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Amazing works by NYC’s talented up-and-comers. A competition, the first of its kind, specifically designed to showcase the best new talent and writers across the New York City area. Each night is built as an eclectic and diverse experience with themes and performances ranging from drama to comedy, and everything in between. Winners go on and have the ability to expand their pieces for the next round of Lighthouse Series performances. From that group an overall winner is picked to receive a full production at SoHo Playhouse in 2026. Come see tomorrow’s stars today!
GROUP D
Performances on Wednesday, April 16 @ 7 PM, Friday, April 18 @ 7 PM and Sunday, April 20 @ 6 PM
Hungry Women
Written by Mellisa Maney
If men went extinct, what would our world become? In 19th century Massachusetts, four women face the mysterious deaths of their town’s men. As repressed feelings about motherhood, gender, sexuality and hunger for agency rise to the surface, finally, it’s their turn to decide: what comes next?
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Written by Siena Rafter
We meet Sam on their final day at an eating disorder clinic; the precipice of reentering the real world. It isn’t until a special someone from their past appears that all future plans get thrown into question. Should they even leave at all? What’s a little white lie (or lies) if it could land you back with a person who feels like home?
But perhaps what feels safe isn’t indicative of what’s healthy...
From cracking eggs to game shows, this disordered young-adult fantasia explores the messiness of being sick, and what fighting for your own healing really looks like.
Regicide
Written by Jude Cramer
Directed by Gaven Peterson
When a veteran drag queen takes “death drop” too literally, a hosting gig is up for grabs at one of Milwaukee’s last gay bars. A seasoned queen bee and a talented newcomer are both poised to take her crown and secure their spot at the top of the food chain—but only one can reign supreme. Let the queer catfight commence! Regicide is a drag dramedy dripping with shade, show stopping lip syncs and existential dread, probing why anyone, queer or otherwise, wants to be special in the first place, and what it means if you’re simply not.
GROUP E
Performances on Thursday April 17 @ 7 PM, Saturday, April 19 @ 7 PM and Sunday, April 20 @ 3 PM
Honeybee, My Honeybee
Written by Colston Merrell
Set in a fundamentalist polygamous community, Honeybee, My Honeybee is a woozy, three-legged romcom that falls head over heels from blushing to bloodshed. This excerpt for the Lighthouse Series presents the first scene of the play: a swooning story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy’s wife, trio prepares together to receive an eerie hieratic authority figure of dubious intent and ill definition. Oh, to be young and in love!
Open House
Written by Alex Poletti
Directed by Melia Jost
with Annamarie Kasper, Alex Poletti and James Rana
Newlywed couple Stuart and Phoebe are doing everything right. They’re married with a baby on the way, make decent wages, yet they still can’t afford to buy a house. When Phoebe’s grandmother’s old house goes on the market, they decide to take a drastic step to get their dream home: break in and commit a murder inside to lower the property value. As they move forward with their plan, the couple is forced to confront the cracks in their marriage, their own morality, and their relationship to the less fortunate people in the community they plan to call home.
Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie
Book, Music and Lyrics by Ethan Crystal and Garrett Poladian
Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie tells the story of Golem, a non-copyright-infringing creature who owns a non-copyright-infringing smoothie shop called Tropical Smoothie in Panama City Beach, Florida. His newest young employee, Ian, struggles to find the meaning in all this—until Smeegle, the Machiavellian CEO of Smoothie Kingdom, reveals his evil plan to drive Golem out of business forever. Determined to rewrite his destiny, Ian hatches a plan with his best friend Kyle and his older sister Gabby to save Tropical Smoothie. Can he do it? I don’t know. Maybe. But the point is, Golem owned a Tropical Smoothie.
GROUP D
Performances on Wednesday, April 16 @ 7 PM, Friday, April 18 @ 7 PM and Sunday, April 20 @ 6 PM
Hungry Women
Written by Mellisa Maney
If men went extinct, what would our world become? In 19th century Massachusetts, four women face the mysterious deaths of their town’s men. As repressed feelings about motherhood, gender, sexuality and hunger for agency rise to the surface, finally, it’s their turn to decide: what comes next?
T
Written by Siena Rafter
We meet Sam on their final day at an eating disorder clinic; the precipice of reentering the real world. It isn’t until a special someone from their past appears that all future plans get thrown into question. Should they even leave at all? What’s a little white lie (or lies) if it could land you back with a person who feels like home?
But perhaps what feels safe isn’t indicative of what’s healthy...
From cracking eggs to game shows, this disordered young-adult fantasia explores the messiness of being sick, and what fighting for your own healing really looks like.
Regicide
Written by Jude Cramer
Directed by Gaven Peterson
When a veteran drag queen takes “death drop” too literally, a hosting gig is up for grabs at one of Milwaukee’s last gay bars. A seasoned queen bee and a talented newcomer are both poised to take her crown and secure their spot at the top of the food chain—but only one can reign supreme. Let the queer catfight commence! Regicide is a drag dramedy dripping with shade, show stopping lip syncs and existential dread, probing why anyone, queer or otherwise, wants to be special in the first place, and what it means if you’re simply not.
GROUP E
Performances on Thursday April 17 @ 7 PM, Saturday, April 19 @ 7 PM and Sunday, April 20 @ 3 PM
Honeybee, My Honeybee
Written by Colston Merrell
Set in a fundamentalist polygamous community, Honeybee, My Honeybee is a woozy, three-legged romcom that falls head over heels from blushing to bloodshed. This excerpt for the Lighthouse Series presents the first scene of the play: a swooning story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy’s wife, trio prepares together to receive an eerie hieratic authority figure of dubious intent and ill definition. Oh, to be young and in love!
Open House
Written by Alex Poletti
Directed by Melia Jost
with Annamarie Kasper, Alex Poletti and James Rana
Newlywed couple Stuart and Phoebe are doing everything right. They’re married with a baby on the way, make decent wages, yet they still can’t afford to buy a house. When Phoebe’s grandmother’s old house goes on the market, they decide to take a drastic step to get their dream home: break in and commit a murder inside to lower the property value. As they move forward with their plan, the couple is forced to confront the cracks in their marriage, their own morality, and their relationship to the less fortunate people in the community they plan to call home.
Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie
Book, Music and Lyrics by Ethan Crystal and Garrett Poladian
Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie tells the story of Golem, a non-copyright-infringing creature who owns a non-copyright-infringing smoothie shop called Tropical Smoothie in Panama City Beach, Florida. His newest young employee, Ian, struggles to find the meaning in all this—until Smeegle, the Machiavellian CEO of Smoothie Kingdom, reveals his evil plan to drive Golem out of business forever. Determined to rewrite his destiny, Ian hatches a plan with his best friend Kyle and his older sister Gabby to save Tropical Smoothie. Can he do it? I don’t know. Maybe. But the point is, Golem owned a Tropical Smoothie.
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