Boulder’s premier festival of new American plays
Local Theater Company discovers and develops world premiere plays through Local Lab, Boulder’s premier festival of new American plays. Local Lab is a development program that offers playwrights and audiences the chance to participate in conversations that help move new plays toward full productions.
In honor of our 10th season, we have expanded the festival and will now support the development of 10 new works including four scripted plays, three artist-devised works, two original commissions and a new musical. Local Lab will feature artist-driven invited readings, workshops and rehearsals all year long.
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Mare Trevathan & Anne Penner
Max Silverman - Technical Director
Project title: The LADY M PROJECT
THE LADY M PROJECT tells Shakespeare’s Macbeth from the passionate, complex, loving and disturbed point of view of Lady Macbeth.
Mare Trevathan has extensive experience performing Shakespeare, but also loves new and unconventional theater. In recent years, she performed in the immersive show “Blind Date”-- pairing one audience member to one actor as they wandered the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; directed “microtheater” in a bookstore; and worked with architects in Ahmedabad, India to create “site-specific” performance drawing focus to built-environments. Mare has narrated over 650 audiobooks and teaches Voice Acting at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She is a founding member of Local Theater Company. maretrevathan.com
Anne Penner is thrilled to work with Local Theater Company. She is an Associate Professor in the University of Denver Theatre Department, where she teaches acting, directing, and movement courses. She performs professionally with various Colorado theater companies, most recently with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline), Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (The Wolves), and Stories on Stage (Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking). She directs and produces professionally and at DU, and she also is co-host of the popular acting/psychology podcast, The Actor's Mind. She received an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Amherst College.