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NURTURING, DEVELOPING, AND INTRODUCING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PLAYWRIGHTS

"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

CONGRATULATIONS
tO THIS YEAR'S 7 TAKE TEN PLAYWRIGHTS!

Unfortunately, as we celebrate these talented playwrights, we must also announce that due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have to cancel our May NYC production of TAKE TEN 2020.
Stay tuned for more programming later in the year.

MEET THE
THE 2020 TAKE TEN MFA PLAYWRIGHTS:

BRIANNA BARRETT is a writer and monologist from Portland, Oregon. Named Portland's Best Spoken Word Storyteller in Willamette Week’s Best of Portland awards in 2016 and 2017, she has performed at PICKATHON and on stages throughout the Pacific Northwest. Television collaborations have included projects with Stuber Productions and Farah Films. She is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights, in residence at Artists Repertory Theater. For over three years, she ran a weekly writing workshop for cancer survivors at Oregon Health & Science University. She is now pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at UCLA. briannabarrett.com

LINDSAY CARPENTER's plays have been produced and developed at Synchronicity Theatre, The Barrow Group, Women’s Theatre Festival, Fresh Ink Theatre, FAU Theatre Labs, and more. She is a co-founder of Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries, which combines interactive theatre with role playing games. She was a staff writer on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) web series “Amours d’occasion” which competed at CANNESERIES in March 2020. Her play Borders received the 2015 Kennedy Center ACTF National Undergraduate Playwriting Award. She holds a BA in Drama from Tufts University and is a second-year graduate student at NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing Program.

A.R. CORWIN is a graduate student of Dramatic Writing at Arizona State University. In her plays, she combines her passions for comedy and politics to examine how we’ve been taught to look at the world. Her play, How to Save the Polar Bear, was a regional finalist for the 2020 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award and has been chosen for presentation at the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference in June 2020. This play is part of a full-length piece, entitled en-DANGER!-ed. Learn more about her work at www.arcorwin.com

CAYENNE DOUGLASS' plays have been produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre, Dixon Place, FEAST: A Performance Series, Primary Stages ESPA DETENTION #33 and #47, Manhattan Rep, The Big Apple Theatre Festival, and The Players Theatre. In 2018, Cayenne participated in The First Stage Residency through The Drama League, The Barn Arts Residency in Bass Harbor, ME and The Emerging Artists Residency at The Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN. She has been published by Smith & Krauss in two monologue anthologies and was a Kennedy Center Region 1 finalist 2019 and semifinalist 2020 for The Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award. The World Premiere of her full-length play, Maiden Voyage is running May 1st -16th 2020 at Fresh Ink Theatre in Boston, MA. www.cayennedouglass.com

ERIKA HAKMILLER is a Chicago based comedy writer. She performs musical improv weekly with Nite Brunch at The Playground and is the script supervisor for the iO Comedy Network. Sketch Credits: Women’s Funny Fest, Chicago Sketchfest, and The Mary Scruggs Works by Women Festival. Playwriting credits: Who’s Haunting? (Random Acts Chi), Lost and Found (The New Colony), Heard (Random Acts Chi), and A Better Brothers Grimm (The Second City TC). Publications: Word Brothel, The Belladonna Comedy, LOL Comedy, The Broadway Beat. She’s interned with The Belladonna Comedy and Gulfstream Pictures at Warner Bros. MFA Writing for the Screen and Stage, Northwestern University ‘20. She loves Maine, and in-unit laundry.

MATTHEW LIBBY is a writer and actor living in Manhattan, by way of Los Angeles. A Princess Grace Award Finalist and two-time O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, his play Data won the 2020 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, and will receive its world premiere in the Alliance Theatre's 20/21 season. With Stanford Repertory Theater, he helped devise and acted in The Many Faces of Farce, nominated for a Theater Bay Area Critics Award for Best Production. Matt studied cognitive science and creative writing at Stanford University, and is an MFA candidate in dramatic writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

TONY MANTIA is a Chicago-based playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer. He earned a BA in Theatre from Loyola University Chicago and is currently pursuing an MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. He had his first play, Glory Days, was produced in 2014. Coming from a very large, loud, and Catholic family, a lot of Tony’s writing centers around family or “found family” conflicts. His work tends to explore dark or uncomfortable moments through a comedic lens. He is a graduate of the iO Chicago Training Center and The Second City Conservatory Program. Tony regularly rehearses and performs with the The Chicago Improv Den house ensemble, Breakfast. He’s originally from St. Louis, MO where in his youth, he overcame frosted tips and several embarrassing AIM screen names. If he had any free time, he’d enjoy talking baseball, taking his dog for a run, and gorging on an assortment of homemade dips.

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