2020 Reading Series!
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, our New Works in Action program has been shifted to a virtual meeting space on our YouTube Account.
Access to our readings is FREE and we invite our audience to stay for a talk-back with actors, director and playwright. Join us at the appointed time. Do not miss this opportunity since you won't be able to replay or watch these live readings at a later date.
By joining us for these readings, you help keep theater alive. We have more new scripts waiting in the wings. We hope you will consider making a donation now and help keep New Works in Action live streaming!
To start the flow, we are excited to bring you the following plays:
Access to our readings is FREE and we invite our audience to stay for a talk-back with actors, director and playwright. Join us at the appointed time. Do not miss this opportunity since you won't be able to replay or watch these live readings at a later date.
By joining us for these readings, you help keep theater alive. We have more new scripts waiting in the wings. We hope you will consider making a donation now and help keep New Works in Action live streaming!
To start the flow, we are excited to bring you the following plays:
MODERATION by Kevin Kautzman
Director: Brandon McCoy Cast: Robert Bowen Smith and Amanda Forstrom A darkly comic drama about social media content moderators losing their minds at work as they deal with the very worst content humanity throws online, while they struggle for advancement within an inscrutable technocratic bureaucracy. May 24 at 3:00 PM 
TRANSFERAL by Jack Novak
Director: Bridget Grace Sheaff Cast: Linda Bard, Terrance Fleming, Bob Pike, Toni Rae Salmi, Jon Reynolds and Aron Spellance Kora is a young woman with a strong connection with death. When her partner, Cato, dies in a plane crash, Kora tries to bring him back. While her mother is trying to reconnect with her, Kora's father returns unexpectedly and they have to face their fears about moving on. But is it possible to make the transferal from one phase of our lives to the next? June 7 at 3:00 PM |
WE VICTORIANS by Matthew Kelly
Director: Tyler Herman Cast: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Gwen Grastorf, Jordanna Hernandez, Aidan Hughes, Matt Pauli, Rosemary Regan and Noga Wind. A 21-year-old assistant brings a sexual harassment suit against a respected white-glove attorney. Queer empowerment and old-school privilege collide in this radical interrogation of power in the Me Too Era, blurring distinctions between reality and myth, past and present, victimization and liberation. May 31 at 3:00 PM 
CIRCULAR by Laura Shamas
Director: Kathryn Chase Bryer Cast: Jonathan Holmes and Lisa Hodsoll Circe's island. A strange warrior approaches. Or is it modern day Afghanistan, and an officer approaches? A young army psychiatrist becomes entangled in the world of "The Odyssey" on her first tour in Afghanistan. What is real? What actually happened in combat between a soldier and her commanding officer is gradually revealed, on the road to healing. June 14 at 3:00 PM |
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New Works in Action presents staged reading and workshops for the Greater Washington Area. Learn more in past workshops.
