Humana Festival 2011: 'A Devil at Noon'

“A Devil at Noon” by Anne Washburn opens the Humana Festival 2011 at Actors Theatre Louisville. The play, the first by Washburn to be produced in the Humana Festival, runs in repertory with five other full-length works from March 2 through April 3, 2011.

“A Devil at Noon” is an experimental play that centers on Chet, who writes science-fiction and for whom the real world and the imaginary one begin to intersect in powerful – and perhaps dangerous – ways.

The production is directed by Steve Cosson, artistic director for The Civilians, a theater group based in New York that is dedicated to developing and producing new theater.

Washburn, a founding member of The Civilians, is currently commissioned by that group, as well as by Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep and Yale Repertory Theatre. She is a member of 13P, an associated artist with New Georges and an alumna of New Dramatists. She developed “A Devil at Noon” with support from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference of 2010.

The monthlong Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville is a nationally renowned theater festival that has introduced more than 400 plays into the repertoire. Three Humana Festival plays have won the Pulitzer Prize. The festival is underwritten by the Humana Foundation.

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