Free and open to the public, the Ted Snowdon Reading Series presents four or five new plays at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center Stage I each year. These public readings follow a week-long developmental workshop complete with a director, a cast of actors, and the full support of MTC’s Artistic Development staff.
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The 2020 Virtual Fall series
All Virtual readings will be available on MTC’s YouTube channel for four days, starting at 2pm on a Tuesday.
By Charlie Oh, Directed by Dustin Wills
ABOUT THE PLAY
Thomas “Tommy Long” survives in the gay porn industry with one simple rule: know your role. For him, that is the submissive Asian geisha. When James, a new ripped Asian actor, joins the company, Thomas begins to question if he can be something more. Can he upend the prejudices of the porn industry? And at what cost? Blending comedy and Kabuki, pornography and Peking Opera, Long explores the legacies of colonialism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia within Asian American communities.
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ABOUT THE WRITER
Charlie Oh is a playwright/lyricist/actor. He is a fellow at The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His work has been developed at the BMI Lehmen Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, NYC Songspace, The Brooklyn Generator, and Catwalk Writer’s Residency. He is a winner of the Disney/NMI 2018 New Voices Project, and The Craig Carnelia Songwriting Award, and his play “Long” is a 2019 Honorable Mention for The American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award. A graduate of Northwestern University, he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt. Acting: “The King and I” directed by Bartlett Sher, “All These Small Moments” (Tribeca Film Festival).
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Dustin Wills is an NYC-based theatre and opera director originally from Texas. Upcoming: Jeremy O. Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You (Playwrights Horizons), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi Theatre). Recent theatre projects include Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Top Ten Theatrical Productions 2017 – New York Magazine) by Phillip Howze, Mikhail Bulgakov’s Black Snow (Juilliard Drama), Will Arbery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing with New Neighborhood, and a Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency for AWFUL EVENT! Dustin has directed and developed new work with The Foundry Theatre (O, Earth), New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, PAGE 73 (Orange Julius), Echo Theatre (Blueberry Toast), and Salvage Vanguard Theatre; and devised new work for Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy. He is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican.
By Julia Izumi, Directed by Natsu Onoda Power
ABOUT THE PLAY
In 1945, a young girl journeys from Japan to Manchuria to retrieve her deceased father’s bones, just before the end of World War II. Inspired by a true story from the playwright’s family history, this beguiling, epic yet personal play follows an ancestor snail and a self-guided audio tour to excavate the definition of heroism across generations and cultures.
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STREAM THE VIDEO
You can stream this play between 2pm on Nov 17 – 2pm on Nov 21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFhCxQrE5sA
ABOUT THE WRITER
Julia Izumi is a writer and performer who makes plays, musicals, and several opportunities for dance parties. She has developed work through Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, WP Theater, Barn Arts Collective’s Hamilton Project Residency, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, BMI’s Librettists Workshop, the Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her work has been presented at San Francisco Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, the National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, Dixon Place, FringeNYC, and Corkscrew Theatre Festival. Honors for her work include O’Neill Theater Center’s NPC Finalist, the Kilroys List Honorable Mention, KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award, Theater Masters’ Take Ten, NY Society Library’s Emerging Women’s Artist Grant and a Puffin Artists’ Grant. She is a current member of the Clubbed Thumb Early-Career Writers’ Group and will be featured in this season’s Bushwick Starr Reading Series. MFA: Brown University. www.juliaizumi.com
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Natsu Onoda Power specializes in adapting non-dramatic texts into new works of visual theater, but sometimes also directs plays. Recent works (writing/ adapting/ directing) include Thumbelina at Imagination Stage; The Lathe of Heaven at Spooky Action Theater; Alice in Wonderland with National Players; Wind Me Up, Maria!: A Go-go Musical at Georgetown University; Astro Boy and the God of Comics at the Studio Theater and Company One Theater, Boston. Directing credits include Olney Theater Center; the Studio Theatre; Baltimore CenterStage; Mosaic Theater, among others. She is the recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards (for Direction and Production Design) and two Helen Hayes Awards (for Adaptation and Set Design). Onoda Power is a Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University.
