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Ranney Student Participates in Award-Winning Playwriting Program

Freshman Mari Patient (Oceanport, NJ) was among eight young playwrights honored by the Monmouth County Arts Council on May 15, 2014, during a ceremony held at the Monmouth Museum. After being interviewed and selected from among nearly 100 students across New Jersey earlier this year, she and seven other young playwrights were given the opportunity to participate in a two-month long playwriting workshop taught by Monmouth University Professor Joel Stone.

As part of the workshop, held on Saturdays, students had to create pieces based on events surrounding Hurricane Sandy; the plays were then performed by professional actors from the New Jersey Repertory Company Theatre, located in Long Branch, in late March. Mari’s play “Flesh, Blood and Ice” revolved around a small family owned diner preparing for the storm and the larger issues surrounding the running of a family business.

The New Jersey Repertory Company is a professional, nonprofit theater founded in 1997 by Suzanne and Gabor Barabas, the grandparents of Ranney alum Benjamin Puvalowski ‘13. The theater’s primary mission is to develop and produce new plays and to make a lasting contribution to the American stage. The company also received an award from the Monmouth County Arts Council on May 15—the Community Arts Education Leadership Award, given for its Young Playwrights Program.

A new student at Ranney this year, Mari has already showcased her talents both on and behind the stage as part of the school’s costume crew in “Our Town” and as an actress in “The Threepenney Opera.” View Mari, and her peers from the cast of “Threepenny,” in this behind-the-scenes video.
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