Playwright Alec Duffy, Hoi Polloi, 2025

 Playwright Alec Duffy,  Hoi Polloi,  2025

Winner, Winner

Playwright Mara Nelson-Greenberg, 2025, Not Not Jane's,

Playwright Mara  Nelson-Greenberg, 2025, 

Not Not Jane's,

 

CHERYL: One of the greatest tragedies of my life is that after creating you, pushing you out, feeling so sure that we were one… we became two. It’s been so hard for me that you’ve never wanted to share.

JANE: All right well, so long as people are dumping on me—does anyone else have anything critical to add?

GEORGE: I guess just that… I’m not a big fan of the blouse?

Playwright Zoë Geltman, 2025 The Brick "A(U)NTS!"

 Playwright Zoë Geltman, 2025 

The Brick

"A(U)NTS!"

Playwright Crystal Skillman 2025 "The Magician" WP Theater

 Playwright Crystal Skillman 2025

 "The Magician" 

WP Theater

And when we touch it is the deep touch of knowing who we were, who we are now, who we are becoming. You and I… This is the future "This is what I dream of… The act of transformation. I see myself and I’m no longer frightened. I no longer think frightened thoughts of the world That’s magic. And this is magic. Me sharing with you."

Crystal Skillman

"Something is opening in me. I feel you. I hold on to you. I close my eyes. I feel you rushing through the air! Your spirit through my body. I’m not frightened! When I see myself, I see the world. I open my eyes. As it is spoken."

Crystal Skillman

"When I see myself, I see the world. I open my eyes. As it is spoken."

Crystal Skillman

Last option!

Crystal Skillman

"As it is spoken."

 Directed by Jessi Hill 

Starring Megan Hill as The Magician

Playwright NAZARETH HASSAN, 2025, Vineyard Theater, Bowl EP

 Playwright NAZARETH HASSAN, 2025,

 Vineyard Theater, 

Bowl EP

“Drag your dad’s dead drunk dad bod down the bad dang stairs” Quentavius.

Playwright Jess M Barbagallo. 2025

Playwright Jess M Barbagallo. 2025

at the Brick,

"Cemetery Soup"

You can’t stop anything from dying. Maybe he could not see me in the kitchen where I was working with my hands, putting my work into a plan to meet him where he was. I guess that means that there can be all kinds of silence. But I guess that’s different than quiet. And I think, while being very young, that I will always be searching for quiet. Where I grew up, there is a really nice sound. My white noise is water hitting stone.

-Mikey

Playwright Daniel Holzman, 2025, at the Tank. "Berlindia!"

Playwright Daniel Holzman, 2025, 

at the Tank.

"Berlindia!"

DAD

Berlin.

Or somewhere like Berlin

You never know these days

Places move.

Places have been moving lately.

We used to live near the airport.

Now it looks nothing like it did.

It used to be called South San Francisco

Then South San Francisco went somewhere else

MOTHER

Take a good look.

A lot of time is about to pass.

or 

DAD

Now, at night I float.

An inch above my bed 

Looking up at the ceiling which suddenly feels new

Because some time a long time ago your mom became a place.

For the time being

I think that’s fine

or

MOTHER

Take a good look.

A lot of time is about to pass.

 

Playwright Ro Reddick, 2025,

 Playwright Ro Reddick, 2025

 Clubbed Thumb & Page 73 present:

 COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE. 

a play with music by Ro Reddick

 directed by Knud Adams 

music directed by Ellen Winter

“I watched it bathing in the blaze like a little bird, preening, then folding, buckling at the beams, drifting under.”

 -Meek

 

Playwright Neena Beber 2025, "A Mother" Jerome Robbins Theater

 Playwright Neena Beber 2025, 

"A Mother" 

Jerome Robbins Theater

From A MOTHER:

Option 1:

JESS: I think my camp counselor Michelle knows everything, because she’s twenty years old and dropped out of college to live in Berlin doing puppet shows in a park on the west side of the wall and now because she ran out of money she’s here to direct a bunch of kids from suburban Connecticut in a musical that had been a hit before any of us had been born.

MICHELLE: Play the opposite. Think the opposite. Do the opposite.

JESS: Michelle had come back from Berlin with safety pins in the well-placed holes in her T- shirt, a nose ring, and a really excellent way of applying black kohl pencil around her eyes. She taught us that the coolest look was to apply lots of mascara and then go swimming in the lake to make it look like dirty smudgy tears.

MICHELLE: Everything artificial is less artificial if you acknowledge that it’s artificial. The best way to be real when you are doing a play is to be fake.

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Option 2:

JESS: Verfremdungseffekt. Defamilarization. Distancing Effect. And my favorite translation — Making Strange. Because it turns out 40 years isn't forever after all. I thought things would be different by now but dark times, dark times keep coming. And understanding grows at a snail’s pace, while the time given to us on earth never slows down. Except-- except here--- in the theater, where I’m still young, and about to fall in love for the first time...

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Option 3:

Camper 1: Wow. So this is what we’re doing?