This just in:
Pleased to announce that When We Get Good Again won Ostrander Award in Memphis for Best Original Script. Big thanks to the director, cast and crew as well as Playhouse on the Square for a tremendous job bringing that play to life. Hitch has just been selected for development and a reading at the Newvember New Plays Festival in Dublin, Ireland in November, 2021 and won the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival. When We Get Good Again has also just been named the winner of the New Words at New Deal's full-length play competition and will receive its third production in New York this fall. The play will also receive a reading next May as part of Silverthorne Theater Company's Theater Thursdays reading series. Distant Music will receive a full production this November at Actors Community Theater of Seymour this November. Choices will have its tenth production at the Aurora Theater in Hong Kong at its COVID & Cigarettes Zoom Festival next month. Late Arrival will premiere in October at the Las Vegas Little Theatre Ghost Light Stories, the Pumphouse Players Autumn Spooktacular, and the Davidson Community Theatre's Boos and Brews Festival.
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.
Hitch has just been named a Finalist in B Street Theatre's 2020 New Comedies Festival! 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. Social Distance will be produced in Hong Kong on July 11 (July 12 U.S. time).
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.
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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:
When We Get Good Again: New Works At New Deal Production, New Deal Creative Arts Center, Hyde Park, NY, Nov. 2020. More info at: http://www.newdealarts.org/
Distant Music: Actors Community Theater of Seymour, Seymour, IN, Nov. 13-21, 2020.
Choices: Aurora Theater (Hong Kong) COVID & Cigarettes Zoom Festival, Oct. 2020.
Put Asunder: Short+Sweet Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Feb.-Apr. 2020. CANCELLED
Choices: Theatre One Productions Slice of Life New Works Festival, Middleboro, MA, Sept. 10-12, 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, July 15-19, 2020; More info at: http://www.deltastage.com/
Playing Fields of Somerville: Stiletto Rosso Productions, Fairhaven, WA, dates TBD.
Choices: Anacortes Community Theatre's Thank You, 10! Ten Minute Play Festival, Anacortes, WA July 31 - Aug. 22, 2020.
Stockholm Syndrome: Not Your Average Theatre Group, Sunrise, Florida, August 21, 2020.
Choices: Zoom Production: Fifth Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival, New York.
Choices: Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre New Play Festival, Fargo, ND, Fall, 2020.
Choices: Open Fist Theatre Company Political Pop Up Festival, Los Angeles, Oct. 2020.
Social Distance: Open Fist Theatre Company Political Pop Up Festival, Los Angeles, Oct. 2020.
Late Arrival: Las Vegas Little Theatre Ghost Light Stories, Oct. 10-31.
Late Arrival: Pumphouse Players Autumn Spooktacular, Cartersville, GA, Oct. 16-18.
Late Arrival: Davidson Community Players Boos & Brews New Play Festival, Davidson, NC, Oct. 21-24, 2020.
Hot Gecko Sex Love Action: Cutler Bay Community Theater, Dade County, FL, Nov. 4, 2020.
Joyeux Noel: Red Road Barn Players' An Awkwardly Distanced Christmas Christmas Festival, Kansas City, MO, Dec. 7-14, 2020.
Stockholm Syndrome: The Sauk Sauk Shorts, Jonesville, MI, Apr. 29-May 2, 2020.
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.
Filmed Theater
Social Distance: Shelter In Place The Zoom Shelter Plays, Dates TBD.
Pending Workshops/Readings
Hitch: Newvember New Plays Festival, Dublin, Ireland, November 6-8, 2021.
Hitch: Firehouse Center for the Arts New Work Festival, Newburyport, MA, Jan. 22, 2021.
When We Get Good Again: Silverthorne Theater Company's Theater Thursdays reading series, Greenfield, MA, May, 2021.
Baggage: Break A Leg Productions One Act Slam!, NY Spring, 2020. CANCELLED
Social Distance: Shaker Bridge Theatre, Enfield, NH, Dates TBD.
