Event Details
This is your chance to hear writers share their scripts, with actors reading the various roles in front of a live audience. Each block will have a range of projects for you to listen to, with time for Q&A so you can ask the writers directly about their work!
Scripts
Zoom Hit (Written By: Laura Puccia Valtorta)
When idealistic attorney Silvia Moretti watches her obnoxious doctor/lover get assassinated during a Zoom meeting, she travels to California with her housemate, Wyshonda, to find the killer.
The Life of Clare (Written By: Bodhi Werner)
In 1960’s Anaheim, Clare (14) innocent, elementary school dropout escapes into her vibrant imagination and helps her single mother, Barbara, care for her three siblings. When Clare is left pregnant by a violent sexual assault, she struggles to regain her desire to live and feels terrified, trying to plan a safe future for her child.
Penny Starts A Cult (Written By: Tim Cahill and Kristina Libby)
While attempting to bring out the best in each other in order to receive a large inheritance, a taciturn headstone engraver and his tech-savvy sister accidentally start a cult.
Bold In My Breeches (Written By: Elizabeth Anne Dickinson)
It’s 1720, the Golden Age of Piracy…
The genteel privateering model of piracy sanctioned by governments who give carte blanche to gentleman captains to raid any foreign ship has disintegrated.
In its place?
The ‘every ship for itself’ version of piracy populated by marginalized misfits from all walks of life who prey on any ship worth its plunder. But the misfit version includes surprisingly progressive democratic touches – open voting on who captains the ship, as well as the matelotage, an early version of gay marriage open to all pirates.
But even piracy isn’t open to misfit women.
Or is it?
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