BETA READING SERIES
Listen to a developing play and be an integral part of the play's creation.
The Beta Reading Series is a reading-in-conversation series where new plays are explored through structured round-table discussions. Listen to a developing play and help provide valuable feedback to the playwright, becoming an integral part of the play's creation. Come, also, to enjoy some cold beverages, new friends and free insights.
The Beta Reading Series is supported by the Dramatist Guild Fund.
PAST BETAS
ARE YOU READY TO GET PAMPERED??
by Catherine Weingarten
June 24, 2018
Hester, an alternative chick, is thrust into a whole new girly world when she gets a job working as a Drama camp counselor at Lake Pampered. Hester is in for a big surprise when she realizes that all the campers can think about is makeup and tiaras, and her position teaching “drama” is not the same type of intensive theory based performing arts she studies at her alternative arts intensive college. Can Hester find the Pampered spirit within her to not only do the job, but do it super awesomely?!! Or is she doomed to let down her family legacy and forge her own path?
ALIEN NATION
by Zoey Martinson
July 15, 2018
Developed with Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative
Selima is guilty until proven innocent as she fights to claim her place in the only country she has called home. She feels American, sounds American and yet having arrived illegally with her mother at the age of three, she now faces deportation into an unknown homeland. The Alien Nation follows her journey as it weaves from asylum seekers, lawyers and judges as their lives intersect in the U.S. immigration courtroom. Littered with audience interaction, multimedia and scored by a live DJ, the play explores how humanity survives in judicial proceedings.
Selima is guilty until proven innocent as she fights to claim her place in the only country she has called home. She feels American, sounds American and yet having arrived illegally with her mother at the age of three, she now faces deportation into an unknown homeland. The Alien Nation follows her journey as it weaves from asylum seekers, lawyers and judges as their lives intersect in the U.S. immigration courtroom. Littered with audience interaction, multimedia and scored by a live DJ, the play explores how humanity survives in judicial proceedings.
I'M VERY ONLINE
by Ben Ferber
July 29, 2018
directed by Blayze Teicher
Two people from the most extreme parts of opposite ends of the Internet (which are, to be clear, not morally equivalent) meet irl. And become best friends. And work at a bookstore. Which is dying. But neither knows about the other's Internet life. And things get weird. And people get hurt. And lives get destroyed. And books get sold.
Two people from the most extreme parts of opposite ends of the Internet (which are, to be clear, not morally equivalent) meet irl. And become best friends. And work at a bookstore. Which is dying. But neither knows about the other's Internet life. And things get weird. And people get hurt. And lives get destroyed. And books get sold.
SOLDIER POET
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September 17, 2017
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THE LAST RING
by Ashley Lauren Rogers
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March 26, 2016
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HUNGRY
by Lia Romeo
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June 25, 2016
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WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED WAS
by Stephanie Swirsky
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November 1, 2015
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CRISIS: OCEAN PLANET
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March 22, 2015
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Header photo by Will Arvidson