For the past 20 years, we have brought two playwrights (one Black and one Latino) from across America to San Marcos, to work alongside guest directors, professional actors, dramaturgs and Texas State Theatre students to develop their new plays over the course of a week.
20th Annual Black and Latino Playwright Celebration
August 29-September 4, 2022
Learn Who Makes BLPC Possible
Monday, August 29, 2022
- 6:00-6:30 PM || Company meeting for all playwrights, cast, crew and guest artists.
- 6:30-10:00 PM || Rehearsal for New Play Development Workshops
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
- 6:30-10:00 PM || Rehearsal for New Play Development Workshops
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
- 6:30-10:00 PM || Rehearsal for New Play Development Workshops
Thursday, September 1, 2022
- 6:30-10:00 PM || Rehearsal for New Play Development Workshops
Friday, September 2, 2022
- 11:00 AM || “Brown Bag” Gathering
- 7:30 PM || Tribute to distinguished honoree, August Wilson || Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre
Saturday, September 3, 2022
- 12:00 PM || 10-Minute Playwriting Workshop with Judy Tate || Theatre Center
- 7:30 PM || New Play Development Reading of A Cup of Life by Kwik Jones || Performing Art Center Recital Hall
Sunday, September 4, 2022
- 12:00 PM || New Play Development Reading of Cebollas by Leonard Madrid || Performing Art Center Recital Hall
Distiguished Achievement Award
August Wilson
APRIL 27, 1945-OCTOBER 2, 2005
Wilson is considered one of America’s finest playwrights and is also one of the most produced. Some theater fans have given him the moniker “America’s Shakespeare”. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari Wilson and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer, and Executive Director of the August Wilson Legacy LLC, Constanza Romero-Wilson.
Nurture the Artist
Fostering an environment that allows playwrights to explore, grow, and learn fearlessly.
Kwik Jones
Playwright of A Cup of Life
Kwik Jones has been writing, directing, and producing plays for twenty-nine years. Kwik has developed plays such as: A Strange Seed, Forgotten Soul, Voices, Black Like me, Jupiter is Stormy, Spotlight, The Code, Puzzle Dream, Conversations, Organ, L.U.S.T, Both Sides of the Fence, Sweet Mother Jones, Memphis Bound, Water Boyz, A Cup of Life and many more.
Leonard Madrid
Playwright of Cebollas
Leonard Madrid is a New Mexican Theatre artist. He is currently the Artistic Director of Blackout Theatre in Albuquerque. His plays have received the Kennedy Center’s award for Latinx playwrights three times. He has also participated in the Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens in Chicago, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, and the Colorado Play Summit at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Leonard is currently a theatre professor at Eastern New Mexico University.
