2025 FRESH INK READING SERIES

The Fresh Ink Reading Series is the first opportunity to hear brand new plays from our Writers Group playwrights!

The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group is composedof writers who participate in the program for a three-year cycle, providing them with the security of an artistic home and enabling the staff to form intimate relationships with these artists and give them the personal attention they needto advance their work.

See below for the full schedule!

Our 2025 Fresh Ink Reading Series will be held on April 1-11, 2025 at 59E59 Theaters.
All readings are free and open to the public.

If you have any questions, please email readings@primarystages.org or call 212-840-9705 ext. 200.

2025 FRESh INK READINGS

The Parser

by Clarence Coo
Tuesday, April 1 at 3pm

In the early 1990s, two high school friends design a computer game in which they can explore a world very different from their own. Twenty-five years later, when gay marriage has been legalized, they reconnect again after a chance encounter at a barber shop. 


Untitled Adrian Einspanier Project

by Adrian Einspanier
Wednesday, April 2 at 3pm

Two friends—who won't even admit they are friends and instead call each other “coworkers”—talk sh*t and decide to change sh*t (start a union?) at the Friendly/Affordable/Supposedly Ethical grocery store where they work.

Untitled Eric Micha Holmes Project 

by Eric Micha Holmes 
Wednesday, April 9 at 3pm

Boundaries blur when an entrepreneur, coping with a messy divorce, hires a former soldier to be his personal trainer. When the client’s soon-to-be ex-wife enters the picture, a cat-and-mouse game of exploitation, business, memory, and physical transformation reveals the rot inside the core of American imperialism.

Human Development

by Sarah Gancher
Thursday, April 10 at 3pm

You know those videos that show one second a day for every day for the first year of a baby’s life? A meditation on the big-little moments of love and conflict in which parents and children shape each other.


Clark County Playhouse Presents The Groundbreaking PG-13 Version Of Angels In America In The First Days Of The New Plague.

by Jonathan Norton
Friday, April 11 at 3pm

The Clark County Playhouse has a history with Angels In America. A history we don’t have time to go into right now. But let’s just say… it's complicated. But regardless of all that, best friends and leading ladies Frankie and LeAnne have been waiting seventeen years to see Angels soar again. And then… the world stops spinning...

The Fresh Ink Readings Series is made possible, in part, through the generous support of The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Ellen M. Violet and Mary P.R. Thomas Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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