By Brittany K. Allen, Directed by Margot Bordelon
ABOUT THE PLAY
Set at the switchboards of an elite celebrity answering service, Ball Change examines how our communication technologies (and metropolitan mythologies) become obsolete. When we first meet the “Chimes” in the swinging 60s, all is glam and good fun, but fifty years of economic, social, and technological upheaval sure leave their mark on a girl. This is a time-traveling tale about how objects and ideas go out of style, commissioned by MTC through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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You can stream this play between 2pm on Dec 1 – 2pm on Dec 5.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. She’s a proud member of the Obie-award-winning EST/Youngblood, an alumna of the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and was a 2017 Van Lier New Voices fellow at the Lark. Her play Redwood (Kilroys List 2017/2020) received its world premiere at Portland Center Stage, and will appear in upcoming seasons at the Jungle Theater and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She’s developed work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, the Lark, and Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and currently holds commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Studio Theatre.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Margot Bordelon is a New York based director who specializes in new work. Off-Broadway and NY credits include: Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Something Clean (Roundabout Underground), Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard), Eddie and Dave (Atlantic), Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (LCT3), Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout Underground), The Pen (Premieres NYC), A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm), Still (Juilliard), Wilder Gone (Clubbed Thumb), The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play (DODO). Margot has directed productions regionally at ACT Seattle, Actors Theatre Louisville, Alliance, American Theater Company, Denver Center, Marin Theater Company, Steppenwolf, the Wilma, and Yale Rep. She has developed work at Ars Nova, Berkeley Rep, Cherry Lane, The Lark, Ma-Yi, MTC, New Dramatists, NYTW, P73, Portland Center Stage, Primary Stages, The Public, PWC, Rattlestick, Seattle Rep, and Woolly Mammoth. BFA, Cornish College of the Arts; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
By Stacey Rose, Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
ABOUT THE PLAY
As Is is the story of four Big Beautiful Black Women living the everyday struggle of trying to lose a few pounds and navigating their Big Black Womeness in the confined spaces of their lives. D. Everette has found her stride as a college professor. Antonia seems to have stumbled upon the perfect manifestation of Black love. Beverly has her children and her grief. It is young Camille who threatens to unravel the four-way friendship with her inability to find, and relegate herself to, a confined space of her own.
Stacey Rose hails from Elizabeth, NJ and Charlotte NC respectively. Her work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, National Black Theatre, Pillsbury House Theater, Barrington Stage Company, and Kansas City Rep. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights’ Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Goodman Theatre, The Civilians, and Tofte Lake Center. She had two plays featured on the 2019 Kilroys list, with a third listed as an honorable mention. Her play Legacy Land was on the 2020 Kilroys list. Stacey is a recipient of a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Women’s Commissioning Grant in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and an Alfred P. Sloan Commission in partnership with Manhattan Theatre Club. She is currently a staff writer for 9-1-1 on Fox. Stacey’s work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics, and the dilemma of life as the “other.”
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Tiffany Nichole Greene is a Freelance Director and Resident Director of HAMILTON, an American Musical. She is also a leader, creator, and aggressive explorer of the human condition as it relates to relationships and the injustices of this world. She holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Tiffany has directed for Octopus Theatricals, Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Company, Jack – Brooklyn, SpeakEasy Stage, Barrington Stage, Triad Stage, and more. She is a NYTimes Pick, Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab Alum, two-time Drama League Director Finalist, and a proud member of SDC. Most recent work: Here We Are: Whiterly Negotiations by Lydia Diamond and What Are the Things I Need to Remember? by Lynn Nottage (Octopus Theatricals; NYTimes Critic’s Pick); High School Play: a Nostalgia Fest by Vichet Chum (Alley Theatre); Boudica (Guthrie Theater); A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center); Between Riverside and Crazy (SpeakEasy Stage); Well-Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage). What’s Next?: Angels In America (Pittsburgh Playhouse).
By Penelope Skinner, Directed by Nicole Charles
ABOUT THE PLAY
Zoe has just moved in with her older boyfriend, Simon, who is everything she could dream: charismatic and successful, a supportive partner, a doting father to his young daughter. But when Zoe becomes curious about Simon’s history with his next-door neighbor, the solid ground beneath her begins to shift. Set against the backdrop of current events, a gripping and affecting play about what – and whom – we believe. Friendly Monsters is an MTC/Bobbie Olsen Play Commission.
