MTC's New Works Night Introduces Playwrights

Metro Theater Company brought three talented playwrights to the attention of the public during its New Works Night in October.

The event was held in Johnson Hall at Third Baptist Church in the Grand Center arts and entertainment district of St. Louis in front of an enthusiastic audience.

Pictured at right are Pat Corrigan, Mariah Richardson and Patricia Zimmer. The three writers were the focus of New Works Night.

Corrigan is the playwright behind Moby, a play based on Moby Dick that will be presented by Metro Theater Company in April. Richardson has created a piece called Delilah's Wish about a young girl from North St. Louis who copes with some of life's most difficult struggles with wit and wisdom beyond her years. Zimmer is developing a play about the 1930s sharecroppers' strike that rattled the Missouri Bootheel.

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