This casual evening will present three 20-minute cuttings of new plays from Trademark Theater’s newest class of commissioned artists. A mixture of songs, scenes, and visuals, The In The Works Showcase gives audiences a peek behind the curtain of several new works in their earliest stages in development while hearing directly from the playwrights, composers, and theater-makers themselves about the creative process as they’ve developed their plays over the past year. The presentation will conclude with a post-event meet-and-greet with the artists.

Featured works will include:

PANSY 

Created and Performed by Max Wojtanowicz 

The early 20th century was an extraordinarily hostile time for queer people, but an underground cabaret movement known as "the Pansy Craze" gave voice to courageous performers like Gene Malin, Karyl Norman, and Bruz Fletcher. Inspired by these crusaders and their incredible artistry, Pansy imagines one such cabaret singer holding court for an audience of Hollywood stars as America enters World War II. A celebration of queer artistry, creativity, and resilience, Pansy is a story about singing out when the world demands your silence.

LOCUST

Book by Emma Lai
Music and Lyrics by Hannah Bakke 

Robin has made it to the top of the food chain. 

Her study of grasshoppers has made her an esteemed scientist in her idyllic, isolated town. Life is picturesque - until it’s not. When Robin is plagued by peculiar dreams, an Outsider arrives, and the grasshoppers begin behaving… strangely. 

Set to a folk horror score and inspired by the actual physiological and behavioral transformation that grasshoppers undergo in times of food scarcity, LOCUST, a new horror musical, places community, ambition, and progress beneath the microscope.

THE FEBRUARY PLAY

By Vinecia Coleman 

When the director of a production of A RAISIN IN THE SUN mysteriously dies, the cast and crew must work together to escape the haunted theater or face their own tragic end.