Max Garner

We are a independent rep company based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose mission is to develop and produce new stage work by local writers and other play-making artists.

"Rapid Lemon"—an anagram of "palindrome"—got its name from the dialogue of an original play called "Sphere", the company's debut production as part of the 2012 DC Black Theatre Festival. "Sphere" was presented at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company that summer and praised emphatically by The Washington Post. "Sphere" was followed by "Marvin's Trial", another new script, workshopped at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and premiered at THEARC in Washington. These early ventures, and the ongoing stewardship of The Variations Project starting in 2014, established Baltimore-based Rapid Lemon Productions as a resident company dedicated to the growth of new theater throughout the region.

We are committed to developing theater art and artists, with particular focus on new writing. We believe in expanding our reach—in the thrill of the untried—in challenging ourselves, each other, and our audiences in the most amazingly rewarding ways we can devise together.

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