SEPTEMBER 25 – 28 
Pacific Resident Theatre presents a new play festival featuring bold, new, and exciting works from some of the most renowned playwrights in American theatre. These readings will be offered to the public for the first time in collaboration with PRT’s company of actors and directors. Please join us for this once-in-a-lifetime weekend. Tickets available now!

Produced by
Dalia Vosylius and Dana Jackson

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Suggested Donation: $15 per reading

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Six Play Pass: $50

 Equity Pass – $40     Student Pass – $25
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Wellness
by Matt Letscher
Thursday,  – September 25, 8pm

A young man’s debilitating illness spurs an endless pursuit of wellness, through which he needs to discern what is real and what is in his head.

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Mutually Assured Destruction
by Gregg Ostrin
Friday – September 26, 8pm

A black comedy look at Ronald Reagan’s obsession with
the Star Wars missile defense system that only existed in his mind.

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James Baldwin Can’t Write and Nina Simone Refuses to Sing
by Yule Caise
Saturday – September 27, 12pm

In 1971, when a battered Nina Simone arrives at James Baldwin’s French refuge, two icons—one who has lost his words, the other who refuses to sing—are forced to confront the silence between them, where art, rage, and survival collide.

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Things Change
by Vince Melocchi
Saturday – September 27, 4pm

A veteran stage actor returns to his hometown after a long absence, expecting a hero’s welcome, but instead is met with the ghosts of an unfulfilled life and eventually must make peace with reality or fade away.

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We Will be Taking No Further Questions About Cult Auteur Stanley Kubrik 
by Brianna Barrett
Saturday – September 27, 8pm

Professors of Cinema Studies curate an exhibit celebrating the work of the visionary film director – and begin to wonder who it’s for.

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Nacho Ate Spiderman
by Michelle Kholos Brooks
Sunday – September 28, 7pm

A comedy about a sunny, laid-back, progressive beach community that becomes a lot darker when Nacho, a shaggy, good-natured love of a rescue dog, eats her neighbor’s award-winning, well-bred rabbit, Spiderman.

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A note from Vince Melocchi (Andy Warhol’s Tomato, Julia, Lions) on the founding of the Accountability Workshop at PRT

This festival evolved from my desire to take responsibility. Over the year, I’d been working on a new screenplay. As writers often do, I was working on more than one project. Every day, as I’d attempt to write pages of a new stage play, my mind would drift to the screenplay. I became frustrated. I was a playwright first, damnit. But what to do? Although I was working on a deadline for the screenplay, I needed to make myself accountable to playwriting. One day, I came up with an idea: why not create an accountability group for writers? I reached out to Pacific Resident Theatre’s artistic director, Marilyn Fox, who loved the idea. I invited a diverse group of professional writers, told them of my idea and asked if they, too, had projects to complete. This was the beginning of the Accountability Workshop at PRT. I hope you enjoy these works as much as we did developing them.