See the schedule and buy tickets here.
Each of the Festival’s three weeks examines the creative process from a different perspective:
- Week 1: June 12 – 20 | SPARKS OF GENIUS: 18 10-Minute Plays
Group A:
Performing June 12 & June 15 at 8 pm; June 19 at 1 pm; June 20 at 4 pm
The Network • Seven Seconds Before the Conflagration • Mio Cuore — My Heart •
In The River • In The Fort • Something Like Loneliness
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Group B:
Performing June 13, 16 &18 at 8 pm; June 19 at 4 pm
Then and Again • J.A.P. • Foreign Tongue •
Girls Play • Saddam’s Lions • Amenities
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Group C:
Performing June 14, 17 & 19 at 8 pm; June 20 at 1 pm
Jacqmin Family in the Petrified Forest • The Shelf Life of Sushi •
He is Heavy • Rice Futures • Love Drunk •
There Are Shapes On The Ceiling Fan That Look Like Bats
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- Week 2: June 22 – 26 | THE CHEMISTRY OF ART: Four Unprecedented Artistic Blind Dates
BLAME/GREAT(ER) – Performing June 22 and 24 at 8 pm; June 26 at 4 pm
It’s Me You Should Blame featuring Angella Foster, James Hesla & L’Tanya Mari
A Great(er) Depression featuring Jane Franklin, Brad Linde & Matt Ripa
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MEMORIA/BUNNY – Performing June 23 and 25 at 8 pm; June 26 at 1 pm
Memoria Brassica featuring Karin Abromaitis, Tzveta Kassabova & Kristina Bilonick
Bunny, Bunny featuring Lisa A. Caruso, Chitra Kalyandurg & Seamus Sullivan
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- Week 3: June 27 – July 3 | SYNTHESIS: Three Full-Length Plays
This is Not A Time Bomb by Aaron Wigdor Levy, Directed by Shirley Serotsky
Performing June 27 and 30 at 8 pm; July 3 at 8 pm
One night in the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone, three prep-school boys tackle life’s biggest questions about race, wealth, weed and who really owns hip-hop. Sharp, witty and honest, Aaron Wigdor Levy’s play leaves no easy answers.
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Splinters by Emily Schwend, Directed by Clementine Thomas
Performing June 29, July 2 at 8pm and July 3 at 1 pm
When her younger sister goes missing, Sam’s family falls apart. Emily Schwend invites us into a world where soap bubbles overflow the sink, a yellow raincoat is spotted in the most unlikely of places and the whole world has to be re-assembled, one toothpick at a time.
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It’s Lonely Out In Space by Sean Graney, Directed by Patrick Torres
Performing June 28 and July 1 at 8 pm; July 3 at 4 pm
On a rainy night in a spaceship bar, Rocketman buys drinks from an astronaut and contemplates making a phone call that could change the fate of the universe. Sean Graney, Founder and Artistic Director of Chicago’s The Hypocrites, takes us on a beautiful journey to a lonely place.
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