Tickets, memberships, flex passes, and subscriptions may be purchased online at www.TheatreNOVA.org. Tickets may also be purchased in person one hour before each performance. Seating in the theatre will begin 30 minutes before each performance. There is ample free parking and quick access to the city’s restaurants, bars, bakeries, and coffee shops. New patrons can find Theatre NOVA across Huron Street from Ann Arbor’s YMCA through a parking lot entrance on the north side of the street. For more information, visit www.TheatreNOVA.org.
Theatre NOVA is dedicated to raising awareness of the value and excitement of new plays and new playwrights in a diverse and expanding audience; and providing resources and outlets for playwrights to develop their craft by importing, exporting, and developing new plays and playwrights.
PHOTO: Marie Muhammad, Mike Sandusky, and Darius Franklin in “Mlima’s Tale” by Lynn Nottage, directed by Lynch Travis at Theatre NOVA. Photograph by Sean Carter Photography.
Lynn Nottage (Playwright)
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Ruined” has received an Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre). Other plays include “Intimate Apparel” (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play; Roundabout Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, South Coast Repertory); “Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine” (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons, London’s Tricycle Theatre); “Crumbs From the Table of Joy”; “Las Meninas”; “Mud, River, Stone”; “Por’knockers,” and “Poof!” Nottage is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” the National Black Theatre Festival’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama, and the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, as well as fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, an alumna of New Dramatists, and a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is a visiting lecturer. www.lynnnottage.com
Lynch R. Travis is pleased to return to Theatre Nova, where he previously directed “The Devil’s Music: The Life and Times of Bessie Smith.” He has received theater honors from the Ann Arbor News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Oakland Press, EncoreMichigan, Lansing City Pulse, and the Detroit Theatre Examiner and Subscriber Awards at Performance Network and Detroit Repertory Theatres. Lynch is a Resident Artist at the Purple Rose Theatre and is the PRTC Chief Diversity Enrichment Officer. He also serves as Workshop Director for the Detroit Repertory Theater, is a member of the University of Michigan CRLT Applied Theatre Company, and was the Supervising Director for the 2023 Obsidian Theatre Festival, held in downtown Detroit this June. He has taught Acting and Theater for Ann Arbor Public Schools, Michigan Actors Studio, Mosaic Youth of Detroit, Shakespeare in Detroit, the Vista Maria Residential Program for Girls, and lectured at Wayne State University and Oakland University.
