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Brenden DahlCommunications & Social Media Manager, Playwright-in-Residence
Contact: brenden@phillyyoungplaywrights.org Phone: 215-350-9421 Brenden Dahl is a theater artist and producer from Philadelphia. He was introduced to PYP through a class taught at his high school, and has since been a New Voices Playwright, Resident Playwright, Intern, Assistant Dramaturg, Quarantine Challenge Coordinator, and now the Social Media Manager and Playwright-in-Residence. Brenden has worked with other theater companies in Philadelphia and New York such as Clubbed Thumb Theatre, Azuka Theatre, Quintessence Theatre Group, and Theatre Exile as a writer, actor, and dramaturg, and will attend Northwestern University as a Theatre Major in the Class of 2025. He is drawn to inherently collaborative work, and has a strong passion for improvisation and devised creation. He is also drawn to work that advocates for social justice, empowers young people, and makes theater and theater education available to those who don’t often get to experience it. In his writing, Brenden aims to reveal reality through the surreal and explore consciousness through the subconscious. He writes stories of complex, troubled psyches set in parallel or future worlds, but not in an overtly dystopian or premonitory way, rather in a provocatively hopeful one. As the Playwright-in-Residence at PYP, Brenden is currently developing his newest play, abSolution, with a team of Temple University actors and directors in preparation for a public reading in the Spring. See below for a blurb about the play and a link to Brenden's website to learn more. |
abSolution
a new play by Brenden Dahl
Manny blames himself for Val’s death, and it’s eating him alive.
So he goes to abSolution™, a company with the technology to edit a person's emotional response to memory through state-of-the-art digitized electro-therapy.
Lying on a cold surgical table with nodes hooked up to his implanted digiChip, Manny relives every last moment of his relationship with Val, as a clinician twists her words and actions to present a version of reality he can live with. But when Manny wakes up, he realizes that there may be more to absolution than he'd originally thought.
a new play by Brenden Dahl
Manny blames himself for Val’s death, and it’s eating him alive.
So he goes to abSolution™, a company with the technology to edit a person's emotional response to memory through state-of-the-art digitized electro-therapy.
Lying on a cold surgical table with nodes hooked up to his implanted digiChip, Manny relives every last moment of his relationship with Val, as a clinician twists her words and actions to present a version of reality he can live with. But when Manny wakes up, he realizes that there may be more to absolution than he'd originally thought.
