LOCAL LAB 11: SPRING LAB
APRIL 22—24, 2022
DAIRY ARTS CENTER | BOULDER
Engage with some of the most exciting theater being created today with Local Theater Company’s Local Lab, Boulder’s premier 3-day festival of new American plays. Step inside the room with the theater makers for staged readings of four new works, gather with your fellow audience members for creative workshops and a number of social gatherings, including the Saturday night dance party.
The Local Lab 11 ALL-ACCESS PASS is your key to the full lineup of events: all four readings, post-show discussions, two parties including the Festival Kickoff at the home of Local’s Board Chair Jane Butcher and the Late Night Lab dance party at DV8, and the Co-Lab Creative Workshop on the final day of the festival. Step into the room to experience new works and participate in the creative process.
Festival Schedule
EARTH DAY HIKE
Friday, April 22
8—9:30 am
@ Chautauqua Park
Baseline Rd & 9th Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS
Let’s walk into the Local Lab weekend with clean air in our lungs and beautiful vistas in our minds. Artistic Director Pesha Rudnick and Local Lab 11 Co-Director Nick Chase lead a morning hike at the iconic Chautauqua Park for Local Lab company members and All Access Passholders. Although this hike is rated easy, we are at altitude so please bring plenty of water and wear hiking or gym shoes. Meet in front of the rangers office at 8am MT.
FESTIVAL KICK-OFF PARTY!
Friday, April 22
4:30—6 pm
The home of Local Theater Company Board Chair, Jane Butcher
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS
Meet your fellow festival-goers, the playwrights, and the rest of the Lab teams as we kick off Spring Lab 11. There will be cocktails. There will be food. There will be fun.
Need the address for the party?
Contact producer Misha Zimmerman:
970-556-8806
misha@localtheaterco.org
ALL-ACCESS PASS PICKUP
Friday, April 22
6 pm
@ Dairy Arts Center - MAIN LOBBY 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder
The ALL-ACCESS PASS is your passport to the mainstage readings, the Late Night Lab afterparty, and all of the exciting post-show gatherings.
MAINSTAGE READING 1:
You Enjoy Myself
Friday, April 22
7 pm (doors open at 6:30)
IN-PERSON
@ Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center
Playwright: Topher Payne
Director: Betty Hart
About the play: Judith and Eileen met and eagerly fell in love- first with a band called Phish, and then with each other. But that was thirty years ago, before their lives took notably divergent paths. An Instagram post from a stranger leads the two of them crashing back into each other, along with four young wayward souls who passionately want to be passionate about something. Over the course of one curious night at a remote Vermont farmhouse, they’ll each explore the nature of devotion- to music, to literature, to other people- and learn the art of “including your own hey.”
Tap on headshots to meet these Spring Lab artists!
MAINSTAGE READING 2:
The Lotus
Presented in collaboration with CU Boulder
Saturday, April 23
2 pm (doors open at 1:30)
IN-PERSON
@ Grace Gamm Theater,
Dairy Arts Center
Playwright: Esther Omegba
Director: Lisa Marie Rollins
Playwright sponsor: Jane Butcher
About the play: A poor, young girl and her sister attempt to take on a global computer supervirus with the help of a charming young boy. However, unforeseen circumstances threaten to derail their relationships and thwart their one chance at creating a cure to the supervirus.
Tap on headshots to meet the Spring Lab artists!
MAINSTAGE READING 3:
Goodnight Cowboy
Saturday, April 23
6 pm (doors open at 5:30)
IN-PERSON
@ Grace Gamm Theatre
Dairy Arts Center
Creator & Performer: Jody Kuehner aka Cherdonna Shinatra
About the play: Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises everywhere. Inspired by the iconography of Margaret Wise Brown's beloved children's book Goodnight Moon blended with the zeitgeist of the spaghetti western, Cherdonna inhabits both space and screen to explore life and death, propaganda, toxic masculinity, soft endings, and how we invest our worlds with meaning.
Tap on headshots to meet the Spring Lab artists!
LATE NIGHT LAB PARTY
Saturday, April 23
8—Close
@ DV8 (aka Deviant Spirits)
2480 49th st Suite E, Boulder, CO, 80301
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS
All this exciting theater make you wanna dance? Good, because that’s what we’re gonna do. Gather with the playwrights, the Lab team, and your fellow All-Access Passholders at DV8 in east Boulder. Not one to hit the dance floor? We get it; sometimes you just want to relax. There will be space for all.
CO-LAB
Sunday, April 24,
12-1:30
@ Grace Gamm Theater
Dairy Arts Center
AVAILABLE TO ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS
Step inside the lab and collaborate. The Local Lab team will lead a 90-minute creative exercise to inspire original writing and stories. No experience necessary.
MAINSTAGE READING 4:
Affinity Lunch Minutes
Sunday, April 24
2pm
IN-PERSON
@ Grace Gamm Theater
Dairy Arts Center
Playwright: Nick Malakhow
Director: Sabin Epstein
About the play: Ben and Jasmine are the only two Black teachers at Penn Valley, a private Quaker school. Jasmine is passionate and boundary pushing, while Ben has worked his way up the ranks at the school to be Diversity Dean thanks to his “agreeable” nature. A racially charged discipline decision ignites a divide at the school and in Jasmine and Ben’s collegial relationship.
Tap on headshots to meet the Spring Lab artists!
PESHA RUDNICK
Founding Artistic Director
MISHA ZIMMERMAN
Producer
NICK CHASE
Marketing Manager,
Associate Artistic Director, & Lab 11
Co-Director
ALISON PALMER
Development & Business Affairs
BETTY HART
Lab 11 Co-Director
KEVIN DOUGLAS
Marketing Associate
JORDAN LICHTENHELD
Resident Dramaturg
MIKALEY OSLEY
Production and Administrative Associate
Land Acknowledgement
Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world that contributed their hopes, dreams and energy to making the history that led to this moment. Some of the people from the history of this spot were brought here against their will, some were drawn to leave their distant homes in hope of a better life and some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted. Truth and acknowledgment are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference. We begin this effort to acknowledge what has been buried by honoring the truth.
Local Theater Company acknowledges, with deep respect, that we are located on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and Peoples. We pay respect to their elders both past and present. We ask that you consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration and settlement that bring us here today.
Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
