The Cupcake Reading Series is a staple of LG!’s Bakery Play Development program, which helps female playwrights by providing resources like staged readings, talk-backs and new play commissions. With intimate readings followed by talk-backs, the Cupcake Reading Series gives audiences a chance to get to know the work of exciting up and coming playwrights as well as an opportunity to be directly involved in the shaping of new plays.

2016 Cupcake Spring Reading Series

March 20-22 and 27-29 / Sundays 2pm / Mon/Tue 7:30pm

Come enjoy a taste of 13 new plays by women over the course of 2 weeks! Join Live Girls! this March at the Pocket Theater where you can experience tasty full length works, delicious one acts cooked up by young writers from the ACT Young Playwrights program, and freshly baked short plays commissioned just for this event. This years playwrights include Elizabeth Heffron, Holly Arsenault, Adrienne Dawes, Jennifer Jasper, Maggie Lee, Jennifer Dice, Courtney Meaker, Jessica Chisum, Christi Cruz, Zoey Belyea, Isabela de Campos,  Pearl Lam, Piper Gillet, and Camille Johnson. And yes ACTUAL cupcakes will be served!

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Presented with The Pocket in Greenwood CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS AND MORE ABOUT THE POCKET

FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

March 20 2pm- Young Playwrights

Three short plays by teen playwrights from the YPP program at ACT Theatre, presented with Rain City Projects.

MidWife Crisis by Pearl Lam directed by Katie McKeller (Live Girls! Award)

How to Save a Horse Piper Gillet directed by Maddie Downes (Live Girls! Award)

Into The Book by Camille Johnson Directed by Desiree Prewitt (RCP Award)

March 21 AND 22 7:30pm- Shorts Nights!

Eight new short plays commissioned by Live Girls! and inspired by the theme “Lost and Found”.  Each night will feature 4 of the plays from out team of writers including- Jennifer Jasper, Maggie Lee, Jennifer Dice, Courtney Meaker, Jessica Chisum, Christi Cruz, Zoey Belyea, and Isabela de Campos.

Directed by Maggie Rogers

March 27 2pm- Marvelous by Holly Arsenault

Directed by Carol Roscoe

March 28 7:30pm- Portugal by Elizabeth Heffron

Directed by Kaytlin Mcintyre

March 29 7:30pm- Teen Dad by Adrienne Dawes

Directed by Rachel Delmar