by The Makers' Ensemble 

April 3-6, 2025 

at The Brick Theater @ 579 Metropolitan Ave 

The Makers' Ensemble Presents their fourth annual SHORT PLAY FEST. 

Join us for four evenings of work-in-progress showings by emerging playwrights.
 

SCHEDULE: 

 April 3 at 8PM: Show #1 & Show #2 

 April 4 at 8PM: Show #3 & Show #4 

 April 5 at 3PM: Show #1 & Show #2 

 April 5 at 8PM: Show #3 & Show #4 

 April 6 at 3PM: Show #3 & Show #4 

 April 6 at 8PM: Show #1 & Show #2 

PLAYS: 

H*LL HATH TURNED OVER. F*CK
(SHOW #1) 

by Brandon Bautista 

Directed by Sarah Shin 

In a post-apocolyptic, God stricken world on fire cause Texaco left the air-fryer plugged in, a Gen Z nun and a seminarian (baby priest, duh) contemplate the new meaning of their lives and journey into the remaining remnants of the American past: cancel culture, mukbangs, and Hollywood, to find it. A satire of the American Western Social Media experiment, false escapism and the threat of mukbangs. 

RE: WRITING
(SHOW #2) 

by Caitlin Frazier 

Directed by é boylan 

While we always carry the weight of the past, the present can still be fun and loving. Re: Writing is a story about the ethics of storytelling — who gets to tell your story and how — it's also a story about trust. Dylan and Jane are not people who have gotten to choose everything in their lives, but they have chosen to trust each other. 

by Angela Reynoso 

Directed by Leandra Torres Santiago 

Two estranged fraternal twins from the Bronx, sharp-witted and feisty Renata and hot-headed and impulsive Casimiro, are chosen by a vaudevillian humor filled bounty-hunter named Chilo, for the world-renowned 100th annual sacrifice ritual, which guarantees the survival of all humankind. Which of the twins will prove their life worthy, or unworthy, before Chilo and the audience makes a choice? 

RIND GRIND
(SHOW #4) 

 by Anita Parrott
Directed 

by Amaal Saifudeen 

Rind Grind is a conversation between three different iterations of skin on the same body coming to terms with their mortality and ability or lack thereof to make a change. 

ABOUT THE MAKERS' ENSEMBLE 

we are the makers 

A resident ensemble of multi-hyphenates. We create and cultivate Live Arts. We celebrate and value the differences in our cultural, educational, social, and identity backgrounds. We provide programming and support for emerging artists to realize their creative dreams in collaboration with the resident ensemble. It's important to us that the rooms we create are diverse, the work that we make excites us, and the collaboration we build is balanced. We use communal live arts to inspire the next generation of artists and audiences, ignite new passions, foster new relationships, and reimagine the future of Ensemble Practice.