Highlighting four works in progress, LAUNCH PAD’s 2022 Summer Reading Series features both comedy and drama
Risa Brainin
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LAUNCH PAD presents second BIPOC Reading Series Festival -
Risa Brainin directs the Chekhov classic, as translated by local Libby Appel -
UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD in collaboration with Colorado company to perform staged reading of “Yellowstone” -
Theater and Dance to present “Shanghai,” a new play about Jewish refugees in China in World War II -
Theater and Dance to perform Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Fires in the Mirror’ play on Brooklyn incident -
LAUNCH PAD’s “Alone, Together” collection of 39 Zoom-friendly plays published as resource for theaters across nation -
LAUNCH PAD Summer Reading Series previews plays in development — virtually -
LAUNCH PAD assembles 24 playwrights for a Zoom-friendly performance in four parts -
Drama professor Risa Brainin is inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre -
Theater and dance department’s fall productions tackle issues of truth, forgiveness and racial divisions -
“The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963” and symposium explore theatrical representations of Black history -
The play “ ‘A’ ” Train, created by UCSB scholars, wins top honors at United Solo Awards in New York -
Theater scholars bring one-woman show to the United Solo Festival and shine a light on the complexities of autism -
UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Reading Series features four playwrights and rich characters like Ross Macdonald -
Author Joyce Carol Oates to collaborate with UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD to present public reading of her play ‘Bad Touch’ -
UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD to preview ‘We Want the Funk’ by Idris Goodwin -
Playwrights join the UCSB community as artists in residence for a summer course -
Immigrants in search of the American Dream find it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in Yussef El Guindi’s “The Talented Ones,” a play currently in production by UC Santa Barbara’s LAUNCH PAD.
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UCSB theater and dance department is honored by the International Centre for Women Playwrights -
LAUNCH PAD brings three professional playwrights to campus for weeklong residencies -
Now in its 10th season of exploring news plays and making it possible for playwrights to see their work fully produced while still in development, LAUNCH PAD brings Alison Tatlock’s “Untitled IV By Ruth Markofsky” to the UC Santa Barbara’s Hatlen...
