Conversation about Outrageous Fortune Tuesday at 1:00

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Re-published from the You've Cott Mail daily email-based news service. Join the New Play Institute at Arena Stage, the National New Play Network, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for a broadcasted presentation of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play this Tuesday. The convening about the field-wide study will be moderated by Todd London (Artistic Director, New Dramatists and author of Outrageous Fortune) and Victoria Bailey (Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund). TDF has been presenting the findings and facilitating the beginning of a conversation in which participants can identify possible ways to improve conditions for playwrights and for the production of new American plays, community by community. This is the first live video streaming of the tour, opening it up to a global audience. The Live Event will be streaming on New Play TV. Click here today, Tuesday, at 1:00 p.m (2:00 p.m. EST). Place the tag #newplay in your tweets to comment on what you are seeing and to participate in the Q&A.
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Leah Cooper

Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director, nonprofit administration consultant, co-founder of this here Web site, co-artistic director of Wonderlust Productions, and the Executive Director of the Minnesota Theater Alliance. She is also on the board of directors for Live Action Set and the California Institute of Contemporary Arts. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. Up next, she is directing Shooting Star at Park Square Theatre and writing a play for Wonderlust's Adoption Play Project.