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10 Days to New Plays

Oh boy, do we have exciting news for you: the next Squeaky Bike Reading Lab is coming, 10 days from today!

On January 30 and 31, you’re invited to Equity Staged Readings of two fantastic new plays at the beginning of their development process. Come experience innovative new work, and stay for a chat with the playwright and our Resident Dramaturg. Your presence in the audience is incredibly valuable, as it helps our playwrights get the feedback they need to bring their plays to the next stage of their development. And you never know – one or both of them may become a full-blown Squeaky Bike production in the coming year!

Here’s what we’ve got in store:

Or Current Resident by Joan Bigwood
Saturday, January 30 @ 7pm
When Teddy Finch moves home from Folsom Prison, his multi-generational family has a lot of explaining to do.

Directed by Brandi Varnell
Featuring: Curry Whitmire*, Neal Mayer*, Robyn Michele Frank, Betty Hudson*, Mary Sheridan*, and Annalisa Loeffler*.
Reserve your seat(s) now!

Dead Man’s Dinner by Squeaky Bicycle Resident Playwright W.M. Akers
Sunday, January 31 @ 7pm
After ten years of siege, three women are trapped in the middle of the most dangerous war zone in the world: the Upper West Side. In a frigid rent-stabilized apartment, Olympia and her daughter Petra have spent years surviving any way they can. When Petra falls in love with Jackie, an injured soldier, their food supplies are stretched to the limit. As death creeps closer, each woman will be torn between love and hunger—and hunger always wins.

Directed by Kathryn McConnell
Featuring: Annalisa Loeffler*, Rachel Drayke*, Kate Garfield*, and Michael Menta
Reserve your seat(s) now!

*Appearing courtesy Actors’ Equity Association

Both readings take place at Theater for the New City, Cino Theater, 155 1st Avenue in Manhattan.

Following each reading will be a talkback with refreshments. Please stay and share your thoughts on the plays. Our development process depends on you!

$10 suggested donation for refreshments.

Mark your calendars, and tell your friends!

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