Pride Films and Plays was founded in 2010 to improve the quality of LGBT theater and film for this generation and those to come To achieve that mission we conduct play contests in which new writers are discovered and new works for stage and screen are developed. Our Gay Play and Musical Contest, Gay Screenplay Contest, and Women’s Work Contest (for plays and screenplays written by women with lesbian characters or themes) culminate in three unique festivals of enhanced staged readings with authors participating in the rehearsal process in the 150-seat Hoover-Leppen Theater of Center on Halsted. In 2014-15 we will launch Generation Next, a contest for High School, College, and University Students writing plays or screenplays with LGBT characters or themes.
Our early projects were staged readings as our unique organizational structure codified, with the Executive Director assisted by a team of 7 Artistic Associates, and 25 ensemble members who provide organizational direction and support.
In other to become Jeff eligible, we produced short runs of Love Sucks at Hydrate, Man Boobs and The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret at Mary’s Attic, Richmond Jim at National Pastime, and The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me at Teatro Luna. Already the taste of PFP was clear – new works for Chicago audiences, or exciting looks at historical LGBT writers.
In 2012-13, At The Flash (winner of the 2012 Gay Play Contest) became our first Jeff eligible show and was Recommended. (This one man show subsequently played Los Angeles in 2013 and Dublin in 2014 and has been optioned for a TV development.) Beautiful Thing followed in January in a 20th anniversary production and was a critical and box office success. A finalist from 2012, Under A Rainbow Flag, a musical based on true stories of gay soldiers in World War II, won Jeff Awards for Best Musical Production and Best New Work for author Leo Schwartz. Other Jeff Nominees included Director David Zak, Musical Director Robert Ollis, and actor James Nedrud.
In 2013-14, our productions included the world premiere of Directions for Restoring
the Apparently Dead by Martin Casella, winner of the 2014 Play Contest at Stage 773. That was followed by an 80th Anniversary Production of Lillian Hellman’s classic The Children’s Hour, performed at Collaboraction, for which Nora Elise Ulrey won a Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actress. The season finale was the Chicago premiere of the musical Songs From An Unmade Bed by Mark Campbell, performed in the Apollo Studio Theater. That received five Jeff Nominations for director Derek Van Barham, Musical Director Robert Ollis, and actors Kevin Webb and Jordan Phelps.
In 2014, we invited a team of Chicago area filmmakers to join us as we create the film side of PFP. And that team created two successful film screenings held at Chicago Public House Theater in June and November.
Thus far this season has seen Jeff Recommended Chicago premieres of Terrence McNally’s Some Men and Jeff Talbott’s The Submission.
Source (2017-09-09): https://www.facebook.com/pg/pridefilmsandplays
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