Powers New Voices Festival 2024

Celebrating Community Voices

Schedule

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Celebrating Community Voices, an evening of short works created by San Diego playwrights through the Globe’s arts engagement programs Community Voices and coLAB, will feature readings of 10-minute plays by six local artists.

Love Song for Pru

By Marie Vasari Hislop

Pru, an eccentric aspiring social media influencer, tries to craft the perfect series of posts to impress her boyfriend’s rich family—before they realize she might be a complete fraud.

True School

By Ric Scales

Two fundamentally different rappers—one young and trending, the other a legend on his way out—must find a way to collaborate on a once-in-a-lifetime project without destroying their careers… or each other.

Take Care

By Eliza Hugee

Anna and her new husband try everything they can think of to get his ex-fiancée Gladys to finally move out of their house. But her drinking, unpredictability, stubbornness, and unexpected condition make her both the rock and the hard place.

Spectrum

By MG Green

To survive the big road trip to meet their partner’s parents, Basil, a trans, gender non-conforming, queer person must learn to bring all that they are into a new relationship where they are not exactly upfront with their partner about all that is truly at stake.

Proper Provider

By Brian T. Josten

Set right after World War II, culture, dark history, and generations clash when an American father demands that his young daughter spend less time at the German neighbor’s house, the only place that gives her solace after her brother’s tragic death.

Mirror

By Ms. JHawk

A person fractured from the inside out must fight pieces of herself to find her way home and become whole again.

Emerson Loses Her “Miand”

By Laura Winters

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2024

4:00 p.m.

Emerson Greenblatt just got engaged! And you’re invited to join her and her five friends as they complete a sacred rite of bridal party passage: a beer trolley tour through Nashville. The memories are flowing. The rosé is flowing. The debate over every single aspect of this interfaith wedding is, unfortunately, also flowing. Emerson Loses Her “Miand” is a nonstop comedic send up of the absurdity of bridesmaid culture. Cheers!

Pleasant

By Inda Craig-Galván

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century abolitionist, an entrepreneur, a real estate tycoon, and the first African American millionaire... and you’ve probably never heard of her. Pleasant uses contemporary music, humor, and unconventional storytelling to explore the life of this self-described “capitalist by profession” who used her role as a humble domestic worker to cloak her badassery. Scandals, rumors, and one angry Karen threatened to bury her legacy, but Pleasant seeks to unearth her invaluable and lasting accomplishments.

The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote

By Bernardo Cubría

SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 2024

4:00 p.m.

University professor Paola Aguilar desperately needs money for... well, she’ll tell you. So when the Political Party offers her a substantial paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help these political strategists understand all of the nuances of her community to save the election? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who controls the White House?

Empty Ride

By Keiko Green

SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Kisa, a Japanese painter in Paris, returns to her small hometown of Ishinomaki, taking over her father’s taxi cab as he grows increasingly ill. Ishinomaki was left devastated after the 2011 tsunami, which took Kisa’s mom in addition to over 3,000 other locals in the sleepy, coastal town full of fascinating characters. In this funny, tragically warm, supernatural story of those left behind, Kisa navigates finding her place in the world by rediscovering where she comes from, and where she’s been.

Tickets to all festival readings require reservations and are free. Reservations for Globe subscribers and donors are available Friday, December 15, 2023 at 12:00 noon. Subject to availability, reservations for the general public will be available beginning Thursday, January 4 at 12:00 noon. A line for standby seating will form 30 minutes before each performance of the Powers New Voices Festival. Based on ticket-holder attendance, those standing in the standby line may be seated. Seating is based on seat availability and is not guaranteed. Latecomers with tickets are also not guaranteed admittance.

Date: January 12 - 14, 2024

Time: 4:00 p.m, 7:30 p.m

Location: Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

1363 Old Globe Way San Diego, CA 92101

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