Madeleine George: An Award Winning Playwright's Play Comes to Pittsburgh!

 ”Bold, thoughtful, and incredibly beautiful.” – CurtainUp
The play of an award-winning playwright comes to town!  Madeleine George, a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a founding member of the Obie-winning playwrights’ collective 13P, has written plays that have been produced at theaters across the county.   Beginning October 25th, you can enjoy her play “The Zero Hour” at a local theater in Carnegie, just 6 miles from downtown Pittsburgh.

The Zero Hour, her contribution to 13P, will run from October 25, 2013 through November 9, 2013.  The Zero Hour is a drama about Rebecca and her chronically unemployed girlfriend, and how domestic bliss can start to slip away when unexamined emotions come into play.  Charming Nazis, family ghosts, you just don’t know what to expect when you’re hiding truth that just might devastate the people you love. Click here for tickets.

About Madeleine George (Playwright):  Madeleine George has been a member of New Dramatists since 2010. Her plays, including The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, Precious Little, and The Zero Hour, have been produced and developed by Playwrights Horizons, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep and Shotgun Players in Berkeley, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, About Face Theatre in Chicago, Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, among other places. She has received a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and the Jane Chambers Award, as well as commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, and Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Seven Homeless Mammoths... was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award; The Zero Hour was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.  Madeleine is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Lark Playwrights' Workshop, and a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.). She grew up in Western Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn.

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