Next summer, Wordsmyth Theater will produce workshops and staged readings of three plays that reflect views on race. The three playwrights include Ted Swindley, Abby Koenig and Reginald Edmund — all playwrights with significant ties to Houston. They will have an opportunity to have their plays read on stage, workshopped or both to help them develop their scripts. Themes range from racism in the American South in the 1920’s to present day white privilege.
The format of Wordsmyth’s production will loosely follow that of the successful and well-attended Texas Playwrights Festival, which last summer Wordsmyth produced and Stages Theatre hosted.
We are asking for funding for this project through power2give. Power2give is a crowd-sourcing website for art. On Tuesday, December 1 (remember that date!!) the Houston Arts Alliance will match dollar for dollar for all donations of $250 or less made to a Houston project through power2give, until they have given an aggregate of $10,000 for all projects.
We are asking for funds to help pay playwrights, actors, directors, dramaturgs — all the artists who work hard in creating theater!