New Works Showcase

A NEW WORK

This is your chance to experience a new work in progress before it premieres, and contribute to its development.

LIVELY

On-script performances by actors (stage readings and/or script-in-hand performances) are far more lively than you might think.

IMAGINE

Our imagination paints the story as the quality actors bring the work to life with their voices and characterizations.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

This is your chance to support local talent and make a difference in the development of a new work.

IF YOU ARE A WRITER

We encourage playwrights, screen writers, novelists, short-story writers and poets to submit their works for consideration for the SHOWCASE (or one of our other programs that supports new works: VAPA Academy, School Tours, Collaboration LAB, Main Season).

Host: T.S. Forsyth - [email protected]

NOV 18 - HEADLINER: STACEY WINN

STACEY WINN

• Her one-woman show -- Recently seen at THE MARSH in San Francisco
• post performance feedback, Q&A and workshopping

The second New Works Showcase for season 2024-2025 features Sacamento area native performer / playwright Stacey Winn, and her new solo show in progress, Openings, on November 18 at 7 p.m. in the Parkview Event Room, Rocklin, California.

Developed with and directed by David Ford of The Marsh Theater, San Francisco, Stacey describes her new play, Openings:

• "I was born into fundamentalist Christianity during the Satanic panic of the 1980s so the church was the absolute center of my world. And it was a busy time for us! There was this huge sense of urgency around the supernatural. All the grownups were doing spiritual warfare and exorcisms—basically looking for demons under every bush. In Sunday school we were taught that we had a part to play in this invisible battle unfolding all around us and I took the responsibility very seriously. I developed a fantastical inner life where I thought it was my duty to fight the Devil and save everyone I knew. But it's hard to make friends when you're in the Lord's army! Openings is an excerpt of a longer piece exploring how this grandiosity and difficulty connecting with people followed me into adulthood, and I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to bring it to Placer Rep for further development.”

Also featuring:

• A curtain warmer excerpt from T.S. Forsyth's interactive melodrama adaptation of The Corsican Brothers (Alexandre Dumas novela with identical twin brothers separated at birth, revenge, romance and sword fights!)

Meanwhile:

SUBMIT YOUR WORK for consideration for March 2025 - [email protected]

• Play, short story, novel, poetry, lyrics.
• Includes Stage Reading, Feedback and Workshopping.
• Short and full-length works accepted. (Min: 90 seconds, max: 60-minute excerpt).

PRIOR SHOWCASES:

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• JULY 15 2024 New Works Showcase

Featured writer(s): Playwright Jackie Lahr shares a scene from her work in progress, working title "I Can Read Your Mind."

Plus Stacey Winn performs a solo piece. (Update: July 15 - Stacey unable to attend.)

I CAN READ YOUR MIND blurb: Rayne Patterson is in a rut. Rayne is a socially anxious playwright and has not been able to find Ms. Right or even Ms. Right now. She’s been set up on blind dates, used dating apps and even went back to past relationships to no avail. Rayne meets artist Ajani Lloyd at an Art gallery and of course, the encounter goes wrong. Because every encounter Rayne has, goes sideways. Rayne’s friend sees her interest in Ajani and gets an idea. This idea is a terrible idea that can destroy Rayne’s chances with Ajani. Can two maladjusted adults get out of their own way and find love? I Can Read Your Mind is a relatable Romantic Comedy for people who feel uncomfortable in their own skin and doubt themselves in every social situation and must navigate dating in the modern age.

Cast includes:

Sarina Krastev (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10656480/)

Donna-Lisa Otto (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10167834/)

Anne Merino as the Narrator of stage directions (https://placerrep.org/anne-merino/)

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• MARCH 18, 2024 pilot- Featuring "A Pocketful of Rye" a one-act work in development by Scott Charles. Script reading performance by Arie Knyazev, Maureen Roman and Matthew Heyer.

POCKETFUL blurb: "Pocket full of Rye" by Scott Charles, "1340 AD. Medieval Lords are facing a challenge. Freedom is coming. So is the plague. Which way are the winds of fortune blowing? To the fortunate. But only if they are facing the right direction. Come see this not so romantic comedy!"

Host or Publisher Placer Repertory Theater