FRESH. INNOVATIVE. NEW.

An exciting opportunity for our FSU/Asolo community, who get to experience fresh, innovative theatre through a staged reading of three new plays! You decide your ticket price with *Pay What You Will ticketing.

The New Works Play Lab aims to give graduate student-actors in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory experience with developing a new play, starting with the workshop process and ending in a staged-reading. The New Works Play Lab gives playwrights a laboratory to experiment with their work in a supportive, educational setting, while also teaching developing actors how to serve the text. Most excitedly, our FSU/Asolo community gets to experience fresh, innovative theatre!

There will be a talk-back following each reading that will include the playwright and dramaturg for the production, featuring James Monaghan (Director of New Works and Dramaturg, Asolo Rep) and Dr. Julia Moriarty, Asst. Professor of Theatre, Missouri State University).

*with $5 minimum

Meet the Playwrights

KATHERINE VONDY (RELIABLE NARRATORS)

Katherine Vondy is a writer and director working in theater, film, and literature. A recipient of the Davey Foundation Theatre Grant, Kat’s stageplays have been developed with theaters including the Salt Lake Acting Company, Caltech MACH 33, The Blank, The Larking House, Clamour Theatre Company, Ammunition Theatre Company, and Paper Wing Theatre Company. Her plays have also been finalists for the McNerny Playwriting Contest, B Street Theatre New Comedies Festival, Garry Marshall New Works Festival, and Relative Theatrics’ Playwrights Voiced; shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award; and semi-finalists for the O’Neill NPC and Ashland New Plays Festival. She currently leads the new play development program at The Vagrancy, and produced the feature-length documentary In A Wintry Season, which premiered at the 2024 Krakow Film Festival.

MATTHEW GREENE (BAD ACCENTS)

Matthew Greene is a playwright, librettist, and lyricist whose works have been seen on both coasts and a few places in between. His play Thousand Pines had its world premier at Westport Country Playhouse (directed by Austin Pendleton), and the autobiographical Good Standing played at Theater Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Other plays include Gregorian (Working Artists Theatre Project), Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea (Plan B Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival), #Mormoninchief (New York International Fringe Festival), Job Well Done (national finalist, American College Theatre Festival), and Bread of Affliction (Society for the Study of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature). His work has been developed at Westport Country Playhouse, the Jerome Robbins Foundation Project Springboard, LiveRead, Apples and Oranges Arts, and the Working Artists Theatre Project. In 2020, he received the Stiles + Drew Prize for a new musical in progress and is currently under commission from Westport Country Playhouse for his play Beloved Son, directed by Chay Yew. His first novel – There’s No Murder Like Show Murder – is available now from Crooked Lane Books. He is a proud member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and has taught theatre to people of all ages in and out of New York City.

ANDREW MICHAEL REID (TRY AGAIN?)

Andrew Michael Reid is a Filipino-American NYC based playwright and dramaturg who writes epic spectacles filled with whimsy. Recent productions and development at Manhattan Arts Center, Fisheye Theatre Co, New York Theatre Workshop, The Actor’s Theatre Workshop, The Workshop Theatre, Dramatic Question Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Rorschach Theatre, The HUB, D.C. Arts Center, The Chain Theatre, George Mason University, Fairfax County Public Schools, and Columbia University. Recently a two-time Lanford Wilson New Play Festival Finalist and two-time O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-finalist. Andrew holds a MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and holds a BFA in playwriting and dramaturgy from George Mason University. Andrew’s plays are currently published with 1319 Press.