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Skin in the Game
by Mia Chung
directed by Katie Brook

Three of the best and the brightest prepare to take their places in life after MIT.

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

The Creativity Fund offers playwrights extended time to explore and develop new plays and musicals up to five days.

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

Colony Collapse
by Stefanie Zadravec
directed by May Adrales

Mark and Julia are recovering meth addicts starting a new life on an orchard in Oregon, where a girl has gone missing, the bees have disappeared, and Mark's estranged son returns to settle a score. This week will focus on movement-based exploration of the text in order to discover new ways to link the different worlds of the play.

The working portion of this Full Stage USA project is closed.

White Noise Machine
by Sylvan Oswald
directed by Anna Brenner

Sylvan Oswald will be trying out a devised process for generating a new play, White Noise Machine, in collaboration with director Anna Brenner. The project is inspired by abstract painter Agnes Martin. It explores sleep, aging, artistic grief, death, and getting out of ruts by making big scary changes. Composer Max Vernon will also participate.

Tom Visits His Sister Rose One Last Time
by Kenneth Prestininzi
Katya Stanislavskaya, composer
Rachel Chavkin, director