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Lauren Gunderson is one of my favorite playwrights of all time, and i draw heavy inspiration from her works.

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. As an artist I often find my work to be a mixture of my influences infused with my own unique spin based on my life expierences. Most art is subconscious re-interpertation, and i think artists that realize that, and own their influences rather than trying to deny their impact, are some of the best artists of all.

. My inspirations aren't just formed from parasocial relationships, or individual shows i've seen. My personal life and connections often inspire me greatly. My father inspires me, my theatre teacher in high school inspired me, watching my friends land roles they wanted and working hard to perform them always inspired me. Even a bad expierence in my english class inspired my senior year SDOAP script.

. My personal experience playing a role in OAP "She Kills Monsters" by Qui Nguyen was a major inspiration both to me as an actor and a writer.

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JUSTICE: A New Musical premieres at Marin Theatre Company Feb 16- March 12. In an intimate, epic new musical built with sweeping songs, urgent conversations about equality, and deeply relatable heroines, JUSTICE explores the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court - Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor - at the height of their power. Following the fraught confirmation process of Justice Sotomayor, we uncover the true sisterhood of these three iconic Americans as they inspire, challenge, and usher in the next generation of changemakers and trailblazers in American jurisprudence, while fighting private battles of their own. They confront and comfort each other about equal justice under the law, legal strategy, civic responsibility, as well as husbands, motherhood, kids, dreams, and sorrows, all while setting a new course for our country and the world. MarinTheatre.org

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JUSTICE: A New Musical premieres at Marin Theatre Company Feb 16- March 12. In an intimate, epic new musical built with sweeping songs, urgent conversations about equality, and deeply relatable heroines, JUSTICE explores the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court - Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor - at the height of their power.

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Fun Fact: "SIX" started as a University project.

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. One of my biggest dreams in the world of arts is to have original plays of mine performed. Nothing huge or world famous, though i can dream. There have been plenty of examples of plays that started from colleges, and i aspire to write shows like that.

. My Goal as an actor would be to follow a strong direction in musical theatre, potentially even try and move over to film someday in the future if everything goes well in theatre.

. Plenty of big name actors don't even go to college for acting

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Welcome to the show, to the histo-remix! The musical Six has taken audiences by storm, with productions on Broadway, in the West End, and around the world. This pop musical about the six wives of Henry VIII has gone from a college project to an international sensation.

When 20something college students Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss wrote the Six musical, they didn't think it would be a bona fide phenomenon; they just thought it would be a fun school project while they were studying at Cambridge University. Six is a fresh musical, with a decidedly Gen Z sensibility: colorful yet unabashedly opinionated about feminism and patriarchy.

Six is about the six wives of Henry VIII, but it is not your typical history lesson. The women are all members of a girl group, and they are competing against each other to be the new leader of the group. Through catchy pop songs and synchronized dance movies, each woman tells her own story. It's part 10th grade history class, part American Idol, and a whole lot of fun (with killer vocal riffs).

It may seem like a crazy concept, but Six has a deeper message about how history is always written by, and about, men. And what we all need right now is a big dose of "herstory." Find out more about Six below, with characters, running time, songs, and more.

Get Six tickets now.

What is Six about?

Listen up, let them tell you a story! Most people, if they've heard of King Henry VIII, know two things: He was the father of Queen Elizabeth I, and he had six wives. But who were these women, and how did they feel about being one in the long line of spouses for an unrelentingly picky man?

The six wives of Henry VIII are Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Six tells each of their stories in a very atypical fashion: the wives have all come together as part of a pop girl group, and they each sing a song about who has suffered the most as Henry's wife. The winner will be the new leader of the group.

Petty squabbles and shade abound, but the women eventually learn they need to come together if they want to be more than the wives of one very flawed man.

Where is Six playing?

Six is currently running on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre at 256 West 47th Street, between Eighth Avenue and Broadway. The Brooks Atkinson Theatre opened in 1926 as the Mansfield Theatre. It was named the Brooks Atkinson in 1960 after the late New York Times critic of the same name. The previous tenant at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre was Waitress, which was the longest-running production at that theatre; it ran there for close to four years between 2016 and 2020.

How long is Six?

The running time of Six is 1 hour and 20 minutes. It is the shortest musical currently running on Broadway. So you can have an entertaining evening and have time to grab dinner afterwards to dish about what you've just seen.

What days is Six playing?

On Broadway, Six typically plays eight performances a week at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The shows typically run Monday to Sunday, with two performances on Saturdays and Sundays, and a day off on Wednesdays. For the complete performance schedule and showtimes, please visit the Six page to learn more.

When did Six premiere?

