SEASON 1

Join us for our inaugural season of performances and readings

Marty and The Hands That Could

By Josh Wilder
JAN 23-28, 2024 @ ARENA PLAYERS, INC. BALTIMORE, MD

Released from prison on the eve of his 25th birthday, Marty returns home to his family in South Philly, equipped with a handwritten manuscript and big dreams to turn his life around. But his cousin Junior has also come home with problems of his own, setting them on a collision course as they struggle to break free of the curse that has haunted their family for generations. Can Marty put his hands to good use, or is his fate already written?

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Blue Reunion

By Ned Dougherty
Nov 25th @ Alchemical Studios
New York, NY

On a cold December night in a rusted-over Pennsylvania nowhere town, the Class of 2003 football team reunites at their high school to watch the next generation win the state championship. Partying behind the bleachers, begging the glory days to return, the old players are haunted by their abusive coach who seemed to predict their dead-end futures. None of them got over how close they came to becoming champions back then, and tonight they’ll do whatever it takes to win for once in their lives.

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS

NED DOUGHERTY

Ned Dougherty is a playwright and poet living in Appalachia. His plays have been featured in theatre festivals from Dublin to Albuquerque and independently produced in his previous home of Taos, New Mexico. He is under commission from the Greenbrier Valley Theatre to develop a new play for elementary students across West Virginia and his writing has been supported by ForgeNYC, SOMOS, the Taos Center for the Arts, and The Playwrights Workshop. He is a member of the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts and a former faculty member for the Taos Writers Conference. He was named the New Mexico Charter School Teacher of the Year in 2015 and has presented at numerous national education conferences with students showcasing their own work. He is a two-time Fund For Teacher Fellow. Currently, he's teaching at-risk high school youth in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. MFA: Augsburg University, 2019.

JOSH WILDER

Josh Wilder is a playwright and producer from Philadelphia. His work has been produced at various regional theaters across the country. Currently, he’s stationed in Baltimore, MD leading the next generation of emerging writers at The Playwrights Workshop. MFA: Yale School of Drama. BFA: Carnegie Mellon. Plays include; LEFTOVERS, SALT PEPPER KETHCUP, and WRONG WRIVER.