This just in:
Hitch has just been named a Finalist in B Street Theatre's 2020 New Comedies Festival! I have just been selected fro a grant from Eggtooth Productions to produce This Is Your Captain as a Zoom play. Smith & Kraus has just selected three monologues from Hitch for publication in the Best Women's Monologues of 2020. Choices has been selected for Little Fish Theatre's 18th Annual PICK OF THE VINE short play festival, the Silverthorne Theater Company’s Short & Sweet Festival of New (tiny) Plays, the Winding Road Theater Eight 10s in Tucson 10-minute Play Festival, Theatre One Productions Slice of Life New Works Festival and Delta Center Stage's short play festival.
Put Asunder will be produced at Short+Sweet Dubai and Short+Sweet Sydney.
I Don't Know will be recorded as a podcast by Next Day Theater Parabasis in Washington, DC, coming summer 2020.
Monologues from Dead And Buried and A Brief History of Penguins and Promiscuity have just been selected for Applause Books' 2019 Best Monologues. A monologue from Salvation has just been selected for Smith & Kraus' Best Men's Monologues 2019.
James is now on the NNPN New Play Exchange where you can read his plays. Go to https://newplayexchange.org/users/4206/james-mclindon for more.
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James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theater Company in New York. His play, Pooka, premiered last season at The Tank in Times Square, produced by The Blockheads. Comes a Faery was developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sean Daniels directing and was a finalist for the Humana Festival. It was premiered at the New Ohio Theatre, produced by Nylon Fusion Theatre Company. Salvation was premiered in New York by the Hudson Stage Company, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, to critical acclaim in the New York Times and elsewhere. It received a second production at the Nuance Theatre in New York. Faith premiered at Local Theatre Company in Boulder, CO. Dead and Buried, was an O'Neill semifinalist and premiered with the Detroit Rep. Good and Faith were both winners of the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. Distant Music, is published by Dramatic Publishing and has seven productions, most recently at the Stoneham Theatre in Boston. His plays have been developed and/or produced at theaters such as the O’Neill NPC (selection and six-time semifinalist), Lark, PlayPenn, Victory Gardens, Irish Repertory, CAP21, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Seven Devils, Abingdon, hotINK Festival, Samuel French Ten-Minute Play Festival, Local Theater Local Lab, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Emerging Artists Theatre, Love Creek Productions, Prop Thtr, Lyric Stage, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Colony Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Circus Theatricals, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Arkansas Rep. Four of his one-act plays have been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and two at at the Samuel French Festival. Six of his plays were Finalists for the Actors’ Theater of Louisville’s Heideman Award. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith and Krause, Original Works Publishing (Dusk), and Level 4 Press.
UP NEXT:
Pending Produtions:
This Is Your Captain: Eggtooth Productions, DATE TBA
This Is Your Captain: Taphouse Theatre's Shelter In Place Festival
Any Port: The Corona Virus Plays One-Minute Play Festival, via Zoom, April 14, 2020.
Put Asunder: Short+Sweet Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Feb.-Apr. 2020. CANCELLED
Choices: Boston Theater Marathon, Boston, MA, April 19, 2020. More info at: http://www.bu.edu/bpt/blog/, vai Zoom, May 14, 2020.
Choices: Winding Road Theater Eight 10s in Tucson 10-minute Play Festival, April 16 thru April 26, 2020. More info at: http://www.windingroadtheater.org/
POSTPONED; NEW DATES TBA
Choices: Theatre One Productions Slice of Life New Works Festival, Middleboro, MA, February 19-21, 2021. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/theatreone/
Choices: Silverthorne Theater Company’s Short & Sweet Festival of New (tiny) Plays, Greenfield, MA, April 24 – May 9, 2020. More info at: https://silverthornetheater.org/ POSTPONED; NEW DATES TBA
Choices: Delta Center Stage, Greenville, MS, June 2020; More info at: http://www.deltastage.com/
Podcasts
I Don't Know will be recorded as a podcast by Next Day Theater Parabasis in Washington, DC, coming summer 2020.
Choices: Onstage Offstage Podcast, coming later in 2020.
Pending Workshops/Readings
This Is Your Captain: Taphouse Theatre's Shelter In Place Festival, April 18-19, 2020.
Candy Store: Theatre Southwest Readers Theatre, Houston, TX.
When We Get Good Again: New Works at New Deal, New Deal Creative Arts Center, Hyde Park, NY, May 3, 2020. POSTPONED
Baggage: Break A Leg Productions One Act Slam!, NY Spring, 2020. CANCELLED
Candy Store: Geneva Theatre Guild Playwrights Play Reading Program, Geneva, NY, Date TBA.
War Dog: Jersey City Theatre Company New Play Festival, May 31, 2020 POSTPONED.