Six is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, with continually sold-out shows. But its beginning was quite the Cinderella story: Six started off as a humble college production before catching the eyes (and ears) of the right theatre producers.

2016: The show begins as a college project by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, then students at Cambridge University.

2017: Six has its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It's a student production starring many of Moss and Marlow's college friends. The Edinburgh production catches the attention of producers Kenny Wax and Global Musicals, who give the musical its first professional production off West End in December 2017, for six performances. A cast album featuring the Off-West End cast was released shortly after.

2018: Six launches its first national tour in the UK with a mix of returning and new cast members.

2019: Six returns to London for an open-ended run, this time on the West End. It takes Six time to find a theatrical home on the West End. It started off at the Arts Theatre, then moved to the Lyric Theatre, then to the Vaudeville Theatre, where it runs to this day. That same year, Six launches its first North American tour, beginning in Chicago, before going to Boston; Edmonton, Canada; and St. Paul, Minnesota. The production also begins playing on Norwegian Cruise Lines.

2020: Six starts performances on Broadway, where it is currently running. This production features the actors in its first North American tour. Also in 2020, Six premieres in Australia and launches its first Australian tour, with a stop in New Zealand.

Who wrote Six?

Six is written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, who wrote the book, music, and lyrics together. This is their first major musical. They've since written another musical together with Zak Ghazi-Torbati, called Hot Gay Time Machine, about the important moments in a gay man's life (Marlow and Ghazi-Torbati perform in the musical, and Moss directed). Hot Gay Time Machine has had short runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End.

Their research for Six includes Antonia Fraser's biography The Six Wives of Henry VIII, the documentary series Six Wives by Lucy Worsley, and the BeyonceÌ concert film Live at Roseland: Elements of 4.

Six characters

Six features all six wives of Henry VIII, but this is no period drama. Their personalities and songs are modeled after contemporary pop stars. Some of the lyrics even reference hit pop songs (such as when Anna of Cleves sings a line from Kanye West's "Gold Digger").

Catherine of Aragon: The first wife of Henry VIII. She is religious but fierce, and she doesn't take disrespect from anyone. She is modeled after Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez.

Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife, who he divorced Catherine of Aragon for. She seems like a ditzy airhead, but she is actually quite smart and savage. She is modeled after Lily Allen and Avril Lavigne.

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's third wife after he beheaded Anne Boleyn. She is sensitive and the only one of the wives who actually loves Henry VIII. Seymour is modeled after Adele and Sia.

Anna of Cleves: Henry VIII's fourth wife after Jane Seymour dies. She is confident and effortlessly cool, and is aware that out of all the wives, she probably came out the most ahead. (No pun intended.) She is modeled after Nicki Minaj and Rihanna.

Katherine Howard: Henry VIII's fifth wife after his marriage to Anna of Cleves is annulled. She puts on a disaffected air but beneath is a young woman deeply affected by a lifetime of being used by men. She is modeled after Britney Spears and Ariana Grande.

Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's sixth wife after he beheads Katherine Howard. She is sensitive and smart,and aware that the notion of women competing against each other is actually pretty regressive. She is modeled after Alicia Keys and Emile SandÃ©.

Six songs

The songs of Six are all pop inspired, drawing inspiration from a variety of female pop stars' catalogs. That means the songs span a variety of different sounds. From the hip hop-inspired "Get Down" to the slow ballad "Heart of Stone" to the upbeat "Don't Lose Ur Head," there's a song here for every type of queen.

"Ex-Wives" - Company

"No Way" - Catherine of Aragon

"Don't Lose Ur Head" - Anne Boleyn

"Heart of Stone" - Jane Seymour

"Haus of Holbein" - Company

"Get Down" - Anna of Cleves

"All You Wanna Do" - Katherine Howard

"I Don't Need Your Love" - Catherine Parr

"Six" - Company

"Megasix (Encore)" - Company

What awards has Six won?

Though Six has been popular with fans around the world and is selling out houses in both New York and London, its awards roster is slim thus far. That may change with the 2022 Tony Awards!

Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards: This awards recognizes productions that have played in Chicago, which was one of the touring stops for the Six tour. Six received three Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Ensemble of a Musical, and Outstanding Music Direction.

Olivier Awards: Six was nominated for five Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, Best Actress in a Supporting Role to its Entire Cast, Outstanding Achievement in Music, Best Choreography, and Best Costume Design.

Tony Awards: Six was nominated for eight Tony Awards, and won two: Best Original Score to Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, and Best Costume Design for a Musical to Gabriella Slade.

Major productions of Six

At this point, Six is basically a worldwide phenomenon with another production in the West End, as well as touring companies that are traveling through UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and across North America. Six is even available on the high seas, as Six is also performed on Norwegian Cruise Lines.

