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Original Plays

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Hear Original Plays by The Studio Playwrights!

Free!

Live readings of new, original plays from our own Studio playwrights.

The readings are free, but reservations are recommended due to limited seating.

Original, fun!

Monthly on Monday's 7 - 9 pm

Be a part of the creative process!

In a fully collaborative environment, playwrights and audience members can ask questions and provide personal feedback, helping our writers hone the plays' elements and perfect their stories. 

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JANUARY 19, 2026

It’ll Do

by Sally Jane Kerschen-Sheppard

Neve has been living in the same roadside no-tell motel her entire life. She does her best to run the motel and take care of her ailing, resentful stepmother, but when her property taxes suddenly go up, she fears she will lose the only home she's ever known. When Will, the popular golden boy from high school, reappears after ten years, Neve believes he has the power to rescue her from her circumstances. But is Will really the prince charming she believes him to be? This witty new play explores what it looks like when happily ever after never actually happens.

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FEBRUARY 02, 2026

In Plane Sight

by Gary Santorella

In this dark comedy, two seasoned business travels (Martin & Sean) unknowingly board a flight to nowhere, while they muse about the meaning of work, getting older, looming retirement, what it means to be alive, and what we leave behind.

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MARCH 02, 2026

Sam and Frannie

by Franciene Sznewajs (writing as Heidi Snow)

A turbo-charged romance blows up when two love-struck seniors take a trip to the altar and find out what’s in the baggage they brought with them.

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APRIL 13, 2026

Receiving

by John Perovich

In the cramped corners of the receiving department, friendship is complicated. Is the staff truly looking out for each other, or just watching each other’s backs until it’s their turn to clock out? As quotas tighten and corporate metrics loom like an invisible manager breathing down their necks, a trio navigates the unspoken truth of retail: you can laugh with someone every day and still not know if they’d cover your shift — or have your back — when it really matters. RECEIVING is a slice-of-life dramedy that asks: Can you live honestly in a system built on selling things you don’t own, for money you can barely live on, with people you may — or may not — call friends? It’s about capitalism’s strange dance, the soft poetry in cardboard dust, and the stubborn, almost foolish hope that it’s not the work that matters — but the ones you do it with.

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MAY 18, 2026

The Laurelstone Encounter

by Paul Beers

When Sasha, a Ukrainian soldier, seeks out the Russian soldier who took her prisoner a year earlier, the outcome is impossible to predict. You will feel her confusion as she tries to deal with her overwhelming gratitude to the man who spared her life, and her need to stand up for herself and her country. And you will feel her terror when a podcast group re-enacts the moment she was taken prisoner. 

If the Ukraine conflict seems like a far-away affair that doesn’t matter, this play will make the war feel uncomfortably close and personal.

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JUNE 15, 2026

The Ketamine Trip

by Aaron Seevers

Ethan, a serial cheater, is caught once again by his wife Annie Having already tried meetings, couples therapy, and even hypnosis to no avail, Ethan agrees to Ketamine therapy in one final attempt to save their marriage.  It is here where he works with Jocelyn, a brilliant Ketamine therapist. His world is turned inside out as the sessions uncover long repressed traumas. Raw, edgy and unfiltered in its dialogue, this play explores the themes of inner strength, perseverance, love, and forgiveness. 

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JUNE 29, 2026

The White Swan Compact

by Clark DesSoye

Meet Sophia, an 82-year-old great-grandmother watching her neighborhood change each week as families she knows move to the suburbs and people from Buffalo's southside move in. One fateful winters day Sophia is mugged right in her front yard as she returns home with her groceries. Her family wants her to move out of the city, while her new neighbors present another possibility.

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