This just in:
Pleased to announce that Hitch is a semifinalist at Wild Imaginings Epiphanies New Works Festival in Waco, TX and will receive a reading there.My new play, Family Justice, will next be presented at Birdhouse Theatre's EdgeFest 2021 in September. A monologue from When We Get Good Again will be published in Smith & Kraus Best Men’s Monologues 2021. Hitch has just been selected as the winner of the NEWvember New Plays Festival in Dublin, Ireland. 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. When We Get Good Again has 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, date TBA. Distant Music will receive a full production this year at Actors Community Theater of Seymour, date TBA.
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 Theatre Company in New York. His play, When We Get Good Again, won the Playhouse On The Square's New Works @ The Works competition and premiered there this past January, where it won the Ostrander Theater Award for Best Original Script. Comes A Faery was developed at the O'Neill National Play Development Conference, Sean Daniels directing, and was a Finalist for the Humana Festival. It was premiered at the New Ohio Theater by Nylon Fusion. Salvation was produced in New York by Hudson Stage Company, Giovanna Sardelli directing, to critical acclaim in the New York Times and elsewhere. Distant Music, published by Dramatic Publishing, has had ten productions. Dead and Buried, also published by Dramatic Publishing, has been produced by the Detroit Rep, Dreamcatcher Rep, U. Miami (Ohio), and most recently Apollo Kine in Tallinn, Estonia. One-Acts Broken, I Don't Know, Put Asunder, and Fightbook, were produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Laying Off and Knuckleheads were produced at the Samuel French Festival; and Broken, Safe, The Wilderness, Ebenezer Creek, Japanese Schoolgirl Night, and Squirrelly were finalists for the Heideman Award. Many of them have been published by Smith & Kraus and Applause Books in their Best 10-Minute Plays anthologies. Although he makes his home in Northampton, his plays have been produced in New Yorik, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and indeed all over the United States as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Estonia, Luxembourg, and Australia.
UP NEXT:
Pending Produtions:
When We Get Good Again: New Works At New Deal Production, New Deal Creative Arts Center, Hyde Park, NY, Dates TBA. More info at: http://www.newdealarts.org/
Distant Music: Actors Community Theater of Seymour, Seymour, IN, Nov. 19-20, 26-27, 2021.
Choices: Delta Center Stage, Greenville, MS, Dates TBA; More info at: http://www.deltastage.com/
Choices: Zoom Production: Fifth Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival, New York.
Family Justice: Birdhouse Theatre EdgeFest 2021, Milledgeville, GA, Sept. 2-3, 2021.
Family Justice: Lakeshore Players Theatre 17th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, White Bear Lake, MN, June 4-13, 2021.
Baggage: Durango Arts Center 10-Minute Play Festival, Durango, CO, June 18, 7pm CDT.
Choices: Playhouse on Whitelake Summer Theatre Festival Summer Shorts, Whitehall, MI, Aug., 2021.
Podcasts
I Don't Know will be recorded as a podcast by Next Day Theater Parabasis in Washington, DC, TBA.
Choices: Onstage Offstage Podcast, TBA.
Pending Workshops/Readings
Skin Deep: Zoom Reading: Tiger’s Heart Players, August 1, 2021.
Social Distance: Shaker Bridge Theatre, Enfield, NH, Dates TBD.
Hitch: Wild Imaginings, Waco, TX, June 2021.
Dead and Buried: Denizen Theatre, New Paltz, NY, August 6-8, 2021.
Independence Day: Dragon Productions Theatre Company Dragon Eggs Short Play Incubator, Redwood City, CA, July 18, 2021.
Choices: Theatre One Productions Slice of Life New Works Festival, Middleboro, MA, Sept. 17, 2021. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/theatreone/
