Sessions
NPP One Act Play Readings #1 - PREP SCHOOL by Tucker Rafferty & GEORGE, JESSE, AND MARY by Josiah Turner, followed by response
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Thu
Better, Faster, Stronger - NPP Workshop with Playwright Emilio Rodriguez
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Thu
NPP One Act Play Readings #2 - THE LADIES' ROOM by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin and EXHIBITS IN THE ZOO by Matt Harmon, followed by response
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Fri
NPP Ten Minute Play Festival
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Sat
Emilio Rodriguez is playwright who began his theatre career at the age of two, performing one-minute solo adaptations of "The Wizard of Oz" in his parents’ living room using a broom, a funnel, and a pair of his mama’s high heels. Emilio’s plays have since been developed and/or produced at Stages Theatre (Houston), Milagro Theatre (Portland), Teatro del Pueblo (St. Paul), Theatre Nova (Ann Arbor), San Diego Repertory Theatre, Tampa Repertory Theatre, Latinx Theatre Commons, Teatro Vivo’s Austin New Latino Play Festival, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Queer Theatre Kalamazoo, The Landing Theatre’s Redemption Series (Houston), and the Ringwald Theatre’s Gay Play Series (Ferndale). His play "Swimming While Drowning,” was a 2017 finalist for the Portland Theatre Drammy Awards, and Emilio was honored with the Wurlitzer Foundation and Robert Chelsey/Victor Bumbalo Playwriting Award. Emilio's career highlight to date is the moment when Panera Bread restaurant cashier gave him a free meal in appreciaion of his play "Mamacita.”