2025/26 Free Artist Subscription Series
Original price was: $54.00.$0.00Current price is: $0.00.
Free Artist Subscriptions are for Previews and are not transferrable to paid performances. You are welcome to a +1 (but please use it).
1. Select your preview dates for the world premieres of JUST ADD WATER and DUMBED DOWN from the dropdown menu below each title.
- Creative Team members working on 2025/26 productions: please reserve the Sundays.
- Actors & Stage Managers working on 2025/26 productions: please skip the show you’re involved in!
2. Add on free performances of EB & FLO and the return of the SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES from the dropdown menu below each title.
3. Click Add Cart (you’ll have the option to add a donation to your order if you wish).
4. Tickets will be emailed beginning in July!
Description
A WORLD PREMIERE BY MATTHEW IVAN BENNETT & ELAINE JARVIK
Great Salt Lake and a brine shrimp walk into a bar…
In JUST ADD WATER, Great Salt Lake takes human form and heads into the city on a quest to understand what is happening to her and what she can do about it.
A whimsical, cli-fi dramedy about nature spirits, open mics, mic drops, humans, dust, and hope.
JUST ADD WATER and EB & FLO (below) are The Great Salt Lake Plays, part of Wake the Great Salt Lake, a temporary art project supported by Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, and Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
Playwrights: Matthew Ivan Bennett & Elaine Jarvik
Actors: Latoya Cameron, Amona Faatau, Alec Kalled, Isabella Reeder
Director: Penny Caywood
Costume Designer: Victoria Bird
Intimacy Director: Liz Whittaker
Lighting Designer: Emilio Casillas
Line Notes: Kallie Filanda
Properties Designer: Arika Schockmel
Assistant Properties Designer & Education Coordinator: Sharah Meservy
Scenic Designer: Janice Chan
Show Art: Alisha Jones
Sound Designer: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Stage Manager, Scenic Builder & Electrician: David Knoell
A WORLD PREMIERE BY DARRYL STAMP
After 25 years, Kevin is (really) leaving teaching (this time).
But what will happen to the students who might otherwise slip through the cracks?
A tale of language, loving, and learning inspired by the playwright’s career as an educator.
Playwright: Darryl Stamp
Actors: Jake Barnes, Chad Brown, Danor Gerald, Alex Smith
Director: Jerry Rapier
Costume Designer: Victoria Bird
Education Liaison: Aliyah Bacca
Intimacy Director: TBA
Lighting Designer: Emilio Casillas
Line Notes: Kallie Filanda
Properties Designer & Education Coordinator: Sharah Meservy
Scenic Designer: Janice Chan
Show Art: Alisha Jones
Sound Designer: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Stage Manager: Taylor Wallace
Scenic Builder & Electrician: David Knoell
JUST ADD WATER and DUMBED DOWN will serve high school students in grades 11-12 with free student matinees via our A Week With A Play program, wherein students read a play, see that play, and then discuss it with the playwright.
EB & FLO, created specifically for grades K-3, will tour to 100 elementary schools statewide as our 13th annual Free Elementary School Tour, available the entire school 2025/26 year.
If you would like your students to attend, please email Sharah Meservy, our Education Coordinator, today!
A WORLD PREMIERE BY ELAINE JARVIK
Flo, a fantastic flamingo who craves adventure meets Eb, a sensible seagull worried about a shrinking lake.
A play created specifically for grades K-3 about the importance of Great Salt Lake and how small actions can have big effects.
Join us for free public performances of our 13th annual Free Elementary School Tour.
EB & FLO and JUST ADD WATER (above) are The Great Salt Lake Plays, part of Wake the Great Salt Lake.
Playwright: Elaine Jarvik
Actors: Estephani Cerros, Amona Faatau, Taylor Wallace, Benjamin Young
Composer: Penny Caywood
Director: Jerry Rapier
Designer: Arika Schockmel
Education Liaison: Penelope Caywood
Show Art: Alisha Jones
Tour Manager: Kallie Filanda
FREE READINGS OF PLAYS-IN-PROGRESS
After two seasons online and three seasons on hiatus, this free series—which has been providing plays-in-progress their first audience since 2004—returns!
The three plays to be read in this season’s series will be announced on Giving Tuesday – December 2, 2025.
Playwrights: TBA
Actors: TBA
Directors: TBA
Show Art: Aaron Asano Swenson
Stage Managers: TBA
