Emerging Artist Grant
by Angus Maclachlan

Emerging Artist Grant Book Cover — Emerging Artist Grant Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: Ethan, a successful independent filmmaker, is sweating over casting his newest project in his hometown of Winston-Salem when Spencer, a newly-minted adjunct theatre professor, auditions for the lead.

Their mutual attraction is immediate, and they start a charming and amusing dance of personal and professional, eroticism.

Ethan’s smart and witty older sister, Liz, is thrown into the mix.

She supports herself as a hairdresser; her acting career, and her hopes, have derailed a bit with time.

A subtly comedic story set in the creative world, EMERGING ARTIST GRANT explores how we struggle to make something of our lives, and it questions the moral crises we encounter when trying for our dreams.

Press Reviews

"Clearly, this tale of an independent filmmaker’s intuitive (and, at times, seemingly quixotic) attempts to initiate a new project has the ring of authenticity to it…[A] witty play [and] something of a master class in artistic self-appraisal and survival for those involved in theater and film…the questions of how many interpersonal boundaries are transgressed…remain up in the air until the end."
— Indy Week