SPRING/SUMMER THEATER FESTIVAL

PRODUCTIONS SUMMERFEST

SUBTLE INTENTIONS

by Jean Michel Hoffman Gideon, a rogue American ambassador, is utilizing an international spy network to covertly install a central bank in Suren, a fictional country based on contemporary Iran. When he visits two years later he discovers that the politician he …

POLITICAL ANIMALS

by Howard Zuckerman This play consists of a series of four short, dark comedies that focus on repression and the distortion of truth as a means to political, social and economic ends. Sept. 10, 2019 @ 9pm Sept. 11, 2019 @ …

RE-VISIONS

by Ella Jane New A Director decides to recreate the party his Jewish great -aunt, Rujia, uncertain about her future threw the night before WW2. This noble effort is then derailed as his crew has a different idea of how to get this party started. …

GATSBY: A NEW MUSICAL

.: Musical Festival :. by Danielle Moore and Jacob Ryan Smith Gatsby: A New Musical A musical send-up a certain tale of sex, crime, & the raucous parties of the roaring twenties that follows wannabe stockbroker Nick Carraway, who quickly becomes the …

ALL CATHERINE

by Marina Barry Four actresses at an audition and what it takes to keep the faith going, despite the consequences, or circumstances which get more and more bizarre. What's really going on here? Sept. 9, 2019 @ 9pm Sept. 11, 2019 @ …

THE OSPREY TREE

.: Musical Festival :. by Carey Lovelace A tale of sex, real estate and murder. Emma is a songwriter / freelance editor and recovering alcoholic. Upon inheriting a California oceanfront property from her uncle and moving there with her female lover, she finds …

THE ERLENRING SONG

by Pamela Robbins When Linnie, an American student in Germany, crosses a bridge to the older part of town, enters a café and falls in love with a dreamy guy, she is over the moon. But for Erika, Linnie's roommate and best friend, there is just one problem: no …

SYNESTHESIA: THE MUSICAL

.: Musical Festival :. by Jillian Vitko Synesthesia, The Musical You see a person, she sees the colour blue. She can smell green and taste purple. Synesthesia the Musical is an acoustic storytelling concert written and performed by Jillian Vitko. Come with her on …

HALF EMPTY; HALF FULL

by Kiana Wu A year after ending their affair, Lilia, a young, bright and steadfast woman goes to visit Alex, a professional, eloquent and kind man for a surprise visit. They've agreed to be friends, and it is seemingly so until secrets are revealed about what it is …

DECIMAL

by Dana Chavez When an unforeseen delivery arrives at her doorstep, a young woman is forced to confront her struggles with power, sexuality and math. Sept. 5, 2019 @ 6:15pm Sept. 6, 2019 @ 6:15pm Sept. 8, 2019 @ …

EUPHORIA

by Courtney Ravelo This is a glimpse into a world ravaged by climate change. The play focuses specifically on a society of people of color in the United States that has been raised and taught that they have to perform ritualistic suicides in order to get to a …

PORTRAIT OF A SOCIOPATH

by Daniel Contreras When a backstabbing friend, a cheating girlfriend, a spineless playwright father, & a bitter mom crushed by her own dashed dreams of stardom, gather to throw a surprise party for Jacob Hagan, it turns out that they're all there because they …

THE ACCIDENTAL DOCTOR

by Nate Brauner This play is a restoration-mashup-queer-romance-farce! Besieged by a boorish suitor, Imogen concocts a clever escape, but her faithful fiance falls victim to vicious jealousy! The trouble doubles when a libidinous layabout gets mistaken for a …

90/10

.: Musical Festival :. by James Hamrick Alyssa Nettles is a Senior college musical theatre major at the less-than-prestigious Fallarbor University. As graduation draws closer, she begins to lose her grip on her own identity when her friends forsake her, …

I LEARNED FROM NEIL

by Francesca Curran A young man, Craig, moves to New York from the midwest. He finds a job as a bartender and at this bar he meets a cockroach, Neil. They soon fall in love but learn that their relationship will not be easy. August 29, 2019 @ …

LESLIE SIMS

by Debbra Liverman In a psych ward, a gay, male patient meets his new female psychotherapist for the first time. During his treatment session, both characters reveal some interesting things about themselves. By the end of their session, we learn that both parties have …

LEMONS

by Rebecca Gever A daughter intersperses transcripts of her mother talking about her relationship to her body and living with lupus with vignettes from the daughter's own understanding of these topics. Lemons attempts to tell a story with illness in it without making a …

IF ONLY…

by Joe Bulvid Michael is a successful 43-year old actuary with a wife and twins. One morning at a cafe, he envisions a life where he can truly be who he is, where love is love. Is this just a fantasy or a remembrance? August 29, 2019 @ …

THE MAROONS

by Jordan Powell The night before her family leaves for their annual tradition of going to Jamacia to celebrate Maroon Day, Marley, decides she's not going and instead she is going to the dance with a boy. Deano, her father, has to convince her that her tradition, her …

WITHIN THE ICE

by Wiley June The play follows Philip Enfance, the captain of a British exploration ship which is marooned at the south pole. He struggles with his own internal monsters and competence as a captain, even as his crew is gradually picked off by a monster all their own. …