Reading Series 2020
In partnership with MetroStage:
Tuesday, December 8th
Love & Laughter Holiday Party featuring
The Turkey That Ate Thanksgiving by Nicole Burton
Mishaps and hilarity are key ingredients in this turkey dinner for fifty.
The Christmas Card by Crystal Adaway
At a festive girls’ night, life imitates art, or is it the other way 'round?
Monday, November 16th
Someplace Better by Jean Koppen
Driven from their home country by disease and political unrest, a young couple journeys hoping to find someplace better.
In partnership with Too Much Damn Theatre:
Monday, October 26th
Time Stops by Marketa Seliyah Nicholson
Sometimes in life there are moments when time stops and those moments change your life forever.
Monday, October 19th
A Christmas for Carol by Raechel Patrese
A worried mother will do anything in hopes that her children can live harmoniously for the holidays.
Available on YouTube:
SALTWATER FARM
BY ANN TIMMONS
a two-part reading of the complete script-in-progress
As an old Maine family’s wealth is disappearing, siblings face hard choices while confronting their own past in a changing world.
click here for Act ONE reading, recorded August 25th
click here for Act TWO reading, recorded September 1st
Excerpts of works-in-progress
presented on Zoom!
April 20: Saltwater Farm by Ann Timmons
As an old Maine family’s wealth is disappearing, siblings face hard choices while confronting their own past in a changing world.
May 4: Singlish by Nicole Burton
A woman whose husband has disappeared into Alzheimer’s takes her grief and grown daughter on a train ride.
May 18: Flamenco by Jean Koppen
A midwestern housewife is ready to pursue her dream of becoming a Flamenco dancer, despite her lack of dance experience and the discouragement of her family.
June 1:To Be Still by Crystal Adaway
After her young daughter is lost in a flash flood, Maya must find a way to live within her family, and with the choices she’s made.
June 22: Zoom Calls by Patricia Connelly
Three generations of a family connect over Zoom in surprising ways as they face the challenges of living in quarantine.
Page-to-Stage 2019
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
On September 2nd, an enthusiastic crowd gathered for Pipeline's play readings at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage New Play Festival this year. It was standing room only for Jean Koppen's revised Unfocused, a comedic drama about voting habits set in the one-way mirrored funhouse of a corporate focus group room. Jordan Friend's clever staging had the audience almost seeing the collapse of our world as we know it.
Next up was Patricia Connelly's revised Rebellion in the Heartland, a courtroom drama about the limits of free speech and family ties that bind. The play, whose theatrical elements were subtly underscored by Catherine Tripp's direction, kept the audience spellbound. Both plays enjoyed short talk-backs at their conclusions, and the playwrights took home useful comments to help them prepare for their upcoming Pipeline productions.
Reading Series 2019
our third annual series of stage readings of our newest plays
at MetroStage, Alexandria, Virginia
by crystal Adaway
by PAtricia Connelly
by Jean koppen
by ann timmons
2018 Reading Series:
It’s My Party! by Ann Timmons
Swimming Up the Sun by Nicole Burton
Unfocused by Jean Koppen
Rebellion in the Heartland by Patricia Connelly
2017 Reading Series:
A Very Present Presence by Ann Timmons
The Men My Mother Loved by Soo-Jin Lee
Around the Snake Turn by Patricia Connelly
Unprotected by Jean Koppen
Special thanks to Carolyn Griffin, Producing Artists Director, MetroStage