2022 Colorado New Play Festival Schedule of Events

Venue
All readings as well as company meals will be held in Main Studio at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp. P-M is located 2 miles outside of downtown Steamboat Springs. We recommend taking transportation out to P-M as the roads are not pedestrian friendly for walking.  There will be signs and volunteers to help you with parking and guiding you to the theatre.

Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp
40755 County Road 36
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
80487

Staged Readings
FRIDAY, JUNE 17

3:00 pm: EL JEFE by Bill Martin
El Jefe is a special benefit performance for the Colorado New Play Festival. Be the first to experience this taut drama of one man’s attemptto revisit and resolve his past. All are welcome. $10 suggested donation.

5:30 pm: PARENTAL ADVISORY by Idris Goodwin (Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee, WI)
During their first live show since the pandemic, a rapper and a DJ join up to explore the history of obscenity in hip hop in an attempt to answer the question: How young is too young to introduce your kid to the Wu Tang Clan?

7:00 pm: COMPANY DINNER with theatre professionals

8:00 pm: UNDER A BASEBALL SKY by José Cruz González (The Old Globe, San Diego, CA)
From the writer of American Mariachi comes a story about baseball’s deep roots in the Mexican American community. When troublemaker Teo is assigned to clean up a vacant lot belonging to the elderly Elí O’Reilly, these two unlikely friends form a bond forged in history and America’s pastime. Inspired by the playwright’s research into the history of San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood, Under a Baseball Sky celebrates communities and individuals coming together to find hope, healing, and love.

SATURDAY, JUNE 18

11:00 am: THE GETT by Liba Vaynberg (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York, NY)
The Gett: A Young Wife’s Tale explores the American Jewish experience as told through the dissolution of a marriage. It is a deeply emotional and uplifting story about reclaiming the feminine in Judaism and embracing regeneration post-crisis while taking a unique look at a rarely-discussed topic.

12:30 pm: COMPANY LUNCH

1:30 pm: WALDEN by KJ Sanchez (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA)
Celebrating one of Earth’s greatest resources: the passion, drive and commitment of teenagers and young adults today, this play interrogates our role in the catastrophe of climate change.  In so doing, it examines the tension between isolation & forgiveness and abstract principle & concrete responsibility to our fellow human beings.

7:00 pm: A MILLION TINY PIECES by Spenser Davis (South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA)
Assigned to an important cover story at the last possible second, two journalists travel halfway around the globe to uncover the true story behind one of the most recognizable pieces of pop culture in history. Their question: How did a video game created by one man in the heart of the Soviet Union lead to a high-stakes legal battle that split the Iron Curtain? This is the story of Tetris.