MADLab: First Look Readings Sept. 28th-29th and Oct. 5th-6th

New Play Development Program for Los Angeles Artists

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L.A. BORN – L.A. BRED – L.A. BUILT

Program Director : Dana Schwartz

The mission of Moving Arts’s MADLab is to foster new and producible scripts by creating a unique environment of support and collaboration with professional Los Angeles playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors. Moving Arts is paving the way for MADLab to become the most well respected and highly competitive new play development program in Los Angeles. MADLab is a unique 9 month program that focuses on the development of new plays from the idea up.

Plain Mr. Smith by Chris Banda – Sep. 28 at 2:30 p.m. and Oct. 6 at 5:00 p.m.
When a Person of Interest walks into an Inglewood bar after a nearby shooting, the regulars have to find ways to prove they deserve a second chance.

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A Christmas Coven by Kate Mickere – Sep. 28 at 5:00 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 12:00 p.m.
Becca has to decide if the wild success she’ll enjoy by rejoining her old high school friends’ coven will be worth the destructive demon that comes with it.

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The Bachelors Club by Tom Jacobson – Sep. 29 at 2:30 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 5:00 p.m.
A queer Los Angeles couple reluctantly plunges into the surprising history of LGBTQ+ people in Oklahoma, including a two-spirit Choctaw (1905) and a gay mayor (1964).

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Coyote Lullaby by Vincent X. Kirsch – Sep. 29 at 5:00 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 2:30 p.m.
After she arrives at her new Laurel Canyon home, a young folk singer faces her impending fame with help from the mysterious stranger hiding there.

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Beach, Please by Nabra Nelson – Sep. 28 at 12:00 p.m. and Oct. 6 at 2:30 p.m.
A young woman tries to find meaning in the LA hustle by becoming the Beach.

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