WP Theater Announces 2022-2024 "Pipeline" Artists

10/26/2022 4:32pm


WP THEATER (Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty, Managing Director Michael Sag) is thrilled to announce the fifteen artists selected for the 2022-2024 WP Lab. The two-year residency begins now, and culminates with the biennial WP Pipeline Festival in 2024. The artistic heart of WP Theater, the two-year Lab residency provides rising stars in the industry with a vital professional network, entrepreneurial and leadership training, rehearsal space, and most significantly, tangible opportunities for the development and production of bold new work for the stage. The 2022-2024 WP Lab artists are Playwrights: Amara Janae Brady (she/her), Christin Eve Cato (she/her), Queen Esther (she/her), Amina Henry (she/her), Else Went (they/she); Directors: Jordana De La Cruz (she/they), Onyekachi Iwu (she/her), Julia Sirna-Frest (she/her), Dina Vovsi (she/her), Ran Xia (she/her) and Producers: Alverneq Lindsay (she/her), Emma Orme (she/her), Sami Pyne (she/her), Barbara Samuels (she/her), Praycious Wilson-Gay (she/her.) The WP Playwrights Lab is led by WP Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and award-winning Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence Cori Thomas; the Directors Lab is led by Rebecca Martinez (Lab Alum; WP Associate Artistic Director), and Nicole A. Watson (Lab Alum; Bold Associate Artistic Director, McCarter Theatre Center); and the Producers Lab is led by Nidia Medina (Lab Alum, Producing Director, The Team), and two-time Tony Award-winning producer Sally Cade Holmes (Lab Alum; Hadestown).  For more information please visit www.wptheater.org. Press contact: Vivacity Media Group (212/812-1483)...