New Works Festival 2023 at Morgan-Wixson Theatre

NO LOITERING by Amy Dellagiarino

At a sweater-filled, retail-is-hell workplace, overwhelmed millennials hilariously attempt sweet revenge for their broken dreams, neverending college debt, and whatever it was that happened in The Crucible.

NEIGHBORLY By John Connon

During an over-the fence conversation between an LGBTQ man and a heterosexual dad-next-door neighbor, much is revealed about children and beloved pets

HERE BE DRAGONS By Wendy Gough Soroka

On a hike in the Los Angeles hills, two lifelong women friends try to find a dragon and the inheritance of a mother’s possibly unwanted wisdom

SWIPED By Samara Siskind

In the course of a mall ‘meet-cute’ (or is it) two 20-somethings confront their racial and ‘first impression’ prejudices

MONARCHS by Danielle Frimer

After a loving, yet fractured family’s rollicking Seder, a mysterious guest appears in Elijah’s chair – unlocking the key to first-born Perri’s coming out and coming of age on a night truly different from all other nights.

SEAMLESS by Dorinne Kondo

A Japanese American ‘model minority’ woman experiences a poignant, fantastical journey as her seemingly seamlessly perfect life begins to unravel in the face of a lifetime of avoiding the history of her parents’ internment.

SOME TYPE OF ECSTASY by Khari Wyatt

At a Los Angeles inner-city blood plasma donation center, family is defined and the boundaries of capitalism, trust, and racial inequity are exposed.