Original Play Readings

Come on back to Carnegie and join us at Higher Voice Studio for an awesome evening of new play readings! As always, this event is pay-what-you-can and wine and snacks will be available.

Here’s the line-up for May 7:

“Safe Trip” by Rex McGregor, of New Zealand
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“I Knew King When He Was Nobody” by Allston James, of New York

…. and here are our readers:
Lindsay Goranson
Joel Ambrose
Lonnie Jantsch
James Brian
James Michael Shoberg
Dave Joseph
Kaitlin Cliber – Narrator

This is our final evening of play readings before we jump into our 28th Pittsburgh New Works Festival.. so THANK YOU to all who have attended and participated in these monthly events!

And actors, if you are interested in participating in this reading series, please drop an email to Readings@pittsburghnewworks.org

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Some quick background on this reading series: each year for our Festival, we receive hundreds of new plays that eventually get narrowed down to the 18 that are produced as LabWorks or Main Stage productions after rounds of critique, scoring, and board review.

The production companies select these plays from a pool of ~40 finalists. We thought it was only right for those plays that were deemed worthy of production but were just not selected by a company this year to get their chance to be performed by some fantastic local actors. This also gives the playwrights an opportunity to hear their work performed for an audience and gather some feedback.

Plus, there’s wine and snacks.