BLOSSOMING 2012-Present
As Artistic Director of The Vagrancy I helm our annual new play reading series, BLOSSOMING, as well as hire The Vagrancy Playwrights’ Group.
BLOSSOMING: a new play reading series
by various playwrights
2012-Present
Helmed by Caitlin Hart
The Vagrancy Playwrights’ Group is a cohort of writers tasked with the goal of developing full-length plays for production. The Vagrancy annually selects a core group of five playwrights representing the diverse perspectives and voices of Los Angeles.
Beginning each fall, the writers meet regularly throughout the year as they craft their plays. The Vagrancy hosts two mid-year development workshops wherein the plays are explored with actors and a director in a rehearsal setting with the playwright. As with the writers, the actors represent the breadth and diversity of Los Angeles. During the workshops, the playwrights are encouraged to take risks and stretch the bounds of theatre in an attempt to continue pushing the art form forward.
The process culminates each summer with BLOSSOMING, a weekend of staged readings of each of the plays performed before an audience. The Vagrancy then selects one of the plays for Play Date, an extended ten day intensive workshop which takes place the following winter.
**These readings were made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs & is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. *
2019
Taciturn Beings by librecht baker
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm by Katherine Vondy
Nurse Cadden by Kate Mickere
Slur by Ilana Turner
Intertwined by Tracy Held Potter
Molly by Howard Ho
2018
Hedda Gabler: Re-imagined by Lena Ford
Celebrity Trash by Nicholas Pilapil
The Snake God of Fiji (A Hedda Gabler Prequel) by Katherine Vondy
The 626 Project by Lisa Dring (2018 Relentless Award Finalist)
The Last, Best Small Town by John Johnson
2017
Mercy Station by Abbey Fenbert
Disappointment Island by Howard Ho (O'Neill Finalist)
The Ocean Deep by Katherine Vondy (O'Neill Semi-Finalist)
Young Dumb Broke High School Kids by Nicholas Pilapil
2016
Metamorphosis by Cort Brinkerhoff
Child by Abbey Fenbert (O'Neill Finalist)
Various Emporia by Howard Ho (O'Neill Finalist)
2015
The Scrambling Class by Amy Tofte
I Want Her Wet Like Gasoline by Megan Breen
OP by Jesse Shao
The Charlie Play by Nahal Navidar
Horse by Cort Brinkerhoff
2014
The Tale of a Girl by Annette Lee
Dolls of America by Boni B. Alvarez
Falling Slanted, Sad & Crazy by Chelsea Sutton
The Nightmare Room by Cort Brinkerhoff
2013
The God Particle by Annette Lee
The Bomb Plot by Cort Brinkerhoff
Marabella by Boni B. Alvarez
H.A.P. by Chelsea Sutton
She Cries Rivers of Diamonds and Dust/
While the Sky Bleeds Flames/ and the Earth Hums a Lullaby by Donald Jolly
2012
Jackson Demands by Megan Breen
The Vermillion Hand by Cort Brinkerhoff
The Dead Woman by Chelsea Sutton (O'Neill Semi-Finalist)
Chardust by Niki Blumberg
The Special Education of Miss Lorna Cambonga by Boni B. Alvarez
by various playwrights
2012-Present
Helmed by Caitlin Hart
The Vagrancy Playwrights’ Group is a cohort of writers tasked with the goal of developing full-length plays for production. The Vagrancy annually selects a core group of five playwrights representing the diverse perspectives and voices of Los Angeles.
Beginning each fall, the writers meet regularly throughout the year as they craft their plays. The Vagrancy hosts two mid-year development workshops wherein the plays are explored with actors and a director in a rehearsal setting with the playwright. As with the writers, the actors represent the breadth and diversity of Los Angeles. During the workshops, the playwrights are encouraged to take risks and stretch the bounds of theatre in an attempt to continue pushing the art form forward.
The process culminates each summer with BLOSSOMING, a weekend of staged readings of each of the plays performed before an audience. The Vagrancy then selects one of the plays for Play Date, an extended ten day intensive workshop which takes place the following winter.
**These readings were made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs & is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. *
2019
Taciturn Beings by librecht baker
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm by Katherine Vondy
Nurse Cadden by Kate Mickere
Slur by Ilana Turner
Intertwined by Tracy Held Potter
Molly by Howard Ho
2018
Hedda Gabler: Re-imagined by Lena Ford
Celebrity Trash by Nicholas Pilapil
The Snake God of Fiji (A Hedda Gabler Prequel) by Katherine Vondy
The 626 Project by Lisa Dring (2018 Relentless Award Finalist)
The Last, Best Small Town by John Johnson
2017
Mercy Station by Abbey Fenbert
Disappointment Island by Howard Ho (O'Neill Finalist)
The Ocean Deep by Katherine Vondy (O'Neill Semi-Finalist)
Young Dumb Broke High School Kids by Nicholas Pilapil
2016
Metamorphosis by Cort Brinkerhoff
Child by Abbey Fenbert (O'Neill Finalist)
Various Emporia by Howard Ho (O'Neill Finalist)
2015
The Scrambling Class by Amy Tofte
I Want Her Wet Like Gasoline by Megan Breen
OP by Jesse Shao
The Charlie Play by Nahal Navidar
Horse by Cort Brinkerhoff
2014
The Tale of a Girl by Annette Lee
Dolls of America by Boni B. Alvarez
Falling Slanted, Sad & Crazy by Chelsea Sutton
The Nightmare Room by Cort Brinkerhoff
2013
The God Particle by Annette Lee
The Bomb Plot by Cort Brinkerhoff
Marabella by Boni B. Alvarez
H.A.P. by Chelsea Sutton
She Cries Rivers of Diamonds and Dust/
While the Sky Bleeds Flames/ and the Earth Hums a Lullaby by Donald Jolly
2012
Jackson Demands by Megan Breen
The Vermillion Hand by Cort Brinkerhoff
The Dead Woman by Chelsea Sutton (O'Neill Semi-Finalist)
Chardust by Niki Blumberg
The Special Education of Miss Lorna Cambonga by Boni B. Alvarez