THE LIGHTHOUSE SERIES

AMAZING WORKS BY NYC’S TALENTED UP-AND-COMERS.

A first-of-its-kind competition specifically designed to showcase the best new talent and writers across the New York City area. From the 17 semi-finalists, YOU get to help us select the six finalists by voting for your favorite from each group! Each night is built as an eclectic and diverse experience with themes and performances ranging from musicals to drama to comedy, and everything in between.

Come see tomorrow’s stars today!

GROUP 4

  • scouts

    by ash bell

    Five girl scouts discover Teen Vogue fueled frankensteinian magic from the long-forgotten days of 2008; will they be able to harness it and kill the men who have wronged them, or are some things best left buried?

  • minerva-531

    by Liv Dwyer

    The all-women crew of the Minerva-531 navigate interpersonal tension while uncovering a mysterious lost spacecraft.

  • amanda

    by Mo Holmes

    What if you could bite your Mother?

GROUP 5

  • my best friend's fish

    by Kiley Gaddis

    When Henry is tasked with watching his best friend’s fish until she returns from a spur of the moment vacation, he is forced to come to terms with the harmful nature of his longest and most affected friendship.

  • on tuesdays we fight

    by Nina Kissinger

    When a bipartisan college debate club must decide whether to help bring a controversial speaker to campus, six students find themselves trapped in an escalating personal and political battle with consequences they can’t outrun.

  • when it breaks

    by Shaakirah Nazim-Harris

    Two best friends, attached at the hip by a single red thread, are forced to examine how erasure outweighs love as their friendship unravels.

GROUP 6

  • to kill a pig

    by Xiaoyan Kang

    A 55-year-old woman spends her day watching a deaf group in a Starbucks, until a man named Panda DMs her about face-changing opera. 

  • jungle restaurant

    by Eliana Cohen-Orth and Sam Melton

    Jungle Restaurant is a comedy about nostalgia, environmentalism, and eating at a novelty restaurant under a time constraint.

  • the bear, every time

    by Carrie Keating

    A woman comes across a bear in the woods after choosing the bear as her response to the viral question, "Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear?"

Group 1

  • lab rat

    by D.A. Mindell

    A play about obsession, compulsion, and disorder.

  • spreading the gay agenda!

    by Joey Odom

    Two best friends want to show that everyone's a little gay, but an evil billionaire children's author wants to stop "the gay agenda" at all cost!

  • can we talk

    by Sam Theobald

    Five years after Kate realizes Rachel was catfishing her into a long-term relationship, she shows up on Rachel’s doorstep.

GROUP 2

  • forever young

    by Bob Gurnett

    Forever Young is a solo show about the power of finding your best friend and the heartbreak of losing them too soon.

  • the little lasses of appleton, wisconsin

    by Kate Crabtree

    It's time for the Little Lasses annual shortbread sale, and nine-year-old Mackenzie will stop at nothing to be this year's top seller in this darkly comedic retelling of Macbeth.

  • doozy samolot (big plane)

    by Finn Blomquist Eggerling and Jason Goodman

    Have you ever wondered why they never allow two gay guy flight attendants on the same plane?

GROUP 3

  • the fur-gotten tale of nathan greenbaum

    by Jared B. Goldsmith

    A forgotten sitcom star crashes his show’s 20th anniversary reunion in a lion costume to reclaim his spotlight—and settle the score.

  • i'm that witch

    by Sturkey & Studabaker

    A spellbinding new musical where rebellion brews in the shadows and sisterhood lights the way.