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RAIN AND ZOE SAVE THE WORLD
Written by Crystal Skillman
Directed by Christopher James Raymond

Two Seattle teenagers embark on an impulsive motorcycle journey to join a group of oil protesters on the east coast.

Writer Bio
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN is an award winning dramatist. Her plays include Geek and Cut (NYTimes Critics Picks), as well as Pulp Vérité (Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, 2018 Last Frontier Theatre Conference Selection), and Rain and Zoe Save the World, announced as the winning script for the 2018 Earth Matters On Stage (EMOS) New Play Competition. Crystal is the musical theater bookwriter of Mary and Max (with composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin, adapted from the animated film by Adam Elliot). She is also the book writer of  Postcard American Town (composer/lyricist Lynne Shankel), just selected for the 2018 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Mary and Max was just anounced as the winner of Journalist Prizefor the 2018 MUT Awards, recently featured in American Theater magazine for its Pace New Musicals production, and announced for Theater Calgary’s upcoming season where the musical will be directed by Stafford Arima opening this fall. Crystal’s play King Kirby, co-written with her husband writer Fred Van Lente (about the comic book artist Jack Kirby) was a NYT Critics Pick, and Geek!, after premiering in New York, has received several independent productions around the world, and its high school version has been put on at numerous high schools. Her comic book and TV work includes: Eat Fighter, also written with Fred Van Lente, coming out on Line Web Toon this fall, the original pilot Paper Heroes (named one of the top three pilots by in the 2017 Final Draft’s Big Break contest, a finalist for the 2018 Orchard Project Episodic Lab, and one of the top fifty in the 2017 Launchpad Pilots competition.) She has written for “Adventure Time” comics (BOOM! Studios), and contributed to Marvel’s “Fantastic Four”, and “Slapstick” series. Other Awards/Commissions include: New York  Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Play (Vigil), Calgary Critter Award Nomination (King Kirby), and two EST/Sloan commissions.

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