AT THE CONFLUENCE OF CREEKS
written by SAM MUELLER
directed by JESS MCLEOD
LET’S TALK
Join us for a post-show RECEPTION to discuss the show with the creative team and MCC community.
MAY 18 | 6:30 PM
Caleb is back at his family’s hunting cabin in rural Wyoming for the first time in a decade. He hasn’t been since he came out as trans but his estranged brother, Cain, has invited Caleb to come along for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hunt a bighorn sheep. Little do they know, there’s a bighorn sheep nearby pulling off his limbs and morphing into a man. The brothers are too busy collapsing under the weight of things they won’t say to each other to notice they might be the ones being hunted. At The Confluence of Creeks is a play that asks just how much weight an olive branch can withstand.
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ABOUT THE JUDITH CHAMPION PLAYLABS READING SERIES
The Judith Champion PlayLabs Reading Series at MCC Theater helps foster the MCC artistic community by providing writers intensive dramaturgical support, as well as the opportunity to work alongside professional directors and actors to engage public audiences in the development of new work, with a goal of adding vibrant new works to the contemporary theatrical canon.
Each reading will be presented in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space and followed by a small reception. All readings in the series are free and open to the public. Space is limited and seating is general admission. Reserve tix below.
The Judith Champion PlayLabs Reading Series is funded through generous support from the Judith Champion Charitable Fund and Mel Litoff.
THE SUSAN & RONALD FRANKEL THEATER
THE ROBERT W. WILSON MCC THEATER SPACE
511 W 52 ST | NY, NY 10019
All tix are free of charge.
RUN TIME
All readings will be under 2 hours, no intermission.
BOX OFFICE HOURS
MON thru FRI 12–6 PM
QUESTIONS? Please contact us at (646) 506-9393 or via email at boxoffice@mcctheater.org.
CREATIVE TEAM
SAM MUELLER
Playwright
SAM MUELLER [they|she] (Playwright) is a Chicago-born, Florida-raised, New York-based playwright whose work fuses expansive queerness with working-class punk energy. Sam’s plays include PIN. (National Capital New Play Festival, O’Neill NPC Finalist), 70.3 (Parity Productions Development Award, The Hearth Theater) and Laced (About Face Theatre, Chicago). Laced and 70.3 are available through Broadway Play Publishing. Sam is an alum of EST/Youngblood, Ucross Foundation, The New Harmony Project, The Road Theater’s Under Construction, Life Jacket Theater’s Writers’ Room, as well as a former Terrence McNally Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. They are currently an artist-in-residence at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theater. Sam is represented by Michael Finkle at WME. BS: Northwestern University
JESS MCLEOD
Director
JESS MCLEOD (Director) is a director & social justice advocate specializing in risky new work about America. Recent credits include Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife at Joe’s Pub, D.A. Mindell’s On the Evolutionary Function of Shame at 2ST, Keiko Green’s Young Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story at Seattle Children’s Theatre, and new plays & musicals at Roundabout, Little Island, MTC, P73, Atlantic; and regionally at Steppenwolf (The Thanksgiving Play), Goodman, Lyric Opera of Chicago, IAMA, Alliance, Woolly Mammoth, Long Wharf, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Berkeley Rep. SDC Executive Board Member. Former Woolly Mammoth BOLD Resident Director; Resident Director, Hamilton Chicago; Artist-In-Residence at the NYCLU (Creatives Rebuild NY grantee); and Co-Chair (with Michael Korie) of DGF’s Musical Theatre Fellows. 2nd Gen Korean/Filipina/Scottish American. M.F.A., Northwestern. Upcoming: the world premiere of The Family Album at La Jolla Playhouse and John Proctor is the Villain at ACT, Seattle Rep and CTG. www.jess-mcleod.com | @mcjessmc
