Bold new works Script Reading Series
The Jungle Theater is excited for another season of our BOLD New Works Series, a collection of new works by new playwrights, available for free to our community!
This new series addresses our theater's desire to share more plays and playwrights by eliminating the technical design elements and giving you the opportunity to experience a script before it has been produced. These readings take place in the theater and are always free and open to all.
Help us keep the Play Reading Series free to attend! It’s because of donations that we’re able to offer this series and pay the artists and playwrights to perform these new works.
If you would have paid for a ticket and are economically able, please make a donation to ensure that this program can continue into next season and remain free for all to attend.
SWEET REVENGE
By Marcie Rendon
Directed by Sequoia Hauck
March 20 | 7:30pm | Free
This event will have ASL interpretation by Amber Braithwaite and Maria Camacho-Dively
SOLD OUT!
Written by award-winning author and member of the White Earth Nation Marcie Rendon, SWEET REVENGE is a new thriller that follows Maggie, a middle-age Native woman who is working to make ends meet with her two grandchildren in their inner-city apartment. She is haunted Granny Josephine, a ghost who is tormented by memories of growing up in an American Indian boarding school. Meanwhile, a serial killer is targeting ice cream truck drivers in the neighborhood and John, the homicide detective, becomes as interested in Maggie as he is in finding the killer.
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership, writing.
She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.
The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), June 2019.
Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.
ESCAPEGOAT
By May Treuhaft-Ali
Directed by Samantha Martinson
Feb 11 | 2pm Matinee | Free
Humans brought goats to the Galápagos. The goats ate everything in sight. The islands dried up and the tortoises died out. In order to save the last living tortoise, the humans must exterminate the goats before it is too late. ESCAPEGOAT is an eco-parable about who has a right to live where, human intervention in non-human ecosystems, and the species whose fates are inextricable from our own.
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg from Queens, New York. She is currently a member of Page 73’s Writers Group and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. She was the 22-23 Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. Her plays have been developed at Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, The Movement Theatre Company, MCC Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. She is under commission at Barrington Stage and South Coast Repertory. May works as the Literary & Community Engagement Assistant at Playwrights Horizons.
QUIZ OUT
By Margot Connolly
Directed by Alison Ruth
Featuring Ashlyn Walters, Maeve Filkins, Lukas Brasherfons, Alison Edwards, James Rodriguez, Anna Kay, Melody Her, Huxley Westemeier, Eva Gemlo
October 1 | 2pm Matinee | Free
Harper's moved back to her aunt's house for her junior year of high school and her aunt thinks she should pick everything up where she left off - school, youth ministry, her best friend Hannah. But her relationship with Hannah has changed, and Hannah seems to feel it too. As they join their church Bible Quiz team and spend more and more time together, they learn more about themselves and the Bible than they ever thought they would.
Presented with special arrangement by Uproar Theatrics. To read QUIZ OUT in its entirety, and find other new works like it, visit UproarTheatrics.com