1st Annual Reading Series

Porchmonkey
by Kim Dunbar
directed by Karen Frillman
with Alvin Alexis, Starla Benford, Maude Boylan, Chad Coleman, Justin Collins, Randy Frazier, Regina Herod, Ron McLarty, Ramon Moses, Renee Joshua Porter and Jay Scully
The American Place Theater
Lisa’s boss is on the campaign trail again!  Just how much will she mutilate her identity to get this Republican senator back in office?

Madame Killer
by Honour Kane
directed by David Greenspan
with Mark Johannas, Mark Margolis, John McAdams, Molly Powell, Laurie Wickens and Caroline Winterson
The American Place Theater

Manhattan in 1878 is a city rife with vice and sin.  In Madam’s stately drawing room there are bones under the floor.

The Last Stand of Owen Tobias
by David Grimm
directed by Mark Brokaw
with Larry Block, Jennifer Harmon, Florencia Lozano, Thomas Pennacchini, Zack Shaffer, Victor Slezak and Janet Zarish
The American Place Theater
Ahhh, suburbia: Home of the entitled white male, failing marriages and spiritual decay.  Something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give or it will explode.

Running Tab 
by Herman Daniel Farrell III
directed by Julie Boyd
with Logan Ernsthall, Alexandra Geis, Gail Grate, Paul McCrane and Rich Topol
The American Place Theater
At the dinner that never ends, a couple of guys meet to eat, drink, be merry and rap about the daily grind, life and race.  Later, when a sister drops by, throw gender into the blender.  The whole time the tab keeps running away from itself and ultimately, who pays for the unbred attitudes that alienate us?