Directed by
Kels Ervi
Previews:
September 16th & 18th
Pay what you can
Opening:
September 18th
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Run:
September 16th -October 3rd
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
a co-production with
Arlington’s
playwright
CLARE BARRON
Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Other plays include: You Got Older (Page 73; Steppenwolf) which received two Obie Awards for Playwriting and Performance, a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist and the #1 most-recommended play on the Kilroys' List; I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr); and Baby Screams Miracle(Clubbed Thumb; Woolly Mammoth).
She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, and the Page 73 Fellowship; and is a member of New Dramatists.
director
SHYAMA NITHIANANDA
Shyama Nithiananda (she/her) is a Sri Lankan - American director, actor, and playwright from Texas and a second-year MFA Directing student at UC San Diego. She received her BFA in Theatre Studies from Southern Methodist University in 2021. Directing credits include: One Flea Spare (UCSD), Dirty Martini (UCSD),
The Heart Sellers (Amphibian Stage), Lizzie (Theatre Three), Guards at the Taj (Stage West Theatre). shyamaknithi.com