Announcing the Inkwell LAB 2027 Season!
February 2027
March 2027
Hold On is a candid, sharply funny drama about old attachments and the lives we build around unfinished business. Escaping their twenty-fifth high school reunion, a guarded math teacher and a once-promising rock singer reconnect in a classroom, far from the festivities down the hall. But beneath their familiar banter lie conflicting memories of a friendship that shaped them both. As the night unfolds, long-held resentments and painful revelations challenge what each believes about the one who left and the one who stayed. Searching, prickly, and quietly moving, Hold On explores regret, loyalty, and the persistence of first wounds, asking whether revisiting the past can make room for a different future.
April 2027
For a Brighter Tomorrow is a tense, darkly funny Cold War thriller set aboard a secret Soviet space station in 1974. When a possible American missile launch puts two cosmonauts on alert, a fiercely patriotic commander and his questioning engineer must determine what to report to Moscow before fear becomes retaliation. As old betrayals surface and their friendship fractures, the danger outside the capsule becomes inseparable from the struggle for control within it. Claustrophobic, relentless, and unexpectedly poignant, For a Brighter Tomorrow explores the collision of patriotism, complicity, and personal responsibility, asking when obedience becomes a threat to the very people it promises to protect.
May 2027
Fostering New Voices in Theater
The Inkwell Theater supports new plays and playwrights within the vibrant Los Angeles community. Our mission is to provide a collaborative environment where writers, directors, and actors can grow. The Inkwell Development LAB offers opportunities for creative exploration, allowing playwrights to advance and elevate their plays.
Last Season From Inkwell
Paper Walls
a new play by Elliot Shoenman
Directed by Darin Anthony
Featuring: Derek Manson, Casey J. Adler, Dana Schwartz, Warren Davis
Paper Walls tells the story of the Goldman family, profoundly affected by Hitler’s rise to power, who find themselves desperately fleeing persecution while awaiting entry into the United States. Restrictive U.S. immigration policies and antisemitism intensified their struggle, and this poignant drama explores themes strikingly relevant to contemporary times.
Recently From the LAB
Werewolves
a new play by Liba Vaynberg
Directed by Randee Trabitz
Werewolves is a razor-sharp, darkly funny chamber piece set in a Cyprus villa where a billionaire’s ten-year-old heir turns a party game into a moral battleground. As a burned-out caregiver, a bilingual caretaker, and a cash-strapped novelist orbit the child’s volatile need for control, the play skewers wealth, labor, and “free will” with blistering speed and surprising tenderness. Ferocious, intimate, and unsettlingly humane, Werewolves asks what money does to love, what caretaking costs, and who gets to leave the game.
Solastalgia
a new play by Sarah Tuft
Directed by Zoia Wiseman
Solastalgia is a fierce, funny, and deeply moving eco-grief drama about what it means to feel homesick while still at home. When Addy, a sharp-tongued, non-binary teen displaced by wildfire, clashes with Paul, a grieving engineer whose town burned to the ground, the two are forced into an unlikely partnership inside a Ten-Step Climate Grief program. As generational tensions flare and secrets surface, their shared losses pull them beyond blame and into something far more fragile: connection.
Urgent, intimate, and unexpectedly hopeful, Solastalgia confronts climate anxiety, complicity, and survival in a burning world, asking whether healing ourselves might be the first radical act of saving it.
Akeldama
a new play by Chandler Hubbard
Directed by Susan Dalian
Akeldama is a darkly comic, apocalyptic fable about belief, blame, and the unbearable weight of being alone. When the sun stops rising, a woman accused of witchcraft finds herself trapped in a cage beside the man tasked with burning her, while the world quietly edges toward collapse. As strangers drift in and the rules of logic, time, and morality begin to unravel, survival becomes less about saving the world and more about choosing how to face its end. Absurd, tender, and devastatingly human, Akeldama explores fear, faith, and connection in a moment when certainty has burned away, asking what responsibility we owe one another when nothing is guaranteed to last.
Tell Me All You Know
a new play by Leda Siskind
Directed by Denise Yolén
Tell Me All You Know is a searing, intimate drama where history refuses to stay on the page. During rehearsals for a play about Argentina’s Dirty War, three artists find their carefully constructed roles unraveling as personal memories, moral fractures, and long-suppressed truths press into the room. As the boundaries between past and present collapse, silence becomes its own form of danger, and the act of making art turns into a confrontation with complicity, survival, and the cost of knowing. Urgent, unsettling, and deeply human, Tell Me All You Know asks what happens when the truths we avoid can no longer remain unspoken.