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Join the CATCO team! For more information and to apply visit https://www.catco.org/careers/. We can’t wait to meet you. 🧡✨

Daaaaance parttttaaaaay with the Director, Stage Manager, and Cast of THE WORRIES OF WESLEY. First reading is on 12/10 at Noon. Visit https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/ for more info and tickets. Recommend it for ages five and up.

The New Works Festival For Young Audiences rehearsals for The Day The Music Came Back and The Worries of Wesley are on the move. Join us for the NWF through 12/11 and help us make more plays for young audiences. https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/

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“The One And Only Sarah Stonley” is back tomorrow at 7 PM. Recommended for ages 5 and up. https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/

Synopsis:

Sarah Stonely doesn’t believe she is necessarily good at anything in particular and feels like she doesn’t stand out. However, when she receives an alien invitation to the Great Galactic Games of Greatness, she must reckon with the notion of being “the Chosen One.” Why was she chosen? Why her, of all people? With her unwitting school principal by her side, she is whisked into outer space, and the games begin! Will the Earth be destroyed, or will Sarah figure out why she was chosen and, in the process, save our planet?



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Want to learn how to become “the one”? Join us today at 2 PM for the New Works Festival for Young Audience’s select “The One And Only Sarah Stonley.” https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/

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Happy Opening to the cast and production artists of the New Works Festival for Young Audiences. Here’s a group pic of the cast and artists of The One And Only Sarah Stonley, who opens our festival tonight! ✨🛸🫶

Meet the talented as the Governor in THE ONE AND ONLY SARAH STONLEY. Beings tonight at CPAC at 7 PM. Ages 5 & up. https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/

Meet The One And Only Sarah Stonley and her Principal. Join them and help save the planet! 🪐

The New Works Festival for Young Audiences begins tonight at 7 PM. Visit bit.ly/NWFTIX22 for showtimes and tickets.

The New Works Festival for Young Audiences begins tomorrow at CPAC and here are the featured playwrights.

Blake Anthony Edwards (he/him) is an actor, director, playwright, and educator currently teaching at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The One and Only Sarah Stonely is his fourth produced TYA play, following Big Bad Wolf Tales, The Odyssey, and The Quibbling Siblings. The first draft of this play was written for a class at The Ohio State University, where Blake earned his MFA in Acting in 2018. Earlier this year, he performed in Sweat at the William Inge Festival (a production honoring playwright Lynn Nottage), directed Romeo & Juliet for St. Louis Shakespeare, and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Gonzaga. Blake is writing a new TYA play (about Mother Nature) and will be directing Mark Ravenhill’s pool (no water) at Gonzaga in February.

Jessica Moss writes, performs, and produces. Some of her plays include Funnie (2022 winner of the Leah Ryan's FEWW Prize, O'Neill finalist), A Girl Lives Alone (SafeWord New Play Contest winner), Cam Baby (Toronto Fringe New Play Winner, Weissberger finalist), Polly Polly (Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship), Next to Him, We'll Make it Together, and more. Training: Juilliard.

Alvaro Saar Rios is a Texican playwright living in Chicago. His plays have been performed in New York City, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and all over Texas. He has received playwriting commissions from various organizations, including Kennedy Center, Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Stage, Houston Grand Opera, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and Omaha’s Rose Theater. His award-winning play Luchadora! was produced at CATCO in early 2022. His other plays On The Wings of a Mariposa and Carmela Full of Wishes. Mr. Rios is Playwright-In-Residence at Milwaukee's First Stage. He is also a proud veteran of the US Army and an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. https://www.alvarosaarrios.com/ Twitter & Instagram:

The New Works Festival for Young Audiences begins on 12/2 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $10. For more info and tickets, visit https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/.

Who loves new plays?! 🙋‍♀️Rehearsals have begun for the three selected plays for the New Works Festival for Young Audiences. Tickets start at $10 or you can buy a $25 pass to see all the shows. Plays are developed because of people like you who can come and share your opinions about what makes a great play. We’ll see you at CPAC! 🧡✨

This 2022 New Works Festival for Young Audiences celebrates new plays written for young audiences. The two-week festival will give artists and audiences a look into the development process to see three different plays at various stages of development. For more information about the three plays and tickets visit https://www.catco.org/2022-23/new-works-festival-for-young-audiences/.