ALL-ACCESS PASSES provide access to ALL Lab events including staged readings, the playwrights panel, and social gatherings.

ONLY $99

Limited single-reading tickets will be available on April 10, 2025.

ONLY $30

PRE-LAB HIKE
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 3 pm
Location: TBD (Boulder)

Gather with the Local Lab team and your fellow audience members for a casual stroll on a Boulder-area trail. More information TBA.

FESTIVAL KICKOFF PARTY*
Friday, April 25, 2025
Time: 5-6:30 pm MT
Location: Bus Stop Gallery (4895 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304). The Bus Stop Gallery is a short, 5-minute drive to The Nomad Playhouse.

Gather with the teams behind each play, the Local staff, and your fellow playgoers to raise a glass to Local Lab 14. Enjoy light refreshments and a mix of alcoholic and non-alcoholic options.

*Included in All-Access Pass. Purchase HERE.

PLAYWRIGHTS PANEL*
Moderated by GerRee Hinshaw and Courtney Cauthon
Friday, April 25, 2025
Time: 6:45 - 7:30 pm MT
Location: The Nomad Playhouse

Sit down with the Local Lab 14 playwrights to discuss their inspirations, processes, and experiences.

*Included in All-Access Pass. Purchase HERE.

READING ONE
Bats#!t
By Steven J. Burge | Directed by Nick Chase
Friday, April 25, 2025
7:30 pm MT
Location: The Nomad Playhouse

Part confessional, part storytelling, all ridiculous. This autobiographical play looks at addiction and mental illness with sharp humor and sensitivity.

Bats#!t was commissioned and developed by American Stage in St, Petersburg, Florida

Local Lab 14 Playwright Steven J. Burge sits down with Lab 14 director Nick Chase to talk all things Bats#!t.

Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 4-6 pm MT
Location: Nomad Playhouse

As Augusto Boal reminds us, “We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.” Whether you wish to enhance your stage work or improvisation skills, your community organizing – or your ability to engage in conversation with that one unruly uncle – presence, embodiment and listening are foundational, empowering skills.

Participants in this interactive workshop will learn and practice the fundamentals of Playback Theater – an applied theater form employed around the world to promote insight, dialogue and understanding across difference – with an eye toward application to relationships and group collaborations, and to strengthening civil society.

Games and exercises will highlight skills of presence, spontaneity, collaboration and listening as a whole-body practice. Participants will leave feeling more connected, present and empowered – confident in their ability to remain grounded in uncomfortable situations, to listen with openness and skill, and to make positive contributions to any group.

Open to all. No performance experience (or desire) necessary. Wear comfortable clothing for movement.

$30 - General Public
$22.50 - All Access Pass Holders

READING TWO
A Bedtime Story for Black Boys on the Moon
By Kori Alston | Directed by Betty Hart
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm MT
Location: The Nomad Playhouse

A Bedtime Story for Black Boys on the Moon is a dark and poetic exploration of the unique brand of loneliness experienced by black boys in America. With just a few gadgets to occupy his endless days, Saint, our protagonist, finds himself hurled into a journey of self-discovery and solitude that challenges his very conception of self. This play asks the question, how do we protect the lightest parts of ourselves from the darkest ones?

*Included in All-Access Pass. Purchase HERE.

LAB CELEBRATION + COMMUNITY MEAL*
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: directly following Reading 2
Location: The Nomad Playhouse

It’s time to relax alongside the Local Lab 14 creative teams. Enjoy your preferred beverage, snacks, and the chance to discuss the plays you’ve heard so far.

*Included in All-Access Pass. Purchase HERE.

COFFEE WITH CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Sunday, April 27, 2025
12:45-1:45 pm MT
Location: Ruzo Coffee (next to The Nomad Playhouse)

Join Local Theater Company artistic leadership for a casual coffee prior to the final Local Lab 14 reading. All April long, Local Lab All-Access Passholders receive 20% off beverages. A percentage of sales will be donated to Local Theater Company.

READING THREE
BloodSuckingLeech
By Amy Tofte | Directed by Diana Dresser
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2 pm MT
Location: The Nomad Playhouse

A dark comedy about a woman struggling to protect her aging mother from catfishers and con artists

*Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.