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NEXT UP: AN INDUSTRY PRESENTATION OF
ENDER'S GAY
by Salwa Meghjee
AUGUST 18TH @ 1:30PM – THEATERLAB NYC
Laiba is obsessed with proving to her Remedial English teacher Mr. Pratt that Ender from the 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game is gay, despite the author Orson Scott Card’s documented homophobia. She comes to believe she is Ender and must fall in gay love with her classmate Jannat to save the world. Mr./Colonel Pratt also tells her to kill all the birds, who are the buggers, except they’re also gay, and they talk to her and want her to be their queen, but they’re also maybe in cahoots with Orson Scott Card, and by the way, the end of the world is tomorrow.
*Content Warning: discussion of suicide
Playwright
SALWA MEGHJEE
Salwa Meghjee is a playwright from Florida. Her plays include U-Haul Mesbians (2023 O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference Semi-Finalist), Ender’s Gay (2024 Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire Finalist, 2024 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist), The Conference of the Birds (Mudlark Theater), and, written with her twin sister Samah, The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters (Brooklyn Publishers). She co-founded the feminist theatre company The Golden and served as its Artistic Director for three years. She will be a Core Apprentice at Playwrights’ Center and is an alum of 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. BA, UC Berkeley; MFA, Northwestern University. salwameghjee.com
Director
ZAHRA BUDHWANI
Zahra Budhwani (she/he/they) is a director based in Brooklyn, NY. Select directing credits include Wasted (The Tank), Diwali Play (Prime Produce) and untitled sex show (Fresh Lime Soda Productions). Assistant directing credits at Rising Sun Performance Company, SheNYC Theatre Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company, Permafrost Theatre Collective, and Dixon Place. Zahra was a member of the inaugural Mercury Store Directing Lab and a director for the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2023, and is a current Associate Artist at Sanguine Theatre Company . They teach and make theatre with students all over NYC with the New Victory Theatre, Opening Act, CO/LAB Theatre Group, The Moth, and Broadway Bound Kids. BFA, NYU/Playwrights Horizons.
Stage Manager
CARTER WHITE
Carter White (he/they), Stage Manager, is delighted to be making their Sanguine debut! Favorite credits include When the Other Mary Celeste Sank (WP Theater), Regretfully, So The Birds Are (WP Theater / Playwrights Horizons), Children of Eden (Manhattan Concert Productions), and Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons), as well as prop running on The Tempest and Hell’s Kitchen (The Public Theater). Carter is an alumnus of Emerson College’s Stage & Production Management program, class of 2022. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Robin, Elizabeth, Henry, Dylan, and Maia. Kallisti.
MOST RECENT
AN INDUSTRY PRESENTATION OF
PEACHY
A sorta chekhovian traumedy
By Jasmine Sharma
By Jasmine Sharma
Directed by Sarah Shin
Featuring Cast Members:
Parvesh Cheena*
Jess Darrow
Joel Perez*
Miriam Laube*
Katherine Bahena-Benitez
Osh Ashruf*
Sharmarke Yusuf*
Jasmine Sharma*
Sierra Lancaster
*This actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
OUR ANNUAL NEW WORK FESTIVAL
playwrights
SPRING BREAK
April 2022 @ Open Jar Studios
This new play festival championed the work of three outstanding early career playwrights and provided them with development support, funding, professional resources, and more.
FEATURED PLAYS INCLUDED:
can't ignore the rat
By Emma Lea Hasselbach
Directed by Ana Radulescu
AT GOD'S BACK
By Camille Simone Thomas
Directed by Si Si Boudoin
CARETAKE OF HER
By kanishk pandey
Directed by Neeta Thandani & Max Mooney
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH WAVES OF LOVE, LLC
The Sitayana
(or "How To Make An Exit")
By Lavina Jadhwani
September 30 – October 2nd, 2022
@ The Marlotte
This one woman retelling of the Sanskrit epic poem, The Ramayana, flips the traditional narrative to show the princess Sita’s point of view on this ancient tale. We follow the young princess through marriage, banishment, exile, and heartbreak, and experience this classic tale anew in an utterly human way. Part coming of age, part Hindu epic, The Sitayana is ultimately a break up play about a young woman who goes to incredible lengths to fulfill her duty.
Creative Team
Lavina Jadhwani – Playwright
Sarah Shin – Director
Sean Perreira – Co-Production Designer
Cordie Hirsch – Co-Production Designer
Bea Perez-Arche – Stage Manager
Cast
Kendra Jain* – Sita
*This actor appeared courtesy of Actors Equity Association
A STAGED READING OF
Amputees
by QUENTIN NGUYEN-DUY
March 13th, 2022 at 3pm
@ The Tank
First-generation Vietnamese-American Sam Nguyen is home for the Holidays. In hopes of reassembling the family, his father, Vietnamese-born Phuong Nguyen, calls for a reunion to celebrate the family’s “Asian LunarMas” — a hybridized creation which binds the Vietnamese Tết with the Western celebration of Christmas. Forced to rekindle his relationship with his schizoaffective brother and estranged mother, Sam seeks to find the origins of his family’s trauma in his father’s past. When the past becomes blurred with the present, Sam is confronted with an ugly family history that is not so far from his own.
Creative Team
Quentin Nguyen-duy – Playwright
Sarah Shin – Director
Cara Hinh – Dramaturg
Cast
Tuânminh A Đỗ – Sam
Ian Michael Minh – Dev
Viet Vo* – Phuong
Jordan Mann – Annie
Eunji Lim – Ba Noi
*This actor appeared courtesy of Actors Equity Association
