Amuse Bouche 2013

[ pronounced: ah-mooz boosh ]

5 playwrights
5 directors
17 actors
3 days of prep
3 nights of performance

Now in its third year, Amuse Bouche 2013 will feature five hand-picked playwrights from across the country. All are tasked to cook up a 15 minute script in 24 hours, with work based on ten “ingredients” curated by the students at Steppenwolf’s Young Adult Council (YAC).

Kicking off an ongoing programming relationship between PG and the YAC, students will follow the production process from early planning stages through the final performance. A few YAC members will even be joining the cast for a unique experience working with professional actors and directors in a fast-paced environment.

The 2013 Playwrights

Hilary Bettis - Honors for Hilary include the O’Neill Nat’l Playwrights Conference, James McLure Fellowship from New River Dramatists, & the John N Wall Fellowship for playwriting at Sewanee Writer’s Conference.

Sigrid Gilmer - Sigrid was a finalist for IGNITION, the PONY Fellowship, Kesselring and was recently featured in the Huffington Post. You can catch her work TONIGHT at the DePaul Theatre School.

Laura Jacqmin - Laura is a recipient of the Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Award and the Wassterstein Prize. Her works have been featured at Steppenwolf’s First Look, the 2012 Humana Festival and the O’Neill Nat’l Playwrights Conference.

David Perez (TH '02) - Pavement Group's Founding Artistic Director, David is both a playwright and a director. Local directing credits include punkplay, Girl You Know It's True, Feet of Clay, fracture/mechanics, & Lipstick Traces.

Lauren Yee - Lauren was recently featured in the 2012 IGNITION festival at Victory Gardens Theater. She is a Dramatists Guild fellow, MacDowell Colony fellow, and member of the Public Theater Emerging Writers Group.

More details, and a list of this year's directors, can be found at pavementgroup.org.