THE LAB
PRIVATE TABLE READINGS
2023
BY THE HORNS by Matthew Ivan Bennett, EB AND FLO by Elaine Jarvik
NEON WILDERNESS by Morag Shepherd
LAND OF OZ by Debora Threedy, dramaturgy by Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch
THE FLORIDA VARIATIONS by Jenny Kokai, dramaturgy by Charisse Baxter, Janine Sobeck Knighton, Greg Hatch
SUNNY APRIL by Elaine Jarvik, dramaturgy by Charisse Baxter, Janine Sobeck Knighton, Greg Hatch
THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY by Janine Sobeck Knighton (previously THE TALE OF YOUNG BEATRIX), dramaturgy by Greg Hatch - premiering on Plan-B's 2024/25 Subscription Series
POSTCARDS FROM MECCA by Teresa Sanderson & Debora Threedy, dramaturgy by Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
2022
CHERRY WINE IN PAPER CUPS by Morag Shepherd - University of California, Irvine (2023, second production)
UNTITLED YOGA PLAY by Janine Sobeck Knighton, dramaturgy Greg Hatch
WORLDS WITHOUT NUMBER: A DOCUMENTARY by Matthew Ivan Bennett, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
MOTHER, MOTHER by Julie Jensen (previously MOTHER OF MAUDE) by Julie Jensen, dramaturgy by Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - premiered on PYGmalion Theatre Company's 2022/23 Season
A FORM OF FLATTERY by Melissa Leilani Larson, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
TIP TOP TRIANGLE by Rachel Bublitz, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton, workshopped on Plan-B's 2022 Script-In-Hand Series
SOURPUSS by Camille Washington
2021
MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE by Morag Shepherd - premiered on Plan-B's 2022/23 Subscription Series
THE ROBOTS OF WALMART by Jenny Kokai
MESTIZA, or MIXED by Melissa Leilani Larson, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - premiered on Plan-B's 2022 Subscription Series, American Stage's Lift Every Voice Festival (2023, Florida)
WILL IT GO ROUND by Matthew Ivan Bennett, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
WORSHIP by Morag Shepherd, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch - workshopped on Plan-B's 2021/22 Script-In-Hand Series
LAST DAY by Charisse Baxter, dramaturgy Greg Hatch
THICKER THAN WATER by Debora Threedy, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - premiered on PYGmalion Theatre Company's 2022/23 Season under the new title MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
2020
BENT (renamed HORIZON) by Camille Washington, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - workshopped on Plan-B's 2021/22 Script-In-Hand Series
THE BIG QUIET by Morag Shepherd, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
THE MUMMY PLAY by Melissa Leilani Larson, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
ALLI & 3 by Debora Threedy , dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton, premiered as Plan-B's 2021/22 Free Elementary School Tour
LET'S FIX ANDY by Rachel Bublitz, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch - workshopped on Salt Lake Acting Company's 2021/22 New Play Sounding Series
BITTER LEMON by Melissa Leilani Larson, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
2019
PRESENTING SCAREDY CAT by Janine Sobeck Knighton, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter - premiered by Westport Country Playhouse's Mobile Unit, 2023 Tour
BALLET FOR ALIENS by Jenny Kokai, Oliver Kokai-Means, Gerard Hernandez, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - premieres as Plan-B's 2022/23 Free Elementary School Tour
FUNNY, LIKE AN ABORTION by Rachel Bublitz, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch
BEAST by Matthew Ivan Bennett, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch
FOUR WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THE MAN UNDER THE SHEET by Elaine Jarvik, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - workshopped on SLAC’s 2018/19 New Play Sounding Series; was set to premiere as an add-on to the 2019/20 Season but, due to COVID-19, it now opens the 2021/22 Season
