BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hollins University X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240701T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240701T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240531T152644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T152644Z UID:69295-1719862200-1719865800@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Playwright鈥檚 Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Nicholas Piper DESCRIPTION:Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre\, the Playwright鈥檚 Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week鈥檚 guest is:\n\nNICHOLAS PIPER: GUEST SPEAKER\n\nPiper is the associate artistic director of Barter Theatre in charge of new play development as well as a director and founding member of Barter鈥檚 Resident Acting Company. As the director of Barter鈥檚 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights\, he has helped develop dozens of new Appalachian plays that have gone on to full production at Barter as well as theatres across the country. He was recently awarded the AAME award for outstanding contribution to the arts in the region.\n\nMill Mountain Theatre\, Waldron Stage\n\n聽 URL:/event/playwrights-lab-monday-night-guest-speaker-nicholas-piper/ LOCATION:Mill Mountain Theatre\, 1 Market Square SE\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24011\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Nicholas-Piper.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240703T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240703T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240607T153417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T175138Z UID:69356-1720033200-1720038600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Lab Reading: "Anamnesis" by Michael Tobin DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday evening\, as part of the course Playwright鈥檚 Lab\, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 10\, 17\, 24\n\n#2: Anamnesis by Michael Tobin\n\nTheatre\, Upstairs Studio URL:/event/lab-reading-anamnesis-by-michael-tobin/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T003000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240528T193618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144550Z UID:69237-1720220400-1720225800@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:No Shame Theatre DESCRIPTION:No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers\, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations)\, short (five minutes or less)\, and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you鈥檙e interested in trying in front of a live audience鈥損lays\, monologues\, songs\, dance\, poetry\, mime\, juggling\, comedy\, tragedy\, Improvisation\, dada\, magic鈥搘e鈥檝e even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm\, doors open at 10:30 pm\, and the show starts at 11 pm\, running on average an hour and a half. URL:/event/no-shame-theatre-9/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T223000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240528T195324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144644Z UID:69248-1720252800-1720305000@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Overnight Sensations DESCRIPTION:Since 2006\, Hollins University鈥檚 Playwright鈥檚 Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre have partnered to bring this popular event to Roanoke. Six playwrights are randomly paired with six directors\, who are then draw from a hat one of six casts made up of six actors. Then they draw random prompts to find out what the genre\, theme\, and location will be. The writers write all night\, share their work with the director over breakfast and make revisions\, then they share the plays with the actors at 11 am over lunch\, and rehearse from noon to 5 pm\, when they do a cue to cue\, set levels\, and open the doors for the audience at 7:30 pm\, Saturday night\, so that we can share what we鈥檝e done with all of you!\n\nThis year\, as last year\, we鈥檒l be doing this jointly produced event of the Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Partnership on the main stage of the Hollins University Theatre. Join us\, won鈥檛 you?\n\nAlways FREE and open to the public! No tickets or reservations necessary. URL:/event/overnight-sensations-2/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240708T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240708T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240531T152945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T152945Z UID:69298-1720467000-1720470600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Playwright鈥檚 Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Ruth Margraff DESCRIPTION:Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre\, the Playwright鈥檚 Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week鈥檚 guest is:\n\nRUTH MARGRAFF 鈥 FACULTY\, GUEST SPEAKER\, AND FESTIVAL RESPONDENT\n\nMargraff has been called a leader in the American avant-garde for her 鈥渁udaciously original鈥 (Moscow Times) use of language that provides 鈥渓ayer after layer of richly textured emotion鈥nd imminent danger鈥 (Dallas Morning News). Critically acclaimed for writing martial arts operas Deadly She-Wolf鈥 and a Voice of the Dragon trilogy with the late composer Fred Ho for the Apollo\, Guggenheim Museum\, LaMama\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and a commercially successful tour with Columbia Arts Management\, Inc.\, to 33 cities in 2003 with support from ICM Artists and the World Music Institute. Margraff鈥檚 鈥淣ight Wind from Afghanistan鈥 for the play Seven\, began touring the world in 2008 introduced by designer Diane von Furstenberg\, and in 2010 by Hillary Clinton with Meryl Streep at the Broadway Hudson Theater. Seven has been translated into more than 20 languages and performed in 32 countries.