The Common Stage Festival at The Makers' Space

Common Sister, a new creative production company, is excited to announce their inaugural event, The Common Stage Festival and Artist Mixer.

The festival will showcase staged excerpts from four new plays by emerging playwrights. The evening will include an artist mixer focused on building new communities, expanding your network, and meeting future collaborators.

After a competitive pool of applications, we are thrilled to share and support four emerging playwrights in developing new works-in-progress with rehearsal resources and access to our creative community.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Date: May 15th at 6:30 pm

Location: The Makers’ Space: 281 N. 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Ticket Link: https://makersensemble.org/event/6549536/760759006/common-stage-festival-presented-by-common-sister

FEATURED PLAYS

MY DAD IS FLORIDA MAN

Written by Riley Barriger and Directed by Jociel Tambone

Starring Julianna Hazlett, Riley Barriger, and Sammy Pignalosa

My Dad is Florida Man is a slightly absurdist take on the realities we face and the journeys we take. Follow Noah and Emma as they tackle the complexities of friendship, loss of parents, and, naturally, a talking alligator

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Written by Rachel Bland and Directed by Uchenna Agbu

Starring Aubree Chanel Dixon, Lexie Waddy, Maxwell Marlowe*, and Prentice Myles

*Equity Approved Showcase*

A group of strangers are pulled from their lives into a video game. Through the course of the play, they realize they have to escape the game, and face the lives they left behind.

HUDSOM

Written by Anaïs Juillet and Directed by Hailey Irwin

Starring Maya de Luna and Skylar Causey

Hudsom follows the story of siblings Sebastian and Hadley as they reunite to clean out their late mother’s house in Hudson, New York. Grief, awkwardness, decision, and the mess of all three at once.

DREAMBURGER; OR, TO LIVE DREAMING

Written by Sheldon Skoboloff and Directed by Adri Bollinger

Starring Cameron Wycoff, Jaden Perez*, and Yvanna Tassy

*This show was created as a part of Theatre Write Now Cohort Three*

*Equity Approved Showcase*

Segsismundo was cursed to live and die in the secluded experimental fast food location he was born in, but his world opens up when Rosaura comes across him as she Razor scooters across the country in order to avenge her bloodline and restore her honor. In this surreal and dreamy reimagining of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Spanish Golden Age Classic Life is a Dream, reality blurs, the subconscious rules, and justice is fought for.

"*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production"

ABOUT COMMON SISTER

Common Sister is a creative production company that exists to make room. Room for untold stories, emerging artists, and communities too often left out of the big stories. By nurturing artists first and being intentional, we transform connection and community into performance.

Co-founded by Katie Brown and Rachel Lee, Common Sister curates and selects work that highlights universal human experiences, fully grasping the breadth of diversity that exists in our community. Every background, every discipline, adds a thread to the tapestry we’re weaving together. In the end, we discover how much we share, even in our differences.