ODA MIGHT by Camille Washington, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter - premiered on Plan-B's 2019/20 Subscription Series
THE AUDACITY by Jenifer Nii, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - premiered on Plan-B's 2019/20 Subscription Series
Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable
P.G. ANONYMOUS (renamed P.G. ANON) by Julie Jensen, dramaturgy Charisse Baxter, Greg Hatch - commissioned by Rivendell Ensemble, premiered on Plan-B’s 2021 Subscription Series
2018
THICKER THAN WATER by Debora Threedy, dramaturgy Greg Hatch
PRESENTING: SUPER CAT & REPTILE ROBOT by Rachel Bublitz, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - premiered as Plan-B's 2020/21 Free Elementary School Tour; City of Tampa's Creative Arts Theatre Company, 2023; Birmingham Children's Theatre, 2024
ART & CLASS by Matthew Ivan Bennett, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, workshopped in 2018 on The Constructivists Under Construction Play Reading Series, on PTC's 2018/19 Play-By-Play Series and the 2019 Great Plains Theatre Conference, premiered on Plan-B's 2021 Subscription Series
SINGING TO THE BRINE SHRIMP by Jennifer Kokai, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, premiered on Plan-B's 2019/20 Subscription Series
Meeting with Kevin Kling
DONNA by Jenifer Nii, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - workshopped on Plan-B's 2018/19 Script-In-Hand Series
FLORA MEETS A BEE by Morag Shepherd - premiered as Plan-B's 2019 Free Elementary School Tour
KORIHOR by Eric Samuelsen, dramaturgy Greg Hatch
MOTHER OF MAUDE: Being a Fanciful Speculation on the
Life and Longings
of Actress Annie Adams,
Mother of Maude Adams,
the Foremost American Stage Actress of her Age by Julie Jensen, dramaturgy Janine Sobeck Knighton
2017
THICKER THAN WATER by Debora Threedy, dramaturgy Greg Hatch
ALREADY DEAD by Morag Shepherd, dramaturg Greg Hatch - reading on PYG's 2017/18 Season
MOMMY DANCES WITH THE DEVIL (twice) by Rachel Bublitz, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton
ZOMBIE THOUGHTS by Jennifer A. Kokai and Oliver Kokai-Means, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - premiered as Plan-B's 2018 Free Elementary School Tour, workshop production on State Fair Community College's 2017/18 Season, second production on Building Better People Productions' 2018/2019 Season, additional productions at State Fair Community College, St. Andrew's Priory, Sam Houston State University, Riverside: The National Theatre of Paramatta (Sydney, Australia), Montana Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Children's Theatre, Culver City Public Theatre, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Building Better People Productions, Off-Key Anthem Theatre Collective
(in)divisible (thrice) by Austin Archer, Matthew Ivan Bennett, Carleton Bluford, Rachel Bublitz, Elaine Jarvik, Julie Jensen, Jennifer A. Kokai, Melissa Leilani Larson, Jenifer Nii, Eric Samuelsen, Morag Shepherd and Debora Threedy, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton, Martine Kei Green-Rogers - premiered on Plan-B's 2016/17 Subscription Series
AN EVENING WITH TWO AWFUL MEN by Elaine Jarvik, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - premiered on Plan-B's 2018/19 Subscription Series
MOUNTAIN LAW (twice) by Melissa Leilani Larson, dramaturgy Greg Hatch, Janine Sobeck Knighton - workshopped on Plan-B's 2017/18 Script-In-Hand Series, Mad Cow Theatre's inaugural Women's Voices Theatre Festival (2020, Florida)
2016
JUMP by Austin Archer - premiered on Plan-B’s 2017/18 Season in a co-production with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory
HOW LONG CAN YOU STAND ON THE TRAIN TRACKS: A GAME FOR TWO SISTERS by Morag Shepherd - premiered in July 2017 at Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory
FIGURINE by Matthew Ivan Bennett
