One Jewish Boy
by Stephen Laughton
directed by Chris Fields
Previews: March 19th-21st, Opening: March 22nd; Closing: April 28th
Jesse, a nice Jewish boy from North London, falls hopelessly in love with Alex, a mixed-race woman from South London. How they struggle to stay in love as they are confronted with the world’s unpredictable cruelty is the biting, funny, bittersweet story of One Jewish Boy.
Stephen Laughton is an award-winning, critically acclaimed writer with a rising international profile. He has work in various stages of development across film and theatre in NYC, LA, London, Cape Town, and Sydney. He has worked with major theatres and broadcasters including the Royal Court, MTC, Headlong, BBC, TF1 and Film4. He is an Associate Artist in the Astrophysics team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Stephen has two major plays coming up in 2025: Giants, which explores the controversy that unfolded on the set of James Dean’s last film, is set to open at the Sydney Opera House; and Velocity – which examines mental health in the LGBTQ+ community through the lens of the birth of the universe, human reaction times, and dark matter – is set to open at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
For screen, his sci-fi short Hiraeth won 8 of the 20 awards it was nominated for on the international festival circuit. (Including Best Screenplay). Horror feature – We Live Here is currently being packaged in the US; Sci-fi feature – The Array, in South Africa. His comedy-drama, The Call, begins principal photography in 2025.
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‘Berta ‘Berta
by Angelica Cheri
directed by Andi Chapman
Previews: July 16th-18th, Opening: July 19th, Closing: August 25th
After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.
Angelica Cheri is a playwright, bookwriter & lyricist, screenwriter and poet. Her plays include The Seeds of Abraham (Billie Holiday Theatre), The Sting of White Roses (National Black Theatre Festival) and Crowndation (National Black Theatre), Berta, Berta (Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre) and The Wiring & the Switches (Geffen Writers Group). Angelica and collaborator Ross Baum received the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical Gun &
Powder (Signature Theatre). Angelica is co-writer of the Highway to Heaven series reboot on the Lifetime Network and story producer for Season 2 of Dear… on Apple TV+. Angelica received her BA in Theatre from UCLA, MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU.
For Want of a Horse
by Olivia DuFault
directed by Elena Lou
Previews: September 17th-19th; Opening: September 20th; Closing: October 27th
Calvin loves Bonnie, but in order to proceed forward, he has to open up their relationship to include his new romantic partner, Q-Tip. One complication: Q-Tip is a horse. An intimate, comedic, complicated look into the world of zoophilia.
Olivia Dufault (she/her) is a trans playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer. Her plays include Year of the Rooster, The Tomb of King Tot, and For Want of a Horse. She is the recipient of the 2017 Venturous Playwrights Fellowship, and the 2015 Playwrights of New York Fellowship. In television, she worked as story editor on AMC’S Preacher, and co-executive producer on FX’s Legion. In film, she wrote the feature The True Adventures of Wolfboy. In comics, she wrote the upcoming graphic novel Laserworld.