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

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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

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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

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Stand up if you’re here tonight

Written and directed by John Kolvenbach

Starring Jim Ortlieb

September 12-15, 18-20, and 25-27

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A BELLA INCARCERATION

Conceived, written, and performed by Ann Noble

September 21 - 23, 28, and 29

Produced in association with Theatre Ghosts

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