2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival at A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre at Washington University

This annual WashU Performing Arts Department Festival begins with a university-wide solicitation of new, unproduced plays. Several plays are selected, through an anonymized screening process, to be developed in a two-week event in September. During those two weeks, each play will be workshopped with a professional dramaturg, a faculty director, and a student cast. The Festival culminates in a public staged reading of each play. Assistant Professor Zachariah Ezer will serve as Festival dramaturg in September 2024.

Hotch Fest is generously supported by the WashU Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences and the Newman’s Own Foundation.

Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Escape  

By Zach Berger

Directed by Jeffery Matthews

Chuck just wants to find love, but when his personal ad draws some unwanted visitors from his past, he must decide whether to run or find “the one” in this comedy of errors.

Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Follow the....  

By Frauke Thielecke

Directed by Annamaria Pileggi

Mark has unexpectedly turned into a giant white rabbit. Soon, he learns that it is not all about carrots.