PULP VÉRITÉ

by Crystal Skillman

Playwrights Center March 3rd 2021. Joy is an active member of the filmmaking collective Pulp Vérité when she is captured and held overseas for years until she escapes to the United States for the impossible: to bring her sister who is still a captive with ISIS home. "Pulp Vérité owns the naiveté of these young American filmmakers; with all we are currently politically facing, Pulp Vérité is a race against time."

Playwrights Center March 3rd 2021. Joy is an active member of the filmmaking collective Pulp Vérité when she is captured and held overseas for years until she escapes to the United States for the impossible: to bring her sister who is still a captive with ISIS home. "Pulp Vérité owns the naiveté of these young American filmmakers; with all we are currently politically facing, Pulp Vérité is a race against time."

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PULP VÉRITÉ

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  • Cheryl Bear: PULP VÉRITÉ

    Excellent insight into the world we live in as journalists and filmmakers fight to bring a better world as we cope with brutality and trauma. Well done.

    Excellent insight into the world we live in as journalists and filmmakers fight to bring a better world as we cope with brutality and trauma. Well done.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: PULP VÉRITÉ

    LOVE this fabulously theatrical play about the ways in which we are all complicit in the bloodshed in the Middle East. Skillman skillfully provides the artists' point of view, the desire to expose the truth, and then she complicates this with reality (in particular the reality of media). A very moving story of love, trauma and loss that can touch all of us and help us to face how we continue to allow our country to foment and perpetuate heinous crimes for our comforts. Beautifully done!

    LOVE this fabulously theatrical play about the ways in which we are all complicit in the bloodshed in the Middle East. Skillman skillfully provides the artists' point of view, the desire to expose the truth, and then she complicates this with reality (in particular the reality of media). A very moving story of love, trauma and loss that can touch all of us and help us to face how we continue to allow our country to foment and perpetuate heinous crimes for our comforts. Beautifully done!

  • Aaron Coleman: PULP VÉRITÉ

    A timely, thrilling piece that gives an unwavering look at how conflicts in the Middle East trickle down to American lives today. It is a deft exploration on how youthful ideologies yearn to create a better world, but invariably face high-stakes challenges. It also shows how media--in this case filmmaking--influences the narrative, and how the result may be searingly unexpected. A great play for an ensemble cast looking to dig into rich material.

    A timely, thrilling piece that gives an unwavering look at how conflicts in the Middle East trickle down to American lives today. It is a deft exploration on how youthful ideologies yearn to create a better world, but invariably face high-stakes challenges. It also shows how media--in this case filmmaking--influences the narrative, and how the result may be searingly unexpected. A great play for an ensemble cast looking to dig into rich material.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Playwrights Center - Core Member Workshop - Intimate Sharing , Year 2022
  • Type Reading, Organization Playwrights Center - Ruth Easton Series , Year 2021
  • Type Workshop, Organization The Workshop Theater- NYC - Upcoming March , Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Urban Stages , Year 2019
  • Type Residency, Organization Town Stages Fellowship Workshop , Year 2018
  • Type Workshop, Organization Playwrights Foundation , Year 2018
  • Type Reading, Organization Cherry Lane Theater , Year 2017
  • Type Workshop, Organization Judson Church Magic Time Series, Year 2017
  • Type Reading, Organization Project Y Theatre Company , Year 2016
  • Type Reading, Organization Lark Theater , Year 2016
  • Type Commission, Organization Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission , Year 2015

Production History

  • Type University, Organization Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute , Year 2015

Awards

  • 2019 KILROYS LIST
    The Kilroys
    Honorable Mention
    2019
  • Playwright in Residence
    MSU
    2019
  • Seven Devils ​Playwrights Conference
    Id Theater
    Semi-Finalist
    2018
  • Space at Ryder Farm
    Space at Ryder Farm
    Finalist
    2018
  • O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
    Semi-Finalist
    2018
  • Last Frontier Theatre Conference
    Last Frontier Theatre
    Selection
    2018
  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival
    Bay Area Playwrights Foundation
    Finalist
    2018