Hollins Playwright's Festival of New Works
Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing workshop productions and readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. These performances are at Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage for the general public and guest professional. On Sunday at 4 pm (EST) there will be a panel discussion when our guest artists will introduce themselves, talk briefly about their own background, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students, faculty, and some established theatre professionals.
This event is always free, but has limited seating that is first come, first served.
Friday, July 24
7:30 pm 2 Cities by Claire F. Martin
Saturday, July 25
11 am Hand of One by Ami Trowell
3 pm Hipponaut by Mack Burns
4:30pm Holey Rite by Emily Fleischhauer
7:30 pm The Gone Women by Adrian Lee Bush
Sunday, July 26
2 pm Sine Dine by Robert Watts
4 pm Festival Guest Respondent Panel
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Hollins Playwright's Lab
A Dynamic Academic/Professional Partnership
Mill Mountain Theatre has a longstanding relationship with Hollins University, and the Hollins Theatre Institute. Among the exciting collaborations currently on the boards are:
Hollins-Mill Mountain Winter Festival of New Works. Each year new works from HTI are given world-premiere and workshop productions on MMT’s professional stages, fulfilling Roanoke’s long-standing enthusiasm and support for the development of new works.
M.F.A. Playwright’s Lab summer residency at MMT. For six weeks every summer, the M.F.A. program in playwriting (also known as Playwright’s Lab) splits its time between the Hollins campus and MMT’s various stages, hosting guest speakers of national renown, the annual Summer Festival of Play Readings, and Overnight Sensations, a micro-brewed new play festival of freshly baked plays.
Faculty and guest artists. Working professional artists from MMT serve as adjunct faculty and guest artists at the Hollins Theatre Institute throughout the year.
Musical Theatre training at Hollins is directly connected to the excellent artistic staff at MMT, with professional artists providing classroom instruction at Hollins and at MMT. Audition and performance opportunities are available, and performance internships give Hollins students the chance to work with professional performers while earning academic credit.
Undergraduate Internships. Hollins students have the opportunity to complete internships throughout the year, while obtaining academic credit.
Post-graduate apprenticeships. Upon graduation, Hollins students can apply for a paid professional apprenticeship at MMT, allowing them to begin their careers in the city where they trained.
The CenterPieces Reading Series is a showcase for minimally produced staged readings that happen over the lunch hour on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre on the 2nd Wednesday of every month. Grab some friends, bring a lunch, see a play!
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