THE BINDING

by Tyler Dwiggins DRAMA

3

WOMEN, 2 MEN

Set in the Midwest, THE BINDING tells the story of Isaac, a deeply closeted, religious teen whose childhood imaginary friend, Poppy, returns on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. As Poppy begins to unravel Isaac’s tightly wound secrets, both must learn to escape the smothering identities they have chosen. THE BINDING is a play about the ecstasy and pain of believing in something that can’t be seen.

Tyler Dwiggins is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. His play, BUMP, was showcased at Actors Theatre of Louisville, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, and received a nomination for the National Partners - American Theatre Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His plays include ORANGE IS THE NEW GLASS and UNBREAKABLE TIMMY CRATCHIT. Tyler was a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop and Project Y Playwrights Group. Tyler is the creator of the LGBTQ web series, Queen’s English.

Game Show

by Jeffrey Finn & Bob Walton

Based on an idea by Jeffrey Finn

Theme Song and incidental music by Bob Walton

COMEDY

1 WOMAN, 7 MEN

Set during a “live broadcast” of a fictional, long-running TV game show, GAME SHOW places the theatre audience in the role of the TV studio audience, in which members are picked as the contestants to play the trivia-based game and win actual prizes. In addition to watching and playing during the “broadcast”—where anything can and does happen—the audience also witnesses all the backstage, back-stabbing antics “behind the scenes” that go on during the “commercial breaks” of GAME SHOW.

“With the double-crossing, back-stabbing power struggles shuffled in with an actual trivia-quiz program in which contestants drawn from the audience play for real prizes, GAME SHOW is not only a funny comedy but also lots of fun.”—New York Times

Jeffrey Finn received the 2013 Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Broadway producing credits include: I’ll Eat You Last, American Idiot, A View From The Bridge, Oleanna, On Golden Pond and others. Off-Broadway: GAME SHOW. Regional Productions: Seminar (Ahmanson Theatre), Oleanna (Mark Taper Forum), and others. National Tours: On Golden Pond; The Who’s Tommy; Company; Chess; and numerous Broadway Songbooks concert tours.

Bob Walton, along with his brother, Jim Walton, has written MY BROTHER’S KEEPER (1997 Bistro Award, Best New Musical), MID-LIFE! (The Crisis Musical), and DOUBLE TROUBLE! As an actor in New York, Bob has appeared in The Drowsy Chaperone, Once Upon a Mattress, City of Angels, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, and Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back. TV: Law & Order: SVU, Newhart, Picket Fences.

Foxes

by Dexter Flanders DRAMA

3 WOMEN, 2 MEN

Daniel, a young Black man, tries to keep up with his life, which is moving fast. When his relationship with best friend Leon undergoes an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart. Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders’s debut play FOXES explores masculinity and identity within London’s Caribbean community and Black street culture.

“Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, this debut play by Dexter Flanders shows how complex, and at times how devastating, the Black gay experience can be.”—The Guardian

“FOXES provides a voice to a community too often marginalized by theatre and demonstrates that the stories that emerge as a result have a universal resonance.”—Broadway World

Dexter Flanders trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts as an actor and now writes with a particular focus on stories of the unvoiced. FOXES was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year in 2018 and received its world premiere at London’s Theatre503 in 2021. In 2019, Dexter was chosen to participate in the Royal Court Theatre’s Introduction to Playwriting Group. Dexter is currently writing a feature film for Joi Productions and Netflix.