VROOOMMM! Dramaturgical Information

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The journey for Triad Stages’s production of Janet Allard’s NASCAR comedy VROOOMMM! begins and ends at Victory Junction, the summer camp for seriously ill children founded by Richard Petty and his family in honor of his grandson. Adam Petty was only 18 years old when he dreamt of creating a safe place for ill children to be able to experience the joy and freedom of attending summer camp without the special needs of their individual medical conditions getting in the way.

Recent Wo Works: Into the Wild, commissioned by Perseverance Theater, and developed at Berkeley Rep Ground Floor and Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat; Pool Boy at Barrington Stage; VROOOMMM! A NASComedy, published by French; Speed Date; Incognito; Loyal; Painted Rain; and Untold Crimes Samuel Fre Insomniacs, published by Playscripts, Inc. Her musical The Unknown: A of Insomnia Movie Musical won a Jonathan Larson Award with P73 Productions Silent Movi appeared at NYMF. Her work has been seen at The Guthrie Lab, The and appear Mixed Blood, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, The Yale Kennedy Center, C Cabaret, The Women’s Project, Perseverance Theatre, Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, with P73 Productions, and internationally in Ireland, England, Greece, and New Zealand. She is a Fulbright Fellow, and has an M.F.A. Australia an in Playwriting Playwrit from the Yale School of Drama where she met Triad Stage Preston Lane and Richard Wittington. She has studied Founding Directors D at the NYU Musical Theatre Writing program and teaches at the University at Greensboro. of North Carolina C

The camp operates with a one-to-one camper-to-counselor ratio and each child attends the camp with no cost to them or their families. Their medical and dietary needs are met on a daily basis and the campers experience accessible pools, tree houses, bowling and NASCAR activities and meet professionals who visit the facility. VROOOMMM! at Triad Stage is being presented in partnership with this amazing organization. Through the generous donation of an anonymous donor and partial proceeds from our production, a local Triad area child will be sponsored to attend the camp this coming summer and experience all the joy and wonder of NASCAR and the magical world of Victory Junction. So even after the set is gone, the actors have returned home, and the race cars have been put back in the garage, our journey with VROOOMMM! will be ending right where our first day of rehearsal began, at one of the most very special places on earth....Victory Junction! Ladies and Gentleman, Start Your Engines!

WINSTON-SALEM

D AV I D K A R L L E E

JAN. 27FEB. 7, 2016 Conc Conceived and Developed with M Michael Bigelow Dixon

JANET ALLARD

From the Director

A NASComedy by Janet Allard

About the Author


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