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You can stream this play between 2pm on Dec 15 – 2pm on Dec 19.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Penelope Skinner is a playwright, screenwriter and director based in the UK. Theatre work includes: Angry Alan (Edinburgh Festival/Soho Theatre); Meek (Headlong); Linda (Royal Court/MTC); The Ruins of Civilisation (MTC); Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre/Magic Theatre, San Francisco); The Village Bike (Royal Court/MCC); Eigengrau (Bush Theatre); F*cked (Old Red Lion/Edinburgh Festival). Upcoming TV/Film work includes: The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies (Sister/BBC); Angry Alan (NBC). Previous work includes: The Unicorn (short, as director/writer); 4 seasons of Fresh Meat (channel 4); How I Live Now (dir. Kevin Macdonald). Penelope is currently under commission to: The Royal Court, MTC and The Bridge Theatre.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Nicole Charles is a Theatre and Screen Director, from London, UK. Her work has been staged at the Young Vic, The Bush Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Chichester Festival Theatre and The Vaudeville, London, to name a few. Recent work includes a comedy pilot for Sky Studios; a documentary for Channel 4 with Emma Dabiri and Pulse Films; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads by Roy Williams (Chichester Festival Theatre; described as ‘a spellbinding ensemble production’ in The Guardian); Glutathione by Winsome Pinnock (Young Vic, 2017); assistant directing the critically acclaimed production of The Jungle (West End; St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York; described as ‘wonderfully humane and illuminating’ in The Independent); Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Shakespeare’s Globe; West End transfer, Vaudeville Theatre; three Olivier nominations, 2020), of which The Stage wrote, ‘Traditional storytelling conventions are challenged in Nicole Charles’ magnificent production.’ Before becoming a director, she trained as an actress at RADA and the BRIT School.
The 2020 Live spring series
By Ryan J. Haddad, Directed by Danny Sharron
Charlie may be Cleveland’s most glamorous dentist, but tonight he claims his rightful place on the New York stage. Written by (and co-starring) his well-meaning but entitled nephew, Ryan, Good Time Charlie traces mentorship, memory, and gay identity across generations. With music, wit, and a classy dose of camp, this metatheatrical family romp navigates the complicated business of honoring the ones you love.
Ryan J. Haddad is an actor, playwright, and autobiographical performer based in New York. His acclaimed solo play Hi, Are You Single? was presented in The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and continues to tour the country. Other New York credits include My Straighties (Ars Nova/ANT Fest), Noor and Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers), and the cabaret Falling for Make Believe (Joe’s Pub). Regional credits include The Maids, Lucy Thurber’s Orpheus in the Berkshires (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Hi, Are You Single? (Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Play House, Williamstown Theatre Festival). He has a recurring role on the Ryan Murphy Netflix series “The Politician.” Additional television credits include “Bull,” “Madam Secretary,” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Haddad has performed original work at La MaMa E.T.C., the New Museum, and The LGBT Center of New York City. His plays in development include Good Time Charlie and Dark Disabled Stories. He is an alum of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a former Queer|Art Performance and Playwriting Fellow, under the mentorship of Moe Angelos. Learn more at www.ryanjhaddad.com and follow him on social at @ryanjhaddad.
By Selina Fillinger, Directed by Margot Bordelon
Alice is thrilled when she lands a summer research position with Viola Vauclain, the legendary entomologist specializing in bees. But as the summer goes on, it quickly becomes clear that the apiarian colonies are not the only thing on the verge of collapse. Accompanied by a band of Beatnik Bees, a wild and surprising new play about science, transformation, and our own animal selves, commissioned by MTC through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Selina Fillinger is an LA-based playwright and actor. Her play Something Clean, originally commissioned by Sideshow Theatre’s Freshness Initiative, had its world premiere at Roundabout Underground in New York, and is the 2019 recipient of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award. Other plays include Faceless (Northlight Theatre premiere, Jeff Award-nominated; Zeitgeist Theatre; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Park Theatre in London) and The Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped (Available Light’s Next Stage Initiative; Alley All New Festival; Theatre Three). Cinched/Strapped is the 2019 recipient of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Her farce, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, is on the 2019 Kilroys List. Current commissions include Roundabout Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Williamstown. Selina was a Hawthornden Fellow and resident at the Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat at McCarter Theatre Center. She is a graduate from Northwestern University (’16), where she studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt. www.selinafillinger.com
By Alexis Scheer, Directed by David MENDIZÁBAL
We were unable to present this reading due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be able to present it in the future.
