Pocket Playfest
December 1 @ 7:00 pm - December 2 @ 10:00 pm
$5.00 - $15.00
Over the past two months, 6 emerging playwrights and directors have been making new work together, come see what they’ve made!
December 1st
Red Devil – written by Andrea Berting and directed by Allie Robinson
Cast – Bobbie Hart, Jamie Newell, Valerie Gorman
Recess – written by Mikayla De Guzman and directed by Erin Sheets
Cast – Brandon Wright, Amal Salem, Luz Espinoza
Cozy – written by Daphne Gussler and directed by Patrick Starner
Cast – Eph Page, Joyce Porter, Melissa Harrison
December 2nd
Dirt Girls – written by Grace Reasoner and directed by Oskar Westbridge
Cast – Emily Dean, Jessie Shaw, Alana Gordon Levine,
Crossing – written by Morris Mclennan and directed by Tyler Struble
Cast – Rafael Lopez, Nick Trengrove
She Can Declare a Hurricane – written by Melanie Coffey and directed by Rashaad Bond
Cast – Carmia Imani, Crystal Claros, Ruth Kaufman
Other Events
Flock and Flower: Climate Change Theatre Action @ The Understudy
November 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Joe Schupbach and Alyssa Mohn are co-curating a reading as part of Climate Change Theatre Action. Launched in 2015, Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. Every other year, 50 professional playwrights, representing all inhabited continents as well as several co-cultures and Indigenous nations, are commissioned to write five-minute plays about an aspect of the climate crisis based on a prompt. This…
Flock and Flower: Climate Change Theatre Action @ The Understudy
November 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Psych Out Café featuring Fred Zimmerman
December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Fred Zimmerman is a respected Chicago actor who has spent over 35 years acting in National Broadway Touring Companies (Hal Prince’s productions of Show Boat & Bounce, and Frank Galati’s Ragtime), at Regional Theaters, Stock Companies, and in theaters across Chicagoland, including Goodman, Court, Northlight, Porchlight, Water Tower, Lyric Opera, the Nederlander, the Auditorium, and 18 productions at Chicago’s Marriott Theatre. But when he isn’t onstage getting inside the heads of his characters, he uses his acting skills to get…
Psych Out Café featuring Fred Zimmerman
December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
THE ALMOST EMPEROR OF THE UNOFFICIAL DEESTRICK OF LAKE MICHIGAN
December 5 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Winner of the 2020 Judith Barlow Award 2023 Broadway World Chicago Theatre Nominee for Best New Play CAST & COMPANY: Director – Kristin L. Schoenback Design & Production Manager – Rachael Nuckles – – – Ky Anderson – Poppy Kelsey Busboom – Ma Streeter Viv Delgadillo – Niles West Keenan Odenkirk – Potter Motherfucking Palmer Ryan Tang – Cap Streeter SYNOPSIS: It is the 1920s in Chicago, and The District of Lake Michigan is thriving.…