Also this week: the Old Globe's Justin Waldman is leaving to lead a New Jersey theater and North Coast Rep's David Ellenstein is helping out Laguna Playhouse
When San Diego Repertory Theatre abruptly suspended operations in June, one of the upcoming world premiere plays on its then-in-progress season — Herbert Siguenza’s “Grand Master Funk” — was left without a home.
The series is now presented in partnership with UC San Diego’s MFA Playwriting Program, which launched in 2020. Each year, one or two UCSD MFA playwrights are given a commission at Cygnet, which includes a weeklong workshop for their play, a public reading with public talk-backs, financial support, housing and transportation during the week and potential consideration for a world premiere production at Cygnet.
And Raturi’s “No One Plays Badminton in America” is about a pair of nationally ranked Indonesian teen badminton players whose partnership is disrupted when one of the girl’s families immigrates to America. Waldman will assume his new position on Nov. 1, succeeding former artistic chief John Dias. In a statement on the website for the Red Bank, N.J., theater Waldman said: “Two River has the unrivaled ability to highlight beauty, expand community and bring us all together with considered intention. To be its steward for a time thrills me and is a responsibility I hold with the utmost care.”
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