2024 INK’D Festival of New Plays

Our Fellows present their works in progress

Our 2023-24 Writing Fellows have been hard at work all season, and they can’t wait to present their work! Check out the full lineup below.

For more information, email artistic@playwrightsrealm.org

 
 
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Eliana Theologides Rodriguez’s
Indian Princesses

Directed by Miranda Cornell

Based on a real-life Native American-themed father-daughter bonding program, Indian Princesses tells the story of five girls of color and their white fathers as they go through a series of exercises and excursions meant to strengthen their father-daughter bonds. But how can these men really be protectors and guides when they’re incapable of discussing gender and race?

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Jesús I. Valles’s
Tesseract

Directed by Estefanía Fadul

Ivan comes home to visit their mom Rosa and niece Yanira — but what begins as a normal kitchen conversation soon bursts into a time-shifting quest through family secrets. This play is a spell against the impulse to narrate sexual assault as a horrifying heirloom, a blood curse some families are bound to. This play is a spell in the service of pulling the earth apart to get ourselves unstuck. This play is about a conversation we almost had at our kitchen table.

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J.C. Pankratz’s
Eat Your Young

Directed by cara hinh

The New Frontiers wilderness therapy program, where parents send their teens to work out their capital T Trauma, seems inclusive, progressive, and all about the Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts, and Qs. But as Lucia, Jelly, Ginger, and Quinn quickly discover, healing can have an insidious underbelly. As their out-of-touch counselors spiral out of control and the ground beneath their feet literally starts cracking open, these four queer campers must band together to reckon with monsters — manmade or otherwise.

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T.J.L’s
tre

Directed by Raz Golden

On the last day of Senior Year, Tay, Rey, and Bree find themselves where they always are — together, shootin the shit and fumbling through life, contemplating what comes next. What are they doing with their lives? Where should they go to college? Who do they wanna be as grown-ups? And why do they keep kissing each other?  tre is a cosmic love letter to the 2000s and a wish for all Blck boys to love each other softly, honestly, and openly.

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