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In the annual Plays in Bloom Residency, ��С��һФһ�������� students and recent alums collaborate with guest professional playwrights in a week-long development of a full-length play and participate in a festival of short new plays written by student and alum playwrights. The staged readings of each of these plays are a chance for general audiences to respond to the plays-in-progress. Each reading will include a guided post-play discussion about the plays. 

This year's residency will run Monday, May 13 through Sunday, May 19, 2024, with a public reading on Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 3:00pm at The Greenly Center in downtown ��С��һФһ��������. The focus of this year's residency is The Wanting Forest, a play with music, by Monica Flory. The Wandering Forest tells the tale of a mother and a daughter at the crossroads of growing up, new journeys, sailing on, and finding hope. 

Guest Professional Playwright for Plays in Bloom Residency 2024

Monica Flory is a playwright, director, and educator. She is passionate about coming-of-age stories, mother-daughter tales, and femme-forward versions of classic works. She was thrilled to workshop Taking Space at ��С��һФһ�������� in 2022. Her adaptation of The Jungle Book, first directed by David A. Miller and published by Playscripts, has had over 300 productions worldwide. The New York Times called it “scrupulously faithful to Rudyard Kipling and completely original in its approach.”

Monica’s recent directing includes Lost Girl by Kimberly Belflower, Boundless by Mary Fishburne, Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, and Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka, all for Ghostlight in Maine. She is an education consultant for Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., and PennLive Arts at U Penn in Philadelphia. She is a member of The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn and of The Dramatists Guild. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.  

Plays in Bloom: A New Play Development Program at CU-��С��һФһ��������

To learn more about Plays in Bloom, visit /plays-in-bloom.