Theatre

Box Step by Seth Kramer

2017 Activate Midwest Festival Winner: BOX STEP by Seth Kramer

August 17, 18, and 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Chicago Dramatists

1105 W Chicago Ave.

Chicago, IL 60642

Tickets: $10 at the door or by calling (269) 387-6222

box step

noun

1. a basic dance step in which the feet move as if forming a square or rectangle.

A simple dance sequence that always returns the dancers back to their home position.

This story is one of loss, rediscovery, and the intricate dance of a family trying to return to one another.

The Activate Midwest New Play Festival, with keynote speaker Charles Smith, was held in June on the campus of Western Michigan University and featured 3 new plays from across the region. Respondents from Stage Left Theatre and Chicago Dramatists chose Seth Kramer’s BOX STEP as the winner of the festival. Western Michigan University Theatre is proud to present this workshop production in support of new play development.

PLAYWRIGHT BIO:

Seth Kramer lives and works as a playwright in Chicago. Before that he lived in New York City for over 15 years. Seth has been honored to receive such playwriting awards as the George R. Kernodle Award, the Kennedy Center’s Award for Playwriting Excellence, the New York Thespian Award, and was a finalist for the Writers Alliance Prize. Seth has also been a three-time finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. In 1999, Mr. Kramer was one of three writers to receive a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and in 2004 his writing was recognized with an award from the Davis Foundation. His screenplay Going to Ground was developed with Wild Bear Films. Mr. Kramer was a finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, and a semi-finalist in the Reader’s Digest Hollywood Screenwriters Contest; his writing has received praise from the Iowa Scriptwriters Alliance. Mr. Kramer’s collection of seven short plays, After the Beep, is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. His plays can also be found in the Dramatic Publishing anthology 25-in-10, and in the Applause Anthology Best Short Plays of 2001. His full-length play Debt, a second collection of short plays titled Special Days, and several stand-alone one-acts, A Relationship-- Abridged, World Without Memory and others are published by Playscripts, Inc. Mr. Kramer is the founder of Word of Mouth Productions, a playwriting workshop that developed new works for hundreds of writers in New York and produced multiple site-specific play productions such as Standing Eight and Swim Shorts.