MARCH 4-19 | FREE ADMISSION
Chloe Selavka
Drew Nova
Hamad Naroze
Mohammed Ali Alani
Isabel B. Tongson
Emma Rey Dias
Cori Diaz
Sam Walsh
Come As You Are by Chloe Selavka | Mon, March 4 at 7pm
Mara copes with the aftershocks of her mother’s sudden passing while moving to Boston and preparing for her older sister’s wedding. A coming of age story, coming out story, found family story, and love story all rolled into one. Spanning one summer across the state of Massachusetts, Mara discovers what it means to truly love yourself, be loved unconditionally by others, and what it means to be alive.
Content Warnings: Grief, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Stylized Depictions of Derealization.
The Word of The Day by Cori Diaz | Tue, March 5 at 7pm
The Word of the Day is an experimental drama about a woman who thinks she's being communicated with via the word of the day.
A White Girl’s Understudy by Isabel Beatriz Tongson | Fri, March 8 at 2:30pm
Lyn Talaga has achieved her childhood dream. She is an off-stage understudy in the new Broadway play Speakeasy Love and covers the principal female role. However, her greatest love is the show's leading man and dating the leading woman. During a performance of Speakeasy Love, Lyn is forced to confront the reality of her job, recalling memories of how she attained what she thought was success in an industry that does not cater to her, and, along with other artists who have been forced out of the spotlight, reflects on how her work has changed her identity. Lyn imagines herself in scenarios onstage playing opposite of the play's star, but as the drama of Speakeasy Love bleeds into her reality and Lyn attains more than she bartered for, she must ask herself if her greatest desires are truly what she wants.
In Loving Memory by Drew Nova | Fri, March 8 at 7pm
When you lose someone chances are someone else lost them too. Death takes things from us too soon or maybe just in time. Our only choice as the living is to grieve what's lost. But that's hard, isn't it? Especially, when everyone around sees things differently than you do. They all have an opinion but it's up to you to define yours. This is a play meant to analyze grief and family. Forcing the audience to ask themselves who have they lost and who they grieve. Grieving is reconciling with the loss of a person, of someone meaningful. But do you always grieve who you knew, who everyone else thought they were, or who they are?
Guilt (or the US Army Field Manual on Gold Star Families) by Mohammed Ali Alani | Sat, March 9 at 3pm
After a year and a half of being Missing in Action (MIA), Captain Sam Al-Jundi is officially declared dead. The Al-Jundi family, an upper-middle-class Iraqi American household, is thrust into turmoil as they grapple with the devastating news. However, their grief takes a backseat as they must put on a facade of normalcy for the impending arrival of guests: none other than Donald Rumsfeld and Officer Tilden, who come with an invitation to the White House for a ceremony in honor of their son’s heroic sacrifice and contribution to his country.
The Swan by Emma Rey Dias | Sat, March 9 at 5pm
Depictions of violence, mental illness, themes of suicide & self harm, psychiatric hospitals & healthcare, and medical trauma.
A storyteller’s world falls apart around them, so they hold fast to the first sure-thing they can get their hands on: Olympic figure skating. But as everything continues to crumble for our unreliable narrator, and for the athletes trapped in their screen, they begin to learn that nothing is ever a sure-thing. They must battle the obstacles of their own mind and events taking place halfway across the world in order to get somewhere. Where we’re headed is hard to say.
Jen Knows by Sam Walsh | Sun, March 10 at 3pm
Joe knows that Jen knows how he should move forward with his life. Joe knows that Jen knows he needed to leave his job, his wife, his kids. Joe knows that Jen has a good reason for taking Kay’s credit cards and moving all of her stuff into storage - that she needs to sleep in her car for a while. Joe knows he can’t let her into the office. A fractal fantasia examining the many iterations of self, Jen Knows dares to question the base need for certainty in our lives.
Rockstars Need Eyeliner by Hamad Naroze | Tue, March 19 at 3:30pm
My play, Rockstars need Eyeliner, follows Jespal “Jesse” Singh as he enters college life and starts trying to live a life that is not of his father’s design and against his expectations. His journey also strains his relationship with his older sister, Aasha, and best friend, Blake. Jesse traverses through these difficulties, trying to make sense of what he really wants, and who he really is.