About the Program

A ghost light is a single light left on a dark theatre stage. These lights, often a bare caged bulb on a stand, are a centuries-old tradition found in theatres, illuminating the stage while the theatre is otherwise dark. 

Like a ghost light to a theatre, new play incubation brings light to story. With just a team of artists and a development plan for a new play, a story is brought to life.

A Man of Her Times
by Femmaeve MacQueen

While finishing the final draft of The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson is visited by the ghost of 17th century French proto-feminist Marie de Gournay and the renowned poet and essayist Phillis Wheatley. 

minor planets 
by Felix Crutcher, II

minor planets is a play about two people who attempt to reckon with their past & make peace with their future before that big rock in the sky, “Lucy”, comes dropping down into the earth’s atmosphere to say hello/goodbye.

Three White Women Playing Pickleball
by Melissa Simmonss

Newly imprisoned in a decaying facility, three white women struggle to adjust to their bleak reality. When strange occurrences unfold on the pickleball court, their grip on reality falters and boundaries between vengeance, fate, and darkness blur.