Developing Fresh Voices and PRODUCING THEATRE for the 21st Century
Page To Stage - Akuma Shin with Kenley Smith
About the Play
In 1956, an enormous monster destroys Tokyo. A broadcasting crew, a famous Japanese author and an American Air Force general face the initial attack. Many years later, the event still sends ripples through the psyches of two nations that must cope with legacies of loss, fear and hatred.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
- Reading, Great Plains Theatre Conference (MainStage), 2015
- Workshop, Ten Minute Playhouse (excerpt -- "This Is Tokyo"), 2013
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Professional, Sacred Fools Theatre, 2018
AWARDS
Holland New Voices Playwright Award, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2015
Trailer:
Reviews:
https://usa.inquirer.net/11238/play-godzilla-really-destroy-tokyo
https://accessiblyliveoffline.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/i-will-do-what-simon-says/
About the Talk
Kenley Smith will discuss his process of writing and the world premiere LA production of the sci-fi drama AKUMA SHIN. Q &A session will follow. Suggested audiences: College/University Departments (Theatre, Creative Writing/English, History); Corporate Events; Social, Sororal, and Fraternal Organizations; Writing Groups; Sci-Fi Fans; General Theatre Audience
About the Playwright
Kenley Smith is the co-founder and director of TPS. He founded Studio Roanoke, a not-for-profit Virginia theatre that specialized in the development and production of new works from 2009 to 2012. He also was an Ingram playwright-in-residence at Nashville Repertory Theatre for the 2011-12 season and served as artistic associate for The Writing Room at Nashville Rep from 2015-2017. His full-length play, AKUMA SHIN was a MainStage selection of the 2015 Great Plains Theatre Conference and premiered last spring at Sacred Fools Theatre Company in Los Angeles. EMPIRES OF THE ETERNAL VOID developed through the Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab, was a MainStage Selection at the 2013 GPTC. DEVIL SEDAN was featured in 2008 at GPTC and has been produced by Baby D Productions in Omaha and by Studio Roanoke, as well as a professional production in 2013 at Playhouse Nashville. DEVIL SEDAN won first place at the Barter Theatre’s 2008 Festival of Appalachian Plays and Playwrights and took top honors in the West Virginia Writers, Inc., Joe McCabe Memorial Playwriting Competition in 2009. SHADE OF THE TREES, a 2010 Barter finalist, went up at Studio Roanoke in August, 2009, and his “Famous Bobby Pence” trilogy – consisting of DEVIL SEDAN, TWELVE STATIONS OF THE CROSS and THE BRAND New Testament - was produced there in 2010-11. MONKEY WRENCH was produced at Studio Roanoke in April, 2012. Kenley earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing, both from Hollins University. He has taught playwriting at Randolph College, the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference, and the Fall Creative Writing Conference at Middle Tennessee State University.
Book a Virtual Page to Stage Talk - Akuma Shin
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Book a Live Page to Stage Talk - Akuma Shin
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