june, 2025
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Join LA artists for the Playwrights Union's 15th Annual FIRST PEEK reading series featuring the brand new work of member playwrights. Come participate in the process and explore the creation
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Join LA artists for the Playwrights Union’s 15th Annual FIRST PEEK reading series featuring the brand new work of member playwrights. Come participate in the process and explore the creation of five new full-length plays, four by women playwrights:
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
8:00 pm – WOMEN, BIRDS, STARS by Jennie Webb
Women, Birds, Stars is the story of four women of a certain age who take refuge together when their habitat is threatened. Rocked by uncertainty, they find themselves weighing their losses and options for survival in an increasingly surreal world. But there’s always ice cream.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
8:00 PM – ELEPHANTS by Jennifer Maisel
Who is going to be there for you when nobody else is? Five disparate women discover a tenuous connection binds them together for eternity. Meet THE ELEPHANTS.
SUNDAY, JUNE 15
2:00 PM – WE’RE TRYING TO HEAL!! by Ashley Rose Wellman
Four women use the settlement payout from a predatory university doctor to go on a spontaneous, chaotic vacation together. As the trip veers wildly between awkward intimacy, rage, and bad decisions, a sudden bombshell threatens to explode their fragile connections. A play about broken systems, price tags on pain, and how all of us are just TRYING TO HEAL!!
5:00 PM – WE WILL BE TAKING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT CULT AUTEUR STANLEY KUBRICK by Brianna Barrett
A film historian tasked with curating a major retrospective starts to unravel his lifelong obsession with the genius auteur, navigating a shifting cultural landscape, a contentious collaboration with the director’s daughter, and a relationship with a radical performance artist who refuses to let him look away.
FIRST PEEK 2025 also features BIGGEST MAN ON CAMPUS by Eric Rudnick, Saturday June 15 at 5:00 PM
After the readings, raise a glass at our Post-Reading Gatherings
Admission to all FIRST PEEK readings is FREE; reservations highly suggested and donations welcome
M A K E A R E S E R V A T I O N
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Playing
june 13 (Friday) - 15 (Sunday)
Venue
Atwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Avenue
Presented by
Playwrights Union
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Admission to all FIRST PEEK readings is FREE; reservations highly suggested and donations welcome.