It’s Art Basel in Miami at Mariana’s gallery opening in the Wynwood Arts District and the unthinkable has happened: the artwork is missing. And when Mariana’s movie-star mom shows up to help, things only get more complicated. A fast paced, cafecíto-induced comedy about art and success—and mothers and daughters.
Alexis Scheer was named Rising Theatre Star by the Improper Bostonian in the Boston’s Best Issue and one of Remezcla’s 8 Exciting Latinx Playwrights. Plays: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage, NYT Critic’s Pick, Kilroy’s List, LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work finalist, Relentless Award semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist), Christina (Roe Green Award), and The Sensational (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Her work has been developed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, San Diego REP, and more. Alexis is a proud Miami native and New World School of the Arts alum, and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. She is currently working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club and Second Stage.
By Julia Izumi, Directed by Jenny Koons
We were unable to present this reading due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be able to present it in the future.
In 1945, a young girl journeys from Japan to Manchuria to retrieve her deceased father’s bones, just before the end of World War II. Inspired by a true story from the playwright’s family history, this beguiling, epic yet personal play follows an ancestor snail and a self-guided audio tour to excavate the definition of heroism across generations and cultures.
Julia Izumi is a writer and performer who makes plays, musicals, and several opportunities for dance parties. She has developed work through Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, WP Theater, Barn Arts Collective’s Hamilton Project Residency, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, BMI’s Librettists Workshop, the Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her work has been presented at San Francisco Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, the National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, Dixon Place, FringeNYC, and Corkscrew Theatre Festival. Honors for her work include O’Neill Theater Center’s NPC Finalist, the Kilroys List Honorable Mention, KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award, Theater Masters’ Take Ten, NY Society Library’s Emerging Women’s Artist Grant and a Puffin Artists’ Grant. She is a current member of the Clubbed Thumb Early-Career Writers’ Group and will be featured in this season’s Bushwick Starr Reading Series. MFA: Brown University. www.juliaizumi.com
About the Ted Snowdon Reading Series
In 1999, MTC first launched a public reading series to help support the development of new works. The first year of the series featured David Auburn’s Proof, which MTC went on to produce in 2001, and which garnered a Tony Award® for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Manhattan Theatre Club’s reading series is named in recognition of generous support from Ted Snowdon, an MTC friend and co-producer who has championed new plays and playwrights in both the commercial and non-profit sectors. From 2006 and through 2016, the reading series was funded by the Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation, which contributed almost $1 million in support of more than 65 new plays. Ted Snowdon began underwriting the series in 2017.
TED SNOWDON has supported new plays and playwrights his entire career, working in both the commercial and non-profit sides of the theatre. His producing credits reach back to 1979’s Tony Award-winning The Elephant Man and include more recent plays and musicals like Buyer & Cellar, The Visit, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Mountaintop, Reasons To Be Pretty, The Little Dog Laughed, Spring Awakening, and Souvenir. With MTC he co-produced Master Class, Time Stands Still, and LoveMusik. He has long championed the arts and LGBT causes. He is on the boards of Primary Stages and the Glimmerglass Festival. He produced Allan Leicht’s comedy about Wagner, My Parsifal Conductor, and Michael McKeever’s play Daniel’s Husband at the Westside Theatre. Most recently, he was a producing partner on Broadway’s The Great Society, starring Brian Cox as LBJ, and Charles Busch’s hit The Confessions of Lily Dare, which played to rave reviews in February 2020 at Primary Stages.
Highlights Reel
This reading series has helped develop more than 100 new plays. Several plays have gone on to full productions at MTC, including Joe Hortua’s Between Us, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Based on a Totally True Story, Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Abe Koogler’s Fulfillment Center, Jaclyn Backhaus’ India Pale Ale and Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties.
Plays from this reading series that have been produced elsewhere in New York and around the world include Brittany K. Allen’s Redwood, Paola Lázaro’s There’s Always the Hudson, Sharyn Rothstein’s Right to Be Forgotten, Kimber Lee’s to the yellow house, Jen Silverman’s Dangerous House, Nick Gandiello’s The Blameless, Nicky Silver’s This Day Forward, Michael West’s The Chinese Room, Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other, Ethan Lipton’s Tumacho, Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake, Ayad Akhtar’s The Who and the What, Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike, Rona Munro’s Donny’s Brain, Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation, The Civilians’ The Great Immensity, Heidi Schreck’s There Are No More Big Secrets, Eric Simonson’s Fake, David Adjmi’s Stunning, Naomi Iizuka’s Strike-Slip, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Little Flower of East Orange, Julia Cho’s Durango, Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter, and Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene.
