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Ghouls & Giggles is a delightfully spooky showcase of original short plays created by FTC’s young writers of our Playwriting Lab. Working alongside professional theatre artists, these emerging playwrights have crafted imaginative tales filled with mystery, mischief, and unexpected laughs. Join us for an enchanting evening where ghosts, ghouls, and wild ideas come to life on stage in a celebration of creativity and storytelling.
Ready of Not by Kira Traber takes us to 1999 and someone said the world might end this year. Cece (the only Black girl in this town), and Luce (who isn’t really a girl) really don’t care. Everyone on the Mendocino coast is a redneck or stoner and Cece and Luce are bored. When Lucky, a Black boy from The City, shows up in town, and the body of a young man is discovered in the woods, everything starts to change. The closer Cece gets to Lucky, the more she starts to wonder: what if the world really is coming to an end?
This reading is a collaboration with The New Harmony Project.
In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer, a gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A roller coaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood – the teenage wasteland – has never been so much twisted fun.
Directed by Carlos Medina Maldonado.
In The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, two extraordinary women square off in a high-stakes academic debate over race, reputation, and who gets the final word on how American history is written. When university professor Janine and her brilliant student Zoe don’t see eye to eye, their routine office hours discussion unexpectedly careens off course—and threatens to derail their careers, lives, and the status quo.
Directed by Gari Williams.
Late Nite TV by Sondra Gunn plunges audiences into a strange, glittering world where every answer arrives wrapped in a sales pitch and every promise feels just a little too perfect. What begins as a familiar late-night spectacle slowly unravels into something funnier, darker, and far more unsettling than anyone expected.
Tickets and Flex Passes will go on sale September 7, 2026.