![]() Like most TYA pieces, Dragonsoul Offline by Samantha Miller had the virtue of being shorter. ![]() Basil E Frankweiler, would be primarily pre- and post-festival work, as the bulk of rehearsal time would be dedicated to actors learning music. The musical, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. One of the plays, Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy, I’d already been working on. There were two straight plays, one musical, and one play for young audiences. Frankly, many producers would skip hiring any dramaturgs at all. West and I talked through the festival and the scheduling the breadth of programming seemed to make it viable, and I was sympathetic to the economics of starting up a festival from scratch and needing to stretch the resources. However, I was surprised to be asked to dramaturg all four readings. ![]() Shelley, the artistic director, is a collaborator I’ve worked with frequently, so I wasn’t shocked to get a call from West, the festival’s executive artistic director, to dramaturg for the festival. Shelley Butler and West Hyler started SNPF in Greenville, S.C., and it had its inaugural run Aug. The South Carolina New Play Festival (SNPF) is a surprising blend of what came before, and a welcome start to a new new-play festival after a time when all we’ve heard about were festival postponements and closings (see: The Lark, Sundance, the Humana Festival). If you take the best parts of all the play festivals I’ve worked on, you might get a sense of the newest.
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