All Smoke, No Gun by Claire Greising
Saturday, 6/1 @ 2PM – RESERVE HERE
About the play: Marty is a musician. Eric is a music journalist. Marty just released a new album. Eric wrote a negative review about it. Marty decides to kill Eric. There’s one major problem with this plan– Marty has no idea how to use a gun.
About the playwright: Claire Greising is a playwright and comedian from Evanston, IL. Plays include Addiction As A Verb (Finalist: New Jersey Play Lab Residency, Intensive: Workshop Theater), Carbondale, IL (Semi-Finalist: Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon of One Act Plays), The Artwork Is Behind You (Production: Riverside Arts Center with PTD Productions, Finalist: NYU’s Goldberg Prize, Second-Rounder: Austin Film Festival), lonely people on the internet (Reading: Forklift Series at Loading Dock Theatre, Second-Rounder: Austin Film Festival, Intensive: Workshop Theater), The Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann (Reading: The Tank). Claire has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently working on her MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College, where she is a Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow and recently received the Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing. 

WannaBillions by Anthony Anello
Sunday, 6/2 @ 2PM – RESERVE HERE
About the playwright: ANTHONY ANELLO is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing program where he was awarded the John Golden Playwriting Prize and served as a co-founder/president of the Broke People Play Festival. Some of his works include A Dog Dies (Goldberg Prize, runner-up), The Carter Play (Dixon Place), GAY ST./MONTAUK (developed with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), and let’s talk about anything else (Loading Dock & the Tank). He served as a Writing Advisor for Out of the Box Theatrics’ Drama Desk-nominated revival of Baby. He is also an inaugural member of PlaygroundNY Writer’s Pool and is excited to pursue his MFA at UT Austin this Fall.
About the play: An ambitious executive assistant is whisked off to the most expensive resort in the world by his billionaire mentor, employer, and lover. At the resort, the elite are able to role-play minimum wage jobs in a Wannado City (an indoor role-playing amusement center) replica as a form of humbling. A farcical meditation on wealth, power, and (net)worth, this play examines how we make ourselves larger (or smaller) than we are to succeed in a capitalist world. 

Platonic – May 26
Written by Ben Weiss
Directed by Rabiah Rowther
Platonic is about the evolution of a friendship over time between a queer man and a straight man. Spanning from teenage years to early adulthood, the story follows Sam and Ted as they navigate struggles large and small, from high school popularity to breakups, until they receive life-altering news that propels their lives and their friendship into unknown waters. Platonic offers an emotional tapestry of the highs and lows, the joy and the pain, and the beauty and the toxicity of Sam and Ted’s relationship, while exploring questions about whether or not queer men and heterosexual men can be – or, by societal standards, are allowed to be – best friends. Content warnings: language, sex, drug/alcohol references, medical illness.

You Should Be Worried – May 27
By Julia Blauvelt
Directed by Lindsay Carpenter
A trio of high-school companions, now solidly in their thirties, unites for an evening around a bonfire with one noble goal: lift the spirits of their suffering friend.  Like a lot of noble goals, this one immediately fails, bringing to light long-buried questions (and some answers). In a night where new becomes old and old becomes new again, they reach for each other across their decades of friendship to finally ask: what is our future? Content warning: grief, death, suicide.

The Moss Maidens – May 28
Written by S. Dylan Zwickel
Directed by Allison Taaffe
The year is 1941 and Isa, Rini, Silke, Helena, and Floor are five ordinary teenage girls living in a mid-sized Dutch town. They spend their days gossiping about their classmates, dreaming about their futures, and trying not to catch the eye of any of the Nazis that have taken up residence in their town. But when Rini, the romantic of the group, takes a walk in the woods with a Nazi who she’s hoping might be secretly a Resistance fighter and also her soulmate and sort-of-accidentally ends up killing him, the girls discover that they’re the last people anyone would ever suspect when harm befalls members of the invading army, and a new branch of the Resistance is born. Content warning: graphic violence, graphic sexual content, anti-Semitic language/Nazi imagery.

May 14 @3pm
lonely people on the internet
By Claire Greising
An Amish teenager, a nonverbal speedrunner, a divorced agoraphobe, and a part-time cam model daylighting as an online therapist enter a chat room.

May 14 @5:30pm
Erastes
By Andres Osorio
Two boys enter a ritual apprenticeship with the same mentor and a third boy is abducted by a God. Elsewhere in time, Swimboy develops a crush on his teacher and Lucas uses Grindr for the first time. A collection of stories from Ancient Greece to the present day, examining intergenerational relationships and the line between lover and mentor.

May 15 @3pm
Let’s Talk About Anything Else
By Anthony Anello
A year after their friend’s untimely passing, a group of friends escape to the Berkshires for a week-long getaway. Despite their efforts to keep their pasts outside the walls of their secluded cabin in the woods, their grief continues to haunt them. A dark comedy about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt.