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It’s 1999. Ellen has already come out on her TV show. Jack’s about to do the same on DAWSON'S CREEK. And David and Martín — two film buffs and best friends — are waiting to hear about a film scholarship to NYU that could change the trajectory of their lives. For the young employees, the small-town video store has become more than a workplace – it’s a sanctuary. It’s the only place where they can escape into their favorite films, dream about the future, and actually be themselves. But, when dangers looming outside the store threaten their safety, David and Martín realize just how fragile their world is. In a nostalgia-infused love letter to cinema, ONE-SHOT explores privilege, identity, fragility, and asks who gets the space to tell what stories.

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Andrew Rosendorf’s work has been produced or developed at La Jolla, MCC, DCPA, KC Rep, Signature Theatre, Florida Stage, the National New Play Network, Unicorn Theatre, American Theater Company, Nashville Rep, City Theatre, Geva Theatre, Actor’s Express, Curious Theatre Company, and Local Theater Company. He is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, a Venturous Theater Fund Grant, a MAP Fund Grant, and a NNPN Rolling World Premiere for REFUGE, which he co-created with Satya Jnani Chávez. He is an alum of the Goodman's Playwrights Unit, NNPN’s Playwright-in-Residence program, and has been a fellow of SPACE on Ryder Farm, Tofte Lake Center, VCCA and MacDowell. He was a previous McKnight and Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center as well as Core Writer. He is an associate artist with Local Theater Company and recently sold a television pilot with Amblin.

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Native American academics Aislin and Cesar are excited to settle into their new home in Proctor, Massachusetts. But as Aislin becomes aware of strange occurrences surrounding her job at the Natural History Museum, she starts to wonder if there might be something insidious beneath the sleepy town. Aislin must overcome deep insecurities around her identity to uncover the town’s terrifying secrets.

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P.C. Verrone is a playwright, author, and educator. He has developed work with AlterTheater, The Blank, Center Theater Group, Custom Made Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project, La Jolla Playhouse, Native Voices, Playwrights’ Center, Primary Stages, and Urbanite Theatre. In 2023, his Indigenous reimagining of ‘Peter Pan’ titled 'Crocodile Day’ was published by Playscripts. His fellowships and awards include the Many Voices Fellowship (Playwrights’ Center), Generation Now Fellowship (Mellon Foundation/Children’s Theatre Company), Tin House Residency, New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship, and winner of the Black Creatives Revision Workshop (We Need Diverse Books). His fiction has appeared in FIYAH Magazine, PodCastle, and the Elemental Forces New Horror anthology. His debut novel 'Tar-Baby' is forthcoming from Catapult Books in 2026. He holds an B.A. from Harvard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. He resides with his husband, a historian. Find him at pcverrone.com.

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A house. A family. A piece of paper. And a story buried deep under the Loch Dhu Plantation in Cross, South Carolina. Memories are shared at family barbecues, but are only snapshots of the past. The Prioleau family is no different – but their history runs deeper than the paper claiming one half of the family tree as 'property.' Told through intersecting timelines, only you, the audience, will discover the truth.

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Phaedra Michelle Scott is a writer and dramaturg based in New York City. She is a staff writer on the CBS/Showtime drama KING SHAKA. Her playwriting credits include GOOD HAIR (Commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant & Ensemble Studio Theater, developed with Pipeline Playlab); DIASPORA! (2024 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Play, 2022 Great Plains Theater Conference); and PLANTATION BLACK (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Playwrights Horizons, LobstahLab [InterAct Theatre Company new play development retreat], and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference). Her podcast work included PLEASURE MACHINE, developed with Colt Coer. Other plays include THE PURITANS (commissioned by Sparkhaven Theater Company) and UNITY (commissioned by University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Scott is currently under commission by Documentary Arts for a new musical adaptation of the children’s book Stompin’ At the Savoy (World Premiere, Delaware Theater Company 2025). She is an alum of Playwrights Horizon’s New Works Lab, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Pipeline PlayLab, and Youngblood with Ensemble Studio Theater. Proud Member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America. www.phaedrascott.com

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Davey is the only 18-year-old he knows with severe erectile dysfunction and is scared his girlfriend Jen, the love of his life, is going to break up with him. Thank God his mother, sister, and grandma are all on the case to help him figure out this horrific affliction. But when his mother zeroes in on his girlfriend being the cause of his dick problems, she attempts to fix their sex life in ways that threaten to blow up Davey and Jen's relationship. Dunk City takes a look at masculinity, Staten Island, and the pressures we put on young men to be super sexual, even if they don't want to be.

