Diane produced further rainfall in already wet areas from Connie. (Pam Annunziata) was last seen in Annie Dorsen’s play The Slow Room at Performance Space NY. She is a member of the Artists Advisory Council with Epic Theater Ensemble and Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artist Writing Group, where her play The Others is in development. Regionally, she has performed in the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers (The Old Globe), King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theater); Tartuffe (McCarter/ Yale Rep); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater); Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Festival); Proof (TheatreWorks Palo Alto – BATCC nomination); The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Off-Broadway: Rags Parkland Sings…(Ars Nova); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons, Hewes Nom); Singlet (Bushwick Starr); The Rape of The Sabine Women (Playwrights Realm), Orange Julius (Rattlestick/ P73, Hewes Nom); Caught (PlayCo); O, Earth (Foundry Theatre, Hewes Nom). Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. WP Theater The New York Times cheered Hurricane Diane as an “astonishing new play,” and New York magazine hailed it as “hilarious and full of keen observation and profound human affection.”. Danielle has been seen at The Signature in The Moundbuilders and at Playwrights Horizons in The Pain and the Itch. WP was founded in 1978 by visionary producer, Julia Miles, to address the significant under-representation of women in theater. Madeleine George; dir: Leigh Silverman. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Becca works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Off-Broadway: The Other Josh Cohen (Drama Desk nomination), Clever Little Lies, Ordinary Days, Tatjana in Color, and Sarah, Plain and Tall. Madeleine George’s fantastic, heartbreaking Hurricane Diane is a comedy in the most ancient, expansive sense. WP empowers female-identified artists to reach their full potential and, in doing so, challenges preconceptions about the kinds of plays women write and the stories they tell. Downtown Play. presented by WP Theater and New York Theatre Workshop WP debut. There is no intermission. WP debut. Composer: 36 Questions. Big Times was directed by Leigh Silverman and produced by WET. Madeleine is an alumna of New Dramatists, a founding member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights’ collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), the Fellow for Curriculum and Program Development at the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College and the Mellon Playwright in Residence at Two River Theater in New Jersey. Upcoming: Soft Power by Jeanine Tseori/David Henry Hwang (Ahmanson Theater/Curan Theater); Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Playhouse/Public Theater). NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. This event has passed. Read Synopsis. Danielle has also been seen at PS 122 (Carrie), The Cherry Lane (Lascivious Something and Fugue), The Ohio (Cressida Among the Greeks). Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. February 7 - March 24, 2019. presented by WP Theater and New York Theatre Workshop. Hurricane Connie was a Category 4 hurricane that contributed to significant flooding across the eastern United States in August 1955, just days before Hurricane Diane affected the same general area. Hurricane Diane has landed in town with a bang, and I’d advise you NOT to evacuate, but to go get wet and windblown! Obie for Sustained Excellence. Encores: Really Rosie, The Wild Party, Violet. See our list of theatre tickets for shows currently on sale. Danielle was last seen in Annie Dorsen’s play The Slow Room at PSNY. Regionally, she has performed in the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers (Old Globe), King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theater); Tartuffe (McCarter/Yale Rep); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater); Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Festival); Proof (TheatreWorks Palo Alto; BATCC nom); The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (OSF). Danielle has also been seen at PS 122 (Carrie), Cherry Lane (Lascivious Something and Fugue), The Ohio (Cressida Among the Greeks). Kate is the co-creator, writer, director and star of the comedy Submissions Only (currently streaming on The Stage Network), as well as co-author of the Jack & Louisa book series for Penguin Workshop. WP: Great Lakes…, upcoming Hatef**k. NYTW debut. Encores: Really Rosie, The Wild Party, Violet. Recent notable work: The Last Match (Lortel nom), original music for Mary Page Marlow and The Amateurs, Office Hour (Lortel nom), plus work regionally and in Europe. “FANTASTIC, HEARTBREAKING and Dionysus be praised!—it’s a comedy. She’s landed at the New York Theatre Workshop in Madeleine George ’s bitingly funny play (co-produced by WP Theater) about the pissed-off god Dionysus who is living as a permaculture gardener in Vermont named Diane ( Becca Blackwell ). Film/TV includes: Untitled Noah Baumbach Project, “Shameless,” Deadman’s Barstool, and “Jack in the Box.” Becca is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and the writer and performer of the solo show They, Themself and Schmerm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she’s returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Danielle was last seen on Broadway in All My Sons. (212) 765-1706, Dionysus never really left us—she’s traveled to New Jersey to save humanity from itself. “Existing between genres” (as Blackwell identifies) still flummoxes many a creative mind. These powerful women found an early artistic home at WP, and are a testament to our role as a driving cultural force. Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. Member of the Artists Advisory Council with Epic Theater Ensemble and Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artist Writing Group, where her play The Others is in development. RUNTIME Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards. “Hurricane Diane” features scenic design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Kaye Voyce, lighting design by Barbara Samuels, sound design by Bray Poor, original music by The Bengsons, and choreography by Raja Feather Kelly. Contains strong language. Kate is the co-creator, writer, director and star of the comedy Submissions Only (currently streaming on The Stage Network), as well as co-author of the Jack & Louisa book series for Penguin Workshop. