Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Writing Is Live 2025

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Writing is Live 2025
new plays in progress by brown mfa playwrights
_{^{March 5 - 9 | Leeds Theatre | Ashamu Dance Studio}}

6 playwrights, some are sitting, some standing.

The Plays

Schedule

Tickets

- thesis productions -

Kingdom

Thesis Production
by Kathy Ng '25 MFA
Leeds Theatre

Is Cry You Cry'n?

Thesis Production
by Dhari Noel '25 MFA
Leeds Theatre

- staged readings -

What!! Ever!! Major!! Loser!!

Staged Reading
by Brian Dang '26 MFA
Ashamu Dance Studio

Straight Wedding

Staged Reading
by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA
Ashamu Dance Studio

- readings -

Document Everything. Pluck Out Your Eyes.

Reading
by James La Belle '27 MFA
Ashamu Dance Studio

Then Act Like It

Reading
by Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA
Ashamu Dance Studio

Wednesday March 5

8:00 PM: Kingdom by Kathy Ng '25 MFA (LEEDS)

Thursday, March 6

5:00 PM: Straight Wedding by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA (ASHAMU)

8:00 PM: Is Cry You Cry'n? by Dhari Noel '25 MFA (LEEDS)

Friday, March 7

1:00 PM: Is Cry You Cry'n? by Dhari Noel '25 MFA, Talkback (LEEDS)
4:00 PM: What!! Ever!! Major!! Loser!! by Brian Dang '26 MFA (ASHAMU)
8:00 PM : Kingdom by Kathy Ng '25 MFA (LEEDS)
8:30 PM : Undergrad Underground (ASHAMU)

Saturday, March 8

11:00 AM: Then Act Like It by Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA, Talkback (ASHAMU)

1:00 PM: Kingdom by Kathy Ng '25 MFA, Talkback (LEEDS)

2:00 PM: Document Everything. Pluck Out Your Eyes. by James La Bella '27 MFA (ASHAMU)

6:00 PM: Straight Wedding by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA, Talkback (ASHAMU)

8:00 PM: Is Cry You Cry'n? by Dhari Noel '25 MFA (LEEDS)

Sunday, March 9

11:00 AM: Document Everything. Pluck Out Your Eyes. by James La Bella '27 MFA, Talkback (ASHAMU)

1:00 PM: Is Cry You Cry'n? by Dhari Noel '25 MFA, Captions (LEEDS)

2:00 PM: Then Act Like It by Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA (ASHAMU)

6:00 PM: What!! Ever!! Major!! Loser!! by Brian Dang '26 MFA, Talkback (ASHAMU)

8:00 PM: Kingdom by Kathy Ng '25 MFA, Captions (LEEDS)

Writing is Live is made possible through support from an endowed fund for the Adele Kellenberg Seaver '49 Professorship in Literary Arts, the Ben Brown Memorial Fund, and the Kathryn and Gilbert Miller Theatre Arts Endowment