Monday, December 8: Rebel's Rest is Burning Down by Brittany K. Allen
When the first Black graduates of a small liberal arts college in the Dirty South return to campus twenty years later for an old professor’s memorial, scabs fly off. Old friends reminisce, ghosts may or may not terrorize their evening, and the one Confederate monument still on campus burns to the ground. One part Big Chill, all parts autopsy of an institution, this play examines the psychological toll of Black self-making at a PWI. Structurally in conversation with Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July, this generational portrait also considers how school is structurally complicit in America's greatest sins. If your first teachers are rotten, how can you come to trust your own mind?

Brittany K. Allen (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. Her plays have been produced and developed at/with Manhattan Theatre Club, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Studio Theatre, among other places. As a performer, she last appeared at the Starr in Julia May Jonas’ A Woman Among Women.

Wednesday, December 10: East Grand Memory Buffet by Hillary Gao
Off of route 18, there used to be a Chinese buffet. It no longer exists, except in a long forgotten memory. Somehow, three doppelgangers find themselves outside of it.

Hillary Gao (any pronouns) is a multidisciplinary creator (writer/director/etc…). Currently, they are interested in autofiction and the dramaturgy of falseness. Most recently, they were a part of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writer’s Group and currently are a fellow at Theater MITU’s Hybrid Arts Lab.

Thursday, December 11: AMANDA by Mo Holmes
What if you could bite your Mother? What if you could be her? Defend her? Touch her? During play time, you can. A psychosocial, doll and puppet horror-fantasy, charting the violence of becoming an upwardly mobile Southern black belle, in heated conversation with The Glass Menagerie.

Mo Holmes is a black queer Southern playwright, librettist and dramaturg. Her plays include AMANDA (development: Tennesse Williams in Clarksdale, Vertigo Theatre, Sewanee Writers’ Conference; honors: Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize); STRIVERS (honors: Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award); and WE SO SHORT (development: Playwrights’ Center; honors: Jane Chambers finalist).

Friday, December 12: This Big Cell by Nurit Chinn
There’s a whistle everyone hears all the time. Dee and her daughter Lila sit in a diner, waiting to order. Outside, a waitress and a cook share an herbal cigarette. Somewhere else, four soldiers sweep through a partially destroyed hospital. In This Big Cell, war ripples through our relationships, our bodies, and our dreams.

Nurit Chinn (she/they) is a playwright and producer from London, now based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at Alliance Theatre, Center for New Jewish Culture, CUNY Segal Center, Royal Court Theatre, and others. Nurit is the Co-Director of The Exponential Festival. MFA: Playwriting, Brooklyn College.

Saturday, December 13: The New Mary by Sila Puhl
The New Mary concerns one nun's obsession to solve the moral erosion of the world: become the next Virgin Mary and bring about the second Jesus Christ. It's the erotics of virginity, the Catholicizing of passion, and the perseverance demanded by celibacy.

Sila Puhl (she/her) is a Brooklyn based writer, comedian, and producer with pieces on the Emmy-winning The Daily Show, What If, and I Love the City. She is a former resident artist at Ars Nova and The Elysian's Spaghetti Fest. She performs stand-up all around New York, including at The Bell House and Union Hall.

Sunday, December 14: CoNToRTeD by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz
how can sex be pleasurable when chronic pain is unbearable? how does kink show up in spoonie relationships? how do you seek pleasure and body autonomy when the world wants you dead? CoNToRTeD is what happens when the show must not go on - a crippunk experiment at the intersection of cabaret, drag-thingery, and full-on punk concert.

Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) makes devastating projects that will make you laugh laugh laugh. Their first film POSSUM (writer/actor/producer) is currently streaming on SHUDDER, and they are a member of The Jam (New Georges). They’re also a proud Accessibility Consultant on an upcoming Hulu series