New Plays Festival: sorry sorry okay sorry
Campus Arts Event
New Plays Festival: sorry sorry okay sorry
A play about the funny things that happen in our saddest moments, the sad things that happen in our happiest moments, and also, about competitive meditation.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Flexible Performance Space
April 12, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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About the Festival

Columbia University School of the Arts presents an expanded festival of new plays written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Students. The esteemed faculty who have nurtured these students, including Tony, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Rebecca Taichman, Sarah DeLappe, Steve Martin, Will Eno, Karey Kirkpatrick and David Henry Hwang invite you to experience these innovative new playwrights.

Event Details

Clementine is desperately trying to do the right thing. Clancy is desperately trying to make it through another day as her life falls apart. David is desperately trying to win the Phoenix Division of the World Mind of a Warrior Conference, a celebration of Skill, Artistry, Dedication, and Grit for all those who practice The Way. A play about the funny things that happen in our saddest moments, the sad things that happen in our happiest moments, and also, about competitive meditation.

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

Clementine is desperately trying to do the right thing. Clancy is desperately trying to make it through another day as her life falls apart. David is desperately trying to win the Phoenix Division of the World Mind of a Warrior Conference, a celebration of Skill, Artistry, Dedication, and Grit for all those who practice The Way. A play about the funny things that happen in our saddest moments, the sad things that happen in our happiest moments, and also, about competitive meditation.

About the Playwright

Emily Elyse Everett is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn. She was awarded Synecdoche Works’ 2022 Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language and the $3000 winning prize for her play Strange and Splendid. She was a Semifinalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival and a Winner of the Players Club of Swarthmore New Play Festival for her play Serenity, selected for the 2023 Valdez Theater Conference for her play sorry sorry okay sorry, and a Finalist for the Emerson Stages NewFest New Play Workshop and the Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer’s Residency for her play New England Summer Storms. Emily also wrote the 5-episode serialized mystery podcast, “Process”, which will be released in spring 2024.

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