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Laughing, Flexing, Dying
By: Shannon T. L. Kearns
Development Workshop/Staged Reading for Flint Rep New Works Festival 2026
Director: Shelby R. Seeley
Stage Manger: Briana O'Neal
Stage Directions Reader/ Production Assistant: AJ Dagenais
Cast:
Jayden: Mack Alexander
Cayden: James Ragen
Ayden: Dorian O'Dell
Ayden, Jayden, and Cayden are away for their annual boys weekend, but
this time something is different. As the weekend unfolds, they grapple
with the loss of their friend to suicide and try to hold their friendships together. This play asks what it means to be a man, how we show up for one another, and the impact that media has on our becoming.
Tragedy Sound
By: Karen Saari
Development Workshop/Staged Reading for Flint Rep Lab (2024).
Director: Shelby R. Seeley
Production Assistant: Chloé Yasmine
Cast:
Becky: Anna Marck
Billie: Faith Green
Mariel: Emily Nichter
Three young women accept a dare and embark on a canoe trek on frigid waters. Dangerous conditions prevail and force them to reveal and face the choices they've made and the trappings of life in their confining hometown.
Funny, Like HAHA (or, A Play About a Rape Joke)
By: Katherine Gwynn
Development Workshop/Staged Reading for the 2023 New Works Festival.
Director: Shelby R. Seeley
Stage Manager: Alex Grindey
Stage Directions Reader/ Production Assistant: Enrique Vargas
Production Assistant: Heather Kaatz
Cast:
Erin Li: Amanda Kuo
The Rape Joke: Kevin O'Callaghan
The PA: Marie Muhammad
Lily Schuttman: Meredith Parker
Lily Schuttman is in her dressing room, preparing for her first comedy special, when Erin Li comes in demanding answers. See, Lily spoke to the Times defending Joe Ainsley. Joe's a self-identified male feminist, comedy mentor to Lily--and the man Erin’s accused of sexually assaulting her. After a tense fight, Erin gets ready to walk out of Lily's life. And then the Rape Joke Lily was going to tell springs to life, trapping them in the dressing room.
A dark comedy about internalized misogyny, white feminism, who gets to be heard, and who gets to be a joke.