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Port Out, Starboard Home
A co-commission between foolsFURY and Playwrights Foundation
ABOUT THE PLAY:
POSH (the play's affectionate acronym), is a theatrical spectacle set on a luxury cruise liner, and our Festival marks its final developmental milestone in preparation for a fall world premiere production. In the play, an eclectic group of vacationing cruise-shippers form an intimate temporary community and, untethered from the baggage of past or future, become entangled in a mysterious and disturbing ritual. Through an intriguing multi-disciplinary amalgamation of dance, dialogue, and story, POSH explores the fine line between luxury and decadence in contemporary American consumer culture, where the relationship between one's public persona and the private, personal search for authenticity and awareness must be navigated in the rarified, temporary space of the cruise vacation. The question remains, how far will one go to achieve fulfillment?
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Woolly Mammoth, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. She has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, and the MAP Foundation. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, The Playwrights Foundation, Clubbed Thumb, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include Scab, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious, Something, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play and Fever/Dream. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and her monologues can be found in various anthologies. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey ,and Florida State University, and she is currently on the faculty at Spalding University's MFA program in creative writing. Sheila is a resident artist at HERE Arts Center and a member of the Obie winning playwrights' organization 13P. Sheila is also a resident of New Dramatists. Currently, Sheila is a writer on the Showtime series The United States of Tara. Her play Roadkill Confidential will be produced by Clubbed Thumb at 3LD Art & Technology Center in the fall.
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LocationThick House
1695 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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