Brian Otaño (Photo – Gabriel Goldberg)
IAMA Theatre Company has selected its own ensemble member Brian Otaño as the 2024 recipient of the company’s Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission.
By News Desk
Now in its seventh year, the annual Rhimes commission, was created to help grow and nourish budding playwrights and artists, with an emphasis on cultural inclusion, and to showcase fresh, creative, thought-provoking work. The award is named for and sponsored by writer and producer Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Inventing Anna).
“We’re so lucky to be able to extend this opportunity to a writer from our ensemble for the first time,” says IAMA artistic director Stefanie Black. We’ve been invested in Brian’s work for years, helping early on to develop his ambitious Dooley Street Trilogy. We can’t wait to see what he’s been dreaming up next that we can build from the ground up together.”
Brian Otaño
A Brooklyn-born playwright and screenwriter, Otaño’s full-length plays include Dolores Slayborne: A Grand Guignol Drag Fantasia, Under Normal Circumstances, The Dust, Tara, Zero Feet Away and The Dooley Street Trilogy. In television, Otaño served as writer-producer for The Horror of Dolores Roach. Other TV credits include Goosebumps: Gravesend (upcoming) and the first season of Cruel Summer. He currently lives in L.A., where he is an IAMA Theatre Company member playwright.
IAMA has been dedicated to developing new plays and musicals by emerging and established playwrights since 2007.
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