Big Muddy New Play Festival

Schedule

Fri Apr 19 2024 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm

Location

Christian H Moe Theater | Carbondale, IL

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On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, April 19, 20, 21, 5 aspiring playwrights will be holding staged readings of their new and evolving works. All readings are in the Moe Theater and are free of charge. The lineup of the readings is below.
The Big Muddy Festival Guest this year is Ben Izzo, Agent at Michael Moore Agency, and he will give talkbacks after all MFA playwright shows and readings. Friday, April 19 at 11am in Comm 2005, he will present a talk entitled “What Agents Want: The Path to finding an agent and Successful Partnership Once You Have”. A lunch following the talk is provided by the New Play Lab RSO
A [Conventional] Found Family
by Alicia Utecht (PhD Candidate, Communication Studies)
4/19 3:30pm
When your favorite author in the world meets the biggest fan convention in the world, it’s guaranteed to be the best weekend of your life!

Before They Fall
By Mikayla Delos-Santos (1st Year MFA Playwriting Student)
Directed by Tricia Matthews, Barter Theatre (Abingdon, VA)
4/20 –10am
Four fragile relationships… and a park bench

Dinner at Asphodel
by M Kamara (1st Year MFA Playwriting Student)
4/20 -- 1pm
Unable to process the grief of her mother's death, Mo Lewis travels to the Underworld to find her mom and bring her back.

The Plastic Knife
By Aleksei J. Ellis (2nd Year MFA Playwriting Student)
4/20 –4pm
Super slammer slumber party cut short by plastic! The murders within the dollhouse walls, but which doll is to blame?

The Banana Slip
by AJ Rice (Undergraduate Playwriting Student)
4/21 – 10am
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Where is it happening?

Christian H Moe Theater, 1030 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901-4305, United States,Carbondale, Illinois

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SIU Department of Theater

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