The Seventh Annual MIT Playwrights Lab-Neon Green Moon by Jiwoo Park '26

A weeks-long festival of new student plays from Ken Urban’s Course 21T.355 workshopped and performed by professional theater artists.

The Seventh Annual MIT Playwrights Lab

SCHEDULE OF STAGED READINGS

4/1 @ 8pm

Neon Green Moon by Jiwoo Park '26

Directed by Jack Serio

Claire stumbles into a relationship with Ophelia who already has a girlfriend. Can this polyamorous relationship survive the growing jealousy simmering just beneath the surface?

4/15 @8pm

Nobody Loves You Like I Do by Sophia Min ’27

Directed by Katie Brooks

In her charismatic classmate, Alexandra believes she found the love that people write poems about. Beneath the infatuation, however, something darker takes root. Will this relationship return her to the childhood traumas she thought she escaped?

4/29 @8pm

A Weird Clipped Eulogy by Ved Ganesh ’27

Directed by Pascale Florestal

The insufferably stressed Laurel gambles on a bold new experiment to save her defunded lab. What could go wrong? With Laurel’s graduate students in charge, the answer is apparently everything.

5/6 @8pm

Holding Onto Her Words by Serena An ’26

Directed by Pascale Florestal

A dedicated graduate student in Chinese literature falls in love with an impulsive author. Can they translate each other’s desires or will their career aspirations drive them apart?

All readings will take place in Building W97-160,

345 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Free and open to the public

The MIT Playwrights Lab is made possible thanks to the generous funding of the Richard Price Rudy (1968) and Robert Paul Rudy (1937) Memorial Fund.