\n\nMargraff has received awards from Rockefeller\, McKnight\, Jerome\, NEA\, TCG\, TMUNY\, NYSCA\, IAC\, Fulbright foundations\, and is also published by Innova Records\, Dramatists Play Service\, American Theatre\, Theater Forum\, Performing Arts Journal\, Playscripts\, Inc.\, Backstage Books\, Autonomedia\, New Village Press\, NoPassport Press\, and Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield. She is a member of Theater Without Borders\, League of Professional Theater Women\, Red Tape Theater\, a New Dramatist and Playwrights鈥 Center alumna\, a Chicago Dramatist playwright emeritus\, and professor of playwriting/writing as art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, represented by the Samara Harris Literary Agency (NYC).\n\nMill Mountain Theatre\, Waldron Stage URL:/event/playwrights-lab-monday-night-guest-speaker-ruth-margraff/ LOCATION:Mill Mountain Theatre\, 1 Market Square SE\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24011\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Ruth-Margraff.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240710T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240710T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240607T161830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T175210Z UID:69357-1720638000-1720643400@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Lab Reading: "Survivor's Guilt-A Coward's Tale" by Michael Joseph Barber DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday evening\, as part of the course Playwright鈥檚 Lab\, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 17\, 24\n\n#3: Survivor鈥檚 Guilt: A Coward鈥檚 Tale by Michael Joseph Barber\n\nTheatre\, Upstairs Studio URL:/event/lab-reading-survivors-guilt-a-cowards-tale-by-michael-joseph-barber/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240712T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T003000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240528T194116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144715Z UID:69239-1720825200-1720830600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:No Shame Theatre DESCRIPTION:No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers\, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations)\, short (five minutes or less)\, and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you鈥檙e interested in trying in front of a live audience鈥損lays\, monologues\, songs\, dance\, poetry\, mime\, juggling\, comedy\, tragedy\, Improvisation\, dada\, magic鈥搘e鈥檝e even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm\, doors open at 10:30 pm\, and the show starts at 11 pm\, running on average an hour and a half. URL:/event/no-shame-theatre-10/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240715T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240715T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240531T153123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T154027Z UID:69299-1721071800-1721075400@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Playwright鈥檚 Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Bonnie Metzgar DESCRIPTION:Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre\, the Playwright鈥檚 Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week鈥檚 guest is:\n\nBONNIE METZGAR 鈥 GUEST SPEAKER\n\nMetzgar is a playwright\, screenwriter\, director\, producer\, and core visiting faculty with The Playwright鈥檚 Lab at Hollins. In January 2020\, her play You Lost Me had its world premiere at Denver Center Theater and was the recipient of an Edgerton New Play Award. Recently\, she served as staff writer for Genius: Aretha\, a limited television series with showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks. A fighter for artists from marginalized communities\, Metzgar is passionate about making systemic change in the nonprofit theatre\, and served as artistic director of About Face Theatre\, one of the largest theatres in the U.S. dedicated to producing queer artists and advancing the cultural dialogue on sexuality and gender identity. Previously\, Metzgar served as associate producer at the Public Theater where she founded Joe鈥檚 Pub.\n\nMill Mountain Theatre\, Waldron Stage URL:/event/playwrights-lab-monday-night-guest-speaker-bonnie-metzgar/ LOCATION:Mill Mountain Theatre\, 1 Market Square SE\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24011\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Bonnie-Metzgar.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240717T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240717T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240607T163151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T175239Z UID:69358-1721242800-1721248200@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Lab Reading: "Back Porch Play" by Adrian Lee Bush DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday evening\, as part of the course Playwright鈥檚 Lab\, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 24\n\n#4: Back Porch Play by Adrian Lee Bush\n\nTheatre\, Upstairs Studio URL:/event/lab-reading-back-porch-play-by-adrian-lee-bush/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240719T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240721T235959 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240531T175919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T181524Z UID:69307-1721347200-1721606399@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:2024 Playwrights Festival DESCRIPTION:Each summer at the end of July\, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright鈥檚 Lab. Normally\, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the festival\, there will be a panel discussion when our guest respondents will introduce themselves\, talk briefly about their own background\, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students\, faculty\, and some established theatre professionals.