORTH BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, ALCHEMIST THEATRE< NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ
Graves County High School, Mayfield, KY RAYMORE-PECULIAR HIGH SCHOOL, PECULIAR, MO LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, MANITOWOC, WI WHITE KNOLL HIGH SCHOOL, LINXINGTON, SC
WHITE OAK HIGH SCHOOL, JACKSONVILLE, NC CHAPARRAL HIGH SCHOOL, TEMECULA, CA HUTCHINSON HIGH SCHOOL, HUTCHINSON, KS
Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District, Rehoboth, MA Vista Books, Searcy, AZ Bethel University, St. Paul, MN University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
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OTHER NEW TITLES FROM ELIZABETH WONG
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WONG'S SENSUAL BIO-FANTASY -- CHINA DOLL -- CELEBRATING THE IMAGINED LIFE OF MOVIE ICON ANNA MAY WONG -- AVAILABLE FROM DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
The photo that inspired the play. Thank you Mark Thompson for finding it! -- Elizabeth Wong
Playbook Now Available!
CHINA DOLL
(The Imagined Life of An American Actress)
by Elizabeth Wong
China Doll is a loving and unflinching homage to a woman ahead of her time. Cast: 5m, 3w: multicultural casting, with multiple roles. Bare stage. Approximate running time: 90 minutes with intermission.
To order, contact Dramatic Publishing.
Purchase Code: DC3
Cost of acting edition: $6.50
For royalty and performance information, see the 2006 Complete Catalog of Plays and Musicals or contact www.dramaticpublishing.com or plays@dramaticpublishing.com
From a University at Irvine production of "Kimchee & Chitlins"
An excerpt from Elizabeth Wong's spicy satire on race relations
Kimchee & Chitlins
published in a new monologue auditions anthology
"Editor's Choice: Audition Monologues for Women"
Compiled and Edited by Linda Habjan
www.dramaticpublishing.com order code: E44
Widdi Turner as Arlene, a CEO checking out the goods at the sperm bank, in Elizabeth Wong's sexy and poignant monologue "Love Juice." One of 61 monologues featured in a new audition anthology for women.
AUDITION MONOLOGUES FROM HEINEMANN DRAMA...
NEW MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN BY WOMEN (Volume II)
Edited by Tori Haring-Smith & Liz Engelman
Auditioning tips from Haring-Smith and Englemann. This volume includes new original monologues by a variety of playwrights, including Janet Allard, Monika Bustamante, Sheila Callaghan, Elena Carrillo, Paula Cizmar, Veronique de Turenne, Lisa Dillman, Julie Jensen, Sherry Kramer, Carson Kreiter, Jennifer Maisel, Jacquelyn Reingold, Sarah Ruhl, Alice Tuan, and ELIZABETH WONG
www.heinemanndrama.com Cost: $14.95
PROMETHEUS AT ADDISON REPERTORY THEATRE - MIDDLEBURY, VT -- SEE TYA PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS
