New Voices Festival

The complete New Voices Festival lineup is as follows:

• Friday, January 15 at 7:30 p.m.
  Cake Off
  Based on the play Bake Off by Sheri Wilner
  Book by Sheri Wilner and Julia Jordan
  Lyrics by Adam Gwon and Julia Jordan
  Music by Adam Gwon
  Directed by Anne Torsiglieri
  It’s the 50th Annual Millberry Cake Off, and in honor of the occasion, Millberry has increased the grand prize from fifty thousand to one million dollars, inspiring a record number of men to enter the competition. With the Food TV cameras recording their every move, contestants Rita and Paul will go pound for pound cake in this baking battle of the sexes, which boils over into a hilarious, all-out culinary combat between two people with much more at stake than the coveted trophy and cash prize.

• Saturday, January 16 at 4:00 p.m.
  peerless
  By Jiehae Park
  Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
  Twin sisters L and M have worked together tirelessly to make sure they get into the best college: perfect grades, impeccable extracurriculars, and killer essays. But when their classmate wins the coveted early admission spot, the girls take matters into their own hands. peerless, Jiehae Park’s bitingly funny modern-day riff on Macbeth, takes us into the halls of an ordinary Midwestern high school, exploring a contemporary pressure cooker of ambition, expectation, passion, and even the unthinkable.

• Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 p.m.
  The Blameless
  By Nick Gandiello
  Directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein
  The Garcia family is learning to adjust to a new normal after losing their son to a senseless act of violence. Now a man with his own terrible connection to that day wants to visit, and the Garcias must find a way to hold everything together as they struggle to find love and grace in the face of loss. A compassionate and moving look at how we move on after tragedy strikes.

• Sunday, January 17 at 4:00 p.m.
  Unseen
  By Mona Mansour
  Directed by Johanna McKeon
  Conflict photographer Mia wakes up in the Istanbul apartment of her ex-girlfriend Derya with no memory of how she got there. As Mia begins to piece together the events that left her injured and unconscious in the middle of a war zone, she must also navigate her troubled history with Derya and her strained relationship with her mother, who arrives from California to care for her. Unseen is an emotional and thought-provoking drama that’s both global and deeply personal.

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