SUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHT’S RESIDENCY

A creative home for playwrights,
artistic collaborators &
the local community

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Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Your generosity allows us to deepen our impact on playwrights and the Wood River Valley community. Your support helps us commission new plays; offer free play readings; travel, house, and feed artists; connect nationally-renowned playwrights with local high schoolers; put scripts in school libraries; and so much more!

MAKE A YEAR-END GIFT TODAY

FALL 2024 SEASON

Kirsten Shultz

Community Dialogue

A CONVERSATION WITH
PLAYWRIGHT MAX POSNER & RABBI KLEIN
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. MT
Wood River Jewish Community’s Lewis Family Center
Sun Valley, ID
FREE

Heideman Award recipient, Lortel Award nominee, and 2024-2025 SVPR Resident Playwright Max Posner (The Treasurer) is wrapping up his month-long stay at the historic Hemingway House, where he is working on a brand new play that digs into the complexities of modern Jewish identity. Join us for a special conversation between playwright Max Posner and Rabbi Klein. The conversation will be followed by mingling and light refreshments.

Brooke Burton

Free Readings of a New Play-in-Process

HOROSCOPE 
Written & Directed by Rajiv Joseph

Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. MT 
Boise Contemporary Theater
Boise, ID

AND

Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7 p.m. MT
The Argyros’ Tierney Theatre
Ketchum, ID
FREE

The evening begins with a conversation with Pulitzer Prize Finalist, two-time Obie Award winner, and 2023-2024 Resident Playwright Rajiv Joseph, followed by a reading of his new play, Horoscope. Twelve characters, twelve scenes, twelve months of the year: Horoscope centers on a group of twenty-somethings searching for meaning beyond their current orbit. The reading features Theatre Arts majors from Boise State University.

This program is supported, in part, by grants from Boise City Department of Arts & History, Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, Idaho Humanities Council, a State-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Spur Community Foundation. Additional support is provided by Boise Contemporary Theater and the School of the Arts and the Department of Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing at Boise State University.

Kirsten Shultz

Meet & Greet

A CONVERSATION WITH PLAYWRIGHT MAX POSNER
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. MT
The Community Library
Ketchum, ID
FREE

Heideman Award recipient, Lortel Award nominee, and 2024-2025 SVPR Resident Playwright Max Posner will be in conversation with Aly Wepplo, The Community Library’s Collection Manager, to discuss his process of writing for stage and screen before taking questions from the audience.

Free Play Reading

THE TREASURER
Written & Directed by Max Posner
Monday, October 7, 2024 at 7 p.m. MT
The Argyros’ Bailey Family Studio
Ketchum, ID
FREE

MacArthur “Genius” Samuel D. Hunter (Little Bear Ridge Road) leads a conversation with 2024-2025 SVPR Resident Playwright Max Posner followed by a reading of Posner’s hit Off Broadway play, The Treasurer, featuring Wood River Valley-based David Janeski (Gruesome Playground Injuries), Colorado Theatre Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner Billie McBride (Torch Song Trilogy on Broadway), Shonda Royall, and Obie Award Winner and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos (Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are).

SOLD OUT!

Monologue Workshop with Max Posner and Sarah DeLappe at The Community Library

Kirsten Shultz

Free Playwriting Workshop

MONOLOGUE WRITING WORKSHOP
Led by Sarah DeLappe & Max Posner
Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 2 p.m. MT
The Community Library
Ketchum, ID
FREE

Join us for a monologue writing workshop led by 2024-2025 Resident Playwright Max Posner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Relentless Award Winner Sarah DeLappe, who wrote the screenplay for the A24-produced horror-comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies and whose play The Wolves has been produced worldwide over 300 times. The event is free and open to the public.

FALL 2024 SEASON

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Made possible, in part, with generous support from

FALL 2024 SPONSORS

Kirsten Shultz

MISSION

Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency is a non-profit organization fostering new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fueling the American theatre with invigorating new plays that speak to our collective humanity.

Krista Williams, Eboni Booth, Martyna Majok, CA Johnson, Kimber Lee & Samuel D. Hunter

NEWS

Read about our recent work in the Wood River Valley community.

A gathering of people on a summer afternoon outside the The Community Library’s writer-in-residence apartment at the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho.

Samuel D. Hunter