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<div align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#ffff99">Through an extensive selection process, the Lark’s Literary Wing has chosen seven plays from over nine hundred scripts submitted through the Lark’s Open Access Program.<br>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#ffff99">Playwrights’ Week 2012 will take place </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;font-size:22pt;color:#ffff00"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:12pt"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline">September 26-29</span></strong>. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#ffff99"><strong>THIS IS WITTENBERG</strong></span> <span style="color:#ffffff"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ffff99">by Lauren Gunderson</span></strong> - <span style="font-size:10pt">Based on the true history of Hamlet’s genesis; science and fiction converge when a Nobleman and a Prince end up as grad school roommates.</span></span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffff99;font-size:14pt"><strong>HUNGER</strong></span> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">by Anna Moench</span></strong> - In the sandy hills of China’s Loess Plateau, a farming couple mourns the death of their only son. Their search for an illegal afterlife bride is complicated by the fact that before his death their son committed an act of horrifying violence, leaving them outcasts in their community.</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffff99;font-size:14pt"><strong>HALFWAY, NEBRASKA</strong></span> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">by Briandaniel Oglesby</span></strong> - Sheila must drive her troubled adoptive son, Nate, to Nebraska before the sunset of the Safe Haven law, which permits parents to abandon their children at hospitals to become wards of the state.</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99;font-size:14pt">TRANQUIL</span></strong> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">by Andrew Rosendorf</span></strong> - </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff">An estranged brother returns home years after causing his sister to become paraplegic and is forced to confront his actions as well as his sister's budding sexuality. </span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#ffff99"><strong>DENNY AND LILA</strong></span> <span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:10pt"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">by August Schulenburg</span></strong> –</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:10pt">Jabber tells us what happens to legendary con artists Denny and Lila when an Alabama con goes wrong.</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">#NYC</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99"> by Kyle Warren</span></strong><span style="color:#ffff99"> - </span></span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:10pt">As cataclysm looms, six New Yorkers’ lives intersect, leading a power-hungry aide, a struggling author and an outspoken journalist to uncover a devastating series of lies.</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#ffff99"><strong>SECRET IDENTITY</strong></span> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff"><strong><span style="color:#ffff99">by Chris Weikel</span></strong> - A teenager must deal with the constant humiliation of the school bully, his changing ideas of who he is sexually and creatively, and try to balance his relationship between his real-world best friend and the increasingly intrusive fictional characters he’s created to help him through the day.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif;color:#ff6600">ABOUT </span><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#003366"><span style="color:#ff6600;font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif">PLAYWRIGHTS' WEEK</span><br>
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<td bgcolor=""><p><span style="color:#ffffff;font-family:trebuchet ms,trebuchet,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt">Playwrights' Week playwrights participate in an intensive seven-day retreat where they focus on self-stated developmental goals with support from their creative teams, peer writers and Lark's staff. As part of this process the writers are provided professional actors, a director, and ten hours of rehearsals before presenting their works-in-progress to the public in a rehearsal format. They also participate in events designed to foster a community among their peers and introduce them to dramatists and other industry professionals. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:#ff9900"><strong>SECOND STAGE THEATRE UPTOWN presents</strong></span><br><br><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:#ffffff"><strong>WARRIOR CLASS</strong></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900">BY </span><span style="color:#ffffff">KENNETH LIN</span></strong></span><br><br><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900">DIRECTED BY</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">EVAN CABNET</span></strong></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900">WITH</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">LOUIS OZAWA CHANGCHIEN</span><span style="color:#ffffff">,</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">KATHARINE POWELL</span><span style="color:#ffffff">,</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">DAVID RASCHE</span></strong></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ff9900">When Assemblyman Julius Lee makes a bid for Congress, the ghosts of his college days come back to haunt him.</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">Nothing reveals true colors like a sprint to the finish, when friends become enemies and allies can turn on a dime</span><span style="color:#ffffff">.</span><span style="color:#ff9900"> Warrior Class is a political battle of race, romance, forgiveness and debt.</span></span><br>
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