Women in Theatre Festival #WiTFESTNYC - June 01 - June 24, 2017
Project Y Theatre Company
Creative and Producing Team
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Chiori Miyagawa
Playwright (In the Line)
Chiori Miyagawa's plays have been produced off-Broadway, at renowned performance houses in NYC, and regionally. Currently she is working on a libretto based on her play "This Lingering Life"--which premiered in San Francisco in 2014--in collaboration with librettist Mark Campbell (Pulitzer Prize, "Silent Night") and composer Anne LeBaron. Twelve of Chiori’s plays are collected in two books: "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays," published by Seagull Books and "America Dreaming and Other Plays," published by NoPassport Press. Her work has been supported by many fellowships and grants including a Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship in Italy, MAP Fund (twice from the Rockefeller Foundation and once from Creative Capital), and a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship at Harvard University. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a Usual Suspect of New York Theatre Workshop. She teaches playwriting at Bard College. chiorimiyagawa.info
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Crystal Skillman
Playwright (The Test)
Plays include: "Geek," "Cut," and "King Kirby" (co-written with Fred Van Lente), all NYTimes Critics picks; "Rain and Zoe Save the World" (2017 Blue Ink Award Finalist, 2017 O’Neill Semi-Finalist; 2016 New Harmony Project, 2016 Oregon Performance Lab); "Pulp Vérité" (2017 Finalist Seven Devils, 2017 Judson’s Magic Time Series, 2016 BAPF Finalist, 2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission); and "Another Kind of Love," a punk rock play (Chopin Theater with InFusion Theatre Co., 2015, Chicago). She is the musical theater book writer of "Mary and Max," based on the claymation film, and "The Cover," written for Glee’s Ali Stroker, both with award winning ASCAP Composer/Lyricist Bobby Cronin. TV: original pilot "Paper Heroes" co-written with Fred Van Lente. Crystal is represented by Amy Wagner and Ron Gwiazda at Abrams Artists Agency in NY, and James Beresford with Shepard Management in the UK. www.crystalskillman.com
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