Sound Design for Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival 2025
It has been an absolute privilege and joy to sound design Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival for the last 10 years or so—and it’s so incredibly exciting that we’re back in a proper theater, with two days of full performances of new works by young playwrights, for this year’s festival.
We’ll be at TADA Youth Theater on 28th Street in Manhattan from June 5–8, with readings of new plays on Thursday and Friday night, before presenting full productions of six plays by teenagers on Saturday night, and five plays by younger-playwrights on Sunday afternoon.
The wonderful thing about the Worldwide Plays Festival is, professional theatre artists come together to put on fully-designed, fully-realized productions of new plays written by young people. Since I first got involved (over a decade ago, if memory serves), it’s always been one of my favorite gigs each year.
If you’ve ever had someone perform your work, you know how magical that feeling can be, to see something that existed only in your head and/or on a page, translated by other human beings into live theatre. So…imagine you’re a kid, and professional artists are making your work come alive. It’s truly a magical thing.
I was also privileged to direct a beautiful, fabulous play entitled Redshift, by a high schooler who writes dialogue leaps and bounds better than I can, in a piece that explores parent/child dynamics through astro- and metaphysics.
Yeah, you read that right.
And it’s all this cool.
Much love to Dan Kitrosser, who leads this effort with boundless energy and generosity, and to all my collaborators on the festival. I’m truly grateful I get to help make this special thing happen each year.
