DUET
written by Otho Eskin
directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Otho Eskin's plays include Act of God, Murder As A Fine Art, Season In Hell, Julie and Duet. Duet has been produced in Washington, DC and New York and in Italy, Australia, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Latvia and Serbia as well as in several regional theaters in the U.S. Duet has been broadcast on Croatian National Radio and published in the Italian theater journal Prima Fila. Otho Eskin served in the United States Foreign Service in Syria, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Berlin, in what was then East Germany. He was director of the United States Department of State's Office of Ocean Law and Policy and Office of Advanced Technology; vice-chairman of the US delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea; principal US negotiator of several international agreements and US representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

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We Are Here Festival 2020, London UK
Thursday April 2nd, 7:30PM
Saturday April 4th, 5PM

THIS STRETCH OF MONTPELIER
written by Kelley Nicole Girod
​directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser

On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.

Kelley Nicole Girod is a 2021 winner of our Annual Parity Commission.

Public Reading, November, 2022
Closed Developmental Reading February, 2023
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Kelley Nicole Girod (she/her) is an award-winning playwright whose work centers on her Black Cajun/ Creole Louisiana heritage. Awards include Sundance IDP 2021 grantee, City Corp Artist Grant 2021,  Atlantic Launch New Play Commission 2019, Sheen Center Fellow 2019, Stein and Liberace Fellow 2007, and John Golden Fellow 2008. Her work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, The Fire This Time Festival,  Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Project Y, Poetic Theater Productions, Classical Theater of Harlem, Frigid NYC, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The Field, and Dixon Place.  She was recently commissioned by Stanford University’s TAPS Program and completed a commission of a children’s play about Covid through a collaboration with Erin Brown under a City Corp Artist grant. On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.