1 Weekend. 1 Full Production.

4 Staged Readings.

Brand New Plays. World-Class Playwrights.

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Winter's End by J.S. Puller | Full Production 

When Cassie finds herself in the house of someone she doesn’t know and has never met, she finds herself astounded by her hosts’ graciousness. But there are some things that don’t seem right. Like why does the wife agree with everything all the time? Why does the husband keep counting things? And why won’t the butler stop pushing the furniture around? An absurdist mythical retelling, Winter’s End is an exploration of identity, as perhaps most importantly, Cassie has to recall who she is and how she got there.

This Is Not Your Fault by Elizabeth Shannon | Staged Reading

Five high school girls intersect with one another in the crossroads of the gym locker room. In the aftermath of the death of classmate Mya, the tension is stifling. Callie was (is?) Mya’s best friend. But it is Maeve’s boyfriend who is currently on trial for Mya’s death, and Maeve is standing by him. She expects her friends to do the same. With Callie and Maeve on opposite sides of a spectrum, the other girls have to choose a side. Lines of loyalty blur, and truth becomes a fickle thing for these girls who are still somehow supposed to still attend high school in the midst of tragedy.

Symbiotic by Baylee Shlichtman | Staged Reading

Marichka, an aquarist at the Jellyfish Museum in Kyiv tries to keep the memory of her friend alive in the midst of the Russo-Ukrainian war. When a veteran starts to frequent the museum, the two form an unlikely connection that will alter the course of their lives. A play about cultivating hope and jellyfish.

Meet the Maker by Dana Schwartz | Staged Reading

Paisley Whitman hosts a Podcast about crafters all over the world. When she sits down with sculptor Mason Russell in the Pasadena studio he shares with his artist mother, she realizes there is a darkness to this interview that may force her lighthearted show into deadly true-crime territory.

Peggy (& Ben) by Amy Jo Jackson | Staged Reading

Meet Peggy: a Philadelphia socialite with absolutely bonkers hair who married Benedict Arnold an eyebrow-raising one month before he got the ball rolling on the whole treason thing. Their coupling raises a pretty important question, after all: what happens when two people with nary a moral center between them get together?

The Full Schedule

Thursday, November 5

7:30 Winter's End

Friday, November 6

7:30 Winter's End

Saturday, November 7

5:00 This Is Not Your Fault

7:30 Symbiotic

Sunday, November 8

2:30 Peggy (& Ben)

5:00 Meet the Maker

7:30 Winter's End