PlayFest 2022

Boulevard of Bold Dreams 
by LaDarrion Williams

Friday, October 28, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

It is February 1940, and the night of the historic Academy Awards in Hollywood, California is underway. Bartender Arthur Brooks, an ambitious black man from rural Alabama, dreams of becoming a movie director. His best friend, Dottie, is a singer/maid at the Ambassador hotel who finds herself to be a cynic of all dreams. But when infamous actress, Hattie McDaniel stops in at the bar and refuses to show up for the biggest event in show business, Arthur and Dottie must do everything in their power to convince her to go claim her win all the while confronting their dark past and making their own dreams come to life. A play on race, class, gender, and the ever-changing landscape of Hollywood.PURCHASE TICKETS

White People by the Lake
By Rachel Lynett

Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

In a metatheatrical play, Saida agrees to go to her partner, Erin’s home for a funeral despite knowing that Erin’s family is very “woke” and not at all as racist-free as they claim. As the two fight about what it means to be an interracial couple with problematic families, the play explores the various tropes found in the many, many, many white people by the lake plays.

The Amazing, Fabulous, and Spectacular Untruths of Juan Garcia
By Kathleen Culebro

Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Young Don García has always gotten what he wants just by twisting the truth. But now that he’s home from the university, his father is determined to break him of this dishonorable habit. Inevitably, his lies build upon themselves, growing in complexity, and soon everyone is drawn into his tall tales and no one seems to know what’s really happening.

The Berlin Diaries
By Andrea Stolowitz

Friday, November 4, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books?
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Bite Me
By Eliana Pipes

Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Melody is a Black girl at an all-white suburban high school, overachieving academically and privately struggling to battle the isolation — Nathan is a misfit of another kind, a white boy in her grade with a juvenile drug habit and unceasing angst. They collide in a storage closet and form an unexpected bond that transforms and shatters them both, leaving them to pick up the pieces at their high school reunion 10 years later.PURCHASE TICKETS

Repossessed 
By Greg Lam

Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Rich and Gretchen seem to have the ideal marriage, until they learn that it was manufactured by a mysterious biotech company which installed it into their brains. Because they can no longer afford this service, the company must repossess their improvements.PURCHASE TICKETS