The Landing Theatre New Works Podcast Brendan Bourque-Sheil

David Davila delves into the challenges and thrills of writing a play trilogy that fuses headlines with history, in constructing a grand fantasia on national themes.

David’s website

David’s New Play Exchange Profile

Jaime Lozano’s website

Spencer Huffman offers his thoughts on artistic residencies, crafting non-linear stories, sports movies, the slow-acting heartbreak of realizing you're not going to play professional baseball, and more, in this conversation about his new play, The Baseball Gods. 

Spencer’s Website 

Spencer’s Profile on The New Play Exchange

The Kerouac Project’s website 

Bramble Theatre Company’s website 

Rachel Bykowski pontificates on critics, world building, writing so-called “unproducable” plays, and more, in this conversation about her new play The Forgotten Language of The Handshake or The Torso Play.

Synopsis: "Welcome to the United Levels, a distant future that is closer than we think. Formally known as the United States of America with parts of Canada and Mexico. Citizens are defined by the amount of debt plaguing their finances and divided by their financial status into Levels. Level 1 being the wealthiest, Level 10 being the poorest. Sachs, a Level 9, uses her position as a Personal Journalist to help bring a sense of checks and balances to this capitalist driven future. She will always report the facts objectively, no matter how damning. Sachs finds herself working with an up and coming tech company that promises to bring equality through its questionable medical advances. She is forced to analyze her own moral code when asked how much she would sacrifice to raise her level and what would she charge for a literal piece of herself."

Rachel's website 

Rachel's New Play Exchange Profile 

Rachel's Facebook page 

Relative Theatrics' website 

Ada Grey's blog 

In episode six, we hear from Eugenie Carabatsos, about how she untangled and interwove the complex threads of family, politics, isolation, and connection in her new play,  A Series of Inelastic Collisions. 

"After the death of her husband, Rain moves in with her estranged son, whose recent religious conversion has brought on major life changes, including fostering two teenagers. Isolated from her family, Rain finds connection and intimacy with the strangers she interacts with while phone-banking for her preferred presidential candidate."

For more info on Eugenie's work, check out:

Eugenie's website 

Eugenie's profile on the New Play Exchange

 In episode five, Brendan talks to Bernardo Cubría about The Play You Want, a searing, hilarious, and fearlessly honest satire of the American Theatre, and himself. 

"Fed-up by the theatre world's desires to box him in, Mexican playwright Bernardo Cubría sarcastically pitches “Nar-Cocos” a play about drug dealers on Dia de los Muertos. Much to his surprise, the Public Theatre picks it up. With financial pressures mounting and a newborn at home, this is his chance at a commercial success. But when Scott Rudin offers him a Broadway run on the condition he further exploit his identity and the headlines, he must decide just how much he’s willing to compromise in order to finally be accepted."

For further reading, check out: 

Bernardo's website

Ticket info for Come and Take It by Bernardo Cubría

Bernardo's New Play Exchange profile 

Pablo Bracho's Twitter

The Landing's website

In our fourth episode, playwright Arthur M. Jolly takes a brief shore leave from his life at sea to talk about his new play The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie. Part fact and part fiction, Jolly's play is a thrilling and clever celebration of three iconic writers -- Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Arthur Conan Doyle -- swept up in a real life mystery worthy of their novels. For further reading check out

Arthur's Website

Arthur's New Play Exchange Profile 

A Pirate's Life For Three

The Landing Theatre's Website