FESTIVAL KICK-OFF PARTY! | 5-7PM
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS OR THURSDAY DAY PASS PASSHOLDERS

Meet your fellow festival-goers, the playwrights, and the rest of the Lab teams as we kick off Local Lab 12. There will be drinks. There will be food. There will be fun.

WeWork Lounge | 1st Floor
2755 Canyon Blvd
Boulder, CO 80302

MAINSTAGE READING 1 | 7:30PM
Great Bends
Written by Sarah Léo Powers
Directed by Cecilia J. Pang

Great Bends is presented in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU as part of our playwright mentorship program. The play explores the profound grief of lives lost and relationships strengthened in the face of climate change. Throughout one night in Great Bend County, Kansas, relationships are tested through debates regarding career choices, childbearing, and ethics, in preparation for an unpredictable future. In this dystopian future not too unlike our own, sacrifice, love, and the bends we take for one another may be what saves us all.

Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center

MAINSTAGE READING 2 | 7:30PM (doors open at 7)
The World is Not Silent
Written by Don X. Nguyen
Directed by Marya Mazor

Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center

Dau, a Vietnamese immigrant living in Nebraska, hopes to match his son, Don, with a nice Vietnamese woman. When an unexpected guest arrives at their Thanksgiving dinner, the plan is set in motion in this hilarious and tender play. The World Is Not Silent examines barriers–linguistic, generational, cultural–and proves that they can be surmounted.

The World Is Not Silent was originally commissioned by East West Players (Producing Artistic Director Snehal Desai)

The World Is Not Silent received a reading in the Alley Theatre’s 2022 Alley All New Festival Rob Melrose, Artistic Director Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director

A workshop of The World Is Not Silent was presented by New York Stage and Film, Summer 2022

BONUS READING | 3:00PM (doors open at 2:30)
”I Want to Be Alive”
The Transcript of a NY Times article by Kevin Roose
Directed by Pesha Rudnick
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS OR SATURDAY DAY PASS PASSHOLDERS

A compelling reading of a NEW YORK TIMES story in which journalist Kevin Roose carries on a conversation with Bing’s chatbot brought to life by Betty Hart and Nick Chase, directed by Pesha Rudnick. Read the compelling article here.

MAINSTAGE READING 3 | 6:30PM (doors open at 6)
The Agency
Written by Lia Romeo
Directed by Rodney Lizcano

Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center

Ani, a struggling actor, has scored a high-paying acting gig, although it’s anything but typical. In this dystopian comedy, clients hire her to play people with whom they have unresolved issues. Being an emotional surrogate helping others work through challenges is initially rewarding, but the lines between character and human soon blur.

LATE NIGHT LAB PARTY | 8:00PM
DV8 (aka Deviant Spirits)
2480 49th St. Suite E, Boulder, 80301
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS OR SATURDAY DAY PASS PASSHOLDERS

All this exciting theater make you wanna dance? Good, because that’s what we’re gonna do. Gather with the playwrights, the Lab team, and your fellow All-Access Passholders at DV8 in east Boulder. Not one to hit the dance floor? We get it; sometimes you just want to relax. There will be space for all.

MAINSTAGE READING 4 | 12PM (doors open at 11:30)
Cris Leaves Queens
Written by Adriana Santos
Directed by Ilasiea Gray

A family-run funeral home in Queens comes under threat from an incoming snow storm, forcing twin sisters Cris and Dani, their father and a guest to come face to face with what’s been haunting them, along with several other quirky undead.

Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center

PLAYWRIGHTS PANEL | 3PM (doors open at 2:30)
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS OR SUNDAY DAY PASS PASSHOLDERS

Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center