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11.4.26 Allison Page
Allison Page grew up in Thief River Falls and now is a playwright and comedy writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. Several comedic pieces that she wrote are in this year's TRFACT's An Evening of Short Comedies.
Some background on Allison: Her plays include Terms & Conditions (2026/2027 ORIGINS play at Coachella Valley Rep), There Have Been a Series of Miracles at Shrieking Ridge (2025 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission Semifinalist), Roberta at the Bottom of the Pool (2024 Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellowship), Over a Barrel (Paul Bunyan Playhouse), Sorry About The Galvanism (Duluth Playhouse), The Jersey Devil Play (Awesome Theatre Company), and many others. Her published works include The Pyramid (YouthPLAYS), Hilarity (EXIT Press), and Dear Philosopher (Penguin Australia). For 12 years, she worked regularly for San Francisco’s largest sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster, as a writer, head writer, director, award-winning performer, and from 2014-2022, she also served as Artistic Director. Her pilot script, Himbo, was a second-rounder at Austin Film Festival. She likes to write about monsters who are sometimes also people.
After the TRFACT show, her next production is also her first outside the United States — The Hello Girls when it gets its world premiere in Paris.
𝑨𝒏 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 will be performed November 19-21 at 7 PM at the TRF Eagles Club. Tickets are available at https://tinyurl.com/TRFACTEOS.
Listen to the conversation to hear more about Allison’s background and current projects. Find Allison on her website at allisonpageishere.com.
6.10.26 Gregory Paul
Gregory Paul is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter and the brain child behind the Workbench New Play Workshop and Filmmaker Intensive in Park Rapids. Greg lives in New York City and spends time in Park Rapids in the summer and at Christmas.
The Workbench New Play Workshop is a playwriting workshop designed to guide writers though the process of writing an original 10 page play. It’s a quick intensive format of writing a play over the course of a week that ends with the play being read in reader's theater style.
The filmmaker intensive requires participants come with an already-written script. Participants will be led through the process by award winning LA filmmaker David Leidy and Gregory Paul, culminating in a public showing of the new films.
Greg spoke about the playwriting process, the role of a director, working with the Northern Light Opera Company, and the creativity, openness, and generosity of the community.
The Workbench New Play Workshop takes place from June 14 - 19 with the public performance on June 20th at 7 PM.
The Workbench Filmmaker Intensive takes place from August 11 - 14 with the public screening on August 15 at 7:30 PM.
Free to the public thanks to the support of The Northern Light Opera Company & Minnesota's Region 2 Arts Council.
Learn more at northernlightopera.org. Listen for more details!
12.12.23 Julia Brown
This week’s podcast guest is Julia Brown of the Playwrights' Center. She provided information about
what a playwright is,
the Playwrights’ Center,
the McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship (for theater artists other than playwrights based in Minnesota). Deadline is March 28, but they recommend submitting and intent to apply earlier),
the McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting (for playwrights in Minnesota who have had at least one play professionally produced). Deadline is January 11, and finally,
the Core Writer Program (for any committed professional playwright). Deadline is January 25.
Visit their website for more info about these opportunities: https://pwcenter.org.