Synopsis

In a near future world where the government trains teenagers to manage disasters, five young women embark on a training scenario in the Appalachian Mountains to fix a regional electrical grid. As they hide secrets about their pasts and what is installed in their bodies, leadership and friendship become fractured. And when a freak electromagnetic storm hits the grid and injures the teens, they must fight for their bodies, relationships, and lives, struggling with a question that faces many of us today: how do we grow up in a world that is falling apart?

A Filipina woman with long wavy black hair and a white T-shirt leans against a brick wall

About the Playwright

Amanda L. Andrei (she/her) is an award-winning Filipina Romanian American playwright and screenwriter residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington DC. Her work is epic, irreverent, and centers the concealed, wounded places of history and societies from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women. They include Mama, I Wish I Were Silver (Panndora Productions 2021 Festival, Vagrancy’s Blossoming 2021 Festival); Lena Passes By (Finalist 2021 O’Neill; Semifinalist 2021 Ashland Festival; Semifinalist 21st Century American Voices); Lake Opaque (2020 Southeastern European Film Festival Accelerator) and Black Sky (Winner 2020 Parity Productions Prize; Finalist 2020 Burnham Award, Finalist 2020 New American Voices Festival, 2019 Madison New Works Lab Residency). She is a co-facilitator for the Southeastern European Film Festival Writers Lab, a producer for Bucharest Inside the Beltway, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and has been a member of the Echo Writers Lab, Echo Young Playwrights Group, Vagrancy Writers Group, and Playground-LA. She has been a resident with VONA, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Dorland Arts Colony. Recently, she was named a resident with Hedgebrook and a Sylvia Clare Brown Fellow at Ragdale. University of Southern California (MFA), Georgetown University (MA). www.amandalandrei.com

View Amanda’s profile in The Parity Database.

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March '22 Reading Cast & Creative Team

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CAST

Kolbe Handal (she/her) – KHawk
Ashil Lee (they/she/he) – Diesel
Bailey Macejak (she/her) – Jana
Mia Selway (she/her) – Violet
Denali Thomas (they/she) – Sachi
Maddie Jewell (she/they) – Stage Directions

TEAM

Director: Ludovica Villar-Hauser (she/her)
Playwright: Amanda L. Andrei (she/her)
Company Dramaturg: Jennifer Kranz (she/her)
Director of Photography: Edna L. Biesold (she/her)
Production Stage Manager: Becca Silbert (she/her)
Assistant Stage Manager: Maddie Jewell (she/they)