The Omnivores Summer 2024 Reading Series
The Brick and Brick Aux, August 21 to September 4, 2024
Unfinished Sketches (later titled I’m Repeating Myself)
By Chad Kaydo
Directed by Theresa Buchheister and Carsen Joenk
With Matthew Antoci, Theresa Buchheister, Julia Brothers, Ben Holbrook, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Chad Kaydo, Marcella Murray, and Jesse Pennington
Scenes from a strange summer—never meant to be performed—become a theatrical essay about family history, mortality, patterns we struggle to break, and why we write (and watch!) plays at all.
Snowbirds
By Lauren Holmes
Directed by Will Steinberger
With Jeff Biehl, Gilbert Cruz, Langston Darby, Eva Kaminsky, Naomi Lorrain, Tom Nelis, Jay Sanders, Danielle Skraastad, and Jeena Yi
Recent retirees Tom and Joan have hit the road in their new RV, ready to experience the next phase of their lives. When cash gets tight, they pick up work in a warehouse. What happens when our working lives never end?
Edging Men
By Ian Robles
Directed by Ian Robles
With Jorge Sánchez Díaz, Charles Manning, and Pauli Pontrelli
Women are gone for good. The last humans aren’t allowed to go outdoors for their own sanity. Meanwhile, Polo and Gonzo stand at the very edge of the world fantasizing about love and ways to live their best life.
Untitled Generation Ship Play
By Diana Ly
Directed by Nana Dakin
With Pun Bandhu, Shreya Muju, Lindsay Rico, Jackie Rivera, and Brenda Wehle
Twelve years after the forced evacuation of the planet, the mayor of a city-spaceship commissions a play about Earth. Led by a cynical ex-theatremaker determined to avoid sentimentality, a ragtag group cull through their fading memories to figure out what they want to say about their lost home, from their new floating one.
Hippolytus in Space
By Phillip Christian Smith
Directed by Jack Serio
With Will Dagger, Daniel K. Isaac, Justin Mark, Robin Miles, and Thomas Jay Ryan
Creon brings his young husband Phraedric, and his friend Brad, to a roaming space station to care for his troubled son Hippolytus, who has been left in isolation for five years due to an interstellar pandemic with an AI named Serena as his only company. When Creon returns to the Earth Planet to arrange marriages for his children, Phraedric's feelings for his stepson come to the fore, as does Brad's meddling.
Reading series produced by Mark Toubman