Join us for the 3rd Annual The Distillery New Works Festival. The Distillery New Works Festival is a weekend-long celebration of emerging theater. It features exciting new plays from local and national playwrights. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences (like You!) and providing a platform to help shape new works in progress.

Schedule Of Events

11am : La Tormenta

By Ana Luz Zambrana and Aditya Joshi, directed by Eden Aztlán

"In La Tormenta, Zaire and her daughter Estrella travel to Castañer, Puerto Rico, to celebrate Abuela’s 93rd birthday. Estrella resents her older sister Maria for abandoning the family, so when Maria unexpectedly arrives during a hurricane and power outage, the already tense family gathering spirals into a much more corrosive storm of emotions." Content Advisories: Substance abuse, self harm, suicidal ideation, death.

3pm : Wild, Mysterious Forces

By M. K. Wessel, directed by Kayla Walker

"Stuck in an elevator or is it a spaceship? a Woman and a Man struggle to figure out if they’ve met before, if they’re strangers, if they will meet in the future, and who this Other Woman is who keeps showing up. Swapping places with every blackout, the characters continue conversing as if nothing unusual has occurred. As the three grow agitated by the intimacy of the space, they find themselves caught in a duel of philosophy, sexuality, and power. But when an Alien breaks in, they're forced to confront their purpose in this strange little world and what it is that has tied them all together." Style notes: this show is a mystery science  thriller told via dark comedy. 

Content Advisories: Contains suggestions of spousal abuse, discussion of gendered violence, PTSD, misogyny, implied assault; contains consensual and nonconsensual bondage.

7:30pm : I never asked for a gofundme

By Jayne Deely, directed by Adrienne Mackey

"Millie is back home in Mobile, AL for a prestigious fellowship she couldn’t pass up. Her east coast born and raised Puerto Rican partner, Avery, is recovering from gender affirming top surgery. When quasi-aunt to Millie and righteous woman of God Teresa overhears Millie talking to the pharmacist at CVS, she assumes Avery has breast cancer and puts events in motion that turn everyone’s lives upside down: cue the casseroles, care packages, and checkbooks – a gofundme to SAVE AVERY! "I never asked for a gofundme" is a new queer comedy about gender, family, and religion that asks what it means to be worthy of care." Content Advisories: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia, discussion of cancer

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