2024 New Play Workshops
Tell Me You’re Dying (or the trial of millicent bonhomme)
By C.A. Johnson
Dramaturgy by Otis Ramsey-Zoe
June 28-30 • $15
When five individuals unite in their weekly support group, they forge a sanctuary of care and companionship despite the apocalypse currently plaguing their world. Characterized by discussions of illness and mortality, grandiose philosophical speeches, spirited swearing, and the undeniable physical urge for human connection and family, Tell Me You’re Dying compels us to question not only if we can change but if we have time to do so while the world appears to be ending.
This reading may not be suitable for children under 12.
Cast
Sepideh Moafi
Amelia Workman
Nicholas Byers
Sarah Michelle Guei
Alex Carroll-Cabanes
Celebrating Sixty-Five Years of the Ladies Journal of Cambridge, Massachusetts!
By Anna Ziegler
Directed by David Auburn
July 18-20 • $15
A time-shifting exploration of the life of a women’s magazine – why it starts, why it ends, and whether very much at all has changed for women over the course of the last 65 years. From underestimated faculty wives at Harvard in the 1950s who long to break free of their societal roles to modern-day midwestern office workers still wishing for more, Celebrating Sixty-Five-Years of the Ladies Journal of Cambridge Massachusetts! is a sharply funny and poignant play about the progress of feminism and whether it’s ever possible (or indeed desirable) to have it all.
This reading may not be suitable for children under 10.
Cast
Janie Brookshire
Rachel Lykins
Amara Leonard
Kay Benson
Martin K. Lewis
falcon girls
By Hilary Bettis
Directed by Lily Wolf
Dramaturgy by Liz Frankel
August 16-17 • $25
This is a true story. It’s the 90s in rural Falcon, Colorado. Six teenage girls on the FFA horse judging team are determined to make it to nationals come hell or high water. But to do that, they must grapple with jealousy, rivalries, sex, Jesus, AOL chat rooms, impossible expectations, and rumors of a serial killer. Hilary Bettis’s falcon girls is an achingly funny and brutally honest coming-of-age memoir––and a love letter to the girls she grew up with and the horses who saved their lives.
This staged reading may not be suitable for children under 12.
Cast
Brian D. Coats
Liza Fernandez
Jacqui Guillen
Claudia Yanez
Maria Fernanda Diez
Mia Sinclair Jenness
Amara Leonard
Rachel Lykins
Alex Carroll-Cabanes
