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AWARDS & PRESS
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By: Blair Ingenthron
BroadwayWorld Baltimore
Sep. 21, 2024
Elgin Fringe Audience Member Reviews
September 29, 2024
THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW Comes to the Rochester Fringe Festival
By: Stephi Wild
Septempber 04, 2024
Minnesota Fringe Audience Member Reviews
August 12, 2024
Minnesota Fringe Festival 2024: "That Woman - The Monologue Show"
Cherry and Spoon - Theatre Musings in Minnesota and Beyond
August 11, 2024
Tennessee Playwrights Studio to Present THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW at Philadelphia Fringe
by Blair Ingenthron
BroadwawyWorld Philadephia
August 03, 2024
That Woman - The Monologe Show - Tennessee Playwrights Studio
Reviewed by Ethan Platt
KC Fringe Reviews
July 20, 2024
KC Fringe Audience Member Reviews
July 20, 2024
Tennessee Playwrights Studio to Present THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW at KC Fringe
By: Blair Ingenthron
BroadwayWorld Kansas City
June 22, 2024
“Topical and laugh-out-loud funny, Mary McCallum’s ONLYFAM is the perfect stage comedy to usher in the summer season. Performed by an all-star cast of Nashville faves — a veritable who’s who of brilliant performers (including the playwright, no less) — the Shawn Whitsell-directed script keeps audiences engaged with a whip-smart depiction of wayward family members coming together when their mama dies and the neighbors begin to show up with casseroles in hand and stories just waiting to be told. It’s another timely and hugely entertaining offering from Tennessee Playwrights Studio, who for the past two summers has delivered the goods and continues to do so." — Jef Ellis, BroadwayWorld Nashville
“With a hilarious and heartfelt plot somewhere between Del Shores’ “Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will” and Tyler Perry’s “A Medea Family Funeral”, playwright and star, Mary McCallum alongside Shawn Whitsell, Molly Breen, Alicia Haymer, Jene India and scene-stealing Tamiko Robinson Steele present family and friends we all know and ‘sometimes’ love.” —Jonathan Pinkerton
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Presents ONLYFAM
- The Hilarious New Comedy By Mary McCallum
By: A.A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld Nashville
May 31, 2024
OnlyFam at Darkhorse Theater June 7-15
By: Cass Teague
Nashville Pride
May 24, 2024
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Retirement
of Co-Founder & Co-Director Kenley Smith
By: A.A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld Nashville
Jan. 29, 2024
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Reveals 2024 Fellows
By: Chloe Rabinowitz
BrowadwayWorld Nashville
Jan. 17, 2024
by Jeffrey Ellis
BroadwayWorld Nashville
July 13, 2023
TN Playwrights Studio to premiere new play "Fan Me With A Brick"
Today in Nashville
WSMV Channel 4
July 6, 2023
Critic's Pick - FAN ME WITH A BRICK
by Amy Stumpful
The Nashville Scene
July 6, 2023
New Play Spotlights Family Crisis
by Ron Wynn
The Tennessee Tribune
July 6, 2023
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Presents FAN ME WITH A BRICK At The Darkhorse Theater, July 7-22
by A.A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld Nashville
July 3, 2023
TPS Presents Fan Me With a Brick by Kenley Smith
by Cass Teague
Pride Publishing Group
June 20, 2023
by A. A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld Nashville
January 10, 2022
by A.A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld Nashville
October 5, 2022
Interview with Molly Breen of TPS
CanvasRebel Magazine
October 3, 2022
Interview with DON'T LOOK BLACK playwright Preston Crowder and director Alicia Haymer
Today in Nashville, WXMV News Channel 4
August 22, 2022
Critic's Pick - Don't Look Black - A Moral Story
by Amy Stumpfl, Nashville Scene
August 18, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Presents Don't Look Back by Preston Crowder This Summer
BroadwayWorld Nashville
July 31, 2022
by Evans Donnell, stage critic.com
July 18, 2022
Review: Impressively Original THAT WOMAN Presents Stunning Portraits of Women Involved With JFK
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 19, 2022
Critic's Pick - That Woman - The Monologue and Dance Shows
by Erica Ciccarone, Nashville Scene
June 16, 2022
THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW Opens at Darkhorse Theater Tonight
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 16, 2022
The Friday 5(+1) on Saturday: THAT WOMAN - THE DANCE SHOW
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 18, 2022
Nashville Voyager
(Thea portrays Ellen Rometsch and choreographer of Tempest in That Woman - The Dance Show)
by Marissa Tomeo for Broadway World Nashville May 14, 2022
Tennessee: Tennessee Playwrights Studio
by Harrison Young, Dramatist - May/June 2022 Issue
Rising Stars: Meet Molly Breen
Nashville Voyager Magazine
March 2, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Directors for June and August Shows
The Tennessee Tribune
March 7, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Directors for June and August Shows
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
Mar. 2, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2022 Fellows And Associates
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 26, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2022 Season Of Theatre, Fundraising Initiative
