Gingold Theatrical Group Announces the 2023-24 Speakers' Corner New Play Cohort

12/7/2023 10:52am


Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Artistic Director) has announced that Kaela Mae-Shing Garvin, Ruth Geye, Gloria Oladipo and Max Yu have been selected for GTG’s Speakers’ Corner New Play Development Program for the 2023-24 season. These four writers have developed works in response to George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. Named after the corner of London’s Hyde Park where George Bernard Shaw and other political speakers have delivered speeches since 1855, GTG’s Speakers’ Corner brings together four writers each year who have spent the year exploring a specific Shaw play and writing individual new plays in response to that text and Shaw’s forward thinking humanitarian ideals. Led by GTG Director of New Plays, Lily Kanter Riopelle, Speakers’ Corner members have met bi-monthly over the past year, concluding this December with the opportunity to work with directors and actors in an AEA-Approved 29-hour workshop, culminating with a public presentation of their play. Plays are PING PONG PLAY by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, directed by Benita de Wit; HOW CAN I HELP YOU? by Ruth Geye, directed by Carsen Joenk; I WANNA KILL, ANNIE G by Gloria Oladipodirected by Maya Davis; CALL ME COMRADE by Max Yu, directed by Bryn Herdrich. For more information, please visit www.gingoldgroup.org. Press contact: Matt Ross Public Relations (212/756-1248)...