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Denver playwright selected for Colorado New Play Summit | Arts news | Subscriber Content
Denverite Jake Brasch’s life as a playwright is presently powered by supersonic ink. Brasch, who is in the first year of his master’s program at the Juilliard School, is about to become just the fifth Colorado writer whose work will be featured at the DCPA Theatre Company’s annual Colorado New Play Summit. That’s the Denver Center’s signature, 17-year-old new-play festival that since 2006 has introduced and fostered 64 new plays, about half of which have eventually been fully produced on the company’s mainstage season. Brasch, 31, cut his writing teeth as a teen in Curious Theatre’s nationally regarded Curious New Voices program. He is a 2010 graduate of Denver School…
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Remembering Ed Bullins, Leading Playwright of the Black Arts Movement
Friends and colleagues of Ed Bullins, a leading Black playwright of the 1960s, whose work helped shape a protest movement within the theater centered on the African American experience, remember the former Northeastern University professor as gentle, warm, and restlessly prolific. Bullins passed away on Nov. 13 from complications of dementia. He was 86. “I found him to be very warm,” says Richard O’Bryant, the head of Northeastern’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. “He came from the ’60s and was a product of the civil rights movement. Of course, they carried that struggle on their sleeve, and he very much enjoyed talking about it.” O’Bryant says Bullins was deeply…