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Stephen Brown recently graduated from The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His play The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine Starr-Kidd won the Kendeda Award and was produced at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta; it is currently being adapted into a film. His other work has been developed and received readings from New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, MCC, Page 73, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Florida Repertory, Barter Theatre, and Theatre Lab at FAU. He’s been a Finalist for the Play Penn Conference, Seven Devil's Playwrights Conference, the Blue Ink Award, the Neukom Prize, and the Aurand Harris Award. He was a member of Youngblood at EST, Page 73’s playwriting group I-73 and has new play commission from the Ensemble Studio Theatre / Sloan Project and the Atlantic Theatre Company. He’s currently developing Film / TV projects with The Space Program, Jewelbox Pictures, and Hoorae Media.

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May Chen is called in to a major tv studio to audition to adapt THE LAST GREAT ASIAN AMERICAN FILM into a television show in Hollywood. Everything is going well until she starts to pitch making it more authentic. Before she knows it, she is kidnapped and wakes up in a prison farm for writers. Will she be able to write her way out? Or will she lose her memories, her stories and her soul in the process? An absurdist, existentialist play interrogating identity, who gets to tell whose stories, memory and the difference between who we are and who we think we are. (Sorta kinda based on a true story.)

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Carla Ching is a Chinese American native and current Angeleno who called NYC home for 16 years. She’s an Asian American theater maker and television writer/producer who generates work celebrating the indomitability of the human spirit.

She began her career writing and performing autobiographical ensemble theater with pan-Asian performance collective Peeling. Her plays include Rage Play, Revenge Porn or The Story of a Body (Ammunition Theater Company; Toulmin Commission for The Atlantic; O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Nomad Motel (NNPN Rolling World Premiere at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, Horizon Theatre in Atlanta and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City; NY Premiere at The Atlantic Theatre in NYC, O’Neill Playwrights Conference), The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play, Theatre Mu, Kitchen Theater), Fast Company [South Coast Rep (Heideman Award), Ensemble Studio Theatre] The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi),and TBA (2g). Carla’s full-length plays have also been produced or workshopped by Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Huntington Theatre Company, The Kitchen, The Lark Playwrights Workshop, Lyric Stage, Ma-Yi, Midnight Rice, PFP and WP Theater among others.

Former artistic director of 2g. Founding member of The Kilroys. Alum of New Dramatists. Carla is a co-recipient of the Horton Foote Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild with Mfoniso Udofia, Donja R. Love, Kia Corthron, and Aleshea Harris. With Ammunition Theatre Company, she was a recipient of The Los Angeles New Play Prize for Revenge Porn or the Story of a Body. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama.

Fast Company is published by Concord Theatricals and Two Kids and Nomad Motel are published by Theatre Rights Worldwide.

On television, Carla has written for Graceland, Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, The First, Preacher, Home Before Dark and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She has developed shows for AMC, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Onyx and FX.

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The Ascension Plays is a trilogy that traces the journey of a lineage of Black women whose ancestors were forcibly brought to America via the Middle Passage in 1840, having been kidnapped and transported on an illegal vessel. These women, descendants of the Yoruba gods Oshun and Shango, possess supernatural powers. Spanning from 1890 to 1940, the trilogy follows four generations of women as they navigate the challenges and triumphs of Post-Reconstruction, the Industrial Revolution, and the Jim Crow South. The plays, titled in chronological order, are: Safronia’s Daughter, Children of a Feral God, and The Witching Hour.

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India Nicole Burton is a Chicago director, playwright, deviser, and producer. She earned her MFA in creative writing from The University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2022. India has been recognized through several programs such as the National New Play Network (NNPN) Producer in Residence program for Cleveland Public Theatre, which she participated in for two years, and the NNPN Bridge Program grant in 2021.One of India's notable works is her choreopoem titled "Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation," which received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The production garnered significant acclaim, earning nominations for two Jeff Awards in 2024. Additionally, "Panther Women" received nominations for two Chicago Black Excellence Awards. She was a cast member of "American Dreams," a production that received a nomination for a Drama League Award in 2021. She was selected as a 2020/2021 Room in the House Fellow at The Karamu House Inc. India was selected as The Chicago Reader’s 1st Runner up for best playwright in 2024 & Best Local Playwright from Cleveland Scene Magazine in 2023. She is a part of the Chicago 2024/25 Theatre Communications Group Rising leaders of Color and a semi-finalist for The Princess Grace Award in 2023. India was also selected for the New Harmony Project in 2024, a renowned playwright's residency located in New Harmony, Indiana.She has directed several plays for The Karamu House Inc, Company One, Cleveland Public Theatre, Dobama Theatre, The Playwrights Center & many more. India is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Chicago State University, she is the associate producer of new work at Pegasus Theatre Chicago and a teaching artist at Court Theatre.Through her work, India strives to empower African American communities by providing platforms to control and shape their own stories, fostering meaningful representation and cultural resonance in the theatrical landscape.