The 2021 Series of Free Online Readings

The focus of this series of free readings is to give plays in progress their first public audience. Occasionally, we also revisit a play from our body of work in a new context.

Sponsored by Lee & Audrey Hollaar.

Please click here to read the digiPlaybill for all three readings.

GO HOME COME BACK
a play in progress by Darryl Stamp
author of “Roar” from …OF COLOR

Saturday, November 13, 8pm
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Will’s a sales manager and James is in disaster management. Is it worth it to make amends before shuffling off their mortal coils? You decide.

Read by Calbert Beck, Carleton Bluford*, Flo Bravo, Latoya Cameron*, Merry Magee, and Kris Peterson. Stage Managed by Sammee Jackman. Directed by Darryl Stamp.

HORIZON
a play in progress by Camille Washington
author of ODA MIGHT

Saturday, December 4, 8pm
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Horizon, languishing on his luxury spaceship in the ever-present glow of Mars and the human outpost being built on its surface, grows wistful for human interaction. After years of transmitting longing-filled missives back to Earth with no response, someone replies and sparks intrigue: Horizon is in love.

Read by Lily Hye Soo Dixon, Bijan Hosseini, Sammee Jackman, Alec Kalled, Nicki Nixon, and Miche’ Smith (from Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company). Stage Managed by Camille Washington & Flo Bravo. Directed by Flo Bravo

FIRST ANNUAL STUDENT PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL

During the 2020/21 school year, K-6 teachers across five school districts used our Playwriting With Young People curriculum to strengthen students’ writing skills and help them create their own work. We received 21 original plays, 1-5 pages long, created by 47 student playwrights at 6 different schools. Conservatory students at Youth Theatre at the U rehearsed them weekly from April through July 2021 and then filmed readings of each them. Click here to watch!

Please click here for the full history of the Script-In-Hand Series.