Reading Series 2019:
The Botanists by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Annie Tippe
Hockey Messiah by Kristin Slaney, directed by Tyne Rafaeli
White History by Dave Harris, directed by Miranda Haymon
Young Americans by Lauren Yee, directed by Margot Bordelon
Reading Series 2018:
Nan and the Lower Body (The Pap Smear Play) by Jessica Dickey, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Redwood by Brittany K. Allen, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
There’s Always the Hudson by Paola Lázaro, directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Adia and Clora Snatch Joy by Mfoniso Udofia, directed by Awoye Timpo
Reading Series 2017:
The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, directed by Mike Donahue
The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane by Jen Silverman, directed by Saheem Ali
to the yellow house by Kimber Lee, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Right to be Forgotten by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Kel Haney
Reading Series 2016:
Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Kip Fagan
The Blameless by Nick Gandiello, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Fall by Tom Holloway, directed by Lynne Meadow
Reading Series 2015:
This Day Forward by Nicky Silver, directed by Lynne Meadow
Now or Later by Christopher Shinn, directed by Doug Hughes
In Bloom by Gabriel Jason Dean, directed by Lucie Tiberghien
Talk Show by Alistair McDowall, directed by Trip Cullman
Reading Series 2014:
I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard by Halley Feiffer, directed by Trip Cullman
The Franco-Prussian War by Joshua Harmon, directed by Stephen Brackett
The Chinese Room by Michael West, directed by James Macdonald
Happy Place by Joe Tracz, directed by Carolyn Cantor
Reading Series 2013:
The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Odyssey Room by Greg Pierce, directed by Daniel Aukin
The Morning the Sun Fell Down by Jonathan Caren, directed by Evan Cabnet
Tumacho by Ethan Lipton, directed by Leigh Silverman
Provenance by Ben Ockrent, directed by Trip Cullman
Mrs. Hughes Book by Janine Nabers, Music & Lyrics by Sharon Kenny, directed by Kate Whoriskey
Five Mile Lake by Rachel Bonds, directed by Daniella Topol
Reading Series 2012:
Death of the Author by Steven Drukman, directed by Lynne Meadow
Phaedra by Adam Bock, directed by Trip Cullman
Important Hats of the Twentieth Century by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner, directed by Kate Whoriskey
Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England by Madeleine George, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
The Seduction Community by Greg Keller, directed by Kip Fagan
Donny’s Brain by Rona Munro, directed by Dexter Bullard
Reading Series 2011:
Reverberation by Matthew Lopez, directed by Leigh Silverman
Carl’s Sister by Alfred Uhry, directed by Lynne Meadow
The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren, directed by Evan Cabnet
Tender by Kelly Younger, directed by Lynne Meadow
The Chooky Brae by D.C. Jackson, directed by Garry Hynes
A Lasting Mark by Michael Elyanow, directed by Michael Wilson
The Great Immensity written & directed by Steven Cosson, directed by Steve Cosson
Reading Series 2010:
Retreat by Steven Levenson, directed by Evan Cabnet
Nocturama by Annie Baker, directed by Sam Gold
Pieces of Vincent by David Watson, directed by Lynne Meadow
There Are No More Big Secrets by Heidi Shreck, directed by Kip Fagan
Stunt Girl Book and Lyrics by Peter Kellogg, directed by Brian Yorkey
How the World Began by Catherine Trieschmann, directed by Carolyn Cantor
Oblivion by Carly Mensch, directed by Evan Cabnet
Reading Series 2009:
Dreams of Violence by Stella Feehily, directed by Kate Whoriskey
Night for Day by Nicholas Kazan, directed by Sarah Benson
Magic Forest Farm by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Steve Cosson
Recall by Eliza Clark, directed by Kip Fagan
Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Evan Cabnet
The Color of Desire written & directed by Nilo Cruz
Funked Up Fairytales Book, Music & Lyrics by Kirsten Childs, directed by John Rando
Reading Series 2008:
Shoe Story by Ben Snyder, directed by Thomas Kail
