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Jacob’s play Under America will have a staged reading produced by the Artisan Theatre Project at Prop Thtr. The reading will be of a new draft Jacob will be creating thanks to a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewannee Writers’ Conference. There, he will work with Romulus Linney and Arlene Hutton to strengthen the document before its Chicago reading. The details: Under America, A Staged Reading Produced by the Artisan Theatre Project “Here Be Dragons,” an excerpt from Jacob’s play Lobsters and Lifers, was performed in Austin by the Vestige Groupand reviewed by the Austin Chronicle. Jacob’s essay “Repairing Reality: The Media and Homebody/Kabul in New York, 2001” appears in Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays.Jacob’s latest play, Under America, is set just prior to the demolition of the Cabrini Green housing project (above). It began with a scholarship from Lee Blessing, was selected by the Driehaus Foundation for the Sundance Chicago Roundtable, and helped Jacob win a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewannee Writers’ Conference As far as the script’s development, it began in 2001 when I moved to Chicago. That’s when I began to conceive of the play. In 2005, I received a Lee Blessing Scholarship (from Lee Blessing) to begin work on the play at the Timberlake Playhouse where I worked with Rob Koon, a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Soon after, director Joanie Schultz became interested in the script, as did Gallery 400, and the play was read at Gallery 400 in Feb 2007 with Joanie directing as part of the Captive Audiences exhibit. Based on a sample and synopsis, the full script was solicited by: The Public Theatre, The New York Theatre Workshop, Steppenwolf, The Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, The Magic Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, The New Group, The Cleveland Playhouse, Prop Thtr, and others. Most recently, I won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers’ Conference to work with Romulus Linney and Arlene Hutton. The script that Sean will direct at Prop will be based on that work.
-Jacob
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Check out the full text and Jacob’s plays and bio at…
www.jacobjuntunen.com
