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Anne Washburn
The Murder Room
Presented at the Hub at ArtXNYC
“One of the most formally experimental and stylistically innovative writers of her generation.” – The Guardian
The Murder Room is an ever-growing constellated crowd-sourced collection of brainstorms, hopes, diagnostics, history and dreaming about the current vexing/exhilarating state of theater in America and in New York City using the form of the Evidence Board — a staple of film and tv procedurals for identifying problems and revealing solutions. Join the writers, stage managers, producers, designers, audience members, managing directors, electricians, actors, box office personnel, interns, artistic directors, tech directors, educators, dramaturgs, choreographers, board members, curators, critics, press agents, and producers who have contributed to this burgeoning and evolving project. Come to take a look, come to add your two or twelve cents.
The Murder Room is more or less appropriate for audiences of all ages. Kids will probably be bored but there are papers and colored markers and they may make drawings.
SCHEDULE
To be announced
Run time: Engagement duration is at participant discretion, average visits range from 10 minutes to 2 hours.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anne Washburn (curator) is normally a playwright. Her plays include 10 out of 12, Apparition, Antlia Pneumatica The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, and transadaptations of Euripides’ Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Fogler, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth.
CREATION + FUNDING
The Murder Room was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and has received support from Soho Rep, New Georges, The Tank, Frank Hentschker and The Prelude Festival, and Harvard University