Samples from The Lab@SCR
South Coast Repertory is thrilled to launch Samples from The Lab@SCR, which replaces SCR’s NewSCRipts program and provides more robust opportunities for artists and audiences to engage with new work in fresh, informal and intimate ways.
About Samples from The Lab@SCR
Samples from The Lab offers SCR audiences an exclusive sneak peek at the work being developed in The Lab@SCR, with several pop-up readings throughout the season. All Samples from The Lab readings will be casual, process-focused presentations that are free and open to the public.
Samples from The Lab@SCR events may include:
- Developmental Readings of new plays commissioned or otherwise currently in process at SCR.
- First Draft Readings of brand-new plays never before read aloud.
- Happy Hour Readings, at which guests may enjoy light refreshments before a late-afternoon presentation.
- New Musical Excerpts from composers under commission at SCR.
- And More!
Most Samples from The Lab readings will be onsite at SCR in the 94-seat Nicholas Studio—although SCR will continue to partner with local universities to present occasional in-school readings.
Samples from The Lab readings will be scheduled and announced at various points throughout the season. Patrons interested in attending are encouraged to use this link to sign up for notifications of upcoming events.
First Up…
TEN GRAND
by Kate Cortesi
directed by Rebecca Wear
An SCR commission
Saturday, December 14, at 3 p.m.
Nicholas Studio
Free and open to the public
In a Boston Goodwill, employees and customers form tender alliances and strange rivalries one winter and spring in the early 2010s. But when an unexpected item turns up in the donation bin, ordinary workplace drama takes on decidedly higher stakes. Ten Grand is a new play about community, mental health, America's obsession with violence, and how the stories we tell become our destiny.
Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn- and Boston-based playwright from Washington, DC. Full-length plays include: Ten Grand, Let’s Pretend We’re Married, Love, One More Less, A Patron of the Arts, Great Kills, and Is Edward Snowden Single?. Productions and development: Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Jungle Theater, South Coast Repertory, The O’Neill Theater Center, The Pool, Marin Theatre Company, Keen Company, Single Carrot Theater, Primary Stages, WP Theater, Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, Jackalope, Premiere Stages, Second Thought Theatre, Bardo Theatre Company, Players’ Ring, The Lark and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Awards and honors: New Dramatists resident playwright, Princess Grace Award Winner, NYFA Award, three time Kilroy’s List, Huntington Playwriting Fellow, O’Neill Theater Center Artist in Residence, Columbia University’s Karen Brownstein Award, Hear Me Out Monologue Competition Winner, and Philip Seymour Hoffman Relentless Award Finalist. Published by: Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory and Keen Company. In film and television, Cortesi has written original and adapted features and pilots for Lionsgate, AMC, Universal Pictures, Amy Pascal, Working Title, and Fremantle.
Photo: The cast of the 2024 Pacific Playwrights Festival reading of Fremont Ave. by Reggie D. White. Photo by Jenny Graham.