Hello, wonderful new friends and readers, and welcome!
As the Literary Director for Electric Pear Productions (please see our mission statement below), I offer up this blog to you. Its purpose is for us — yes, you and I! — to discover new works, playwrights, and composers. To discuss. Analyze. Find out what makes them tick. How do these plays and musicals engage us: intellectually, emotionally, aesthetically, philosophically? Do they offer rich and complex characters? Political propoganda? Intriguing and delightful stories? If a specific production is reviewed, how do the director, designers, and cast inevitably contribute to, detract from, or otherwise alter the meaning and effectiveness of the work?
We at EPP are enthusiastically dedicated to the discovery and production of the fresh, new, innovative voices of today. So if you or someone you know wishes to be reviewed here, either via production or script, please drop us a line! Email me at literary@electricpear.org, and if you’re a plawright/composer looking to possibly produce your work, please peruse our website (www.electricpear.org) to learn more about EPP, including how to submit your work.
We look forward to confabulating and quite possibly working with you!
All Best,
Julie Haverkate
Literary Director, EPP
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EPP MISSION STATEMENT
Electric Pear Productions is a non-profit theater company committed to deepening the scope of the American performance landscape by supporting, creating and showcasing both:
· Original American plays of superior quality and originality
· Cross-genre and cross-border collaborative projects for the stage
The goal of the company is to be a cultivator, backer and presenter – a true hub – of original and persuasive creative endeavors that find their base in the live theatrical experience, but pull together influences and inspirations from the world at large.
Each season the company produces two new plays, one collaborative international piece, and one cross-genre composition.
Electric Pear: At home on the stage, at play in the world.
