Mgmt Salon Series
Sunday, May 10th
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Mgmt Salon Series Sunday, May 10th |
The Awake by Ken Urban
The Awake: Three people are in trouble. Malcolm is trapped at his mother’s house. His car won’t start and because of a freak snowstorm, there is no help coming. Alice is an Eastern European actress who has found herself in Iran making anti-American films. Nate, a potential Canadian with a tan, is a substitute teacher, proctoring a foreign language exam. These three people find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways, taking a journey together in search of escape. Inspired by the philosophical fragments of Heraclitus, The Awake is a play for dreamers about finding hope when you least expect it.
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Ken’s plays have been produced at The Flea, Moving Arts, Target Margin, Theatre of NOTE, Rude Guerrilla, and The Chocolate Factory, among others. His work has been developed at The Huntington, Playwrights Horizons, Son of Semele Ensemble, Urban Stages, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Soho Rep and Annex Theatre. Ken is the recipient of a 2007-2009 Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, a 2008 MacDowell Residency, a 2006 Tennessee Williams Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and he is the winner of the 2004 Moving Arts Premiere One Act Competition. His play Sense of an Ending was named one of six finalists for the 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Prize (nominated by the Huntington Theatre), and he was recently awarded a 2009 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. In 2007, he was commissioned by Target Margin to adapt Aristophanes’ The Wasps, and was named one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year. His plays include I |
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KANT, Nibbler, Halo, The Private Lives of Eskimos, The Absence of Weather, The Female Terrorist Project, and The Happy Sad. His work has been published in New York Theatre Review (Edited by Book Stowe, with an introduction by Aleks Sierz), and Plays and Playwrights 2002 (Edited by Martin Denton). A number of his plays are available in acting editions from Original Works Publishing and he is featured in numerous monologue and scene compilations.