2026 FRESH INK READING SERIES

2026 FRESh INK READINGS

Rebel’s Rest is Burning Down

by Brittany K. Allen
directed by Colette Robert
Monday, April 6 at 3pm

When the first Black graduates of a small liberal arts college in the Dirty South return to campus twenty years later for an old professor’s memorial, scabs fly off. Old friends reminisce, ghosts may or may not terrorize their evening, and the one Confederate monument still on campus burns to the ground. One part Big Chill, all parts autopsy of an institution, this play examines the psychological toll of Black self-making at a PWI.

Parallax

by Calamity West
Tuesday, April 7 at 3pm

Tonight, in a living room not far from you, an HOA board convenes after an act of vandalism takes place at Meryl’s house. What begins as neighborly concern turns volatile as questions become accusations and the room fractures, exposing the invisible borders of class and power. Beneath the civility, something sharper emerges: suspicion, self-interest, and the quiet thrill of deciding who belongs. In this community, where territory is everything, decency is just another performance. Welcome to the neighborhood.

Year of the Goat 

by Eric Micha Holmes
directed by Michael Tisdale
Wednesday, April 8 at 3pm

No one knows what happened to Quincy Delacourt. A star basketball player and 2-time champion, he shocked the sports world by disappearing at the height of his powers. A year later, Quincy mysteriously reappears to play for the Griffins – a struggling franchise in desperate need of his talent. But the deal gets messy when Quincy tweets a baffling haiku, renewing fears that he’s mentally ill. As negotiations proceed, the strange circumstances surrounding Quincy’s disappearance and his state of mind blur truth and illusion, history and conspiracy, the mundane and the mythic.

A Circumlocution

by Clarence Coo
directed by Jennifer Chang
Friday, April 10 at 3pm

The only fact the present-day Henry knows about Ferdinand Magellan is that Magellan was the first person to try to circumnavigate the world. And that the European explorer was killed in the Philippines, where Henry's family is from. But there was also a Henry in the past, who happened to be Magellan's personal interpreter. And a Henry in the future, who will be in charge of retelling the Magellan story on a luxury cruise recreating the historic voyage. It’s a story of being forced to speak around the things you really want to say.

Untitled Klezmer Project

by Sarah Gancher
directed by Hayley Finn
Private Reading

When twelve year old Izzy discovers a magic fiddle that can transport him back in time to previous generations of his klezmer family’s history, he and his sister Miri embark on an epic journey. A family-friendly Hanukkah musical that incorporates klezmer, circus, physical comedy, big questions, and wild theatrical surprises.

Silent Nights

by Adrian Einspanier
dramaturgy by Annie Wang
Private Reading

It’s 11:01pm on Christmas Eve at a nursing home “soon to be bankrupt by Scrooge and his board.” Renditions of Silent Night play outside the nursing station, as two longtime nurses await Midnight Mass and also one of their daughters. And maybe the daughter’s “special friend.” We meet these four on this night and on another night almost one year later around a hospice bed. The playlist is called Silent Nights. So is the play.

The Fresh Ink Readings Series is made possible, in part, through the generous support of The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Ellen M. Violett and Mary P.R. Thomas Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.