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"Take Ten is a genius equation: young American theater artists + an inspiring setting + experienced mentors + community involvement = thrilling new work.”
– David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

announcing
take ten 2020: first look festival

January 23rd, 24th, 25th 2020
7:30pm
Aspen High School Black Box Theater

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A mash up evening of the winning 10-minute plays from our Aspiring Playwrights High School Program alongside a new full length play from an established Theater Masters Visionary playwright! Join us for this presentation of thrilling new work from today's most promising and important theater makers.

Featuring the work of:
Ashlan Stolley (Glenwood High School)
Bridget Carrington & Paige Flentge (Glenwood High School)
Annika Bucchin (Glenwood High School)
And
Award-Winning Playwright Carolyn Kras*

and that's not all...

PLEASE JOIN US
January 25th 1:30pm - 3:00pm
@ Aspen Art Museum!

THEATER MASTERS ACTIVATION
at Aspen Art Museum

Join the AAM and Theater Masters for a theatrical workshop merging visual art, theater, and performance. Participants will work together to create an original and engaging piece of live storytelling. Facilitated by Executive Artistic Director Daisy Walker, Producing Director Emily Zemba, and local teens from the Theater Masters Aspiring Playwrights Competition.
AAM education programs are made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.

Meet the
The 2019 Visionary Playwrights:

This year, for the first time ever, Theater Masters was able to commission THREE Visionary Playwrights in partnership with The Aspen Ideas Festival AND Aspen Brain Lab. Meet our Visionary Playwrights below:

JESSICA HUANG is a playwright and producer from Minneapolis, based in New York City. Jessica’s work has been developed, commissioned, and/or produced by New York Theatre Workshop, The New Group, Atlantic Theater Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, History Theatre, Theater Mu, and many more. Jessica is a MacDowell Fellow; two-time Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow; and Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellow; and has received awards from the Sloan Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council/McKnight.
Jessica cofounded and co-directs Other Tiger Productions, a theatrical production company with a mission to pursue multidisciplinary collaborations, intentional inclusivity and a re-examination of traditional theater practices. She is a member of the Civilians R&D Group, Ars Nova Play Group, Page 73's Interstate 73, and she is a resident playwright at Chance Theater. She attends the Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

EMILY ZEMBA is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and creative producer. Her work has been seen and developed with places like The Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland, Exquisite Corpse Company, Williamstown Theater Festival's Professional Training Company, First Floor Theater (Chicago). Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Playwrights’ Center, Great Plains Theater Conference, The Party Line, GUIDED TOUR, and the Yale Cabaret. Emily holds an MFA in playwriting from Yale School of Drama, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights Center, affiliated artist with New Georges, co-founder of The Party Line, and founding member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick. She has worked with MCC Theater Youth Company’s Playwrights Lab as a mentor and director. Emily has taught playwriting with Tres Artis studio in NYC and at Wesleyan University.

FRANKIE KL trained under the guidance of playwright, Craig Lucas. His work includes the original musical Goodbye, Kansas (KC Fringe Festival); No Land to Land In (Dixon Place, NYC); and MINDEN (The TANK, NYC 2020). Recently his play Jeanine’s World received readings at The Atlantic Theatre and Rattlestick Theatre in NYC. He has written the screenplays for multiple independent films and his new film ALL THE LITTLE THINGS WE KILL about gun violence starring Elizabeth Marvel and Danielle Brooks comes out in 2020. He is currently working on a new musical about a woman dealing with the legacy of sexual abuse with the composer/singer Lisbeth Scott.

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