TRANSFORMING HEARTS & MINDS ONE PRODUCTION AT A TIME
MISSION
Transformation Theatre, Inc. (TT,Inc.) shall enhance and stimulate the understanding of ourselves and others through live theatre by producing original, unpublished plays and adaptations that represent and celebrate underrepresented cultures and people.
ABOUT
Transformation Theatre, Inc. (TT, Inc.) was incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) company in April 2019 with the long-term goal of providing a venue for collaboration with up-and-coming and established theatre artists at various stages of development of their work. While TT, Inc will focus on original works of social relevance and/or adaptations, we encourage all playwrights to submit their work for consideration. TT, Inc. shall endeavor to promote/commission works from playwrights in the DC/MD/VA region, however, consideration will also be given to writers outside of that area, including those outside of the US.
A NOTE AND SPECIAL REQUEST FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Thank you for stopping by! On behalf of my founding partners and the board of directors I want to welcome you to Transformation Theatre, Inc.
We began Transformation Theatre as an opportunity for theatre artists at every level of their career to have another place to safely practice their art. Many theaters work with new plays and some also provide workshops. Our process is a little different. We are dedicated to only producing new works that explore underrepresented people and cultures. Our process begins with the playwright and dramaturg, then we provide workshops/readings with professional directors and actors and then possibly producing the play adding designers and technicians.
Why new works of underrepresented people and cultures? We believe that every person needs to be seen as a human being first. That while we have different challenges in life, we also share many of the same challenges. We appreciate the efforts of non-traditional casting, however, we want to find new works that are written particularly about and/or by those who are underrepresented in theatre. Rather than attempting to correct or rewrite history, we want to challenge and influence the present and the future.
Most importantly, come see a show and a reading. This is your opportunity to become a part of our process in bringing to life these new plays about your community and to possibly see a reflection of your own experiences. You, the audience, are a part of the transformation.
Like all theatres in the US, we need your help. As an audience member I am sure you have heard this time and time again, but it is the nature of our industry; Ticket sales do not even come close to covering the cost of producing a play. Even our readings have costs associated with them. First we need to rent space since we do not currently have a space of our own (we do have a 5-10 year plan to have our own space), we also believe in paying directors and actors for their valuable time and talent for the reading. Then, there are the additional costs of producing the play. Again we need to rent the space, provide costuming, lights, sound and sets. We choose to hire union and non-union directors, actors, designers, technicians and support staff to provide the best possible production of these new works.
Please click on the link below to make a tax-deductible donation to our company and support our mission. Any amount is helpful. You can use PayPal or your credit card.
If you have questions or concerns about our mission, or would like to be a part of what we do, please use our contact form and reach out to us at anytime.
Stay up to date with news and about what's happening at Transformation Theatre by signing up below. You'll know what we're doing as soon as we do!
Thank you for helping us to transform hearts and minds one production at a time.
Carl Randolph
Founding Producing Artistic Director
We began Transformation Theatre as an opportunity for theatre artists at every level of their career to have another place to safely practice their art. Many theaters work with new plays and some also provide workshops. Our process is a little different. We are dedicated to only producing new works that explore underrepresented people and cultures. Our process begins with the playwright and dramaturg, then we provide workshops/readings with professional directors and actors and then possibly producing the play adding designers and technicians.
Why new works of underrepresented people and cultures? We believe that every person needs to be seen as a human being first. That while we have different challenges in life, we also share many of the same challenges. We appreciate the efforts of non-traditional casting, however, we want to find new works that are written particularly about and/or by those who are underrepresented in theatre. Rather than attempting to correct or rewrite history, we want to challenge and influence the present and the future.
Most importantly, come see a show and a reading. This is your opportunity to become a part of our process in bringing to life these new plays about your community and to possibly see a reflection of your own experiences. You, the audience, are a part of the transformation.
Like all theatres in the US, we need your help. As an audience member I am sure you have heard this time and time again, but it is the nature of our industry; Ticket sales do not even come close to covering the cost of producing a play. Even our readings have costs associated with them. First we need to rent space since we do not currently have a space of our own (we do have a 5-10 year plan to have our own space), we also believe in paying directors and actors for their valuable time and talent for the reading. Then, there are the additional costs of producing the play. Again we need to rent the space, provide costuming, lights, sound and sets. We choose to hire union and non-union directors, actors, designers, technicians and support staff to provide the best possible production of these new works.
Please click on the link below to make a tax-deductible donation to our company and support our mission. Any amount is helpful. You can use PayPal or your credit card.
If you have questions or concerns about our mission, or would like to be a part of what we do, please use our contact form and reach out to us at anytime.
Stay up to date with news and about what's happening at Transformation Theatre by signing up below. You'll know what we're doing as soon as we do!
Thank you for helping us to transform hearts and minds one production at a time.
