Staged Readings: 3 Short Plays by Zachary Desmond

WHALES

Read by Samiha Ahmed, Heidi Cain, Marlon Hall, & Jonah O'Hara-David

In early 2023, researchers recorded an A.I.-assisted bioacoustic “conversation” between a group of marine scientists and a solitary Southeast Alaskan humpback whale they called ‘Twain’. Two years later, a family of whales discover a stranger in their midst.

IAN JONES

Performed by Zachary Desmond

A man weighs his life on the street against the life he left behind.

MILK TOWN: 1999

Read by Olivia De Salvo, Lizzie Freilich, Ashendri Picon, & Jonah O'Hara-David

An elite trio of teen detectives uncover a mystery of town history in the inaugural episode of this soon-to-be hit radio series.

The readings will be followed by a brief Q&A with the playwright.

ZACHARY DESMOND is a Washington (state) raised storyteller in NYC. He writes about ecology, class, and mythmaking to foment a counter-culture capable of engaging, absorbing, and becoming emigrants in an America of shifting borders and coastlines, and to reimagine what’s possible in the next few thousand years. He is the '23-'25 Playwriting Fellow at Playhouse Creature Theater Company, a Playwright-In-Residence at No.11 Productions, and a member of the acting company at the Mercury Store. MFA Juilliard Drama. www.zacharywdesmond.com

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Presented by HIS Productions in collaboration with Playhouse Creatures Theater Company.

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