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by Kallan Dana
directed by Francesca Sabel
Join us for the public reading of Control. In a dark, windowless radar room, a group of overworked and understaffed air traffic controllers push tin and stave off paranoia. As planes streak unseen across the sky, the pressure to keep everyone safe collides with the pull of ordinary human needs. Control is a gripping new play about the people tasked with keeping our skies safe, and what happens when the job becomes impossible once real life enters the room.
Working Theater is proud to commission this work through our Playwright-in-Residence program and present this reading in partnership with The Action Lab.
Kallan Dana has developed or presented work with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Hearth, The Tank, Bramble Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Northwestern University, and Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and 2025 Audrey Resident, and co-founder of the artist collaboration group TAG at the Tank. She received the 2025 National Theatre Conference Paul Green Award. MFA: Northwestern University.
Francesca Sabel is a Brooklyn-based director of new plays. Workshops and productions include Homofermenters (Ars Nova’s ANTFest), This Is What the Days Are (Playwrights’ Realm), Night Watch and Member of the Wedding (Classic Stage), We Are Angels Just Like You and Olives (Clubbed Thumb). Regional work includes Control (Portland Theater Festival) and Screech Owl (Studio Theatre). She has acted as associate or assistant director to Anne Kauffman, Knud Adams, Neil Pepe, and Steve Broadnax, among others. She is currently a guest instructor at NYU and has been an artist in residence at the Roundabout Directors Group, The Cell, and Studio Theatre. BA: Brown University. Member, SDC. francescasabel.com