Every June, Clubbed Thumb presents, Summerworks, an annual festival of new plays and their cornerstone of programming. The festival opens with a night of thematically linked short pieces, and features three fully rehearsed, fully mounted new plays that each run for a total of nine performances. The plays vary in style and content, but are always intermission-less, 90 minutes or under, and unproduced in New York City.
SUMMERWORKS' 2019 PROGRAM:
May 17 – May 28, 2019
LUNCH BUNCH
written by Sarah Einspanier
directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
June 3 – June 13, 2019
YOU NEVER TOUCHED THE DIRT
written by Zhu Yi
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
June 19 – June 29, 2019
KING PHILIP’S HEAD IS STILL ON THAT PIKE JUST DOWN THE ROAD
written by Daniel Glenn
directed by Caitlin Ryan O’Connell
"To your cherished list of warm-weather city pleasures, you should think about adding Summerworks. Now 24 years old, this staple of the East Village culturescape…allows you to say you knew certain rising playwrights before your friends did'. - Ben Brantley, New York Times
