Six Points Theater Hires Playwright to be

Director of Wellsprings and New Play Development​

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St. Paul, Minn. – Playwright Andrew Rosendorf has been named Director of Wellsprings and New Play Development at Six Points Theater.

 

Rosendorf’s work has been produced or developed at La Jolla Playhouse, California; MCC Theater, New York; Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Kansas City Repertory Theatre, MO; Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA; Florida Stage, West Palm Beach; National New Play Network, Washington, DC; Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City, MO; American Theater Company, Chicago; Nashville Repertory Theatre; City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh; Geva Theatre, Rochester, N.Y.; Actor’s Express Theatre, Atlanta; Curious Theatre Company, Denver; and Local Theater Company, Boulder.

 

“I’m so happy to welcome Andrew to our staff,” said Producing Artistic Director Barbara Brooks. “He brings not only his voice as a playwright, but also knowledge of new play work through involvement with the National New Play Network, Playwrights' Center, and programs around the country.”

 

The Wellsprings program began in 2002 to advance Six Points Theater’s mission by developing new plays that look at life through a Jewish lens and that reveal the common threads of humanity.

 

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He received his BA in Theatre from William & Mary College and his MFA in Playwriting from The New School for Drama.

 

While at William & Mary, one of his undergrad professors had his students write a short play as the final exam. A few weeks after turning it in the professor pulled him into his office and said: “I read your play. If you take it seriously, I think you could have a career at it.”

 

“While I didn’t immediately focus on writing after this,” Rosendorf said, “the comment never left me and helped push me to pursue writing.”

 

He has taught at Carleton College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater.

 

Rosendorf is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, (allows productions extra time for the development and rehearsal of new plays); a Venturous Theater Fund Grant, (supports ambitious new work for the stage and the writers who create it); a MAP Fund Grant, (designed to support the work and well-being of performing artists); and a NNPN (National New Play Network) Rolling World Premiere (models a process for developing and producing new plays) for the play REFUGE, which he co-created with Satya Jnani Chávez.

 

He is an alum of the Goodman's Playwrights Unit, (a program in which local writers meet to discuss their plays-in-process); NNPN’s Playwright-in-Residence program, and has been a fellow of SPACE on Ryder Farm, Peach Lake, NY, (creating an environment invigorating artists and innovators and their work, and to contribute to the sustainability and preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast); Tofte Lake Center, Lake County, MN, (envisioning an interconnected world in harmony with nature, where artists are supported and where taking a break is recognized as integral to the creative process); Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst County, VA, (where writers, visual artists, and composers bring forth their finest work); and MacDowell, Peterborough, NH, (artist's residency program where the arts are nurtured).

 

Rosendorf was a previous McKnight and Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center as well as Core Writer.

 

He is an associate artist with Local Theater Company and currently in development on a television pilot with Amblin Entertainment.

 

Now in its 30th year, Six Points Theater was founded in 1994 by Barbara Brooks to engage people of all backgrounds in work rooted in Jewish content, that explores differences, illuminates commonalities and fosters greater understanding among all people. The theater’s work has garnered five Ivey Awards as well as the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council's Arts Achievement Award. 

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