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Playwrights Foundation presents a public reading of Resident Playwright Leigh M. Marshall's THE STARMAKER. 

ABOUT THE PLAY: Rosaline, an executive at a major music label, is on the brink of her biggest hit yet with two trap stars on her professional roster. After one of them falls in love with her, she discovers their fresh fame has morphed into a fentanyl addiction, and she makes it her mission to save their lives. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet’s fatal romance and the real-world opioid crisis in the music industry, The Starmaker is a music-infused tragedy of pleasure-seeking and comedy of pain-killing.  

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Leigh M. Marshall (she/her) is a multidisciplinary writer/performer and the Theater & Film Editor online for BOMB Magazine. Her plays have been selected for the Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (FAME HEAUX), the Examined Life Conference (LATERALITY), the G&PS Government Research Award, the Prairie Lights/International Writing Program Reading Series (MARAT’S DEAD), the Jumpstarting Tomorrow Award, the Epic Mega Grant from Unreal Engine, Live Design International, and the Prague Quadrennial (MEDIA CLOWN). She trained in classical acting at American Conservatory Theater and has performed at Arena Stage in DC, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Public Theater of New York, New Dramatists, New Conservatory Theatre Center, and elsewhere. BA: Stanford University. MFA: Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

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