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. As the premiere launching pad for some of the most influential female theater artists today, our work has had a significant impact on the field at large. NYTW & WP debut! Approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission. (Co-Producer) New York Theatre Workshop, now in its fourth decade of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Diane, of the aforementioned hurricane, is a new incarnation of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine and fertility. Recently in NYC: Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Waves (NY Stage and Film); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh, Jacob’s Pillow). by Madeleine George. Lighting Design Barbara Samuels TV: “So You Think You Can Dance.”, MADELEINE GEORGE’s plays include Hurricane Diane, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). February 7, 2019—March 24, 2019. Other NY works include Big Times co-written by Danielle, Maggie Lacey and Mia Barron. Honors include a Whiting Foundation Award, the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and three MacDowell Fellowships. WP: Ironbound, Under A Western Sky. at New York Theatre Workshop. Off-Broadway credits include Lisa Kron’s In The Wake at The Public and Tony Kushner’s iHo which was a co-production between The Public and The Signature. Just five days after Connie struck North Carolina, Hurricane Diane affected the same area, but instead of continuing to the northwest it turned to the northeast. Princess Grace, Lilly Awards. Recent: Fairview (Soho Rep), Everybody (Signature), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature; 2017 Lortel Award), UGLY (Bushwick Starr), Another Fucking Warhol Production (nominated ‘Most Innovative Dance Performance of 2017’ by Dance Magazine), among others. The Review: Madeleine George's Hurricane Diane By Ross Written with whip smart side angles by Madeleine George (Precious Little, The Zero Hour), Hurricane Diane strives forward into the troubled and challenging world of contemporary, suburban New Jersey. Running time: One hour and 30 minutes. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. Broadway: On the Twentieth Century. Nearly every prolific female theater artist has been through our doors, including Eve Ensler, María Irene Fornés, Katori Hall, Pam MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage, Leigh Silverman and Anna Deavere Smith. (Photos by Joan Marcus) This show has now closed. Connie formed on August 3 from a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Off-Broadway Review: “Hurricane Diane” at New York Theatre Workshop David Roberts, Chief New York Critic, Outer Critics Circle/Drama Desk Member Playwright Madeleine George sets her “Hurricane Diane” in an Early Anthropocene Time, the era defined as “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the … Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (WP Theater’s Bright Half Life) directs. WP THEATER (Lisa McNulty, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Sag, Managing Director) is the nation’s oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing and promoting the work of female-identified and trans theater artists at every stage in their careers. Hurricane Diane was the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than an estimated $1 billion in damage (in 1955 dollars, which would be $9,544,099,379 today ), including direct costs and the loss of business and personal revenue. by Madeleine George Costume Design Kaye Voyce Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. (Carol Fleischer) recently completed a run at BAM’s Next Wave Festival of the New York premiere of Joan Didion’s The White Album, which will tour to Los Angeles in the spring. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Two River, Pig Iron, Crossroads Repertory, Gulfshore Playhouse, Barnstormers. Regional work includes Williamstown, New York Stage & Film, Mark Taper, Geffen, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Westport Playhouse, Huntington, Guthrie, among others. Broadway: Shining City, The Realistic Joneses, The Real Thing, Significant Other, The Nap, and True West. Music Director: Salty Brine’s Living Record Collection, Folk Wandering, The Elementary Spacetime Show. TV: “The Chris Gethard Show” (w/ CB). Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Legally Blonde. Opening night is set for Feb. 24. TV includes: “Modern Family,” “NCIS,” “Law & Order,” “Elementary,” “Newsroom,” “Glee,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Blue Bloods,” “Bones,” “Medium,” the Adult Swim comedy shows “Children’s Hospital,” “Newsreaders,” and “The Venture Bros,” in which she voices the character of Molotov. Diane initially moved west-northwestward with little change in its intensity, but began to strengthen rapidlyafter turnin… A co-production of New York Theatre Workshop and WP Theater (formerly the Women's Project), ... Hurricane Diane, which makes oblique references to Hurricane Sandy, purports to … It's a part of the landscape that is in desperate need a new Johnny Appleseed to bring forth… It’s the kind of comedy that holds a … Recent Off-Broadway: Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre/Audible at the Minetta Lane), Sweet Charity (New Group), On the Exhale (Roundabout), The Outer Space (Public Theater), All the Ways to Say I Love You (MCC), The Way We Get By (Second Stage), Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb), American Hero (Williamstown Theater Festival, Second Stage), No Place to Go (Public Theater), Kung Fu (Signature Theatre), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons), The Madrid (MTC), Golden Child (Signature Theatre), In the Wake (CTG/Berkeley/Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination), The Call (Playwrights Horizons), Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award), From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination), Yellow Face (CTG/Public Theater), Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW). 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