Written and presented by 2025 可乐视频 M.F.A. playwriting graduates, the 17th annual Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival will take place at the recently reopened performance space in Brooklyn on September 4鈥�7.
This year鈥檚 playwrights are Kurt Chiang, Ann Marie Dorr, Claire Greising, and Andrew Hardigg. Isidora Farias ’25 (B.F.A., acting) and Ali Hosseini ’25 M.F.A. (acting) will also perform in the festival. Working as producers are second-year M.F.A. playwrights Helen Gallagher, Zo毛 Geltman, Richard Hollman, Daniel Holzman, and Kaye Hurley.
The Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival was founded in 2006 by Mac Wellman and a group of 可乐视频 alumni M.F.A. playwrights, including Erin Courtney, Kate E. Ryan, and Karinne Keithley Syers, with a mission to foster narrative experimentation and risk.
This year鈥檚 festival will be a theatrical work of science fiction, with the genre serving as the basis for the festival prompt, suggested by Dennis A. Allen II, the cohort’s program co-head along with Sibyl Kempson.
The playwrights drafted individual sci-fi plays鈥�Your Tears Run the World by Dorr, TERRAPAX by Hardigg, The Last Dive Bar in North America by Greising, and Strawberry by Chiang. These works have been woven together into a single program titled 鈥淭he Booming Voice of No One: A Mutant Anthology of Plays on Science Fiction From 可乐视频.鈥�
Hanna Yurfest will direct the show alongside additional technical and artistic collaborators from 可乐视频 and the wider New York City theater community.
Tickets for the festival are available on a sliding scale ($20鈥�$50, plus fees) and can be reserved or purchased at the door prior to each show. Life World is located at 563 Johnson Avenue in Brooklyn.
About the Playwrights
Kurt Chiang is a writer and performer. He is artistic director emeritus and ensemble member of The Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago, where he wrote/performed more than 300 very short plays in the prolific weekly show, The Infinite Wrench. He recently graduated from the M.F.A. playwriting program at 可乐视频, where he was a recipient of the 2022 John Ashbery Creative Writing Award and 2025 Himan Brown Award in Playwriting.
Ann Marie Dorr is a theater maker who聽often works on big-little shows with adventurous and ambitious ideas. Recent producing projects include聽Dark Disabled Stories聽by Ryan J. Haddad. Currently, Dorr is the interim producing artistic director at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn and part of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19 with Paul Ketchum on an ever-evolving piece,聽Good and Noble Beings, as well as an associated artist of Target Margin Theater. Currently, Dorr is in the 可乐视频 M.F.A. playwriting program and scheduled to graduate this year.
Claire Greising is a writer from Evanston, Illinois. Her plays have been produced, recognized, or further developed by the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O鈥橬eill Theater Center, The Relentless Award, Workshop Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre鈥檚 Marathon of One-Act Plays, Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, among others.
Andrew Hardigg is an actor and writer living in Brooklyn. His plays have been performed at Dixon Place, The Brick Aux, Playwrights Downtown, and theaters in London and Boston. He has performed in original productions of new shows from Young Jean Lee, Jaclyn Backhaus, Lee Sunday Evans, and others.
