TCR’s 10th-annual Underground New Play Festival has been moved to an online format. 

This Year’s Theme: THE MYSTERIOUS

2020 offerings include 13 official selections written to explore the theme “The Mysterious.” All plays are short one-acts written by playwrights with Iowa connections.

2020 Festival Sets

Admission is FREE. Please register for each session separately. If you are a playwright or performer in the festival you will be provided a panelist invitation so you do not need to register.

All readings/performances will be directed by the writer unless otherwise noted. All sets followed by QA sessions with the writers, directors, and casts.

Set One: Saturday, May 16th @ 2:30 p.m.

REGISTER FOR SET ONE HERE

• Basic Accounting by Emily Golden (directed by Zhen Rammelsberg)
• Chicken Needle Soup by Matt Fisher
• Reubal Sleuth Solves Another One by Mike Miersen
• The Case of the Missing Cookie by Tristan Maynard
• A New Year by Brian Tanner

Set Two: Saturday, May 16th @ 7:30 p.m.

REGISTER FOR SET TWO HERE

• The Tempest at Shnuz U Luz by Tristan Maynard
• W.I.S.E. Inc. by Duane Larson
• The Photographer by Brian Markowski
• The Broadcast by Billo O’Loughlin

Set Three: Sunday, May 17th @ 2:30 p.m.

REGISTER FOR SET THREE HERE

• Lost in Flavortown by Zachary Johnson
• Basilicata by Ali Ajram (directed by Rachel Potthoff)
• Barrymore by Brian Tanner
• Wico Iye by Brigid Martin
• Awards to follow!

Questions?

Chelsea White
Digital Festival Co-Coordinator
cewhite1989@gmail.com

Angie Toomsen
TCR Artistic Director / Digital Festival Co-Coordinator
angie.toomsen@theatrecr.org