the avalanche new play summit

with new plays by

Marjorie Muller, Jasmine Sharma, and Paul Michael Thomson

October 29 - November 6, 2021

7:00pm

The Den Theatre

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single reading admission: $15*

full festival admission: $30*

*includes copy of the Avalanche Biannual Issue Five

WasteHouse by Marjorie Muller

directed by Bec Willett

featuring:

Madeline Bernhard

Sharon Kushiner

Guy Wicke

Luisa Blanco

Felix Abidor

Carolyn Moore

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Radial Gradient by Jasmine Sharma

directed by Cayla Jones

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featuring:

Sydney Hastings-Smith

Apoorva Gundeti

Alexis Diaz-Waterman

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Artemis Books and the Well-Meaning Man by Paul Michael Thomson

directed by Brittney Brown

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featuring:

Debbie Banos

Amber Washington

Alanna Chavez

Billy Jones

about

The Avalanche New Play Summit is a series of new play readings, featuring some of the very best of Chicago's contemporary playwrights. In conjunction with Issue Five of the Avalanche Biannual, the Summit aims to connect these artists with wider audiences and provide the platform for discussion of these new plays.