Come help support these works in process. Each table read will be accompanied by a questionnaire for you the attendees to fill out to help our playwrights better understand their work.
2pm Death Comes for Every Man, Or Does It? by Pete Casanave
Emmanuel Good is a technocrat who makes robots that destroy working class jobs using Artificial Intelligence that destroys the middle class. With the counsel of his trusted fixers, lawyer Lillith Satin and HR guru Robert "Rob" Job he compounds his billions by buying banks, insurance and other financial institutions. Can these three who have conquered so much, conquer death too?
featuring: Bryn Packard, Catherine Overfelt, Christopher Buchanan, Denise Lock, Jasmine Spiess, Maria Isabella Rojas, Matthew Menendez, Perryn Pomatto
5pm Honeybees by Kirsten Hopkins
featuring: Eric Mead, Jenny Green, Justin P. Lopez, Melissa Roth, Nicole Orabona
Our Queen is sex-obsessed The worker over-works A drone is trying to spread the word That nearby, danger lurks!
Our colony’s collapsing! We must all save the hive! Bee bold, bee brave, bee different So we can stay alive!
Daffy, dancing bees go stinger to stinger in this play of peril, pollen & puppets.
8pm The Mesquite Tree by David Davila
featuring: Alejandra Wagnon, Alexandra Castro, Daniela Thome, Franky Gonzalez, Julia Botero, Monica Rey, Tamarah Tucker
With a little bit of masa and some leftover meat, a single mother can make enough tamales to feed her family for an entire month; but Blanca wants more for her granddaughter than to be pregnant at fifteen and stuck in a small house in South Texas with five generations of her abuelas. Can she change her family’s destiny before there’s another mouth to feed?