Alexis Clements

Welcome!

One of my projects currently in development, Typewriter Girls, was featured in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 22 April 2008. You can read the article here. I'll be traveling to St. Louis in late May to do some research, including looking through Margaret Hickey's papers and also meeting alumni of Ms. Hickey's Secretarial School.

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Newly Available

Persistence, a new short story of mine, has just been published in the latest issue of Route, Bonne Route, which you can purchase directly from Route, or on Amazon. The same publisher included another of my stories in the collection mentioned below, Ideas Above Our Station.

Also, in December, my short play, Pieces, was published in the latest issue of KNOCK magazine.

Other Published Work

Ideas Above Our Station was released in the US in 2007 (read the Guardian's review of the collection by clicking here). You can now buy copies on Amazon US and UK, or directly from Route Publishing (UK).

Also, copies of The Final Theory & Other Stories, a short story collection published by Leaf Books and featuring my story, Upside Down, are now available. (Order your copy here or from Amazon (UK).)

The Bookshelf

Currently Reading
Say Uncle, Kay Ryan

On My Night Stand
The latest issue of Hayden's Ferry Review—the Grotesque issue

>>more reading

FUTURE

Fall 2008
I recently found out that I'll be one of the 2008-2010 members of the Women's Project Playwright's Lab. Workshops will start in the fall and I look forward to meeting the rest of the ladies.

PRESENT

Summer 2008
Dance Away Your Debt continues to spread the good word across New York City and beyond throughout the summer at various events where people are dancing. See if you can catch us!

PAST

28 June 2008 &
17 May 2008
The next literary pamphlet and performance from New Acquisition, Dance Away Your Debt, launched during the 2008 Dance Parade here in New York in May, following that we participated in FIGMENT 2008 on Governor's Island. For more information about the project click here. For more information about the Dance Parade, click here and for info about FIGMENT, click here.

18 April 2008, 8pm
Conversation
A workshop production of my latest play, directed by Dyana Kimball, presented by
The Performance Project @ University Settlement, New York, NY 10002
Click here for more information

2 April 2008, 7.30pm
A brief excerpt of my play Conversation was presented as part of the April 7 People - 7 Minutes show at Dixon Place.

11 December 2007
KNOCK magazine held their latest release party for Issue #8 (Hurt on Purpose) which features my play Pieces. You can purchase copies of the issue by visiting their website.

24 September 2007
An excerpt from Conversation was read at the Dramatists Guild's 2007 Fellows Showcase.

6-16 September 2007
Two performance/installation pieces were produced in association with the launch of my latest literary project, New Acquisition. The first took place from 6-8 September at the 217 East 42nd Street Chashama space in New York and the second was part of the One Million Forgotten Moments project which ran in downtown Manhattan from 12-16 September. Read more about the pieces here.

4 April 2007
With the help of director Dyana Kimball, my latest piece for the theatre (still in development), Conversation, received a preliminary reading/performance at the Emerging Artists Theatre in New York City, as part of their One Woman Standing Festival, taking place from April 2-28. The reading will take place at 9:00pm. Will post more details when available.

15 March 2007
The Abingdon Theatre in New York City did a reading of Causality as part of their First Reading Series.

22 February 2007
My short piece, Three Choices, a winner of the The Pomegranate Theatre's (Chesterfield, UK) New Playwriting Festival, was performed as a warm-up for their production of Art by Yasmina Reza.

19-27 January 2007
Causality received its first production at the Oglebay Institute's Towngate Theater in Wheeling, West Virginia, having won their 2006 National Playwriting Contest.

Read more here.

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