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Congratulations to Playwrights Mike Daisey and Anna Ziegler
for making The Washington Post's Top Ten
with plays developed at CCTP!
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We are pleased to announce that Hal Brooks will succeed Andrew Polk as
Artistic Director of The Cape Cod Theatre Project.
In July 2011 Andrew Polk
announced plans to depart The Cape Cod Theatre Project following the completion
of the 2011 season in order to pursue other artistic opportunities. He served
as artistic director of the organization for 17 years. Hal Brooks will assume the title of Artistic Director immediately.
In recent years, Hal
Brooks staged the national tour of Nilaja Sun’s Obie Award Winning No Child… which, after a
year-long critically-lauded run at both the Barrow Street Theatre and Epic
Theatre in New York City, toured nationally and internationally. He also
directed the acclaimed Off Broadway hit and Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing) by
Will Eno, and has spent several seasons as the associate artistic director of
the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He also served as artistic director of the
Rude Mechanicals of New York. In April, he directed Mona Mansour's Urge for
Going as part of Public Lab at the Public Theater. He is currently at work
on The Bald Soprano for The Pearl
Theater Company in New York.
"I am thrilled
by the appointment to become artistic director of The Cape Cod Theatre Project.
I am passionate about new plays, and CCTP has an outstanding track record as a
place where playwrights can develop new work, and then expect to see that play
find a production in New York and at regional theaters throughout the country.
My hope is to continue and expand the excellent work where Andrew Polk left
off: to create an environment where talented professional writers, directors
and actors can thrive in a beautiful place and develop vibrant, challenging
work that will enrich the landscape of American theater. Unique to CCTP is how
important the audience becomes part of the developmental process - and I am
eager to engage with them next summer. ."