Josiah Thomas Turner
Malaina Moore
Watch here live on January 14th at 7:30pm:
We are thrilled to finally be able to announce our Under Construction play and playwright for 2021!
We have selected JOSIAH THOMAS TURNER, a Milwaukee-born playwright, and his play Eliza on the Ice for our upcoming Under Construction Play Development Series.
In Under Construction, we pair playwrights with directors and actors for a workshop process that culminates in a live reading with an audience. This season’s reading, directed by MALAINA MOORE, will be a virtual event streamed live on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:30pm on The Constructivists YouTube Channel. It’s free to the public.
Eliza on the Ice is a psychological thriller set in Slinger, Wisconsin. It's been forty days since Eliza went under. Forty nights since she's seen family, freedom, the light of day. Now today, with a storm on the horizon and time running out, Eliza is determined to make her escape.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Josiah Thomas Turner is a M.F.A. in Playwriting candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Turner received his undergraduate degree in Drama from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. For his first full-length play, Uncle Tom's Nephews, Turner received the 2019 National Undergraduate Playwright Award from the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival and was named runner-up for the Loraine Hansberry Award. The piece was also a semi-finalist for the 2019 Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series. Josiah’s short play, George, Jesse and Mary was named a finalist for the John Cauble Outstanding One-Act Play award. He was also the recipient of the 2019 Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship.
Malaina Moore is a Milwaukee-based actress and playwright. She wrote and starred in the award-winning play White Privilege that premiered on the Marquette University mainstage in 2019. Aside from White Privilege, some of Malaina’s favorite productions have been Stew in the first annual Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival, Crumbs From the Table of Joy with Marquette, and Ellis with Cooperative Performance. Malaina is excited to be working with Josiah and The Constructivists on this development of this new play and is looking forward to many projects in the coming year such as Principle, Principle! at Next Act and seeing her play being performed at Chain Reaction Theatre Company in Minnesota in May of 2021.
If you have any questions about Under Construction, email info@theconstructivists.org