FOUR GREAT PLAYS - EIGHT COMPELLING PANEL DISCUSSIONS
July 28-August 2, 2020
Festival Schedule
July 28
NAV 20 @ 7pm (CST) - The State of Broadway
July 29
NAV 20 @ 11am (CST) - Writing and Producing the One Person Show
NAV 20 @ 3pm (CST) - Writing for Devised Theatre
NAV 20 @ 7pm (CST) - Writing with Cultural Intentionality
July 30
NAV 20 @ 3pm (CST) - The Virtue of Virtual
NAV 20 @ 7pm (CST) - THE NEW GALILEOS by Amy Berryman
July 31
NAV 20 @ 11am (CST) - What I'd Say to My Younger Self - Real Talk for Young Writers
NAV 20 @ 3pm (CST) - Getting Past the World Premiere
NAV 20 @ 7pm(CST) - QUEEN OF SAD MISCHANCE by John Minigan
August 1
NAV 20 @ 3pm (CST) - The Future of American Regional Theatre
NAV 20 @ 7pm (CST) - AGATHE by Angela J. Davis
August 2
NAV 20 @ 3pm (CST) - THE BEST PUNK BAND IN CONWAY, MISSOURI: AN ORAL HISTORY OF PRESLEY COX AND THE FALLOUT FIVE by Kirby Fields
NAV 20 @ 8pm (CST) - Closing Toast to the Playwrights
(Available to VIP Festival Ticket Holders Only)
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2020 Panelists and Moderators
George Brandt, Valerie David, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Theresa Rebeck, Chay Yew, Hillary Bettis, Michael Gene Sullivan, Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen, Octavio Solis, Carlyle Brown, Josh Wilder, Vichet Chum, Thomas Meloncon, Elizabeth Keel, Michael Alden, Molly Morris, Martin Platt, Tina Fallen, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Sue Frost, Christine Toy Johnson, Kristen Riiber, Megan Carter, Kirk Lynn, Carra Martinez, Sanford Robbins, Jackson Gay, Jeremy B. Cohen, Elizabeth Frankel, Rob Melrose, Nataki Garrett, Kevin Moriarty, Marissa Wolf, Maria Manuela Goyanes, Marc Masterson, Chad Rabinovitz, Tiffany Keane Schaefer, Sis Khalil, Iyvon Edebiri, Ebrin R. Stanley, Stacey Walston, Martine Greene, Sarahbeth Grossman, Lily Wolff, Alison Christy, Kimberly Colburn, and Alonna Ray.
ABOUT THE NAV FESTIVAL
The New American Voices Playwriting Festival is a national playwriting contest which annually features four new American plays by some of the nation’s top emerging playwrights. The plays are performed by local actors, and followed by a talkbacks with the playwrights, directors and casts. The festival is open to the public, and offers the seasoned theatre-goer a stimulating taste of what’s next in American theatre!
This year the festival is online and we have added eight panel discussions by leading professionals in the theater industry on topics current to playwrights and the theatre community
Submissions
2021 SUBMISSIONS OPEN AUGUST 1
Submissions for the New American Voices Play Reading Series are accepted from August 1- September 30. For submission guidelines, click the link below.
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and
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