TIME:/PLACE:

City Theatre is pleased to offer the following event, which is Free and open to the public:

"TIME: / PLACE:"

A writing workshop exploring a play's journey and how it relates to place, led by award-winning playwright Michele Lowe, author of City Theatre's upcoming Mezzulah, 1946 (full bio below).

Wed. Feb. 28 at 7:00 pm

City Theatre, 13th and Bingham, South Side

In Mezzulah, 1946, the war is over and the boys are home, but at the Boeing airplane plant Mezzulah has no intention of giving her job to a man. Like her hero, Leonardo da Vinci, Mezzulah is ahead of her time and dreaming of flight. But she won't be flying solo. Along with Mezzulah, the other women of Monroe, Washington, are about to take wing-each in her own way. A transcendent new play with heart, humor, and period music which premieres at City Theatre from March 8 - April 1, 2007.

Michele Lowe is also the author String of Pearls, which premiered at City Theatre in 2003, went on to receive an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, and is featured in Best Plays of 2005 (Smith & Kraus, 2006).
Other plays include The Smell of the Kill (Broadway debut), Backsliding in the Promised Land, Map of Heaven, and the musical Hit the Lights! (book and lyrics). Lowe recently helped inaugurate the Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Center Theatre with Good on Paper, which was commissioned by the Geva Theatre Centre. Her plays have been developed at MOMENTUM, the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference, New Harmony Project, PlayLabs, New York Stage and Film, and the ACT & Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival. Lowe's plays have been produced at Primary Stages, Vineyard Theatre, Intiman, City Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Reykjavik City Theatre (Iceland), Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, and Cincinnati Play House in the Park, among dozens of others. Her work appears in Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann, 2004). Screenplays include Quitting Texas for Avenue Pictures and the recently completed Context. Lowe is a recipient of the Frankel Award. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center.

Mezzulah, 1946 and "Time:/Place:" are presented as part of this season's "New American Trio," three exciting new plays and other events celebrating City Theatre as a premier home for the development of plays. For additional information and activities on the "New American Trio," please see the Season and Special Events pages at www.CityTheatreCompany.org .