THE WEIRD PLAY by Jenifer Nii, dramaturgy Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell - premiered on Plan-B’s 2017/18 Season in a co-production with Sackerson
THE ICE FRONT by Eric Samuelsen, dramaturgy Greg Hatch - workshopped on PTC’s 2016/17 Play-By-Play Series, premiered on Plan-B's 2017/18 Season
THE LOOKING GLASS by Debora Threedy
ZOMBIE THOUGHTS by Jennifer Kokai & Oliver Kokai-Means - premiered as Plan-B's 2018 Free Elementary School Tour
RIVER.SWAMP.CAVE.MOUNTAIN. by Elaine Jarvik - premiered as Plan-B’’s 2017 Free Elementary School Tour
SWEETHEART COME by Melissa Leilani Larson - 2016 O'Neill Semi-Finalist; premiered on PYGmalion Theatre Company's 2018/19 season
rə'zistəns by Carleton Bluford
NOT ONE DROP by Morag Shepherd - premiered on Plan-B's 2016/17 Season
2015
QUARTER HORSE by Rob Tennant - workshopped on Plan-B's 2016/17 Script-In-Hand Series
WINTER by Julie Jensen - NNPN rolling world premiere, originating on SLAC's 2016/17 Season, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble's 2016/17 Season, Central Works 2016/17 Season
WHAT WE HAD TO by Matthew Ivan Bennett - workshopped on Plan-B's 2016/17 Script-In-Hand Series
RAIN IN HIS FACE by Eric Samuelsen
THE ART OF FLOATING by Jenny Kokai - workshopped on Plan-B's 2016/17 Script-In-Hand Series
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN by Jenifer Nii & David Evanoff - premiered on Plan-B's 2015/16 Season
THE KREUTZER SONATA by Eric Samuelsen - premiered on Plan-B's 2015/16 Season in a co-production with NOVA Chamber Music Series (also played United Solo Theatre Festival, NYC)
BLUE MONEY by Julie Jensen
THE EDIBLE COMPLEX by Melissa Leilani Larson - premiered as Plan-B's 2016 Free Elementary School Tour
LET DOWN YOUR HAIR by Matthew Ivan Bennett - 2016 O'Neill Finalist, premieres as part of WTC's 2019/20 Season
2014
MARRY CHRISTMAS by Elaine Jarvik - premiered on Plan-B's 2014/15 Season
THE PRIESTHOOD by Carleton Bluford - workshopped on Plan-B's 2017/18 Script-In-Hand Series
TRANSITION by Eric Samuelsen
ONE BIG UNION by Debora Threedy - workshopped as part of Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2016 New American Playwrights Project (now Words3), premiered on Plan-B's 2016/17 Season
MAMA by Carleton Bluford - premiered on Plan-B's 2014/15 Season
BOOKSMART by Rob Tennant - premiered on Plan-B's 2015/16 Season
BASED ON A TRUE STORY by Elaine Jarvik - premiered on Plan-B's 2015/16 Season
CANOSSA by Eric Samuelsen
RUFF! by Jenifer Nii - premiered as Plan-B's 2015 Free Elementary School Tour, produced on Birmingham Children's Theatre's 2021/22 Season
BALTHAZAR by Debora Threedy - workshopped on Plan-B's 2018/19 Script-In-Hand Series, workshopped as part of Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2022 Words3
PILOT PROGRAM by Melissa Leilani Larson - premiered on Plan-B's 2014/15 Season
2013
THE CAUSE by Matthew Ivan Bennett, workshopped on Carnegie-Mellon University's 2013/14 Season and the 2014 Great Plains Theatre Conference
TWO STORIES by Elaine Jarvik - premiered on SLAC's 2013/14 Season
WRESTLING WITH ANGELS by Debora Threedy - reading on PYG's 2013/14 Season
UNTITLED by Jenifer Nii
MOCKINGBIRD by Julie Jensen - workshop production on Weber State University's 2013/14 Season, premiered on Kennedy Center Center Theatre for Young Audiences 2014/15 Season, second production on PYG's 2014/15 Season
DIFFERENT=AMAZING by Matthew Ivan Bennett - premiered as Plan-B's 2014 Free Elementary School Tour, second production on Faith Family Academy's 2016/17 Season
CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS by Julie Jensen - premiered on Plan-B's 2014/15 Season
CLEARING BOMBS by Eric Samuelsen - premiered on Plan-B's 2013/14 Season, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
From 2008-2012, The Lab was a training program with a focus on short plays and a spring recital, in partnership with the now-defunct Meat & Potato Theatre.