Her play Rapture, Blister, Burn was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Gina Gionfriddo is an award-winning playwright and accomplished television writer. Admission is FREE! Come for the reading and stay for our discussion afterward…tell us what you think! The LAB reading of today may become the MainStage production of tomorrow!Ĭast: Joel Bennett, Emma Brayndick, Paul Baird Brutscher, Sylivie Sardarnac, & Michele Vazquez Our goal is to offer a public forum, bringing audiences & theater artists together to share & discuss a wide range of exciting new work. WSR’s LAB Series is dedicated to showcasing new scripts, giving the audience an artist’s perspective of the play on-the-page. The reading features Chicago-area talents of Michele Vazquez as Suzanna, Paul Baird Brutscher as Suzanna’s ipso facto adopted brother Max, Sylvie Sadarnac as Suzanna’s no-nonsense mother Susan, Joel Bennett as Suzanna’s devoted husband Andrew, and Emma Brayndick as the titular Becky Shaw.

Crisis and comedy crackle throughout this wickedly funny dark comedy which sheds light on the unpredictable and dangerous world of modern dating. WSR’s LAB series proudly closes its 2015/2016 inaugural season with Obie Award-winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo’s “Becky Shaw.” When a couple of newlyweds set up their abrasive and confident friend with a sexy and strange new co-worker, it’s the blind date from hell.

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