INKubator New Play Festival & Program

The 8th Annual INKubator New Play Festival
May 4-6 & May 11-13, 2026

Experience six new plays at the 8th Annual INKubator New Play Festival! The 2025-2026 INKubator cohort has been meeting monthly since September to develop their concepts into new plays. Oded Gross, Erin Mallon, Kyle Mazer, Ferdinand Moscat, Allyson Dwyer, and Cristina Luzárraga have been working with Program Director Alex Tobey to complete first drafts of their plays. Be the first to see these new plays come to life at Art House Productions!

FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Monday, May 4th at 7:00pm
BOGO by Oded Gross
Directed by Marina Montesanti

Evie, a surrogate who once carried a child for Percy and Pip, shocks everyone, including her rabbi wife Gili, when she announces she wants to gift the two men a free sibling for their son. No fees, no contracts. Just faith, gratitude, and the goodness of her heart guiding this astonishingly generous offer. But when long-buried truths begin to surface, Evie’s claims of good intentions start to unravel, unleashing a chain reaction of consequences she's desperate to control. Can she truly claim moral righteousness if she refuses to face the harm she’s caused?

Tuesday, May 5th at 7:00pm
B.I.N.G.O. (or Brittney Isle's Nice Geriatric Orgy) by Erin Mallon
Directed by Robert Ross Parker

Barb desperately needs friends. That's why she moved to this 55+ community in the first place. So what better way to meet new people than to join a good old fashioned Bingo Night? She thought getting her husband to socialize would be the hardest part of this evening. That is, until she meets Terrance... and his rock hard "assistant." When Bingo Night turns into a full-blown orgy, Barb must decide: does she stay in her safe, predictable world? Or does she play a new game of chance and truly live before it's too late?

Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00pm
George Washington's Second Crossing by Kyle Mazer
Directed by Leo Egger

In a dilapidated houseboat on the Delaware River, a fifteen-year-old boy makes a Christmas wish for George Washington to come and free him from his overbearing mother. When America's Great Liberator actually arrives, with intent to complete his attack on Trenton and free the colonies from British reign, the liberty he provides is not what anyone expects.

Monday, May 11th at 7:00pm
Consolation Prize by Ferdinand Moscat
Directed by Alexander Peña

Ben is an actor. Sorry, Ben was an actor. Sorry, Ben doesn't know what he is anymore. Sorry, Ben's life fell apart and now he's living at home taking care of his mom as she prepares for another round of chemotherapy. Against all odds, life goes on. Consolation Prize, a new funny-sad play by Ferdinand Moscat, is a story about hitting rock bottom and what happens when rock bottom dares to hit back.

Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00pm
Gumshoe: An Online Noir by Allyson Dwyer
Directed by Dina Vovsi

Gumshoe's brother has gone missing. He hasn't been seen since the 2020 election was certified. Once an activist and now a doomer, Gumshoe dwells inside, solving online mysteries for the right price.

Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00pm
Flushing by Cristina Luzárraga
Directed by Katie Birenboim

In an old townhouse in Flushing, Queens, a toilet falls through the top floor, landing on the toilet one floor below, which in turn, falls upon the toilet on the ground floor. Three cascading toilets, and three apartments of Millennial tenants looking to cash in on a real estate disaster that might finally turn them into homeowners. In a state like New York where adverse possession laws can turn squatters into millionaires, how far will four 30-something women go for their slice of the American dream? Flushing is a dark comedy about co-existing with one's neighbors in the midst of a housing crisis. 

Oded Gross's plays have been produced at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and Boston Court Pasadena. His adaptations include The Imaginary Invalid, The Servant of Two Masters, and The Government Inspector. Among his original plays, Annelies was part of the Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Conference, Heart Attack With A Knife was produced at Kentucky’s YES Festival, and Dantino’s, an original commedia about gay marriage, was a finalist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference.


Erin Mallon is a playwright, USA Today Bestselling Author, and narrator of 800 audiobooks. Her play These Walls Can Talk is an Independent Audiobook Award Winner for Humor. Some of Erin’s full-length plays include Branched (Original Works Publishing), The Net Will Appear (Broadway Play Publishing), Skin Hungry (Broadway Play Publishing), Pale Blue Dot(s), Come Find Me, Soft Animals, and Out of the Woodwork. Erin lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and Three J’s.


Kyle Mazer is a playwright, poet, producer and composer from Millburn, New Jersey. He studied playwriting under Donald Margulies at Yale University where he was awarded the T. Whitney Blake Prize for excellence in English, Music, and Community Building. His writing credits include The S.S. Cancelled, ORCA: A One-Whale Musical, STALLED, KEEP THE CHANGE, Rusty Utopia, The Woman in Green, and Dog Eat Dog. He is a lover of all critters, and most sandwiches.


Ferdinand Moscat is a writer, actor, and director from Vineland, NJ currently based in New York City. Previous plays include Fan Service, Colin/Peter, Abuela Won’t Die, and Paternity. Recent directing credits: RENT, Dog Sees God, and Hypertension. Currently, he is developing a new play about Felix-Gonzalez Torres with The Cult Collective in New York City. He has ten fingers and ten toes and has had a mustache since the seventh grade.

A theater artist from New Jersey, Allyson Dwyer’s work has been supported by or seen at The Brick, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Workshop Theater, The Road Theatre Company, Theater Accident, and more. Finalist: Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Alpine Fellowship, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Semi-finalist: Ars Nova Play Group, Pipeline PlayLab, Colt Coeur Artist Residency, Princess Grace Award. She is the founder of mind dream theater, an experimental new theater where the venue is your mind.

Cristina Luzárraga is a playwright from New Jersey who recently returned home from Minneapolis. She is a current Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center where she was also formerly a Jerome Fellow and McKnight Fellow. She wrote the book for the hit musical I Am Betty about Betty Crocker, and her play Autorefract will be featured this fall at Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs Festival. She was recognized last year in American Theatre magazine as a Twin Cities Theatre Artist to Watch.

ABOUT THE INKUBATOR NEW PLAY PROGRAM

INKubator is an eight-month generative playwriting process for a select group of playwrights-in-residence in Jersey City, culminating in the annual INKubator New Play Festival in May. 

Playwrights meet as a group and in-person monthly from October to May alongside program director Alex Tobey to share new pages, receive feedback, and develop the first draft of a brand new play. At the end of the process in May, each writer will team up with a professional director and actors to present a public staged reading as a part of the annual INKubator New Play Festival.

At its essence, INKubator supports playwrights and the plays they are creating at their earliest stage of development while also creating opportunities for long-term artistic relationships with Art House and the Art House community.

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