Event

Read. Play. Write. VII

Chosen through open submission, five NYC playwrights participate in a month-long process, collaborating with directors, actors and the Crashbox team to develop a new, never-before-produced play.

In our seventh annual series, we are excited to present:

MON, FEB 4 @ 8 pm (Penthouse 1)
SENSITIVE TO BITE
by Eljon Wardally
directed by Zoey Martinson

Set in a bodega on the Lower East Side of NY, a budding feminist and her conservative husband struggle to sacrifice remnants of their past in Syria for the sake of their uncertain future in the US.

MON, FEB 11 @ 8 pm (Room 1100)
WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL
by Alex Riad
directed by Padraic Lillis

In a rundown house in a California suburb, a group of loser twenty-something roommates, find their low rent, slacker existence threatened when their friend/landlord invites a strange girl he met online to move in, igniting tensions amongst the friends and digging up the home's past familial trauma.

MON, FEB 25 @ 8 pm (Penthouse 1)
HOW TO DESTROY AN AMERICAN GIRL DOLL
by Jan Rosenberg
directed by Shira-Lee Shalit

Gen teaches Vee how to do it when they're 12. And through drunken sleepovers, graduation parties, and lonely college dorm rooms, they're both still doing it. A dark comedy about addiction, asexuality, and monsters.

PREVIOUSLY SEEN IN THE SERIES:

MON, JAN 21 @ 8 pm (Penthouse 1)
YAELIS
by Juliany Taveras
directed by Manny Rivera

Sometimes running away means finding home, not leaving it behind. A coming-of-age journey that crosses borders & spans centuries, YAELIS is a road trip, a fever dream, & an earth-shaking ancestral resurrection

MON, JAN 28 @ 8 pm (Penthouse 1)
DAUGHTERS OF THE DEWEY DECIMAL
by Jona Tarlin
directed by Katie Lindsay

1995 A.D. The Library of Alexandria has just switched from a card catalogue to a computer. Penny's in a panic, Lori knows it's the future and Morgan's stuck in between. Everyone else just wants to talk about aliens. And no one knows yet that the Library's gonna burn.

*All readings are free with a $5 suggested donation at the door. We hope to see you there!
**Please know that events hosted at Shetler Penthouse 1 Studio require 1 flight of stairs for access. While Shelter is working on making the necessary fixes to their elevator for access, please plan accordingly.