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FEATURE STORY

SB Magazine: Erik Champney: Person of Interest (“The way to hone your talent is by actually doing.” Erik Champney, 2022)

THE ADVENTURES OF SCAMP

The Shreveport Times: Review | Scamp Howls With Enthusiasm (“It was written by 16-year-old Erik Champney, who serves notice that he’s a budding young playwright to watch.”)

The Shreveport Times: 16-Year-Olds Write, Star in Peter Pan Players’ Season Opener (“When I was a kid, I didn’t want toys, I wanted books. Dad remembers one day when he spent about 12 hours reading to me.”)

BLANKETS AND BEDTIME: 3 RESTLESS PLAYS

Broadway World: Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Announces 2016 Award Winners (Outstanding Overall Production of an Evening of One-Acts; Outstanding Direction of a One-Act; Outstanding Lead Actor in a One-Act)

Oggi Magazine: Italian Article by Mario Fratti

TheaterScene: Review (“Mr. Champney’s dialogue is searing, insightful and believable.”)

Theater in the Now: Review | Dangerous Games (“They say it's always good leaving your audience wanting more. Erik Champney did that.”)

Broadway World: Blankets and Bedtime Begins at Planet Connections (“Erik Champney looks at the extremes people will go to in the name of self-preservation.”)

CRAB ON ITS BACK

Broadway World: PTP/NYC's After Dark Series Begins Tonight with Crab on Its Back

DEAD BRAINS

Playbill: Off-Broadway Revival of Psychosexual Thriller Dead Brains Begins January 17

Playbill: Revival of Psychosexual Thriller Dead Brains Extends Off-Broadway

The Village Sun: Review | ‘Dead Brains,’ Art World Angst, Fine Acting at Former Pyramid Club (“The reason to see this show is the acting, under the skilled guidance of playwright-director Champney.”)

Lavender After Dark: Review | Dead Brains: An Immersive Psychological Thriller in NYC! (“The psychological tension almost becomes unbearable.”)

Theater Pizzazz: Review (“A theatre experience that reaches far beyond the fourth wall of the stage and spills out through the venue and onto the street.”)

Broadway World: Photos: Baker Falls and Knitting Factory Present Site-Specific Revival of Dead Brains

Medium: Dead Brains: Interview with Playwright Erik Champney (“The rejection of conventional storytelling can make a thriller much creepier and more surprising.”)

Theater Mania: Thriller Dead Brains Returns in a Site-Specific Staging

Theater Pizzazz: Baker Falls and Knitting Factory Present a Site-Specific Revival of Dead Brains, A Psychosexual Thriller Written and Directed by Erik Champney

Broadway World: Site-Specific Production Dead Brains: A Psychosexual Thriller Opens This Month

Everything Immersive: Dead Brains: A Psychosexual Thriller

Broadway World: Planet Connections Announce Award Winners (Outstanding Overall Production of a Play; Outstanding Playwriting)

Arts Independent: Review | Masterpiece (“Once finished with the show…you’re speechless, you’re in utter awe, and you’re even starstruck…This show is absolutely a work of art.”)

Outer-Stage: Review | Head Games (“It helps you to understand abuse in a way I have not seen before.”)

Showtones: Review | Stalking Dead: Dead Brains (“Exciting, scary, and twisted. This play is ripe for HBO.”)

Outer-Stage: #tenthplanet: Erik Champney (“I hope audiences will leave Dead Brains with a new understanding of how to look at art for art’s sake…even when its creation is a violent, painful, pulverizing process.“)

Review Fix: Erik Champney Talks Dead Brains (“I believe this kind of diversity is possible due to my openness to the characters and a careful understanding that I didn’t choose them – they chose me.”)

Arts Independent: Artist Spotlight: Broadway Producer, Jim Kierstead (“Theatre does not need to be glamorous or extremely expensive…it only needs to be top quality.”)

Review Fix: Jim Kierstead Talks Dead Brains (“I expect that Dead Brains will have the audience sitting on the edge of their seats…Oh…did I mention it’s extremely sexy?”)

Broadway World: Broadway Producer Jim Kierstead Invites You to an Erotic Game of Cat & Mouse

Time Out: Planet Connections (“Erik Champney’s sexual thriller Dead Brains.”)

Review Rag: Review | Seattle Fringe Festival (“Exiting the theater, the crowd around me was buzzing either with talk of the play’s brilliance or their own violent distaste.”)

