Playwriting
Pigskin
May 7, 9, 11 at 8PM
May 13 at 2PM
There’s something happening in the woods. A coming-of-age mythic adventure unfolds over decades past, present, and possible. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
Emily Breeze
Emily Breeze is a playwright and screenwriter based on the East Coast. Her plays include Mother Says She’s Shocked Her Children Are Upset (Part 5), Whore and Wife, No She’s Like a Genius, They Died from Their Wounds, and 2025 NYT Critic’s Pick Are the Bennet Girls OK?.
Her debut short film Shallow Water premiered in 2023 at the Phoenix Film Festival, and was screened at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, the Roze Filmdagen, and the Bridgeport Film Festival, among others.
Emily is the recipient of the 2020–21 GreenStage Live Arts Artist Award for her play The Homewrecker (co-written with Marialena DiFabbio) and the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play Hallmark.
Residencies include Millay Arts, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Residency, and the 2022–23 Playwright-in-Residence for The Bechdel Group. She is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in playwriting at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and was a co-artistic director of the 2025 Yale Summer Cabaret. B.A., Vassar College.
What Rough Beast
May 6, 8, 12 at 8PM
May 11 at 2PM
Aspiring dancer Jia has never had luck on her side, but when she befriends a mysterious creature with the power to grant wishes, things finally take a turn for the better. Yet she soon learns that the creature’s gifts always come with a price.
Matthew Chong
Matthew Chong is a Korean-American playwright and screenwriter. He is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where he wrote Reps (New Play Lab) and Charity (Langston Hughes Festival). He served as a co-artistic director of the 2025 Yale Summer Cabaret .
His play Lessons was the recipient of the 2025 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award at The Kennedy Center. He was a Writer-in-Residence at The New Harmony Project and his plays have been developed by Red Bull Theater, the Philadelphia Artists Collective, and Middlebury Acting Company. He has worked in television production at MTV and Netflix and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George commission from South Coast Repertory.
Matthew’s work has been published by Stage Rights and he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
The Leopard Women
May 5, 9 at 8PM
May 8, 12 at 2PM
Colombian sisters Amanda and Lucia have always struggled to get along. After an explosive fight and the loss of their mother, they are each visited by supernatural beings. The Leopard Women is an existential family comedy–in English, Spanish, and Spanglish–about the meaning of life, death, and art.
Andrew Rincón
Andrew Rincón (he/she/they) is a Queer Colombian-American writing plays that reimagine myths, queers the narrative, and fabulates stories for the stage (in Spanish, English, and Spanglish). Their plays have been developed with The Latinx Playwrights Circle, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), and Out Front Theatre Company (Atlanta).
Andrew was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017), the 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago), a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20), a MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020), and Skidmore College’s Visiting Playwright in Residence (21-22).
Andrew is the winner of the 2018 Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre and New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019), and was a finalist in LGBTQ Drama for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards 2024.
Select Plays include The Lonely, El Mito, and The Leopard Women. Their play I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet had its world premiere in NYC at 59e59 Theatres (fall 2022) and was published by Concord Theatricals. They are currently developing a trio of plays reimagining biblical myths as Queer stories: The Genesis Trinity.