Black Box New play Festival
January 16 – 26, 2025

Gallery Players has a history of supporting emerging playwrights, fostering play development, and producing world premieres. Now in its 28th year, our playwright-focused festival aims to polish and perfect a collection of new plays and offer a home where playwrights can deepen their stagecraft and hold a mirror up to our time.

Week Two: Jan. 23 – 26, 2025

• M&A
  Playwright, Joseph Bulvid
  Director, Mark Harborth
  M & A provides an inside view to the high-risk, highly pressurized world of corporate Mergers & Acquisitions. Rankin is a high-flying savant in the world of M&A. Project YP will be the biggest deal ever if he can make it happen. Rankin’s deeply flawed personal life emerges as he struggles to close the deal that could “change the world.”
  
  
  
• CAMBRIOLAGE
  Playwright, James Kelsey Nelson
  Director, Noel MacDuffie
  Five actors are randomly assigned their roles at the top of the performance in this expressionist comedy. A receptionist working at a museum late at night is tricked by an intruder and an active burglary ensues. As more visitors arrive – the curator of the museum, a police dispatcher who is learning on the job, and a nosy neighbor who seizes an opportunity to advance their career – the situation spirals out of control.

Featuring Roxy Arecco, Chrissy Brinkman, Teddy Fischer, Matthew Foley, Nick Freedson, Jaden Gant, Hannah Herbert-Hunt, Samuel James Rider, Abby Wheeler, Andrew John Wilson, Chantel Woo

Both plays will be featured at each performance. There will be a talk back with the artists following the Sunday performance.

Festival Staff:
Co-Producers: Sue Glausen & Dominic Cuskern
Sound Designer: Sebastian Bader
Lighting Designer: Zijun (Neil) Wang
Props Designer and Costume Coordinator: Jerry Mittelhauser
Intimacy Coordinator: Becca Carter Freeman
Production Stage Manager: Britt Kolek
Assistant Stage Managers: Georgina Marshall & Cecilia Milbrandt