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GAME ON
by Zakiyyah Alexander, Rolin Jones, Alice Tuan, Daryl Watson, Marisa Wegrzyn and Ken Weitzman
music and lyrics by Jon Spurney
directed by Will MacAdams
March 21, 23, 28 & 30
in the Bingham Theatre

We’re ready to play with guts and heart and rise to the challenge of examining American culture through the prism of sports. Sports touch all of our lives whether we are fans, players, tax- or tuition-payers.  In this Olympic and election year, what do sports tell us about ourselves?

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Zakiyyah Alexander's plays include Sick? (Summer Play Festival); The Etymology of Bird (Hip Hop Theater Festival); Blurring Shine (Market Theater, Johannesburg); Sweet Maladies (Rucker Theatre); After the Show: A Play in Mask, Pralya, Elected and ghost (Keilworks Theater); and (900). She has received developmental support from The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Hartford Stage, The Providence Black Repertory Company, 24/7 Theater Company, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Vineyard Theatre, Women's Project & Production, GAle GAtes et. al, La Mama E.T.C., and Greenwich Street Theatre. She’s a resident member of New Dramatists, Dramatists Guild and Partial Comfort Productions. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A. in playwriting) Ms. Alexander is a native New Yorker and was raised in Brooklyn.

Rolin Jones' play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It received the 2006 Obie Award for Excellence in Playwriting and the Elizabeth Osborne Award for an Emerging Artist (American Theatre Critic’s Association). His full-length play The Jammer received a Fringe First Award for Best New Writing at 2004’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His short plays Sovereignty, The Mercury and the Magic and Ron Bobbie Had Too Big a Heart were produced at previous Actors Theatre Humana Festivals. He currently writes and produces for Showtime’s award-winning original series Weeds. Mr. Jones is a Yale School of Drama alumnus, class of 2004.

Alice Tuan was seen in last year's Humana Festival with her collaboration on Batch with New Paradise Laboratories. She also authored Last of the Suns (Ma-Yi Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Ikebana (East West Players/Taper, Too), Some Asians (Perishable Theatre, UMASS Amherst), The Roaring Girle (Foundry Theatre) and the hypertext play Coastline (Serious Play! Ensemble, Edinburgh Fringe). Ajax (por nobody), presented by NewYork’s Flea Theater, performed at Melbourne Fringe in 2001 and is archived in the Billy Rose Collection at Lincoln Center. F.E.T.C.H. and Coco Puffs were seen at previous Humana Festivals. Ms. Tuan received the Colbert Award for Excellence for as well as the Richard E. Sherwood Award. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University and is based in Los Angeles.
Daryl Watson graduated with honors from New York University in 2002 with a B.F.A. in drama and a second major in English and American Literature. His other plays include Prime Time (co-produced by Real TheatreWorks and PSNBC at the Abingdon Theatre in 2003; read at Lincoln Center Theater in 2005) The Blueberry Hill Accord (performed at Stella Adler Studios and published in the Vintage play anthology Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays) and Snap (published by Playscripts, Inc. in Great Short Comedies: Vol 1 and winner of the Celebrity Judge Panel Award and the Audience Favorite Award at the 2005 Battle of the Bards). Mr. Watson also co-created and wrote for the Disney show Johnny and the Sprites, starring Tony Award-nominee John Tartaglia.
Marisa Wegrzyn's recent productions include Psalms of a Questionable Nature with Lucid by Proxy in Los Angeles, Hickorydickory at Washington University in St Louis, Killing Women and Diversey Harbor at Theatre Seven of Chicago and The Butcher of Baraboo at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and off-Broadway at Second Stage. Other theatres that have presented her work include Geva Theatre Center, Magic Theatre, CenterStage, Available Light Theatre, Nice People Theatre Company, Hourglass Group and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. She is working on commissions from Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Yale Repertory Theatre. Ms. Wegrzyn is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago.
Ken Weitzman’s plays have been presented and developed at Actors Theatre (2007 Humana Festival), Atlantic Theater Company, Alliance Theatre, Dad’s Garage, Arena Stage, New York Stage and Film, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Summer Play Festival. He has received commissions from Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage and South Coast Repertory. Prizes include the 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award for his play Arrangements. Mr. Weitzman received his M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. Currently he resides in Atlanta and teaches playwriting at Emory University. Prior to writing for the theatre, Mr. Weitzman wrote and produced sports documentaries and narratives for television.
Jon Spurney is co-musical director for the new musical Passing Strange, which opened on Broadway in February. At Actors: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Regional Theatre: Passing Strange (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Off-Broadway: Passing Strange (The Public Theater) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Jane Street Theater). He has performed/recorded with David Byrne, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants, Laurie Anderson, John Cale, Natalie Merchant and Jewel. He composed incidental music for The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a feature film score for Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (The Weinstein Company), which premieres at Sundance Film Festival and opens nationally in April. Mr. Spurney was awarded a Bronze Lion at Cannes Film Festival.