2024 Fall Festival

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The Plays

Summary: Feeling unlovable? Emotionally adrift? Perhaps an Automated Relational Companion from The Institute for Enhanced Connections can help. A sci-fi dramedy about love, reciprocity, and Artificial Intelligence.  Learn More.

Summary: Jyoti, a recent widow with ailing health, finds the future of her well-being in her daughters’ hands. A multigenerational and multicultural dark comedy that explores the love language of food, the deep wounds of sibling rivalry, and how a family moves through grief- Nerve asks what our legacy is and that we truly leave behind. Learn More.

Summary: Greg’s received a terminal diagnosis. But the Earth's dying, too, so like, at least he’s in good company? This all makes sense to Greg. After all, the world’s too big not to be kind of magical. Learn More.

Summary: A son tries to save his mother. She has other ideas. So do two mysterious strangers who watch the play—and ask the son to tell the story again and again until he gets it right, whatever right might be. Learn More.

Playwriting Workshop

We hosted two different workshops featuring different hosts and playwrights for each event. Attendees were able to attend one or both of these workshop days. These writing-intensive workshops featured insights, in-class writing time, and a few tips and tricks from the playwrights, helping aspiring writers take the next steps in their writing journey!

 

Saturday's workshop - Host playwright: Clarence Coo, joined by winning playwrights Minita Gandhi and Keiko Green
Sunday's workshop - Host playwright: E.M. Lewis, joined by winning playwrights Novid Parsi and Shanna Allman

2024 Fall Festival