Cherry Street Open House
Tuesday, January 25th from 4-6pm
Fourth Floor Rehearsal Room
The Open House is an opportunity to see our performance and rehearsal spaces, meet the instructors and some of the other parents and students, and ask any other questions about the program that you may have.

Learn More About Cherry Street Players

Men on Boats
​by Jaclyn Backhaus
Studio Theater
January 28, 29, February 4, 5, 11, 12 at 7:30pm
January 30, February 6, 13 at 2:00pm

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Meet award-winning playwright, Jaclyn Backhaus at the show on January 28th!
​Sign up for Jaclyn's Playwriting Masterclass on January 29th!

​Attend a Free Playwriting Masterclass with Jaclyn Backhaus!

Join BHCT on Saturday, January 29th from 1-4pm for a FREE Playwriting Masterclass with award winning playwright, Jaclyn Backhaus! Jaclyn will discuss the art of dramatic writing while giving you the tools to begin (or continue) your own playwriting journey. No experience required. 

This workshop will be capped at 25 participants. Please sign up here. 

Jaclyn Backhaus

Playwright

Jaclyn Backhaus is a playwright, cofounder of Fresh Ground Pepper, and new member of The Kilroys. Her plays include Men On Boats (New York Times Critics’ Pick, Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, published by Dramatists Play Service), India Pale Ale (Manhattan Theatre Club, recipient of the 2018 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play), You Across From Me (co-written with three other writers for the Humana Festival), Folk Wandering (book writer and co-lyricist with 11 composers, Pipeline Theatre Company), and You On the Moors Now (Theater Reconstruction Ensemble), among others. She was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Clubbed Thumb and she is currently in residence at Lincoln Center. Backhaus holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, where she now teaches. She hails from Phoenix, Arizona, and currently resides in Ridgewood, Queens with her husband, director Andrew Scoville and their son Ernie.

The mission of BHCT is to inspire, entertain, and educate the Black Hills community through quality theatre with a vision to be an inclusive and diverse community of people pursuing excellence in the theatre arts.

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