written by Margot Connolly & directed by Alex Keegan

In a coding competition, two teams of teenage girls need to create an app that changes the world for the better - but who decides which app and cause is most worthy?

Thursday, March 12th, 3 PM

by Amanda Keating

Bouncing from a present-day German lab where a team of women scientists study the fossilized dental plaque of medieval monastics to a German scriptorium in the 11th century, with fellowship is a play about loneliness and loss, asking how history defines science, art, and faith.

Thursday, February 27th, 8 PM

*please note, the time of this reading has shifted from what was originally announced

by Kristin Slaney & The Lobbyists

Miss Mitchell is a musical about Maria Mitchell, the first female professional astronomer in America, and an influential figure in women’s education on the island of Nantucket.

Monday, February 24th, 7 PM

by Michael Walek

The Tanzanian government allowed Jane Goodall to study chimpanzees in the wild under one condition - she must bring a chaperone. So, Jane invited her mother.

Thursday, February 13th, 3 PM & 7 PM

by Jessica Dickey

A playwright searches for the surviving letters between Galileo and his eldest daughter. Expanding across time, this story is an exploration of faith, forgiveness, and the cost of heeding one’s truth.

Monday, February 10th, 7 PM

by Justice Hehir, with dramaturg Emilie Pass

FreePlay is a feminist sex toy company, popular for its deconstructed take on the dildo. A story about engineering, female friendships, dildos, and the people who make them.

Thursday, January 30th, 7 PM

by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton

Smart explores how much our identity is shaped by habits, and what happens when our possessions start responding to the information of our daily lives.

Tuesday, January 28th, 7 PM

by Sam Chanse, developed with The Civilians

This reading will be presented at New Dramatists (424 W. 44th St.)

The daughter of a trauma survivor, Pia is driven by the desire to help free her mother from paralyzing fear memories – that’s why she became a neuroscientist. But the unexpected return of an old acquaintance triggers a storm of memory, forcing Pia to tangle with her own fears and paralysis, and pushing her to question deeply-held beliefs about her own past. How can changing our memories about who we were then change who we are now?

Friday, January 17th, 3 PM

by Mona Pirnot

At a beach house in the Caribbean, subjects come and go to take part in a trial testing the therapeutic value of one doctor’s homemade herpes vaccine.

Thursday, January 16th, 7 PM