Six in the West End: This is the first major production of Six. The show has hopped all around the West End, first starting out at the smallest theatre on the West End, the Arts Theatre. It then moved to the Lyric Theatre and now, Six is running at the Vaudeville Theatre. The same cast that played Six on the UK tour also played the roles on the West End.

Six on Broadway: Taking a page from Six in the UK, the same cast that played the characters in Six's first American tour eventually played the roles on Broadway. Six was supposed to open on Broadway on March 12, 2020. But that same day, Broadway shut down because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Six would not run again until September 17, 2021, as the first new musical to play after the historic 18-month Broadway shutdown.

Six in Australia: Six played at the famed Sydney Opera House in January 2020, which was supposed to be the start of its Australian and New Zealand tour leg. But the Covid-19 pandemic shut those plans down, and Six did not tour Australia until 2021 when the theatres down under reopened.

Fun facts about Six

If you love Six and want to be a part of the Queendom, here's some facts you should know about Six.

When Six premiered on Broadway in 2020, Lucy Moss became the youngest female Broadway director in history (Moss co-directs Six with Jamie Armitage). She was only 26 years old. The previous record holder was Elizabeth Swados, who directed Runaways in 1978 when she was 27 years old.

Six co-writer Toby Marlow sang his own songs onstage in 2019, when he stepped in for the role of Katherine Parr on the West End after the principal Parr actress, Maiya Quansah-Breed, was on vacation and the two standbys were out sick. Talk about "the show must go on!"

Despite being a newer Broadway musical, Six already has a legion of fans. Six fans call themselves the Queendom and regularly show up to Six performances wearing tiaras (and sometimes full replicas of the onstage costumes!) and carrying merch for their favorite queen.

The Six West End cast recorded a cast album for the show, but there is one song missing. It's called "Megasix," a warp-speed mashup of every single song that was sung that evening, and it's usually performed every night at the end of the show.

Six wears its feminism on its green sleeves. Not only does the musical have an all-female cast, but the band playing the music on stage, called the Ladies in Waiting, is also entirely made up of women.

How to get Six tickets

If you love pop divas and want to learn a little something about British herstory, then Six is the show for you. Don your tiaras, grab your girl group, and go see Six on Broadway.

Six tickets are available now. Get tickets to Six on New York Theatre Guide today.

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Welcome to the show, to the histo-remix! The musical Six has taken the world by storm, and its Broadway production won two Tonys. Learn more about this pop musical.

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"Five Top Tips For Co-Writing A Play" is a generally useful guideline to improving at theatrical collaboration.

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. I think collaboration (when done right) makes us all better artists. The mere presence of an extra voice in the process can lead to an end product better than what both parties could have crafted before. And i think a good artists is willing to make that accommodation for the sake of a better outcome

. Co-writing a One Act play in high school helped me realize the value of collaboration in art via seeing it for myself. i understand that some projects are simply done alone, but i'd suggest any artist at least try to collaborate, even if that's just with a scene partner.

. Even the greats such as "William Shakespeare" have co-written many shows.

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With playwriting being seen as a solitary activity, what changes when you form a writing partnership? In this guest post, playwright Tamara von Werthern discusses all she learnt about co-writing for her new play JACKPOT.
It's not always easy to write plays, is it?

You need to come up with an interesting story, invent characters, write scenes, keep the storyline in mind, write more scenes, make your characters believable and bring them to life and then, you guessed it, write more scenes. And when you finished the first draft you need to rewrite it and change everything you just did!

Most importantly, throughout this process, you have to keep faith in what you're doing, even if it's just the belief that you will be able to finish the damn thing.

And being a part of a writing partnership, especially in these early stages of development, can be incredibly helpful in keeping the faith going. This is because it's no longer just you believing in and championing the project.

I have always thought of writing as a solitary experience, but since I recently ended up co-writing a piece for the first time, I've had the eye-opening experience of the benefits co-writing can bring to the writing process.

As a converted co-writer, I thought I'd put together some top tips on how to make this process as smooth as possible:

1- Pick your partner wisely

My co-writing partner was an old friend, Jack Hughes. We had been working together for years but never written together. The play we ended up creating, JACKPOT, was born like most good things are - at a night out in a pub.

Jack and I were talking about a number of things, including our frustration at a whole generation being priced out of London and home ownership becoming a distant dream. So we had the same thought all playwrights do: "You know what we should do? We should write about that."

Co-writing was great: it took a lot of the doubt out of the equation and gave both of us a structure to work with. If you know that your writing partner is waiting for the next scene, it gives you a certain drive to keep going.

But as much as I enjoyed co-writing, that isn't to say I would be able to co-write with everyone and anyone. It's not always easy to find someone whose thinking gels enough with your own to make a coherent whole.

