We invite you to join us for 5 works-in progress.

Some of these plays are brand new.
In fact, they’re being written right now.
A few are in later stages of development but the artists
wanted to experiment with a few things to see how they fly.
But all these writers are standing out on the ledge
to tell new stories in new ways.

• Lonely Leela
  by Rehana Mirza
  directed by Meiyin Wang
  with puppets by Spica Wobbe
  with Jackie Chung, Sanjit De Silva, Jon Hoche, Kyle Knauf, Angela Lin, Debargo Sanyal and Nitya Vidyasagar
  on Tuesday, June 8th at 8pm

  Leela’s boyfriend has disappeared. So she goes into the Internet to find him. An Alice in Wonderland type adventure where malicious codes and white knight bloggers meet in a shifting world of everything’s at your fingertips but you can’t quite find what you’re looking for…

• Lyme Park: An Austonian Play of an Indian Nature
  by Nandita Shenoy
  directed by Michael Babin
  dance consultant: Ricki G. Ravitts
  with Cindy Cheung, Jennifer Graves, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Nandita Shenoy, and Paco Tolson
  on Thursday, June 10th at 7pm

  Kavita loves Jane Austen so much that she drags her pregnant best friend on a Pride & Prejudice tour of England in hopes of escaping romantic disappointments at home. But where fantasy ends and reality begins is where Kavita finds herself facing her worst fears about love, identity, and finding Mr. Darcy.

• Sharksucker
  by Dustin Chinn
  directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
  with Jackie Chung, William Jackson Harper, Jennifer Ikeda, Bobby Moreno, Matt Park and Jon Norman Schneider
  on Monday, June 14th at 7pm

  Will and Lio have a comedy team that you’ve never heard of, though not for lack of trying. When the city’s big festival approaches, the group’s egos and questionable tastes threaten to make this show their last … as well as their funniest. A love letter to sketch with a side of platonic failure.

• Subterranea
  by Jon Hoche & Paco Tolson
  directed by Robert Ross Parker
  with Cindy Cheung, Jackie Chung, Jon Hoche, Erica Swindell, and Paco Tolson
  ***NEW DATE on Wednesday, June 16th at 8pm

  Subterranea is the story of two long lost brothers thrust together by fate who must make their way to the center of the Earth in order to fight Nazis. A video, puppetry and improvisation play.

• Happy
  by Sung Rno
  directed by Andy Pang
  with Deborah S. Craig, Carla Harting, Sue Jean Kim, Paul Juhn, Christopher Larkin, Alfredo Narciso, Steve Park and Michael Potts
  on Monday, June 21st at 7pm

  What happens when Leo Park, an antidepressant sales rep, starts feeling a bit moody himself? He descends into the blinking lights of the happiness machine, where he confronts anxiety, pills, and the eye of the euphoria storm himself: Doctor Happy.

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DANY STUDIOS
305 W. 38th
(between 8th and 9th)

Reserve tickets here.
Readings are free and open to the public.

In the Works: Experimentation and Play is presented in part with support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts and NYSCA.