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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Rude Mechs bag NEA grant
Congrats to playwright Kirk Lynn of the Rude Mechs who just bagged a $20,000 grant from the NEA’s Distinguished New Play Development Project.
The monies Lynn and the Rudes will receive will go for the early development of Lynn’s latest script, “I’ve Never Been So Happy.” The project is one of only five in the nation to receive the NEA New Play Development grant.
With music and lyrics by composer Peter Stopschinski, “I’ve Never Been So Happy” is sort of a carnival of the great American West and an exploration of the wild frontier of parenthood. “A single mother ties her son to the last mountain lion in Texas to toughen him up,” reads the Rudes’ description. “A single father tries to keep his daughter from leaving home.”
The Rudes will present “I’ve Never Been So Happy” in a serial workshop format with the father/daughter story, Scenes 2, 4 and 7, will be presented in Dec. 4-13 at the Off Center. The mother/son story, Scenes 1, 3, and 6, will be presented in April. And then all of the scenes plus the climactic last scene will be presented at the world premiere in September 2009.
See the Rude Mechs Web site for more info.
Get to work Kirk!
Playwright Kirk Lynn
