2009-2010 Season

"When was the last time you saw something NEW?"
announcing our 2009-2010 season

THE :NV:S:BLE PLAY
by Alex Dremann
World Premiere! - November 21 - December 13, 2009

Welcome to the Existential Publishing Company. Some people are being laid off--given a box to pack up their things and get out. Others are simply vanishing--literally. Colin can't decide which is worse. He's fighting to stay visible to win the heart of lovely Fran in the next cubicle. Tim, a handsome assistant editor, is busy sucking up as a means of survival. Nancy, the boss, is oblivious to everything. The rest of the office includes Ramona, the mysterious plant waterer; Carmen, a sassy and sexy and very pregnant assistant editor; Cass, who's "too old to deal with this sh*t"; and Lawrence, the I.T. guy whom no one's really ever seen. Who can avoid the "HR box of death?" or worse yet, complete invisibility?


THIRD ANNUAL PLAYSHOP FESTIVAL
Five Plays in Process
March 6 - 21, 2010

Four new high quality scripts that reflect diverse, contemporary human stories will run in repertory as part of this new play festival. They present characters, situations, and perspectives not usually seen on other area stages. During this unique and intensive program, playwrights, directors, designers, dramaturges, and actors work collaboratively to develop these plays utilizing feedback from the artists in rehearsals and performances before live audiences. The playwrights will be writing and re-writing the scripts during the entire process, so the plays will reshape themselves over the course of the festival.

516 (five sixteen)
by Katharine Clark Gray
World Premiere! - May 15 - June 6, 2010

Don't call her a ghostwriter; Annalee is a professional term paper auteur. Then she meets Sigurd, a cocky grad student who hires her to pen his "chore" assignments while he works on a mysterious thesis. When the two become lovers, they find themselves embroiled in a blood-sport romance that leads to betrayal. When a stricken Annalee exposes their arrangement, they must both confront Sigurd's professor Martie Hodge. They strike a deal saving their skins, but Martie is exacting in her price. Driven by pride, desire, and intellectual longing, "516 (five sixteen)" is a revenge romance for brainiacs, a mash note to the mind.



...Plus some additional surprises!