the lighthouse series

AMAZING WORKS BY NYC’S TALENTED UP-AND-COMERS.

A competition, first of its kind, specifically designed to showcase the best new talent and writers across the New York City area.

From the 15 semi-finalists, our audiences have chosen six finalists. Round 2 begins July 5!

Each night is built as an eclectic and diverse experience with themes and performances ranging from drama to comedy, and everything in between.

Come see tomorrow’s stars today!

GROUP 1

  • THE EXIT INTERVIEW

    Shortly after dying Sam finds himself in a void with Lenny, a somewhat competent afterlife employee, for his exit interview. Like many things in Sam’s life, this does not go as planned. THE EXIT INTERVIEW by Nina Kissinger is a dark comedy about what it means to reflect on your life after death and, more frighteningly, for someone else to.

  • TOOTHY'S TREASURE

    Toothy’s Treasure is the musical adventure of a pirate crew pursuing their deceased captain’s riches, led by the heroism of their new rookie. When this "perfect protagonist" abruptly dies in the first scene, the crew seeks audience members with “main-character energy” to help guide their way to the treasure.

GROUP 2

  • WHERE SHOULD WE PUT 'EM?

    As an exhausted mother and a bitter grandmother discuss the fate of their growing black boy their deep seated hate for black men raises him up to be the very thing they despise.

  • (un)conditional

    Fantasies are harmless, right? But what happens when your spouse wants to take a dark fantasy from the realm of imagination firmly into your bedroom? For two couples, the boundaries of compromise, communication, and unconditional love are tested to their breaking point, and seven-year-old Mia is getting caught in the crossfire.

GROUP 3

  • Furniture Boys

    In the absurd world of FURNITURE BOYS, written/performed by Emily Weitzman and directed by Rachel Resnik, boyfriends are couches, chairs, lampshades, and futons. Through an infatuation with furniture boys comes a fixation on that which lasts and that which doesn’t. (Furniture endures; boyfriends—not necessarily; we’re all going to die but the furniture won’t!) Blending theater, comedy, clown, spoken word, and furniture showroom, FURNITURE BOYS examines the immortality of inanimate objects and the mortality of relationships, ultimately asking the question: How to have faith in the structural integrity of a chair, a person, an artistic project, a self?

  • ANNIE BROWN'S 5TH GRADE SCIENCE PRESENTATION

    Annie Brown is ready to KILL her science presentation on the food chain. But when the animals become a little too aware of their roles as predator and prey, the whole show is thrown off-kilter. A dark comedy exploring class and oppression through the eyes of a 5th grader.