GFT Writes Workshops 2024

Three playwrights. One year to each write a new play about an underrepresented community. Come be part of the first audience to hear these plays-in-progress. There will be a talk back following the reading.

September 10 7:30pm

The Negroes Have Risen
by Maxine Dillon
Directed by Indiia Wilmott

Welcome to the Edwards Estate, as presented by its Living History Interpreters - the group of Black twenty-somethings working as plantation museum tour guides. When they find a letter detailing a failed slave uprising not included in the tour, they decide to make another kind of Living History.

September 11 7:30pm

Emiliana: A Revolution Cabaret
by Jessica Pena Torres
Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas

By day, Silvia is the upper middle class daughter of a renowned, Spanish-descendant doctor. By night, she is Emiliana, a cabaretera (dancer/sex worker) who worships Emiliano Zapata and fantasizes about fulfilling his revolutionary mission by giving her family's hacienda to local farmworkers. Inspired by the melodramas of Mexico's golden age of film and post-revolutionary politics, Emiliana recreates a 1940's Mexico City dance hall to address issues of social justice for Indigenous, femme and queer folks.

September 17 7:30pm  

DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCE BEYOND OUR CONTROL, WE WILL BE POSTPONING BESERK.  We will be rescheduling soon... thank you so much for your understading 

Beserk
by Kairos Looney
Directed by Rai González

It’s 900 CE. Gorm and Aleifr are on a quest. It’s going badly. The whales have ideas.