Wrights of Spring 2021: Recent Episodes
Esme Burrows
Wrights of Spring is an annual festival that celebrates new work by the next generation of playwrights and comedy artists. Produced by a team of BFA Management students, WOS is a collaborative and student-driven festival providing playwriting and comedy arts students an intensive, developmental laboratory and an opportunity to showcase their work in front of an audience. All readings and festival events are completely free and open to the public! To attend any of our events, visit our website www.wrightsofspring.com.
BFFs Jamie and Rachel only see each other eight weeks a year at overnight camp. This audio play follows the other forty-four weeks of phone calls as they navigate seven years of crushes, parental drama, and everything else that comes with having and growing apart from a best friend.
Jamie: Aliah Robinson
Rachel: Eliana Deckner-Glick
Three boys ritualistically return to a farmhouse window. It's always night. There's someone inside.
TIM: Alex Amaya
WILL: Story Tepper
PETE: Ryan Cowhey
A girl and her dog encounter a being from far far away. Super Nova: Madeline Meyer
Angie: Zoe Foster
Frank: Kenny Finch
Liv: Katie Dinkel
Sound Design: Andrew Horn
"A disciple sees no flaws, though. A lover attempts to love them." Idolatry, lust, tenderness, and the sacrifice that must be made to satisfy a (love) god complex Ram: Kenny-Finch
Snake: Cali Katzenberger
Ant: Keimon Shook
Blossom: Rich Lazatin
Stage Directions: Camilla Dwyer
Sound Engineer: Mick Marcotte
Content Warning: Gore/body horror, cannibalism, desecration of sacred texts
Francis is a college dropout, an ex-Catholic, and a victim of Catholic schools. Damien is a young, unconventional Catholic priest with a secret he keeps buried deep within him. An unlikely pair, the two find comfort and solace in each other - but is it enough? Content Warning: Homophobia, homophobic slurs, catholicism
Maggie, Miranda, and Mack have been best friends since kindergarten. They grew up playing Power Puff Girls, violently fighting crime daily. We meet them again in their early twenties facing the Covid-19 pandemic where their hatred for the late-stage capitalism hellscape they are living in turns murderous. Content Warning: Violence, explicit language
Thanksgiving 2021. A family comes together for the first time since the pandemic and things previously left unsaid come to the surface. In the aftermath of widespread tragedy, things will never be the same. Content Warning: COVID-19, themes of homophobia
After Camryn loses her closest friend, Tommy, in a tragic accident she is reunited with him in her dreams. There they begin to make up for lost time...... or so they think. Directed by Sierra Reynolds
Featuring Asha J. Houston as Camryn and Ethan Cox as Tommy
Content Warning: N/A