March 11, 2016
Reed Theatre: Trees in Their Youth
Friday, 7:30 p.m., Massee Performance Lab
Reed Theatre welcomes Dominic Finocchiaro ’11 back to Reed for a playwriting workshop with students and a reading of his latest play, about four students who struggle to navigate the pitfalls of privilege, race, and sexuality while attempting to survive their senior year of high school. Directed by Prof. Kate Bredeson. Finocchiaro's full-length plays include Astral Princess Saves Mankind, brother brother, complex, Exotic, The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, and The Lucky Ladies (someday you will be loved). His writing has been produced and developed around the country, including at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Lark Play Development Center, Portland Center Stage, the Flea Theater, the Amoralists, Pavement Group, Ugly Rhino, Pipeline Theatre Company, Spookfish Theatre, the Secret Theatre, Play on Words Productions, Bookshop Workshops, Hearth Gods, Communal Spaces, and at the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Finocchiaro is a native of San Francisco and is currently in the process of completing the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University. He has also trained as a writer at the New School for Drama, the Kennedy Center, the Playwrights Foundation, and through the Pataphysics at the Flea Theater.
Admission is free. More about Reed Theatre.