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Join us for this triple theater feature celebrating the release of three new plays!

As coastlines disappear and lives are uprooted, a drifting community of warehouse workers travels from one temporary home to the next. Among loading docks and parking lots, they search for missing loved ones—and for meaning. Both intimate and rebellious, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a striking new play about connection, survival, and finding love where you least expect it.

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn prize 2023, Sarah Mantell’s compelling dystopian and highly theatricalized world features a flexible cast of 7 female, nonbinary, and trans actors. Originally produced at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, this is the first publication of this celebrated contemporary play.

Meanwhile, 22 years in the future, two lab assistants hatch a plan that could change the world in Kate Douglas’ The Apiary. Bees are extinct, only kept alive inside synthetic apriaries where they live in perpetual spring.

And begin to crave flesh. As the bees begin t othrive, lab assistants Zora and Pilar must satiate their new appetites.

Noah Diaz’s You Will Get Sick  is a dark comedy in second person about learning how to live within your body as you find your way home.It was a finalist for both the Henry Award for Outstanding New Play and The John Gassner Award for New American Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Get a taste for all three works and discuss the works with the authors and special guest moderator Emmanuel Wilson. 

Copies of the plays will be available for purchase. There will be a signing after the event. 

Sarah Mantell is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena),The Good Guys (Second Stage, PlayPenn), and Fight Call (Artists Repertory Theatre, Breaking the Binary) They have been first-runner up for the Leah Ryan Award, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, nominated for the Pulitzer, and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Sarah is a two-time MacDowell fellow and a Colt Coeur company member. They are the founder of The Living Writers Lab which offers wildly accessible MFA-quality classes. BFA Rhode Island School of Design. MFA Yale School of Drama.

Noah Diaz is a playwright and screenwriter from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been produced at Roundabout Theatre, Steppenwolf, La Jolla Playhouse, The Playwrights Realm, Salt Lake Acting Company, and Baltimore Center Stage, amongst others. Commissions from Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Baltimore Center Stage, Audible/Amazon Studios, and Arena Stage. Noah is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize and has been nominated for both Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. In television, he’s written for Hulu, Peacock, ABC, 20th Television, The Walk-Up Company, Nyle DiMarco, and Eva Longoria. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Kate Douglas is a writer, performer and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her play The Apiary premiered at Second Stage and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and nominee for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award. Other work includes Tulipa (New York Stage & Film), My Dog is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts) and If I Forget Thee, O Earth (Next Forever Commission, The Civilians/Princeton University). Her work has been recognized with a Jonathan Larson Award and developed at Signature Theatre, The New Group, and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Alum of the Joe’s Pub Working Group, Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Colt Coeur, and The Civilians R&D Group. kate-douglas.com

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