Company member Crystal Skillman was recently chosen to be a part of the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab for their 2008-2010 program.

Artistic Director Daniel Talbott is directing The Umbrella Plays, a new play by Stephanie Janssen that will run at walkerspace from August 8th – 18th as part of FringeNYC, and if you get a chance please check out Michael Criscuolo’s interview with Daniel and Stephanie on nytheatre mike 2.0.

We just found out that company member Polly Lee is the recipient of one of four Charles Bowden Acting Awards given by New Dramatists, and will be honored at their 59th Anniversary Spring Luncheon on May 15th.

Artistic Associate Samantha Soule just recently won a Drama Desk Award along with her fellow Dining Room cast members for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

We thought it’d be fun to let you know about what some of the RPRers are doing around the country and around the world this Spring, and we’re all hoping to be home in the city this summer getting to work on a couple new projects.

Artistic Director Daniel Talbott is at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival working on a new play called Rocket City written by Mark Saltzman and directed by David Ellenstein.

Artistic Associate Denis Butkus is appearing opposite Ken Tigar at The English Theatre in Vienna in a co-production with the Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara of Old Wicked Songs.

Artistic Associate Brian Roff is the Assistant Director on The Little Flower of East Orange, a new play by LAByrinth Theater Company, written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Company member Sarah Grace Wilson is at Portland Center Stage working on Sometimes a Great Notion adapted and directed by Aaron Posner, from the novel by Ken Kesey.

Company members Danny Goldstein and Sean Dugan are in Boston at the Huntington Theatre Company working on The Cry of the Reed, a new play by Sinan Unel.

Company member Max Casella will be starring in Endgame at BAM with Alvin Epstein, Elaine Stritch, and John Turturro in a production directed by Andrei Belgrader.

Company member Trip Cullman directed Adam Bock’s play Drunken City, currently running at Playwrights Horizons.

Artistic Associate Samantha Soule will be coming back from hanging out with Denis in Vienna and Italy and going straight up to the Berkshire Theatre Festival this summer to work on their production of Candida directed by Anders Cato.

Our favorite venue (and favorite restaurant!) - Jimmy’s No. 43 – was named one of the Top 10 Best Bars in NYC 2008 by New York Magazine.

RPR Playwrights published!  Info on Playbill.com and TheaterMania

Listen to our published playwrights Crystal Skillman, Daniel Reitz, and Daniel Talbott on the NY Theatre Experience podcast for Plays & Playwrights 2008!  And buy a copy now!

Check out interviews on New York Theatre Experience with Rising Phoenix Rep Artistic Director Daniel Talbott and Company Members Daniel Reitz and Crystal Skillman regarding their plays that are soon to be published in Plays and Playwrights 2008!

December 26, 2007

RPR’s production of Fall Forward featured in nytheatre.com’s 2007: The Year in Review Podcast.

December 24, 2007

Artistic Director Daniel Talbott featured in an article in Backstage Magazine.

November 2, 2007

Artistic Director Daniel Talbott and Rising Phoenix Rep featured in an article on ActorsLife.com.

September 24, 2007

Rising Phoenix Rep wins two 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Awards!

Outstanding Director, Daniel Talbott, Rules of the Universe
Outstanding Original Short Script, Daniel Reitz, Rules of the Universe

RPR was also the recipient of the 2007 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award

This award is presented to an off-off-Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work and includes a fellowship to be used towards an off-off-Broadway production.

Find more info on the 2007 NYIT Awards on Martin Denton’s nytheatre.com blog, OffOffOnline, and Playbill.com.

Check out the picture of the RPR crew in the September 27th paper issue of Backstage!

To see pictures from the winning production and to read the reviews, go to our History page.

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Plays & Playwrights 2008 edited by Martin Denton to publish 3 plays produced by RPR!

The Telling Trilogy by Crystal Skillman
Fall Forward by Daniel Reitz
What Happened When by Daniel Talbott

The book will be released on February 1, 2008

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Fall Forward is “one of the best new plays of 2007″ –  Martin Denton on his nytheatre.comblog

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Artistic Director Daniel Talbott was named one of the People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com

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Daniel Talbott and Playwright Crystal Skillman Podcast on nytheatre.com