Yetunde Babalola is a Nigerian American poet, storyteller and educator. As a visual creator, they display stories about underrepresented communities and work on decolonizing the mind. No- God In The Streets is a play that experiments with conversational contemporary poetry and the theatrical arts. It touches on two humans, battling against societal constructs and trying to grow in the concrete. 

Honeysuckles is a horror-comedy about queer desire, childhood best friends, and the apocalypse. It is written by Abigail Duclos, a New York-based playwright, actress, and puppeteer. This reading will be directed by Alexandra Haddad and will feature performances from Alyssa James, Joan Milburn, and Spenser Valentine.

Four friends. One apocalypse. A plethora of issues. In a wasteland overgrown with weeds and seemingly no one else in sight, a group of young adults band together to survive. The Heartbreak Kids explores how a mental health crisis can feel like the end of the world, and how community can help you heal even in the darkest of times. Avery Wood, writer of this project, is a writer/director/performer who uses their work to talk about what's left unsaid and to dig through the questions left unanswered.

Kenneth Keng is a Filipino-Chinese playwright filled with gratitude and guilt- grateful for the chance to chase their nation's stolen wealth in the cultural capital of their colonizer, and guilty at being among those allowed to remember when their homeland was a democracy. The staged reading they will be presenting is their latest attempt at a living-room play, involving Napoleonic-era musketry, cannibalism, an artificially intelligent therapist, Philippine migrant workers, and piracy.