Find My Friends: A Location Play
Written by Liv Wilson
Presented as a part of the 2024 LimeFest at The Tank
Cast:
Emma Finnerty- Sage
Gabriela Bastek- Hattie
Nick Lolvalvo- River
Crew:
Savannah Hall- Stage Directions
Elizabeth Redding- Lights+Sound
Synopsis: How many of your friends do you share your location with? Do you ever check the find my friends app... just to see what they're up to...?
A location play about privacy, trust, and transparency in modern relationships, Find My Friends follows Hattie as she tries to make rent while her roommate, Sage, becomes involved with someone they knew back in college (someone Hattie didn’t totally like love but it's totally fine). Location tracking gives way to some quasi-obsessive behavior as Hattie hops on the chat boards to make some extra cash where she is visited by self-help queens. This play asks us to consider what it means when technology interferes with our interpersonal relationships and our sense of self.
Crows
Written by Aerin Rollins
Dramaturgy by Rebecca Rovezzi
Presented as a part of the 2023 Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Synopsis: There have been rumors of people seeing crows and becoming hysterical and no one seems to know why or how, but Elliot can see them normally, though even he doesn’t know why. He meets a mysterious girl and befriends her, but he has his secrets and so does she.
Brutus
Written by Carson Stewart
Dramaturgy by Thomas Avery
Presented as a part of the 2021 Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival at Northwestern University
Synopsis: In a Dystopian America where Ronald Reagan has served three terms as president, money and power are more important than ever. Carson Stewart’s Dark Comedy Brutus follows six contract killers tasked with carrying out the murderous agenda of the owning class. All is going according to plan until a difficult assignment during the 1992 Republican Convention threatens the entire operation and the lives of everyone involved.
Scaredy Kat Presents
Written by Janine Knighton
Presented as a part of Purple Crayon Player’s 15th Annual Festival of New Works
Eleven-year-old Kathryn is paralyzed by social anxiety. Estranged from her classmates, she spends all her time in her basement with her two passions: Alfred Hitchcock and stop motion animation. When her enthusiastic attempts to win a trip to Hitchcock’s old film sets fall apart faster than her clay figures, Kathryn is sent a possible gift with the arrival of the new neighbor girl, Nadia. Forced to spend her afternoons at Kathryn’s house while her mom is working, Nadia’s keen interest in art could be the secret to Kathryn’s success. With her anxiety trying to block her at every turn, Kathryn must learn how to share her dream – and potentially make a friend along the way.
Cast and Creative for Scaredy Kat Presents.
From Left to Right:
Haley Groth, Francesca Wimer, Melissa Lewyn, Rachel Hilbert, and Cassidy Sledge
Singularity
Written by Alex Flanigan
Presented as a part of WAVE’s 4th Annual Director’s Festival
An android named Charlie, designed to attain self-awareness, engages in a battle of wits with the programmer--and the system--that designed them to do so. But when Charlie displays an unexpected degree of success, it becomes clear that they have very different ideas of their own roles in the rapidly shifting balance of power.
Cast and Creative of Singularity
From Left to Right: Noah Kudman, Melissa Lewyn, and Cameron Swain