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| Mission The 24Seven Lab is an organization driven by the sole desire to develop new plays in a way that will benefit playwrights. Through multi-week workshops sessions, weekend workshops, an annual writers retreat, public presentations and community collaborations, we aid our fellows in their quest to turn great ideas into full drafts and full drafts into great plays. We don't lecture, preach, or teach. We provide emerging, independent, proactive playwrights with space, actors and dramaturgical support. We give them motivation when they’re feeling lazy, encouragement when they’re feeling stuck, feedback when they ask for it and copies when money is tight. We are always ready to work and happy to play, never limiting opportunities for past participants or closing our doors to new ones. History The 24Seven Lab was founded by Sharon Freedman, Edith Freni and Sarah Hayon, all graduates of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The Lab’s inaugural session was hosted by the LES bar 247 Eldridge and ran for four weeks in February and March 2004. Over the last four years, The 24Seven Lab has aided in the development of over 25 new plays by graduates and attendees of the Brown, NYU, Columbia and New School MFA playwriting programs, the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Wing at Juilliard, and members of the LAByrinth Theatre Company, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, Partial Comfort Productions, and Youngblood, the Ensemble Studio Theatre's emerging playwrights unit. Our actors have worked locally on Broadway and off, regionally, internationally and in film and television. Additionally, we have produced numerous events, including collaborative projects with the New York NeoFuturists and the Crown Point Festival, as well as fundraisers, workshops and public readings. |
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| We are pleased to announce that A LIFE EXTRAORDINARY by Melissa Ross and THIS IS MY OFFICE by Andy Bragen were selected for spring Weekend Workshops. Additionally, we awarded three 2010 Refuge Playwriting Residencies to Florencia Lozano, Megan Mostyn-Brown and Daniel Talbott. We are so excited to be collaborating with these amazing artists on their fabulous new plays. |
| EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SPRING FROM THE 24SEVEN LAB! |
| We've been busy this year applying for institutional support, but while we wait on all that grant money, we could really use your help. We're still $1,000 short on our fundraising goals for the spring and we're trying to come up with that extra grand by APRIL 30th!!!!. That extra $1,000 will go towards housing, feeding and transporting artists to Lifebridge Sanctuary for The Refuge, our 5-day writing retreat; it will off-set the costs associated with producing both Weekend Workshops; and it will help us to NOT break the bank in the process. If you've got the means and the inclination, won't you please consider making a donation to The 24Seven Lab? $10, $20, $200, $500! Everything helps! Here's how to donate: 1. Cruise on over to our ONLINE DONATIONS page at Fractured Atlas and make a donation using your credit or debit card or 2. Mail your checks, made payable to FRACTURED ATLAS and earmarked to THE 24SEVEN LAB, to: The 24Seven Lab c/o Sarah Nina Hayon, Business Manager 284 East 10th Street, Apt. C NY, NY 10009 |
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