Sundance Institute Announces Artists and Projects for Two Fall eatre Labs

-- New York, NY Sundance Institute today announced the projects and artists participating in its two Fall artist development programs: the Alumni Writers Studio at Flying Point in Water Mill, NY, which ran October 4-11, as well as the two-week Theatre Lab for musical theatre, ensemble-generated projects and solo work at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), taking place November 8-22. Under the supervision of Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the initiatives are among the 24 residency Labs the Institute hosts each year for independent artists in theatre, film, new media and episodic content.

The Alumni Writers Studio at Flying Point offers four invited Theatre Program alumni and one Feature Film Program Alum an uninterrupted period of time and the space to work on their projects in a studio setting. The two one-week sessions each year are generously hosted by George and Joan Hornig.

The Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA supports three musical theatre and ensemble-generated projects. These projects are cast individually and rehearse daily with the creative support of Sundance dramaturgs.

Himberg said, Both the Alumni Writers Studio and Theatre Lab provide unique opportunities for artists to develop their projects, uninhibited, in inspiring environments. The Writers Studio residency offers our alumni the space to retreat and focus solely on their projects while the Theatre Lab MASS MoCA gives musical and ensemble theatre-makers the first opportunity to see their work brought to life on its feet.

The artists selected for the fall session of the Alumni Writers Studio at Flying Point in Water Mill, NY are:

Sara Colangelo

Sara is a New York-based writer and director. Her award-winning short films Halal Vivero, Un Attimo di Respiro, and Little Accidents have screened at festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW. Colangelo's debut feature, Little Accidents, had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Inspired by the short film of the same title, it explores tragedy and redemption in a modern-day American coal mining town. During its development, Colangelo was invited to the Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs and received support from the Annenberg Institute, the San Francisco Film Society, IFP and Indian Paintbrush. Colangelo was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in History and received her M.F.A. at NYU's Graduate Film Division.

Steve Cosson

Steve is a writer and director specializing in the creation of new theatre work inspired by real life, as well as a freelance director of new plays, musicals and classics. He is the founding Artistic Director of the New York-based investigative theater company The Civilians. Cosson won an Obie award in 2004 for his work with The Civilians, and his play (I Am) Nobodys Lunch won a coveted First Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, a two-time participant in the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, and a Resident Director at New Dramatists. His plays have been published by Oberon Books in the UK and Dramatists Play Service, and an anthology of his plays with The Civilians was published by Playscripts Inc.

Melissa James Gibson

Melissa's plays include Placebo (Playwrights Horizons); What Rhymes With America (Atlantic Theater Company); This (Playwrights Horizons); [sic] and Suitcase or, those that resemble flies from a distance (Soho Rep); Brooklyn Bridge, with a song by Barbara Brousal (Children's Theatre Company) and Current Nobody (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). Her work has been produced and/or developed at Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, among others. She has current commissions at Atlantic Theater Company and Second Stage Theatre. Gibson is the recipient of the following honors: OBIE Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; Steinberg Playwright Award; Kesselring Prize; Whiting Writers Award; Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights' Fellowship; LILLY Award; Jerome Fellowship; MacDowell Colony Fellowship; NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. She holds a degree from the Yale School of Drama and is a graduate of New Dramatists.

Diana Son

Diana is a Brooklyn-based playwright and a writer/producer on the Emmy-nominated ABC series American Crime. Other writing/producing credits include Southland, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Do Not Harm and The West Wing. Her play Stop Kiss premiered at the Public Theater where it was extended three times. It won the GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Production and was listed as one of the Top 10 Plays in the New York Times, Newsday, the Daily News and other major publications. Diana also won the Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting. Stop Kiss has subsequently been produced at hundreds of theatres nationally and abroad. Her most recent play Satellites also premiered at the Public Theater to critical acclaim. Son's plays have been produced at: the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Delaware Theatre Company, BRAVA, The Soho Theatre Company in London, GeVa Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, and many others.

Susan Soon He Stanton

Susan is a playwright and screenwriter in New York, originally from the consonant-free town of Aiea, Hawai i. Her plays include Today Is My Birthday, which recently took part in the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Takarazuka!!! (Clubbed Thumb, East West Players), The Things Are Against Us (Washington Ensemble Theater), The Underneath (Kumu Kahua, Yale Cabaret) and more. Awards and honors include Van Lier Fellowship at The Lark Play Development Center, Southern Reps Ruby P

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