FIEVEL DRIDGE, THE GREAT ORATOR OF FISHINGSTILL

Outer-Stage: “But They’re Comedies” — Interview with Erik Champney and Gabrielle Fox

Broadway World: Cast Chosen for Planet Connections Rep of Plays

Broadway World: Planet Connections Announces Ten Dark Ditties

Broadway World: DARK PLANET: Not Your Mother's Valentine's Day Comes to the 14th Street Y Theatre

LEGACY

La MaMa: La MaMa Umbria Playwright Retreat Alumni Readings

OH NO! OR HOW MY SCIENCE PROJECT DESTROYED THE WORLD

Bossier Creates: ArtBreak Celebrates 30 Years of the Arts in Caddo and Bossier Schools

OMEN ROAD TO STARRVILLE

Dartmouth College: Neukom Institute Announces 2021 Playwriting Shortlist

Mail Tribune: ANPF Selects Four Works for Fall Festival (Finalist)

La MaMa: Experiments 17: Omen Road to Starrville

ONE MORE TIME: A LIFE OF DANCE & THEATRE WITH GINGER DARNELL FOLMER

SB Magazine: Arts & Culture: Ginger Folmer

Centenary College of Louisiana: One Night Only Event to Honor Centenary Professor Emerita Ginger Folmer

KTBS Channel 3/ABC: Ginger Folmer Event

PANGAEA

Above the Stag Theatre: archived documentation of Above the Stag Theatre’s rehearsed reading of Pangaea.

Broadway World: 2017 Planet Connections Awards (Outstanding Playwriting)

Broadway World: Pangaea to Open Planet Connections Staged Reading Series ("Erik's writing exposes the anxiety and defense people experience when they are desperate for connection.")

Shreveport Times: Double Duty: Centenary Student Has Dual Roles in Marjorie Lyons Production

The Forum: Premiere: Pangaea Makes Its Debut at Centenary College (“When I got out of my own way, or pretty much got over myself, I realized that I’m having the opportunity to walk around in this world I created.”)

Shreveport Blog: Premier of Pangaea, Drama Written by Student Erik Champney, to Be Directed by Ryan Williams at MLP (“Pangaea explores the perils of depending on another person for individual identity and the terrifying journey back to who we really are.”)

SAITAMA 埼玉

TheaterScene: Review (“Champney’s precise, detailed and effective writing finely renders this historical subject matter.”)

Theater in the Now: Review | Dangerous Games (“It’s a mesmerizing story that seldom gets a place on the stage.”)

THE SCREENS

Theater in the Now: Review | Dangerous Games (“A heartbreaking tale with tinges of surrealism…poetic text…fascinating.”)

TheaterScene: Review (“It recalls Tennessee Williams’ later work.”)

Colorado Springs Independent: Review | Funky Little Theater Fest Focuses on All Families (“Erik Champney’s The Screens is a tragic love story told in exquisite detail.”)

Broadway World: Funky Little Theater Company to Present [spectrum: lgbt new play festival]

South Bend Tribune: New Plays Fest at Acting Ensemble

The Three Leaches: 2014 Fundraiser (featuring The Screens)

My Edmonds News: Artfully Edmonds: Driftwood’s ‘Festival of Shorts’ Premieres This Weekend

Centenary College of Louisiana: Centenary Alumnus Produces Off Broadway play (“Years after his time at Centenary and in the midst of much accomplishment, Champney still insists, ‘Centenary will always be fundamental to my writing. Always.’”)

The Columbus Dispatch: Review | ‘Theatre Roulette’: MadLab’s Picks Are All Winners (“Surprisingly touching.”)

Broadway World: Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at MadLab's THEATRE ROULETTE 2014

Broadway World: MadLab Theatre to Kick Off THEATRE ROULETTE 2014

SEVA MAY: ON MY OWN

SB Magazine: Leading Lady Seva May

SB Magazine: SLT — Seva May: On My Own

KSLA News 12: Seva May Returns to the Stage of Shreveport Little Theatre in New Musical

KTBS 3: Seva May Returns to Shreveport Little Theatre

KTBS 3: The Grand Dame of Shreveport Theatre

SNAKE

T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre: Online Program

SPARKLER

Broadway World: Wake Up With BWW 3/28: BEETLEJUICE Begins Previews & More!

Broadway.com: Odds & Ends: Billy Porter to Direct World Premiere Play in Boston & More

Playbill: Alan Cumming, Garrett Clayton, Erich Bergen, Christy Altomare to Lead Reading of New Play Sparkler

Theater Mania: Alan Cumming, Christy Altomare, and More Set for Reading of Sparkler

Broadway World: Alan Cumming, Christy Altomare, and More to Star in Industry Reading of Sparkler

TheaterScene: Review (for the workshop of the half-hour one-act version of Sparkler — “A high compliment to pay to a one-act play is that it is so good that one wishes it were a full-length one. Such is the case with Sparkler. )

Theater in the Now: Review | Dangerous Games (for the workshop of the half-hour one-act version of Sparkler — “Sparkler is triumphant.”)

TUESDAY

New Haven Independent: Film Fest Brings Tri-State Talent To Audubon St.