MEMBERFEST presents

Happy Hour

short plays by, with, and directed by EST Members
followed by cocktails, mocktails & creative conversation

plays by Susan Eve Haar*, Adam Kraar*, Quincy Long*, Florencia Lozano*, & Bridgette Wimberly*
directed by Patricia Golden*, Marcia Jean Kurtz*, Florencia Lozano*, & Abigail Zealey Bess*

featuring Brad Bellamy*, Helen Coxe*, Lynnette Freeman*, David Gelles*, Dion Graham*, Thomas Lyons*, Dawn McGee*, Turna Mete*, Grant Shaud*, Jonathan Randell Silver*, & Lilli Stein*

No Tickets Required

*Denotes EST Member Artist

MEMBERFEST presents

The House of Piñatas

written by Kathryn Grant
directed by Ed Setrakian*

featuring Will Dagger, Jacqueline Knapp , Carla Brandberg, Steven Hauk, Margaret Ladd, & David Gelles Hurwitz*

Dabney Hutchins, a 35-year-old man living in the Poconos has a good life. He is a popular and beloved figure in the many organizations that make up the civic life in the Poconos. He works as a desk clerk for the Red Roof Inn, he volunteers as an EMT and sells the great folk art of the Poconos on his website, Dabney’s Pocono Treasures. Only one thing. His mom, Judy is not happy with the fact that he may be gay. Or let’s just say that he is not straight. So Judy convinces him to try out Living Waters, a “reparative therapy” operation that just put out its shingle. In an abandoned mall in the Poconos, in the old “House of Piñatas,” newly minted Living Waters’ therapist, Dr. Margaret Fullerton, leads her clients through an identity-bleaching process as her mentor, Dr. Charles Harbison, watches behind a two-way mirror. But their latest client, Dabney fails to get it, so the therapists pull out all the stops in a ritualistic Aztec ceremony designed to purge the urge vis-à-vis some carefully orchestrated whacks of the piñata stick. But when Dabney’s high school crush and his mother show up for this bizarre coming of age ritual, things become unhinged and a full-out brawl ensues. When the smoke clears, the masks have fallen away, the operators are revealed and the stage is set for new beginnings for all the players.

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*Denotes EST Member Artist

MEMBERFEST presents

Me and My Muslim Cleaning Lady: An American Story

written by Eliza Foss
directed by Giovanna Sardelli*

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents

Happy Hour

short plays by France-Luce Benson*, Maria Gabriele*, Wendy Hammond*, Cassandra Medley*, Judy Tate*, and Brigitte Viellieu-Davis*

directed by Jamie Richards*

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

Beautiful Pasadena

written by Jen Rudin
directed by Jamie Richards*

Featuring Brett Aresco, Helen Coxe*, Jason Liebman*, Katherine Leask*, Brad Bellamy*

stage directions read by Erin Vermeal

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress reading of

The Unending Life of Ernst Mann

written & directed by Shirley Kaplan*

featuring Karen Cellini, Brad Crownover, Walker Hare, Bruce MacVittie*, David North

composer: Jed Distler, visual designer: Andrew Murdock, stage manager: Michelle Hernandez

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress reading of

The Unending Life of Ernst Mann

written & directed by Shirley Kaplan*

featuring Karen Cellini, Brad Crownover, Walker Hare, Bruce MacVittie*, David North

composer: Jed Distler, visual designer: Andrew Murdock, stage manager: Michelle Hernandez

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

OCEAN PARKWAY ON ROSH HASHANAH

written by Adam Kraar*
directed by Tasha Gordon-Solomon

An upwardly mobile man jogs down Ocean Parkway, stumbling on his Jewish roots, his impending mortality, and his craving for Nanna’s banana marshmallow kugel.

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

Simple Gifts

written by Evangelia Kingsley
directed by Eliza Beckwith*

No Tickets Required

*Denotes EST Member Artist

MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

Letters For Marie

written and performed by Bruno Iannone
directed by Marcia Haufrecht*

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents

Happy Hour

short plays by Robert Askins*, Maggie Bofill*, Eric Conger*, Romulus Linney*, 
Jamie Richards*, and Judy Tate*

directed by Jamie Richards*
produced by Eric Conger*

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

The Terminal Event

written by Richard Willett
directed by Eliza Beckwith*

Featuring Rachel Sachnoff, Quentin Mare, Dan Ziskie*, Patricia Randell*, Eli Garcia

No Tickets Required

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MEMBERFEST presents
a work in progress Reading of

Front lines

written by Drew Lewis
directed by Eli Gelb*
featuring Robert Askins*, Cecil Blutcher, Jared McGuire*, & Caitlin Morris

No Tickets Required

*Denotes EST Member Artist