by A.A. Cristi for Broadway World Nashville
May 3, 2021
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Collaborations, Season of Premieres
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
April 29, 2021
Alumna Molly Breen Uses Education, Theatre Passions To Mentor Next Generation
by Haley Charlton for Belmont University News and Media
April 22, 2021
TPS, DTE and SistaStyle Productions Present TPS Talks
by A.A. Cristi for Broadway World Nashville
April 5, 2021
TPS and Angela Gimlin Present Virtual Workshop Reading of THAT WOMAN
by Steph Wild for Broadway World Nashville
February 16, 2021
Catch the Virtual Workshop Reading of THAT WOMAN
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
February 12, 2021
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 29, 2021
Check out Tennessee Playwrights Studio's Virtual Reading Festival
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
January 28, 2021
Winter Arts Guide 2021: Performing Arts
Arts companies mark milestones while adapting for the future
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
January 14, 2021
TPS Presents 2020 (Virtual) Reading Festival
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 2, 2021
Alumnus presents 'Don't Look Black'
by Juanita I.C. Traughber, Communications Director, USN
December 30, 2020
How Nashville Writers and Theater Artists Are Connecting Through New Works
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
November 27, 2019
Fall Guide 2019: The Plays Are theThing
by Erica Ciccarone for Nashville Scene
September 26, 2019
Review: The Terrible Cost of Inhumanity in Searing 'Maidens'
by Evans Donnell for stagecritic.com
July 11, 2019
BWW Review: Kenley Smith's MAIDENS Heralds Auspicious Beginnings for Tennessee Playwrights Studio
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
July 7, 2019
by Erica Ciccarone for Nashville Scene
July 3, 2019
IDS 626: Kenley Smith talks MAIDENS at Tennessee Playwrights Studio
with John Mauldin for The Inexplicable Dumb Show
June 24, 2019
by Arabelle Pollick for The Dramatist
May 14, 2019
An interview with Kenley Smith -- Playwright
by Laura Pickard for In Process (MTSU)
February 5, 2019
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Introduces 2019 Fellows and Associates
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
January 22, 2019
Tennessee Playwrights Studio develops new works, fresh voices
by Amy Stumpfl for the Tennessean
July 8, 2018
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2018 Inaugural Season Fellows and Associates
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
February 2, 2018
TPS AWARD NOMINATIONS/RECIPIENTS
FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD
Winner - National Artist of the Year - MOLLY BREEN
THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW - St. Lou Fringe Festival 2024
FIRST NIGHT NOMINATIONS/AWARDS FOR TPS PLAYS/CREATIVES
Awards presented by Jef Ellis
2024 FIRST NIGHT AWARDS
FAN ME WITH A BRICK
OUTSTANDING THEATRE COMPANY
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK**
OUTSTANDING PLAY
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY - Shawn Whitsell
OUTSTANDING LEADING PERFORMER IN A PLAY - DaJuana Hammonds**
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMER IN A PLAY
Briana Celeste Finley & Tony Insignares
OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMER IN A PLAY
Leslie Hammonds, Myah Jackson, JR Knowles
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN - Dee Benn
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN- Happy Allen
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN -Jonah Burch
FIRST NIGHT STAR AWARD - Tony Insignares**
THEATERATI OF THE YEAR - Kenley Smith**
2023 FIRST NIGHT AWARDS
THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW - co-created by Molly Breen & Angela Gimlin
OUTSTANDING PLAY
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY
DON'T LOOK BLACK - A MORAL STORY by Preston Crowder
OUTSTANDING PLAY
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Candace Omnira, Chantéa Kirkwood & Gillión Welsh
THE SINS OF THE CITY by Shawn Whitsell co-produced with DTE
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Shawn Whitsell
OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Milton Jackson
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Jamil Parrish
THEATERATI OF THE YEAR
Molly Breen
FIRST NIGHT STAR AWARD
Molly Breen**
Candace-Omnira**
Preston Crowder**
MOST PROMISING ACTOR
Milton Jackson**
Audrey Venable**
2020 FIRST NIGHT AWARDS
MAIDENS by Kenley Smith
OUTSTANDING PLAY
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK**
OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Molly Breen & Megan Dianne DeWald
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Andy Kanies
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
William Kyle Odum
**denotes winner
- TPS supports the writing process by creating an environment for taking risks and reaching outside the box.
- TPS is definitely a community that recognizes the importance of the journey. Starting from scratch, writing a play, and then sharing pages every month highlighted the idea of journey for me. The freedom to follow your gut was supported and applauded.
- TPS encourages the artist in the room by providing a place to breathe and listen without pressure or judgment.
-- Gaye Jeffers, 2018 Fellow