By Mariana Carreño

Tuesday, April 5th at 7pm

In Hollywood, Florida, Sasha, Ginger and Hank have just opened a bed and breakfast to pay for legal bills and multiple medications. The only problem is that the world is underwater. After an unexpected visitor coincides with their first guest, they must decide whether to stay or search for a better future.

Mariana Carreño is a playwright, director, and translator. Her plays include Truckers (Humanitas Play LA Award; Workshop, LAByrinth ), The Red Gene (Workshops, Oregon Shakespeare Co., LAByrinth Barn Series), Miss 744890 (Winner, MetLife Nuestras Voces, Repertorio Español) Patience, Fortitude and Other Antidepressants, (an urban riff on Federico García Lorca’s Yerma, commissioned by Intar Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center), Dance for a Dollar (a dance-theatre collaboration, Miracle Theatre, Portland, OR), and Ofelia’s Lovers (Mabou Mines Residencies, 2007-2009), among others. Mariana is a member of LAByrinth Theatre Company, and Alumna, Hispanic Playwrights in Residency Lab (HPRL) at Intar. Mariana teaches Playwriting at SUNY Purchase.

By Mel Nieves

Wednesday, April 6th at 7pm

Traci Reyes is a smart but temperamental inner city teen with a chip on her shoulder who doesn't like to be stared at and Carmen Baez, the brightest student in the school just got caught looking.

Mel Nieves is a NYC born and raised actor-playwright-arts educator. A graduate of The William Esper Studio and a long time member of The LAByrinth Theater Company. He is a 2017 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference semi-finalist and a two time (2017/2019) semi-finalist for The New Dramatist Princess Grace Playwright Fellowship. His work as a playwright has been presented in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Diego. His plays, Prospect Avenue and The Spirit, The Body & The Blood are published through Next Stage Press. His one hour pilot script, On The Boulevard was a 2020 HollyShorts and Los Angeles International screenplay awards best television pilot nominee.

Written by David Anzuelo

Thursday, April 7th at 7pm

Danny is a lower middle-class Chicano punk-rock kid covered in bruises who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a Black upper-middle class band nerd kid who is gay and in the closet. Racism, sex, drugs, and music provide the harsh terrain of 1984 border city life in El Paso as these two youngsters attempt to make the leap towards adulthood.

David Anzuelo

Plays include: MinotuarRomance; Queen Latina & the Power Posse vs The Evils Of Society; Estrellita/Luminaria; Camino/Montana; Killing/Play (published Caffe Cino Magazine Issue #2). He’s also written for the One-Minute Play festival at Intar and the 24 Hour Viral Monologues. Theater acting: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Labyrinth/Atlantic); Intimacy (New Group). Fishmen (Intar). Mother Road (Arena); Oedipus El Rey (Woolly Mammoth). Film/TV acting: A NY Christmas Wedding; A Walk Among The Tombstones; Succession; The Americans; Deadbeat; Elementary; White Collar; Blue Bloods; Person Of Interest. David is a member of Labyrinth Theater Company, The Convening playwrights group and is the founder of UnkleDave’s Fight-House.

Conceived and Curated by Sarah Nina Hayon

Friday April 8 at 7pm

Conceived and curated by LAByrinth company member Sarah Hayon, The Naming of Small Losses asks LAB writers to explore what we’ve quietly lost in the new normal. The evening includes several short pieces and a short film.

Sarah Nina Hayon* is a bicoastal actress. A three-time Drama Desk Award nominee, she is passionate about new works and has developed with many Broadway and Off Broadway companies. Recent theater highlights include: American Fast (Denver Center New Play Summit, Marti Lyons), Wintertime (Berkeley Rep, Les Waters), Seascape (A.C.T, Pam Mackinnon, BACC nomination), Sweat (A.C.T., Loretta Greco), We Swim We Talk We Go To War, (Golden Thread Productions, Evren Odchikin), Swimmers (Marin Theatre Company, Mike Donahue; Theatre Bay Area Award nomination), No One Is Forgotten (The Rattlestick, Winter Miller) and Water by the Spoonful (The Old Globe, directed by Edward Torres). Film + TV credits include: The Surrogate, FBI, For Life, 13 Reasons Why, Succession, Danny DeVito’s Curmudgeons She is a proud graduate of NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company

Written by Dipti Bramhandkar

Created by Dipti Bramhandkar, Dan Milne & Jane Nash

Saturday, April 9th at 7pm

Over twelve intense and intimate hours, two couples grapple with the reverberations of a single question asked by one to the other at an after party of a film pitch to investors. Indie filmmaker, Charlie, and her editor husband, Peter, retreat to their Gowanus apartment trying to predict the outcome of the evening. Meanwhile in Tribeca, first time producer, Sanjay, and his art dealer wife, Asha, discuss the event from their perspective. The question winds its way through each individual’s sense of self, their world views, and ultimately, their relationships, putting everything at risk.

Dipti Bramhandkar is an Indian-American writer exploring the space between prose and dramatic writing through the lens of the immigrant experience. The last two years have been exceptionally busy: her solo show American Rookie was produced by Luna Stage and had a sold-out, extended run. Her play Islands of Contentment was in Labyrinth Theater Company’s Barn Series and then produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank (featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Gómez, Danny Pudi and more.) She was the playwright in residence at Guild Hall, which also commissioned a pandemic-inspired story collection, A Land Without Weather. She wrote twenty audio stories during the pandemic which were featured on WNYC. Juggerknot Theater Company commissioned an interactive solo play, Mrs. Asha, nominated for best performance. 24HourPlays invited her to contribute a monologue, How to Beat a Curse. Compass Needle Theater commissioned two radio plays to be released on the Broadway Podcast Network: Learning to Swim and Kishori’s Canteen. Her musical play, Where Are You Going Alone, Little Girl? was produced in Mumbai, India in December 2021. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and M.A. from Cambridge University (both in English literature.) She 'daylights' as the Head of Strategy, North America for Iris Worldwide.

By David Deblinger

Sunday April 10th at 7pm

It is the morning of election day November 2020 when David is informed by his ultra Orthodox Jewish (and Trump supporting) older brother, Ari, that their mother has passed away. Ari asks David to go be with the body, so it's not alone. On the way, David encounters the spirit of his mother and must help her cross not the river Styx, but Sheepshead Bay. The three are facilitated not by a ferryman but a Lyft driver to clash and struggle to understand what, for each of them, truly matters… before it’s too late.

David Deblinger is an award winning actor, writer, director and a co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company. His critically acclaimed performance piece Lucky Penny, was adapted for an episode of the Podcast series The Truth, and picked up for a national broadcast on the NPR program Snap Judgment. As a director he created, Shakespearean Minute, which won the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship Award and The Callback, an award-winning short film, he also wrote, starring Sam Rockwell. As an actor David has appeared in a recurring role opposite Forest Whitaker in season one of “Godfather of Harlem,” on EPIX, Broad City, Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Damages, Clubland, Remember Me, Kiss Me Guido and more. He has originated roles in two plays by John Patrick Shanley (Dirty Story, Where’s My Money?), as well as in Our Lady of 121st Street, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. David received a commission by LAByrinth to write and perform in his short play, Hot Tea, for a streaming series called Backseat, in 2021. Hot Tea has been adapted into a short film, is in pre-production, and will be shot in 2022.