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The Captives was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2019. It is a beautifully affecting piece about three very different people, each trapped in their own way. As their lives continue to collide in deeper and more personal ways, they each try to control their own narrative only to discover painful but enduring truths about themselves and each other that will change all of them forever.

With was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2019. It is a funny and moving exploration of life, relationships, aging, enduring love, and why we should be able to "call it quits" on our own terms if and when we're ready to do so.

The Science of Leaving Omaha was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022 and went on to have its world premiere in our 2022-2023 season. With quirky, engaging, and profoundly human characters, this darkly funny and ultimately moving play about the forgotten class of the young working poor explores deep loss, dashed hopes, broken dreams, dead ends, and the fragile hope it takes to keep going despite the odds.

Dark Skinned Pavement was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022. Told in beautifully structured flashbacks and forwards, the play explores the aftermath of a familial and societal tragedy and the profoundly personal ways we each wrestle with loss, grief, hope, and moving on.

how it feels to fall from the sky was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022. Five disparate, emotionally cautious, and fiercely protective New Yorkers come together to wrestle with the experience of a shared tragedy, and they slowly learn how to open up, trust, connect with, and ultimately start to heal themselves and each other. A moving and funny piece about letting go and letting in.

The Chisera was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022. Set in the high desert of California in two very different time periods, and beautifully filtered through the interpersonal relationships of love and family in both, it is a sweeping, stirring, and urgent play about land and water use, personal autonomy, and the responsibility we have to ourselves, each other, and the planet we share.

The Standby Lear was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2020. At once a love-letter to the theatre and to the craft of acting, the play also delves deeply into personal and interpersonal relationships exploring the fears, connection, sacrifice, grace, care, and generosity of spirit that's required to love and be loved - whether that's your art, yourself, or someone else.

Dangerous Instruments was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2023. With an intriguing twist in its final moments that definitely doesn't go where you expect that it will, the play is a passionate, thoughtful, and fascinating indictment of our current educational, social services, and mental health care systems.

The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2023. Set against a backdrop of palace intrigue, and with one of the best and most shocking gasp-inducing moments ever written, it is a powerful and contemporary play about lies, legacy, loneliness, love, class, and the struggle between doing what is expected and being true to yourself.

The Islanders was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2023. It is a beautiful, funny, and ultimately moving piece about loneliness, resolve, and the vulnerability required for human connection. It's also a rare play about finding that connection after "a certain age" which makes it warm, wonderful, and all too urgent.