Kayenta New Play Lab
The Abundance
by Chelsea Sutton (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday August 10th 7:30pm & Sunday August 11th 4:00pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
We are thrilled to announce the return of the Kayenta New Play Lab, a unique opportunity for theater artists and audiences to converge to create and witness the development of new work. Six playwrights have been selected to participate by a panel of local and nationally-recognized experts. Following a 10-day development residency, each play will be presented as a staged reading for our summer audiences, followed by engaging discussions and opportunities to meet the artists. This dynamic New Play Lab fosters creativity, connection, and an unforgettable artistic journey. Join us in celebrating new, original work, full of inspiration and camaraderie!
About the Play:
After moving to a new corner of suburbia, a broke young mom is lured into a multi-level
marketing scheme by her new neighbors and a slick-talking bottle of tonic, and must either claw her way to the top of the pyramid, or lose everything by leaving.
About the Playwright:
Chelsea Sutton is an LA-based writer and director. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a Humanitas PlayLA award winner, an Emmy-nominated co-writer of the interactive film event Welcome to the Blumhouse Live and a graduate of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Her award-winning play Wood Boy Dog Fish appeared in the inaugural season of the Garry Marshall Theatre. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Rogue Artists Ensemble and holds an MFA from UC Riverside. Chelseasutton.com
This reading of The Abundance is directed by Carly DW Bones, and is performed by:
Maya Williams
Sadie Kuwano
Ginger Nelson
Emma Cox
Carly DW Bones (they/she) is a theatre director, intimacy coordinator, sex educator, facilitator and theatre witch aka thespomancer. They work at the intersections of performance, ritual, sexuality, gender, community, and trauma-sensitivity. Carly created and directed at the feminist theatre ensemble, The Illyrian Players, from 2011-2019. She has also directed at: Coin & Ghost, The Echo, EST LA, Inkwell Theater, The Road, Rogue Artists Ensemble, The Vagrancy, The Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and more. Carly is a freelance intimacy coordinator and educator in the Los Angeles area for professional theatre companies (A Noise Within, Antaeus, Boston Court, Coeurage, Coin & Ghost, East West Players, EST LA, Ghost Road, IAMA, Moving Arts, The Road, Skylight, Son of Semele, StarKid, Theatre 40), for university theatre programs (CSULA, CSULB, Emerson LA, Occidental College, UCLA, UCR, USC, Pomona College), and sometimes for film (Hypochondriac, Serpentine Pink).
Connect: carlydwbones@gmail.com / www.thespomancer.com
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Kayenta New Play Lab is sponsored by Douglas Caputo / Desert Dweller at Equity Real Estate
