Readings

WRITTEN BY BRENT ASKARI
DIRECTED BY ROB BROWNSTEIN

FEATURING Danny Lee Gomez, Chelsea Gonzalez, Jeff LeBeau, Lilli Passero, Allan Wasserman, Imari Williams

WRITTEN BY PETER PASCO
DIRECTED BY ELANA LUO

FEATURING:  SARA ACEVEDO, JULIAN ARMAYA, PRESCILIANA ESPAROLINI AND NIRVAN PATNAIK

Some plays are about grand questions: love, tragedy, or loss.  Some plays are educational and teach you about a time in history or important figure.  Others fill you with joy with catchy, heartfelt music.  This play does none of that.  This play is about how are people supposed to literally deal with life when everything feels like it’s falling apart around them.  Alan Garcia, a mid thirties Latine male, is about to get married and start a more adult chapter of his life only to discover there is a lot he needs to understand before he can do that.

WRITTEN BY SAM MUELLER
DIRECTED BY GARRETT BAER & BRANDON BAER

FEATURING:  PATRICK JOSEPH RIEGER, BEX TAYLOR-KLAUS AND TAYLOR NICHOLS

Mountains. Wyoming. Big game hunting season. Brothers Caleb and Cain are reunited to hunt a Bighorn Sheep during the day and go through their deceased father’s extensive record collection in the evening. Lurking outside in the darkness is something caught somewhere between a man and an animal. Could it be possible that the Bighorn they’re trying to hunt is actually hunting them?

WRITTEN BY DOM MARTELLO
DIRECTED BY JACOB DAVID SMITH

FEATURING:  CHRISTIAN PRENTICE, AARON LYONS, DANA SCHWARTZ, SEAN MCCALLON, BEX TAYLOR-KLAUS, ADELA PAEZ, CHELSEA GONZALEZ

POW POW POW KABOOM! Or, How Do We Get People To Care follows a focus group reviewing reality TV pilots that struggle to see eye to eye, being followed by a presidential candidate as she gets frustrated with her chief of staff because he isn’t collecting data fast enough, being followed by a group of mysterious entities who get to decide the fate of life as we know it. This political satire is a case study cracking open the absurdity of the mass consumption of (and indifference to) violence, catastrophe, and loss of human life.

WRITTEN BY  KAYLIN JONES
DIRECTED BY JAQUITA TA’LE

FEATURING:  GERARD JOSEPH, JUAN POPE, CHERISH MONIQUE DUKE, CHERYL FRANCIS HARRINGTON,SHANE LIBURD, ALEXANDRA METZ, JUNE CHRISTOPHER, STEPHEN SIMON AND LEITH BURKE

In 1922 Louisiana, the Claibornes, a prominent Creole family, sit atop a social hierarchy where segregation is reimagined. Led by the patriarch, The Blue Vein Social Society is a club exclusive to a great caliber of college educated Black men with skin color no darker than a brown paper bag – the same prerequisite dictating the marriage arrangement of the society president’s docile daughter, Catherine. But when Catherine meets the opposing Pearlie Morrow, a stranger she’s meant to hate, a stranger she has loved and has known many lifetimes before, her reality shifts.

Written by Mantra Radharkrishan

Directed by Nena Martins

Featuring: Erika Nadir, Krishna Smitha, Nirvan Patnaik and Rishi Mahesh

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WRITTEN BY PAIGE ESTERLY

DIRECTED BY EMILY CHASE

FEATURING: ALICIA V. WILSON, JACQUELINE FERGUSON, ARIANA AFRADI, SAM BIANCHINI,BEBE KATSENAS, LAUREN SCHAFFEL, LILLI PASSERO, KRISHA SMITHA, GLORIA INES AND TANYA LAINE

America’s Next Top Ultimate Supreme Goddess is a (thinly veiled) parody of a popular reality television modeling show created by a media mogul whose name rhymes with Myra Hanks. In this pilot season, 8 girls compete for the title, as well as the fame, wealth, and power that come with it, undergoing increasingly brutal challenges in their quest to come out on top. An exploration of female friendship, ambition, and exploitation, America’s Next Top Ultimate Supreme Goddess explores what our society asks of our women.

WRITTEN BY EMMA SCHILLAGE
DIRECTED BY ELANA LUO

FEATURING:  JUDITH SCARPONE

In a small Louisiana mobile home park, best friends Wren and Lylah play games of chicken, hide in the trees, and share scary stories about Mae, a reclusive widow who only leaves her house to take out the trash. But when a Star crash-lands on their dead end street in search of a lost love, the lives of Wren, Lylah, Mae, and the Star are thrown together unexpectedly. As Mae takes in the Star, Wren and Lylah find their evolving relationship strained, confronting what it means to grow up and navigate new feelings for the first time. Together, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, sparking an exploration of identity, friendship, gender, sexuality, beauty, and the weight of expectations. GROSS! explores the beauty and cruelty of nature and the ways we struggle to be seen and understood.