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    BEN: Today Grace and I Are Here To Present The Washington Area Theatre

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    Seminar by Theresa Rebeck is nominated for Best Play at the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors. The play tells the story of four young fiction writers struggling in their New York City creative writing seminar under the pressure of their harsh and crude teacher, Leonard. It explores the boundaries they are willing to cross to advance their careers. The actors are praised for their believable portrayals of the flawed characters, such as Alexander Strain's likable but horrible Martin. Theresa Rebeck accepts the award for Best Play, thanking the director and others involved in bringing the production to life.

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    Seminar by Theresa Rebeck is nominated for Best Play at the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors. The play tells the story of four young fiction writers struggling in their New York City creative writing seminar under the pressure of their harsh and crude teacher, Leonard. It explores the boundaries they are willing to cross to advance their careers. The actors are praised for their believable portrayals of the flawed characters, such as Alexander Strain's likable but horrible Martin. Theresa Rebeck accepts the award for Best Play, thanking the director and others involved in bringing the production to life.

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    Seminar by Theresa Rebeck is nominated for Best Play at the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors. The play tells the story of four young fiction writers struggling in their New York City creative writing seminar under the pressure of their harsh and crude teacher, Leonard. It explores the boundaries they are willing to cross to advance their careers. The actors are praised for their believable portrayals of the flawed characters, such as Alexander Strain's likable but horrible Martin. Theresa Rebeck accepts the award for Best Play, thanking the director and others involved in bringing the production to life.

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    BEN: Today Grace and I Are Here To Present The Washington Area Theatre

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    BEN: Today Grace and I are here to present the Washington Area Theatre
    Community Honors for Best Play. Our last nominee is Seminar by Theresa
    Rebeck. Rebeck has written many other plays, including her new play Fools,
    which premiered earlier this year. Rebeck won a Pulitzer in 2003 for her play
    Ominum Gatherum. As its name suggests, Seminar tells the story of four young
    fiction writers floundering in their New York City creative writing seminar under
    the added pressure of harsh competition and Leonard, their outlandishly crude
    and ruthless teacher. They learn about the world of writing, and test what they
    are personally willing to do in order to get ahead.
    GRACE: Set in the young student Kates Upper West Side apartment, each of
    the classes are connected with interactions and, more often than not, conflicts
    between uptight Kate, her friend from high school and roommate Martin, Izzy the
    lusty nymphomaniac and Douglas, the pretentious man with a last name famous
    in the writing community. Each session the class discusses the work of one
    student, with Leonards unorthodox, blatant rudeness driving Kate and Douglas
    to reconsider how they want to make it to the top. Meanwhile, Kate expresses
    her disapproval of Izzys method to gain validation from Leonard: sex.
    BEN: The actors do a wonderful job of portraying their characters and all of their
    quirks and flaws. Alexander Strain, who plays Martin, manages to be both likable
    and horrible to his peers at the same time, and creates very believable
    connections with other actors. Laura C. Harris explores the boundaries of acting
    through her uncomfortably realistic depiction of sensual acts as Izzy. Katy
    DeBuys stands out with her over-the-top facial expressions and body language
    as Kate. Tom Story does a wonderful job of portraying the pretentious Douglas,
    creating a character the audience slowly grows attached to while still maintaining
    an air of charming superiority.
    GRACE: And the WATCH goes to.. Seminar by Theresa Rebeck!!
    Theresa Rebeck: Ohmygosh wow I dont even know what to say (etc)there have
    been so many incredible people working to make Seminar the show that it is.
    First of course Jerry Whiddon for being such an amazing director and bringing

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