Join us for the 3rd Annual The Distillery New Works Festival. The Distillery New Works Festival is a weekend-long celebration of emerging theater. It features exciting new plays from local and national playwrights. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences (like You!) and providing a platform to help shape new works in progress.

Schedule Of Events

June 12, 2025

7pm : Two Catchers

By Brad Goren-Wilson, directed by Hattie Claire Andres

"A plus-size, conspicuously queer high school softball player seeking an elite athletic scholarship enlists the equally queer altar boy at the local brother school to teach her how to play catcher.  As they work on her game, a complicated and ecstatic relationship unexpectedly blossoms, and they find themselves dealing with complications much more serious than sports."

Content Advisories: Depictions of: violence; addiction; pregnancy complications (NOT miscarriage or abortion); fatphobia & homophobia; consensual sexual situations between underage characters. Allusions to: Abortion, suicidality, gender dysphoria. Actors 18+.

June 13, 2025

7pm : Aviatrix

Book and lyrics by Angela Poe Russell, with music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney, directed by Amy Poisson

"Determined to make something of herself, a girl from rural Texas dreams of flying. But it’s 1917 and flight schools don’t accept women, much less one who is Black and Native. Refusing to take no for answer, Bessie Coleman charts a most unique path, making her legacy - aviation legend." Content Advisories: Discussion and depiction of racism.

June 14, 2025

11am : La Tormenta

By Ana Luz Zambrana and Aditya Joshi, directed by Eden Aztlán

"In La Tormenta, Zaire and her daughter Estrella travel to Castañer, Puerto Rico, to celebrate Abuela’s 93rd birthday. Estrella resents her older sister Maria for abandoning the family, so when Maria unexpectedly arrives during a hurricane and power outage, the already tense family gathering spirals into a much more corrosive storm of emotions." Content Advisories: Substance abuse, self harm, suicidal ideation, death.

3pm : Wild, Mysterious Forces

By M. K. Wessel, directed by Kayla Walker

"Stuck in an elevator or is it a spaceship? a Woman and a Man struggle to figure out if they’ve met before, if they’re strangers, if they will meet in the future, and who this Other Woman is who keeps showing up. Swapping places with every blackout, the characters continue conversing as if nothing unusual has occurred. As the three grow agitated by the intimacy of the space, they find themselves caught in a duel of philosophy, sexuality, and power. But when an Alien breaks in, they're forced to confront their purpose in this strange little world and what it is that has tied them all together." Style notes: this show is a mystery science  thriller told via dark comedy. 

Content Advisories: Contains suggestions of spousal abuse, discussion of gendered violence, PTSD, misogyny, implied assault; contains consensual and nonconsensual bondage.

7:30pm : I never asked for a gofundme

By Jayne Deely, directed by Adrienne Mackey

"Millie is back home in Mobile, AL for a prestigious fellowship she couldn’t pass up. Her east coast born and raised Puerto Rican partner, Avery, is recovering from gender affirming top surgery. When quasi-aunt to Millie and righteous woman of God Teresa overhears Millie talking to the pharmacist at CVS, she assumes Avery has breast cancer and puts events in motion that turn everyone’s lives upside down: cue the casseroles, care packages, and checkbooks – a gofundme to SAVE AVERY! "I never asked for a gofundme" is a new queer comedy about gender, family, and religion that asks what it means to be worthy of care." Content Advisories: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia, discussion of cancer

June 15, 2025

11am : The Last Rites of Uncle Manny

By Coco Justino, directed by Lauren ****

"After years of estrangement, Claudia Dalog's brother shows back up in her and her daughter, Molly's, lives... in a coma. In the chaotic process of coordinating his healthcare, it is up to Claudia, Molly, and the comatose Uncle Manny to carve their respective autonomies out of hand-me-down American Dreams, Catholic Guilt, and a recipe for real Pinoy fried rice."

Content Advisories: Illness, hospitals, death, religious trauma, strained familial relationships, discussion of racial prejudice, discussion of homophobic attitudes

3pm : God's Favorite

By Catherine Crimmins, directed by Jacqueline Meyners

"When Mary realizes she is pregnant, panic sets in. What is a 14-year-old in Nazareth to do? With limited options, Mary and her cousin, Elizabeth hatch a plan; call it a miracle. Say Mary is a pregnant virgin. Mary goes on a wild journey as her lie spirals out of her control and becomes the basis for a new religion. As the play goes on, Mary seeks her revenge on God and ultimately confronts her rapist in the kingdom of heaven. This dark comedy explores the heartbreak of girlhood in a deliciously dark way."

Content Advisories: Sexual Violence, Body Mutilation, and Explicit Language

Date : June 12-15, 2025

Location :

Seattle Public Theater,

7312 West Greenlake Drive North

Seattle, WA 98103

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