Calvin Berger Book, Music & Lyrics by Barry Wyner, directed by Josh Prince
Wisdom by Simon Vinnicombe, directed by Sam Gold
Willing by Amy Herzog, directed by Carolyn Cantor
The Imprisonment of the Eye by Sam Marks, directed by Anne Kauffman
Fake written & directed by Eric Simonson
Kissing the Floor by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Les Waters
Reading Series 2007:
Horse Latitudes by Hillary Fannin, directed by Carolyn Cantor
Stunning by David Adjmi, directed by Anne Kauffman
A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich, directed by Trip Cullman
The Front Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon & Jay Gruska, Book by Seth Friedman, directed by Nell Balaban
The Last Best Place by Bathsheba Doran
Human Voices by Sarah Treem, directed by Jo Bonney
Reading Series 2006:
Men of Tortuga by Jason Wells, directed by Lynne Meadow
Strike-Slip by Naomi IIzuka, directed by Daniel Aukin
Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Michael Bush
The Little Flower of East Orange by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Fallout by Shelagh Stephenson, directed by Lou Jacob
The Girl in the Frame Book, Music & Lyrics by Jeremy Desmon, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
Reading Series 2005:
Based on a Totally True Story by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Michael Bush
Durango by Julia Cho, directed by Tim Vansen
American Klepto by Allison Moore, directed by Casey Stangl
Edible Oils and Fats by Phil Porter, directed by David Auburn
Story of My Life Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram, Book by Brian Hill, directed by Michael Bush
The Hopper Collection by Mat Smart, directed by Pam MacKinnon
Reading Series 2004:
The Ugly American written & performed by Mike Daisey, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
Red Light Winter written & directed by Adam Rapp
The Scene by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey
A Likely Story written & performed by David Cale, directed by Michael Wilson
The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Loretta Greco
Dance the Holy Ghost: A Play on Memory by Marcus Gardley, directed by Jackson Gay
Reading Series 2003:
Not Waving by Ellen Melaver, directed by Mark Nelson
The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove by Regina Taylor, directed by Michael Greif
Dissonance by Damian Lanigan, directed by Kate Whoriskey
Chrysalis words and music by Gilles Chiasson, directed by Gus Reyes
Drug Buddy by David Folwell, directed by Will Frears
Bay Windows and Shakes by Joe Hortua, directed by Brendan Fox
Reading Series 2002:
40 Years in the Sunshine by Annie Weisman, directed by Doug Wright
Motherhouse by Victor Lodato, directed by Leah C. Gardiner
Coming Up Next, Music & Lyrics by Norman Noll, Book by Itamar Moses, directed by Michelle Tattenbaum
Pro Bono Publico by Peter Morris, directed by Ethan McSweeney
Jump/Cut by Neena Beber, directed by Lou Jacob
Eyolf by John Belluso, directed by Maria Mileaf
Reading Series 2001:
Slag Heap by Anton Dudley, directed by Daniel Aukin
Preserve by Courtney Baron, directed by Annie Dorsen
Placement by Blair Singer, directed by Dave Mowers
Carol Mulroney by Stephen Belber, directed by Michael Sexton
3 1⁄2 Catholics by Julia Jordan, directed by David Auburn
Joe! Book, Music & Lyrics by Dan Lipton & David Rossmer, directed by Bill Fennelly
Reading Series 2000:
97 Orchard Street Music & Frederick Freyer, Book & Lyrics by Patrick Cook, directed by Patrick Cook
Jerusalem by Seth Greenland, directed by Michael Greif
Crazy Jane on God by Dan O’Brien, directed by Mary Robinson
Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger, directed by Randy White
Suicide Weather by Jeff Whitty, directed by Lori Steinberg
Illuminating Veronica by Rogelio Martinez, directed by Linda Lavin
The Tulip Craze by Jay Reiss, directed by Alyse Rothman
Reading Series 1999:
Innocence is a Sin by Lucy Thurber, directed by David Mowers
Intrigue With Faye by Kate Robin, directed by Michael Sexton
Peaking by Eric Winick, directed by Andrew Dickey
A Hole in the Dark by Hilly Hicks, directed by Steven Williford
Proof by David Auburn
Musical of Musicals Music by Eric Rockwell, Lyrics by Joanne Bogart, directed by Michael Bush