The Creative Access Grant Reading Series is the first opportunity to hear brand new plays from the playwrights who received our Creative Access Grants.
Primary Stages is collaborating with Latinx Playwrights Circle, National Black Theatre, National Queer Theater, and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre on these grants, who nominated our recipients for this year: Tyler Dobies, Roger Q. Mason, Derek Lee McPhatter, and Justin Santory.
The Creative Access Grants program is made possible, in part, through the generous support of The Ellen M. Violett and Mary P.R. Thomas Foundation.
All readings are FREE and open to the public. Readings take place at 59E59 Theaters, Theater A, located at 59 East 59th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues).
Learn more about our Creative Access Program and Playwrights here!
presented by Primary Stages and Breaking the Binary Theatre
Monday, April 3, 2023 at 7pm
Nominated by National Queer Theater
RSVP
Directed by é boylan
Dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad
Stage Management by Ara Tandon
Featuring Dominic Colón, Roger Q. Mason, and Sergio Mauritz Ang
THE PINK: An Intimacy Ritual is a hook up performed in real time between two queer people of color seeking true intimacy in the age of dating apps and digital sex. As these two humans, Mel and Herman, grasp for "the real" in the bedroom, their conversations, silences, and moments of touch blur the lines between affection, sex, and euphoric romance.
Monday, October 17, 2022 at 3pm
Nominated for this grant by National Black Theatre
As climate catastrophe reshapes Chicago, a queer black intellectual confronts a lover, a computer, and a mysterious visitor on his quest for truth in virtual worlds.
Underdrown is part of Derek Lee McPhatter's NightQueen Performance Suite, following an eclectic ensemble seeking hope in one another as their world is reshaped by a global water crisis, unbridled network technologies, and resurgent fascism.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 3pm
Nominated for this grant by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
Two siblings struggling to connect with their Filipinx immigrant heritage mysteriously receive a call that their grandmother has been kidnapped. The problem: she's dead. But can they bring her back?
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 7:30pm
Nominated for this grant by Latinx Playwrights Circle
Eric and Gabriel are longtime friends who truly appreciate each other...but could it be more than that? Over the course of two evenings filled with weed and one-liners, they examine who they are, who they've been, who they want to become, and if they should take that journey together.
All readings are free and open to the public!
DATES
October 17, 2022 - April 3, 2023
LOCATION
All readings will take place at:
59E59 Theatres
Theater A
59 East 59th Street
(btw Park and Madison Avenues)
New York, NY 10022