2025 Play Contest Semi-finalists
Lava Alapai, Sunny's Gifts and Things
Benjamin Benne, Wave After Wave
Claire Bernstein, Young Fools
Derek Brooks, Boiling Water
Dan Caffrey, Universal Monsters
Lindsay Carpenter, Fuckisms
Sopan Deb, Siddartha's
Maddie Dennis-Yates, Vanessa the Miracle Girl
Bridget Flanery, Litter
Jeff Gittel, The Only Girl Who Likes Frank Zappa
Zach Greenberger, Who's a Good Boy
Juliet Izon, Tracking
Jeremiah Jahi, Housekeeping
James La Bella, Melt.Punish
Michaelia Leigh Mendoza, This Is Not a Love Story
Lori Marra, Zip It! The Real-Life Drama of an Italian-American Lesbian Tyree Marshall, If the Creek Don't Rise
Louis Reyes McWilliams, How to Have Sex Again
Matthew Paul Olmos, Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home
Kanishk Pandey, Idle Eyes
Amanda Rubeli, All Cats Go to Hell
Caitlin Saylor Stephens, A Picture of the Dog
Cassie M. Seinuk, Close Distance Disappearing Acts
Sam Walsh, The Things We Say
Rachel White, Still Life
Laura Winters, The Starters
Habib Yazdi, Ajax
Alisa Zhulina, Deepfake
Thank you to all who submitted, and a big congratulations to our semi-finalists! Keep an eye out for future announcements regarding the contest.
The Enablers
An evening of monologues by the folks that enabled Trump and his crew to take over the country written by extraordinary fancy writers performed by extraordinary fancy actors.
October 15th at 7:30PM
Ms. Tucker Will see You now
Winner - Best Cabaret/Burlesque in the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival!
written & performed by Laural Meade
with Fred Cassidy at the piano
directed by Cynthia Ettinger and Michael Schlitt
October 25, 26, and 27
Stand up if you’re here tonight
Written and directed by John Kolvenbach
Starring Jim Ortlieb
September 12-15, 18-20, and 25-27
A BELLA INCARCERATION
Conceived, written, and performed by Ann Noble
September 21 - 23, 28, and 29
Produced in association with Theatre Ghosts