The Morgan Jenness Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship Readings | June 8

What happens to the people who live on land where there was once a massacre? In Cul-de-Sac, three women’s lives unfold and intertwine as they’re haunted by the same ghosts from the past and future. Based on a real-life traffic circle in Mystic, CT, the men responsible for a violent past shape the lives of the women who live on it–until they’re exorcised by time, nature, and the resurrection of lost language. In this ghost-story-meets-memory play, past violence in the form of a massacre, a deadly mistake, or an ever-sprawling casino eventually crumble, and it’s language and story that remain. Cul-de-Sac is a play about land and language that spans across centuries to expose unmet desires, wasted talent, and missed connections—but also to expose what endures.

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House Gyalz by Abigail Onwunali

House Gyalz is a fierce, darkly comedic thriller inspired in part by The Maids, set inside the lavish home of a Nigerian socialite whose world begins to unravel overnight. As Sorochi and Chidi, two housemaids, spiral deeper into dangerous roleplay, buried desires and impossible loyalties erupt into chaos. Blending razor-sharp satire with explosive theatricality, House Gyalz reimagines Jean Genet’s classic through a contemporary Nigerian lens, examining class, power, womanhood, and what it costs to finally break free.