by Rick Pender | Published April 5, 2018
“Tiny Houses” by Chelsea Marcantel will close the 2018-19 Shelterhouse season, which will feature only work by female playwrights.
photo by Gregory Costanzo
The Cincinnati Playhouse has filled in the “TBA” in its 2018-2019 schedule with yet another world premiere play by an up-and-coming female: Chelsea Marcantel’s comedy Tiny Houses will conclude the Shelterhouse season (May 4-June 2, 2019). It’s the story of four young adults who are determined to build a 200-square-foot tiny house in Oregon. Despite their goal of finding meaning in minimalism, their project keeps going off the tracks. Will living small be a huge mistake? Marcantel’s bio states that she’s “extremely interested in humans as small-group primates, and what happens when the rules and value systems of our chosen groups cease to serve us.”
She’s an LA-based writer, director and collaborator. In 2016, she completed a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Fellowship at New York City’s Juilliard School. Marcantel’s plays include Airness (a popular production at Actors Theatre’s 2017 Humana Festival in Louisville) as well as Everything Is Wonderful, Ladyish, and Devour. Her shows have been produced around the United States and Canada. She is currently working on commissions by the San Francisco Playhouse and the Delaware Theatre Company.
For a full earlier story on the Playhouse’s 2018-19 season, visit here.
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