Art House Productions proudly presents the INKubator New Play Festival. The festival which features eight emerging playwrights runs Friday May 10th through Sunday, May 12th, 2019. Tickets are $10 per night.
This inaugural three-day new play festival is the culmination of Art House’s 2018-2019 INKubator play development program in which a group of eight selected writers including Molly Bicks (The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center), Stephen Kaplan (Old Globe Theatre, EST, HERE/Lincoln Center Theatre’s American Living Room Series, Dramatist Guild), Emily Kitchens (The American Conservatory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center) , Dan O’Neil (Abrons Arts Center, HERE, Ugly Rhino, Dixon Place), Lia Romeo (018 O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference), Michael Shayan (La MaMa, The Lark), Catherine Weingarten (Scott McPherson award winner and a 2018 Finalist for the WP Lab), and Ruth Zamoyta (semi-finalist for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award) spent a year developing new plays alongside INKubator’s resident director, Alex Tobey. Audiences attending the festival will have a unique opportunity to engage with writers, directors, and the INKubator playwrights and be a part of shaping the stories of tomorrow.
The schedule is:
Friday May 10th
Avaaz by Michael Shayan 7:00
The Girl in the Yellow Dress by Emily Kitchens 9:15
Saturday May 11
Tracy Jones by Stephen Kaplan 3:00
Safe Spaces by Lia Romeo 5:15
I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!! by Catherine Weingarten 7:30
Sunday May 12
The Incels by Ruth Zamoyta 3:00
Miss Atomic Power by Molly Bicks 5:15
The Alleged Children of Darkness by Dan O'Neil 7:30
The INKubator New Play Festival is made possible in part from a donation made by Mapp International and in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, and by the County of Hudson, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive, and the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.