You want to avoid ending up with a Frankenstein-type script, so you need to choose someone who writes both in a similar style to you and also uses the same process.

2- Keep communicating

Jack started off the writing on the tube on his way home, and presented me the next morning with the first building block and the first two characters, Sarah and Hal.

He sent me three pages of dialogue and I took it from there. I wrote another three pages and sent it back to him. Then he picked off where I had left it and then we played ping pong across London, writing alongside both raising our young families.

Though we barely met, we spoke by phone and by email, ensuring we were still on the same page (even if we were writing different ones...) and it gave us a chance to raise any concerns before either one of us had got too far with our writing.

3- Remember it's a partnership

The difficult thing was the editing. If you write by yourself and you're not happy with a phrase or a paragraph, you cut it. You don't have to consult with anyone, you are solely responsible for the outcome and you're not accountable to anyone. This changes when you collaborate. You can't simply take something out if you don't like it.

But also don't be afraid to raise something you want to change with your writing partner. And don't be offended if they want to debate something you have written. Feedback is one of the main benefits of co-writing, so make use of it!

4- Try to hear the play out loud

This goes for any production, but the danger of co-writing is that you both become so immersed in the world of the play that neither of you can see the bits that don't quite make sense.

Try and secure a reading to introduce another voice into your partnership - it'll show you things you had both become oblivious to.

We were incredibly lucky to be offered support from London College of Music (LCM) with the development. They were looking for new writing to work on with their students, so I sent the play in and we got the gig.

It was for a week's development work with third year acting students and a public reading at the end. I asked Lily McLeish, who had directed my previous play, THE WHITE BIKE, and she was happy to be involved with the process.

We were also lucky to receive Arts Council Funding, which allowed both Jack and myself to take time off work and actually be in the room together for the first time. Finally working on the piece face-to-face was amazing.

During that week we found time to explore the world of the play with the actors, do detailed questioning of the script and write up all the facts and questions arising from it. We drew connections we hadn't seen before and dared to make the piece even darker and funnier than it had been before.

Remember that co-writing doesn't mean the script has to involve just you and your writing partner(s). Don't be afraid to widen the collaboration, which leads us nicely onto...

5- Get feedback outside of each other

At the reading, we left feedback forms for the audience and received twenty-seven filled out forms at the end of the night. Twenty-seven! All of them said they would love to see it in a full production and all of them had useful and concise feedback on what was not yet clear to them in the script.

This feedback fed back into our next round of rewrites, getting us ready to present the finished play in a final public reading.

But how do I find a co-writer?

Hopefully this has got you thinking that co-writing sounds great. But you may not be sure where to begin finding a co-writer. You could advertise on platforms like London Playwrights' Blog , or you could join a writing group or workshop and find someone you work well with there. Or, like me, consider ringing up an old friend. I can really recommend it!
A public reading of JACKPOT, a pitch black comedy about the housing crisis, will take place at The Hackney Attic on 24 January. You can get tickets .

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With playwriting being seen as a solitary activity, what changes when you form a writing partnership? In this guest post, playwright Tamara von Werthern discusses all she learnt about co-writing for her new play JACKPOT. It's not always easy to write plays, is it?

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- FootInTheDoor theatre is a student organization i'm currently involved in.

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. As a theatre student I obviously try and find as many ways as possible to apply my theatre knowledge to life. This manifests itself in auditions for theatre-based student orgs, going out of my way to take other core classes that could become relevant to my work, and me writing my own playscripts.

. Especially on the playwriting side of things, high school gave me many opportunities to apply my work. Over the course of school i had five of my original shows put on for an audience, and one of them i co-wrote. This gave me my first major opportunity to expierence collaboration in the writing side of the theatre world, and that is part of how i know it's what i want to do for a living. I think collaboration makes me a better artist.

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Discover unique opportunities at HornsLink! Find and attend events, browse and join organizations, and showcase your involvement.

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. My primary drive to pursue a career in theatre arts mainly derives from my overwhelmingly positive past expierence. All throughout high school I acted in shows, sang in musicals and even won awards at UIL OAP. My high school also provided me with plenty of opportunities to write play scripts and have the shows put on. Both of which cultivated in my love for Acting and Playwriting.

. Outside of writing, i've had plenty of opportunities to perform in musicals. I was in choir ever since middle school, and my growing love for singing massively influenced my choice to follow a career involving musical theatre specifically.

. I was in a production of "Carmen" in 2018.

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Westlake High School - An Eanes ISD high school (Grades 9-12) located in Austin, Texas.

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Westlake High School is a comprehensive, four-year public high school where the curriculum is primarily college preparatory.