2026 New works Festival:
New voices, New Narratives
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Anatomy of Flight
By Lisa A. Price
Directed by Zanne Gerrard -
Loom
By Carolynne Wilcox
Directed by Cristin Miller -
stop your crying, baby
By Max Koh
Directed by Monty Rozema -
The Souls of Larks and Sparrows
By Véro Lecocq
Directed by Emily Fortuna
Photo caption: Meghan Ames as the Lady and Riley Gene as the Attendant, in Carmilla, part of the 2024 New Works Festival. Photo by Kirk Hostetter.
November 5-22, 2026
MLK FAME Center
3201 e. Republican St.
Seattle, WA 98122
A three-week festival featuring four new plays written and directed by local women, nonbinary and transgender theatre makers. Presented by TSGP’s Incubator/Mentor Program empowering artists who have been marginalized on the basis of gender.
Plays will be performed in rotating repertory; the exact schedule of performances is forthcoming!
The 2026 New Works Festival free and reduced tickets are supported by the 4Culture Public Free Access Grant. Thank you to 4Culture for this valuable support.
Anatomy of Flight
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Anatomy of Flight
By Lisa A. Price, directed by Zanne GerrardSynopsis:
When a prominent climate champion dies under suspicious circumstances, renowned mycologist Dr. Catherine Babin is called to investigate. Deep in a Pacific Northwest forest, she and her graduate students uncover a chain of ecological disruptions linking climate-driven migration shifts, collapsing species relationships, and a newly established toxic mushroom. As the science points toward uncomfortable truths, hidden agendas emerge: a journalist with divided loyalties, a former scientist turned fossil-fuel lobbyist, and ambitious young researchers forced to confront the cost of success. Anatomy of Flight is an eco-thriller that explores climate change, scientific integrity, ambition, and the moral compromises hidden beneath achievement.Content Information: Murder, poison, climate change, political wrangling, mushrooms
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Lisa a. Price
Playwright
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Zanne Gerrard
Director
Loom
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Loom
By Carolynne Wilcox, directed by Cristin Miller
Synopsis:
The Three Fates, the timeless sisters who’ve woven, measured and cut the threads of the lives of mortals have done their duties throughout time. Hermes, the Messenger God, pays them a visit just as they realize Atropos’s shears have gone missing. It’s been forbidden for them to jump into the dreams of mortals, but suddenly they must, before the dead literally begin to rise on earth. A lyrical journey through contemporary dreams, the god realm and the underworld containing themes of loss, domestic issues and climate change.
Content Information: death, fire, drowning, yarn
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Carolynne Wilcox
Playwright
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Cristin Miller
Director
stop your crying, baby
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Synopsis:
Euphemia Peasant and Sally Alder haven't spoken in 10 years...until tonight. In the park where they smoked weed for the first time, Euphemia tells Sally she is going to apologize for the 6 ways she's wronged her during their friendship and then they will never see each other again.Content Information: Presence of a prop firearm, graphic language, physical violence, discussion of drug abuse/addiction, attempted suicide and suicidal ideation
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Max Koh
Playwright
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Monty Rozema
Director
The Souls of Larks and Sparrows
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The Souls of Larks and Sparrows
By Véro Lecocq, directed by Emily Fortuna
Synopsis:
Antigone and Joan of Arc meet in a nondescript afterlife. A white helium balloon brings them an invitation, but it doesn't specify where to. Antigone mistrusts it, while Joan believes it's their ticket to heaven. Joan ultimately attempts to RSVP independently of Antigone, but Antigone prevents her. The two women come to recognize that what they both really want is to say something beyond simply yes or no: to honor the complexities of their unique voices. They compose a declaration of their right to self-expression and find themselves in a reimagined afterlife that offers the peace they've been seeking.
Content Information: physical violence, discussion of sexism, discussion of suicide, allusion to sexual assault, discussions about hearing voices, reference to incest (Oedipus), discussion of being burned at the stake
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Véro Lecocq
Playwright
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Emily Fortuna
Director