A Septagon at The Strides Collective

A SEPTAGON (STAGED READING)

By Sophie Brion Neely

Directed by Jack McManus

Friday, June 5, 2026 at 7pm

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 2pm

SYNOPSIS

As Route 113 starts his new job as a bouncer at Woody’s in August 2025, Philadelphia goes into crisis mode. The SEPTA cuts have hit, forcing together two formerly distant siblings: Route 27, a lesbian-but-straight-for-AJ-Brown social worker and Route 5, a math professor turned high school sub with a penchant for Tastykakes. As the siblings struggle to define their relationship in a post-advancement world, Route 113, Route 5, and Route 27 encounter each other in unexpected ways, ultimately shaping the others’ conclusions about how to live free, queer, and Philadelphian when all you can do is wait…alongside your entire city.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Sophie Brion Neely is a playwright from Orange County, California, and the first commissioned playwright from The Strides Colletive. Her work has been developed and/or showcased by Kearny Street Workshop, the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Moving Arts, the Dramatic Question Theatre, and Amoeba Productions. Her plays have been selected as finalists or semifinalists for The Playwrights Realm’s Scratchpad Series, the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s National Fellows Program, the Blue Ink Award, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration from Yale University and a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

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