\n\nFriday\, July 19\n\n8 pm; The Greenhouse by J. Harvey Stone\n\nSaturday\, July 20\n\n11 am; Astroturf by Kolin Lawler\n\n2 pm; Lil鈥 Troopers by Richie Cannaday\n\n4 pm; The Caregiver by Stephanie Goldman\n\n8 pm; The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the [GUILTY] by Ami Trowell\n\nSunday\, July 21\n\n11 am; Hamlet鈥檚 Ghost by Emily Fleischhuer\n\n2 pm; Freida by ArLynn Parker\n\n4 pm; Nuptial Mass by Ben Abbott\n\n8 pm; Festival Guest Respondent Panel\n\nSeating is limited. To reserve tickets\, email Gwyneth Strope at stropegm1@糖心传媒.edu.\n\n聽 URL:/event/2024-playwrights-festival/ LOCATION:Mill Mountain Theatre\, 1 Market Square SE\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24011\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240719T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240720T003000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240528T194540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144744Z UID:69242-1721430000-1721435400@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:No Shame Theatre DESCRIPTION:No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers\, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations)\, short (five minutes or less)\, and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you鈥檙e interested in trying in front of a live audience鈥損lays\, monologues\, songs\, dance\, poetry\, mime\, juggling\, comedy\, tragedy\, Improvisation\, dada\, magic鈥搘e鈥檝e even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm\, doors open at 10:30 pm\, and the show starts at 11 pm\, running on average an hour and a half. URL:/event/no-shame-theatre-11/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240722T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240722T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240531T153354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T155449Z UID:69300-1721676600-1721680200@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Playwright鈥檚 Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Addae Moon DESCRIPTION:Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre\, the Playwright鈥檚 Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week鈥檚 guest is:\n\nADDAE MOON 鈥 GUEST SPEAKER\n\nMoon is an Atlanta based playwright\, dramaturg\, director\, and cultural worker. He is the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit and the cofounder of the play development and performance collective Hush Harbor Lab.\n\nMoon has served as a resident dramaturg with Working Title Playwright鈥檚 Ethel Woolson Lab. He was the recipient of the 2015 International Ibsen Award for his dramaturgical work on the project Master Comic and the 2014 John Lipsky Award from the International Museum Theatre Alliance (IMTAL) for his immersive play Four Days of Fury: Atlanta 1906. Moon was also a member of Alliance Theatre鈥檚 2015-16 Reiser Artists鈥 Lab as cowriter on the immersive project Third Council of Lyons with Found Stages. As the former literary manager at Horizon Theatre Company\, he served as the development dramaturg on the early projects of many nationally renowned playwrights including Marcus Gardley\, Lauren Gunderson\, Tanya Barfield\, and Janece Shaffer.\n\nHis recent immersive co-collaborations include Frankenstein鈥檚 Ball (2019/2020)\, Frankenstein鈥檚 Funeral (2019) and Cassie鈥檚 Ballad (2022) with Found Stages. Moon received his B.A. in theatre arts from Clark Atlanta University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Professional Playwright鈥檚 Program at Ohio University. He is also a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA\,) Dramatist Guild\, and The Fence Network.\n\nMill Mountain Theatre\, Waldron Stage\n\n聽 URL:/event/playwrights-lab-monday-night-guest-speaker-addae-moon/ LOCATION:Mill Mountain Theatre\, 1 Market Square SE\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24011\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Addae-Moon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240607T163313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T163313Z UID:69359-1721847600-1721853000@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Lab Reading: "Our Family in the Stars" by Katie Oler DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday evening\, as part of the course Playwright鈥檚 Lab\, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading.\n\n#5: Our Family in the Stars by Katie Oler\n\nTheatre\, Upstairs Studio\n\n聽 URL:/event/lab-reading-our-family-in-the-stars-by-katie-oler/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240727T003000 DTSTAMP:20260416T181538 CREATED:20240528T194625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144816Z UID:69244-1722034800-1722040200@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:No Shame Theatre DESCRIPTION:No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers\, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations)\, short (five minutes or less)\, and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you鈥檙e interested in trying in front of a live audience鈥損lays\, monologues\, songs\, dance\, poetry\, mime\, juggling\, comedy\, tragedy\, Improvisation\, dada\, magic鈥搘e鈥檝e even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm\, doors open at 10:30 pm\, and the show starts at 11 pm\, running on average an hour and a half. URL:/event/no-shame-theatre-12/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR