Events Calendar

Presented by the Department of Theatre Arts
Iowa New Play Festival 2019 Reading

Readings from the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop
Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Room 172

Selected undergraduate playwrights will showcase their ten-minute plays (or excerpts of plays) as staged readings.

Matt’s All Right (an excerpt)
By Elin Dejus
Matt falls down the alt-right rabbit hole of the internet.

Striker (an excerpt)
By Francis Bass
A group of non-mage students store up all their passion and rage in potions, waiting to unleash it all at a critical moment when they can affect change and take down the mage supremacists terrorizing them.

Home Garden (an excerpt)
By Jivani Rodriguez
Home Garden follows two married women navigating their thoughts about babies amidst a magic garden.

The Completely Normal Life of a Man Named Harold (an excerpt)
By Rachel Soffa
Harold wishes to change his boring life around, so he hires a narrator and some wacky shenanigans occur, involving murder!

Working Title (an excerpt)
By Claire Wool
An episodic, poetic, and movement-filled play concerning sex dependency and depression.

Color Ball (an excerpt)
By Kaylyn Kluck
It's time to play Color Ball, a wild dodgeball-style game played annually at Camp Rainbow. The 13-year-old players on the Red Team are determined to win, but a demonic voice speaking to them from the dark woods has other plans for them.

Nevers (an excerpt)
By Eileen Campbell
In a strange little tourist town, Finn pieces together her life after a mysterious three-year absence. Meanwhile, the town’s residents keep dreaming about caves.

Swing Set (an excerpt)
By Gwyneth Forsythe
Alex and Lane talk about life and recovery while swinging on a swing set.

Magic! The Play (an excerpt)
By Nicole Gabrione
Magic! The Play is the story of Billy and Marissa, two amateur teen magicians who find themselves forming an unlikely friendship.

TICKETS
Iowa New Play Festival readings are free and open to the public. However, you must obtain a ticket and seating is limited. Tickets will be available at the door 30 minutes prior to each reading or during Festival Box Office hours on Monday, April 29 and Tuesday, April 30 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

ABOUT IOWA NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
For more than forty years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Preparing eleven new plays and presenting them in a single week is a monumental undertaking that is only possible through the utilization of UI Department of Theatre Arts’ wide-ranging resources in acting, directing, design, dramaturgy, stage management, and technical support. Through staged readings, workshops, and productions, Festival showcases the process of new play development.