Season Kick-Off!
Special Guest Sharr White
Falmouth Yacht Club
Thursday, June 22 from 5-7 pm
Precarious
by Steph Del Rosso
directed by Jaki Bradley
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
June 29, June 30 and July 1 at 7:30 PM ET
About the play: Violet is newly 70, newly retired, and growing increasingly anxious about environmental collapse when she shows up at her daughter Tillie’s Brooklyn apartment with an unwelcome surprise. But Tillie has secrets of her own, and as a heatwave hits, conflicts begin to simmer and threaten to explode. A dark comedy about mothers and daughters, generational divides, and climate change.
Steph Del Rosso’s (she/her) work has been produced or developed at Second Stage Theater, The Public, La Jolla Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Kennedy Center, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, JACK, and others. She is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, a New Georges Audrey Resident, a former Theater Master’s Visionary Playwright, and an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group. She is a winner of the Steinberg Playwright Award and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. MFA: UC-San Diego. stephdelrosso.com
Quick Service
by May Treuhaft-Ali
directed by Cristina Angeles
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 6, 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm ET
About the play: In an empanada shop in Chicago, four employees try to make it through the dinner rush: Angela’s trying to get home to her baby, Petey’s trying to get laid tonight, Vash is trying to graduate and get out, and Greg is trying to manage them all — while still pursuing his standup career. But as they try to make it through a particularly harrowing double shift, their dreams and desires get bent out of shape. A sinister force rises from below, ex-coworkers enact their revenge, and the oven has a mind of its own.
May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. She is the 22-23 Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater and a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group. Her plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, The Movement Theatre Company, and MCC Theater. She is under commission at Barrington Stage Company and South Coast Repertory. She also served as Associate Director on the world premiere of SHHHH by Clare Barron at Atlantic Theater Company. May is the Literary and Community Engagement Assistant at Playwrights Horizons.
AYA
by Fernanda Coppel
directed by Carolyn Cantor
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 13, 14 & 15 7:30 pm ET
About the play: Luis Diaz is in the midst of a divorce and a deep dark depression. Instead of doing the hard work to heal, he travels to Peru for a week long ayahuasca workshop – ayahuasca being a hallucinatory drug taken not for pleasure, but as an indigenous mystically healing tea that helps repair the darkest pain imaginable. There he meets Gloria, a no-holds-barred mystic, when an unexpected visitor arrives.
Fernanda Coppel is a Mexican/American playwright and screenwriter. Her play King Liz received its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre in 2015 and was produced at The Geffen Playhouse last summer. King Liz was published by Concord Theatricals and has recently been optioned by ABC Signature studio and 42 for television. Her professional New York debut, Chimichangas and Zoloft premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2012 and is published by Samuel French. Fernanda’s work has won the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, the 2012 Helen Merrill Award. She’s an alum of: The Juilliard School, NYU (MFA), and UC Santa Cruz (BA). Fernanda’s also written for TV shows such as: Shonda Rhimes produced HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, Jason Katim’s RISE, USA network’s adaptation of QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, among others. In feature film, Fernanda’s co-wrote NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE which was produced by Netflix and Andy Serkis’ UK based Imaginarium Productions and premiered on Netflix in fall 2021.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
What Do We Do with The Dead – A Two-Person Soliloquy
by Stephen Belber
Sunday, July 16th at 7:30 PM
About the Play: Stephen Belber is a successful playwright, filmmaker and artist. Everyone seems to know this except Stephen Belber, whose friend Jenny is there as a live, onstage dramaturg of his life, while Stephen searches for something to hold onto amidst his follies, his failures, and his seemingly many dying friends.
Stephen Belber is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 50 countries. He directed the film adaptation of his Broadway play, MATCH, starring Patrick Stewart, (playing the Tony-nominated role created by Frank Langella). He also wrote and directed the film MANAGEMENT, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, and wrote the HBO film O.G., starring Jeffrey Wright. His stage play Tape was turned into a film by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and was recently remade as a film in Hong Kong, to be released next year. Belber’s latest film, WHAT WE DO NEXT (writer/director), recently opened in theaters nationwide, starring Corey Stoll and Karen Pittman. Belber was an actor and associate writer on The Laramie Project, (which later became an HBO film, for which he received an Emmy nomination), as well as a co-writer of and actor in The Laramie Project, Ten Years Later.
It’s Still F**king Tuesday
by Mary Hamilton
directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 20, 21 & 22 at 7:30 pm ET
About the Play: When she learns that her son has been diagnosed with an unnamed but life threatening disease, Mary, a recovering opioid addict, begs her housekeeper to stay the night and stop her from falling off the wagon. As the two women make dating profiles, try on clothes, smoke, drink and delve into whiskey-induced examinations of their pasts, they find they have more in common than they realized. Will Cathy be able to keep Mary from the abyss, or will Mary pull her housekeeper down along with her? Inspired by O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, It’s Still F**king Tuesday is a dark comedy/drama about ghosts, motherhood and addiction.
Mary Elizabeth Hamilton is a Brooklyn based playwright, TV writer and mom. She holds her MFA from The University of Iowa and an Artistic Diploma from Juilliard. Mary was a Jerome Fellow at The Lark and has participated in Youngblood, The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Ars Nova, I-73, New Georges’ The Jam, and Play Penn. Her play 16 Winters won ASC’s New Contemporaries Award and her Sloan commission, Smart, was produced at Ensemble Studio Theater and optioned by AMC. Mary was a Story Editor on WHY WOMEN KILL, wrote the podcast POWER TRIP starring Tatiana Maslany, and is a resident playwright with New Dramatists.
