Mainstage Productions
A car mechanic, ladies on a pregnancy message board, and a colonial midwife all attempt to grapple with the mystery and mechanics of childbirth.
Nora is a hard-drinking musicologist whose colleague/lover is dragging his feet about leaving his beauty-queen wife. When Nora's hijinks land her at rock bottom, she goes on a quest to get counsel from the only source she has left: her estranged, evangelical mom. Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho is a horrifying comedy about love, despair and maybe, eventually, hope.
What happens to a drone pilot who is spending full days watching a young Pakistani woman and her family? What happens to the woman when she knows she is being watched? In AGAINST THE HILLSIDE, Sylvia Khoury imagines and examines the hidden human costs of this strange new warfare.
Workshop Productions
Gretchen, Emma and Whitney are thirty. They've been friends since they were teenagers. They've been sober since they were teenagers. As they set off on a road trip south--with homemade female urination devices, too much pie, ill-advised sexual escapades--to celebrate and mourn a figure from their past, GEORGIA MERTCHING IS DEAD reveals what it's like to face adulthood and death after growing up weird and possibly broken.
EST/Sloan Project Workshops
written by Benjamin Weiner, directed by John Giampietro*
Nobel is a new musical exploring the genesis of the Nobel Prize. It tells the story of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and Bertha von Suttner, his secretary, who reshaped his legacy and became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
written by Charly Evon Simpson
Philomena is a slave woman forced to assist her owner as he searches for a cure for fistulas. Everything changes when she becomes his patient.
Youngblood Workshops
EST/Sloan Project Readings
written by Lindsay Joelle
Paired together on route, a veteran sanitation worker and the new woman on the job must reappraise in each other what they mistook for trash.
written by Kristin Idaszak
Murder by cyanide. Government-poisoned liquor. A flapper named Lipstick and a toxicologist named Gettler are New York’s best hope in this Prohibition-era caper.
written by Robert Lyons
Paris, 1873. Emile Zola turns to his philosophical mentor scientist Claude Bernard to help save his stage production of Therese Raquin. Big mistake.
written by Christina Quintana
Kian and Neema meet exploring the starfield while battling recent losses. Together, they discover Kepler-64b and what it means to be present on Earth.
written by C. Denby Swanson
In NUTSHELL, Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science" and creator of the miniatures called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, hijacks a seminar on homicide investigation, in Baltimore, in order to investigate a crime. But which crime? Who gets justice?
written by Marc Acito
The Man in the Moon explores the ethical quandary of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the only person to receive honors from both the USA and Nazi Germany.
Youngblood Readings
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Bloodworks is Youngblood's annual reading series of brand new full-length plays! This year features 23 readings from May 8th through June 20th.
Member Artist Readings
Youngblood Brunches
Come celebrate this season's graduating Youngblood writers with five new plays about departures and travels, along with pancakes, bacon, and (young)bloody marys.
While machine learning is helping push the boundaries of nearly every branch of science, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others have raised their fears of the singularity. Will the knowledge that comes with true artificial intelligence be our downfall, or will it lead to the greatest pancake recipe of all time?
Come ring in the New Year with five brand new plays about this special time of year by the writers of Youngblood, along with pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody marys.
Come celebrate our Brunch the holiday season with five brand new plays about this special time of year by the writers of Youngblood, along with pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody marys.
Come celebrate the first brunch of the season with five brand new plays about time travel by the writers of Youngblood, along with pancakes, bacon and (young)bloody marys.
