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 About newTACTics The Actors Company Theatre/ TACT and Silver Blue Pictures are proud to announce the new initiative : newTACTics. newTACTics is a new initiative that will discover, develop, and explore new works for the theatre. Although TACT is known primarily for its rediscovery of rarely seen, and often unjustifiably neglected works, the company has considerable experience with the development of new plays. In 2002, TACT presented the World premiere of Noel Coward’s Long Island Sound and worked closely with his estate to adapt the play for production. In 2004, Artistic Director Scott Alan Evans, playwright Christopher Piehler, and members of TACT’s acting company, developed the script to The Triangle Factory Fire Project. TACT presented the World premiere production of Triangle in May of that year and the play has since been produced across the country (the published script is available through Dramatist Play Service). The company has also developed scripts through its Readings program, The Salon Series, including work by Dan O’Brien and a new translation/adaptation of a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. newTACTics is not only dedicated to finding new plays that fit within the TACT aesthetic – theatrical works that focus on the text and the actor’s craft – but also plays from the past that have yet to be performed. We want to encourage new playwrights as well as experienced, produced writers to continue to write for the theatre and to discover new ways to use the extraordinary language of the theatre to tell their stories. newTACTics productions will be presented jointly by TACT and Silver Blue Pictures. Silver Blue Pictures was founded in 2002 by Barry Satchwell Smith in Los Angeles. The company’s goal is to tell stories plainly and simply. Their produced works include the World premieres of ‘MsTrial’ at the Court Theatre and ‘A Tad Bazaar’ at the Comedy Theatre. Their most recent movie ‘The Blue Hour’ was released last year and has been officially nominated at San Sebastian, Turino and Los Angeles. newTACTics is interested not only in completed plays but also in works in progress, hoping to bring them to completion through the review, development, staged reading process. For more information about newTACTics or to inquire about play submissions, email Barry Satchwell Smith at bss@tactnyc.org |