Sate’s 2025 “Season of Adventure” opens with the Ninth Annual Aphra Behn Festival. The Aphra Behn Festival is named for the fascinating poet, translator, and spy, who is widely considered to be the first English woman to make her living as a playwright. When established in 2017, a goal of the Aphra Behn Festival was to give women interested in directing and writing for theatre an opportunity to get more experience, try out ideas, experiment, and hone their craft. Sate continues to expand the mission to make the Festival a more inclusive space for transgender and non-binary artists, as well.

Ingredients to be included in the Plays:
Theme: Adventure
3 Characters max
Up to 5 props
20 minutes in length
Architype from adventure story/novel/movie
Moment of music from John Williams or other “adventurous” composer
Sequence of extreme contrast
A surprise entrance

Plays of the Festival:

Felicity
Written by Dylan Malloy, directed by Ashwini Arora
Featuring Lyd Foss, Rosemary Shawver
As billionaires take off into space to colonize Mars, Will and June, two impoverished teenagers from a drought-stricken town, watch the rocket launch and reflect upon their lifelong friendship. June is devastated when she learns that Will is obsessed with the impossible hope of leaving Earth behind forever–and her along with it.

Scenes from Pierrot’s Blanket
Written by Meredith Lyons, directed by Christina Yancy
Featuring Joseph Garner, Miranda Jagels Félix, Jan Niehoff, Kaylyn McKoy
Embark on a surreal journey with Pierre as he navigates the landscape of your wildest dreams, desperately searching for his missing blanket on a quest that stands between him and his favorite activity, jamming out on his guitar. Revel in delight as he meets a charming, colorful parade of peculiar personalities.

The Inferno is for B tches
Written by Aurora Behlke, directed by Kayla Lindsay
with music from punk band Who’s Asking
Featuring Celeste Gardner, Claudia Barney, Bradley Rohlf
Heaven McPherson-Petermeyer did Not do her book report on Dante’s Inferno. Instead, she was busy getting totally ****** into a journey through real life Hell. With the power of punk music, she must find her way back home and delete the friggin’ illegal copy of Detective Pikachu off of her family computer ASAP.

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