Carl Randolph
Founding Producing Artistic Director
UP NEXT
GAS/FOOD/LODGING by Audrey Cefaly, D.W. Gregory, and Bob Bartlett
Directed by Carl Randolph
TT, Inc. is very excited to announce a reading of Gas/Food/Lodging written by a powerhouse trio of DC area playwrights: Audrey Cefaly, D.W. Gregory and Bob Bartlett. This compelling new work will be presented as part of the 2019 Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival at 5:00 PM in the K.C. Chinese Lounge on Monday, September 2, 2019. Please check out the event details here on Facebook.
Synopsis: A collection of stories set in a roadside motel near Disney World. DC/MD playwrights Bob Bartlett, DW Gregory, and Audrey Cefaly weave together tales of hapless and hopeful people in transit to the happiest place on Earth.
Audrey Cefaly is a southern writer and Alabama native based in the DC region. Her plays include The Gulf (Edgerton Award, Lammy Award, Samuel French OOB Fest Winner, Charles MacArthur Award Nominee); Alabaster (2019 NNPN Rolling World Premiere, 2018 NNPN Showcase, David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, BAPF Semifinalist); Maytag Virgin (Women's Voices Theater Festival); The Last Wide Open (Cincinnati Playhouse commission); The Story of Walter (adaptation of her podcast by the same name); and Love is a Blue Tick Hound (a collection of award-winning one-acts). Cefaly has developed plays with the National New Play Network, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Signature Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse (New Territories), Aurora Theatre, Florida Rep, Theater Alliance, Quotidian Theatre Company, University of Alabama - Birmingham, and Contemporary American Theater Festival. She is published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus (two volumes of Best American Short Plays), and Applause Books. Cefaly is a member of the 2019 Playwrights' Arena cohort at Arena Stage and was recently named a Traveling Master by the Dramatist Guild Foundation. She is an outspoken proponent of silence in story-telling and has authored numerous articles on the topic of playwriting for HowlRound and Samuel French’s Breaking Character Magazine. Cefaly is a recipient of grants from the Boomerang Fund for Artists as well as the Alabama and Maryland state arts councils.
D.W. Gregory’s plays frequently explore political issues through a personal lens. The New York Times called her “a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke” for her most produced work, RADIUM GIRLS, about the famous case of industrial poisoning. Other plays include MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN; MOLUMBY’S MILLION, nominated for a Barrymore Award by Philadelphia Theatre Alliance; THE GOOD DAUGHTER, and OCTOBER 1962; and a new musical comedy, THE YELLOW STOCKING PLAY, with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp. She is also a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actor’s Theater of Louisville, where her short comedy SO TELL ME ABOUT THIS GUY was produced on a bill of short works. In addition, Gregory writes for youth theatre and makes occasional appearances as a teaching artist. Her new drama, SALVATION ROAD , recently released by Dramatic Publishing, was the winner of the American Alliance for Theatre in Education’s Playwrights in Our Schools Award and developed through New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences program. Her work has also received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National New Play Network, the Maryland Arts Council (she is a two-time winner of the Individual Artist Award in Playwriting), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the New Harmony Project and the HBMG Foundation. A member of the Dramatists’ Guild, Gregory is also an affiliated writer with The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN.
Bob Bartlett's plays include E2 (Rep Stage), Do No Harm, The Orbit of Mercury (2017 O'Neill Finalist), Swimming with Whales (1st Stage), happiness (and other reasons to die) (The Welders), The Accident Bear (The Avenue Laundromat), Falwell (Active Cultures), Kuchu Uganda (DC Queer Theatre Festival), and Kansas. His work has also been seen at The Welders, Iron Crow Theatre, The Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival, and The Capital and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Theater Alliance, Spooky Action Theatre, Rep Stage, and Alliance Theatre. His play Bareback Ink, a queer reimagining of the Ganymede myth, recently had a run at NYC's Hard Sparks, directed by Obie-winner David Drake. Swimming with Whales, which was one of the winners of the Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, The Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting, and The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, will have its world premiere this coming season at 1st Stage in Tysons, Virginia, and is a part of the SigWorks reading series at Signature Theatre. His time-bending "romcom", The Accident Bear, premieres this fall at The Avenue Laundromat in downtown Annapolis. He is the 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at New Voices for the Theater, a two-time recipient of the Individual Artists Award in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council, an affiliated artist with the National New Play Network, a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Vice Chair of KCACTF's (Region 2) National Playwriting Program, and a member of the theatre faculty at Bowie State University in Maryland, where he teaches playwriting, directing, and devising. Bartlett lives in Central Maryland in an old farmhouse, and is a founding member of The Welders, a Washington, DC-based, producing playwrights collective who were recognized with the 2016 John Aniello Award for Emerging Theater Company by theatreWashington's Helen Hayes Awards.
