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Thomas Bradshaw, Yussef El Guindi, Lisa Kron, and More Set for ROUGH Reading Series

Lisa Kron
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Lisa Kron
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

The Playwrights Foundation has announced participants in its In The Rough Reading Series 2009, or ROUGH, to be presented at multiple venues, March 30-May 19.

This year’s selections include: Meat by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Mark Rucker; Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Mark Routhier; Job by Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Jonathan Spector; Defiant by George Brant, directed by Marissa Wolf; This Is Not a Torture or an Engine by Erin Bregman, directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb; Assisted Living by Deirdre O’Connor, directed by Jon Tracy; Natasha and the Coat by Deborah Stein, directed by Sean Daniels; and The Verizon Play by Lisa Kron, directed by Amy Mueller.

Theater partners include Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, Aurora Theatre, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Cutting Ball Theater @ Exit on Taylor. Each play will also be presented at Stanford University.

For complete schedule information, visit playwrightsfoundation.org.