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We're delighted to announce our first in–person New Play Sounding Series reading in over two years: Sleeping Giant by Steve Yockey. The free reading will take place in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre on Monday, May 2nd at 7pm.
Salt Lake Acting Company audiences will remember two previous world premieres authored by Yockey: Blackberry Winter (2015) and Mercury (2017). Since seeing Mercury receive its world premiere at SLAC, Yockey has gone on to become a multi award-nominated (WGA, PGA, Emmy) creator of the popular HBO Max series The Flight Attendant.
Sleeping Giant, a new play which will also receive a full production at SLAC next season, is described by the playwright as follows:
When a firework-filled marriage proposal goes very wrong, the accompanying explosions wake up something very old that’s been sleeping in the nearby lake for thousands of years. What follows are intimate, darkly comic, and sometimes startling vignettes about the lengths people go when they desperately want something to believe in.
“After truly killer experiences with Blackberry Winter and Mercury, SLAC has become a vital and dynamic creative partner,” stated Yockey. “Their artists and their audiences just get it. And Cynthia [Fleming] sets the bar for artistic excellence. I'm thrilled to be back.”
Comprising the cast of the NPSS reading of Sleeping Giant are SLAC alum Alexis Baigue (Stupid F***ing Bird), Lily Hye Soo Dixon (Mercury), Tito Livas (Mercury) and Cassie Stokes-Wylie (Death of a Driver). Kimi Handa Brown, playwright from last year’s NPSS reading of Daddy Issues, will read stage directions. Directing the reading will be Emilio Casillas in his SLAC directorial debut. Casillas is also a co-writer of the upcoming #SLACabaret 2022.
While admission to the NPSS reading of Sleeping Giant is free, reservations are required. They can be reserved directly via the link above, or by contacting the SLAC Audience Relationship Team at or 801-363-7522.
Please note: all SLAC attendees must show proof of full vaccination and wear a properly-fitting mask. Please visit our COVID-19 safety guide for more information.
Production images from Mercury and Blackberry Winter. All images by David Daniels.
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GRAB THEM BY THE P**** by Jeanette Munzert
PART OF THE STORY by David Kranes
REYKJAVIK by Steve Yockey
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, November 6 @ 7pm
Director: Robert Scott Smith
Actors: Tyson Baker, Anne Louise Brings, Harrison J. Lind, Allen Smith, Alicia Washington.
Stage Manager: Jennie Sant
Made up of eight short plays, the entire play takes place in and around Reykjavík, Iceland. "All of the locations are ephemeral places, transitory, the kind of places people pass through or stop to rest but do not stay for long.” - Steve Yockey
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
AMERIKIN by Chisa Hutchinson
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, September 25 @ 7pm
Director: Adrianne Moore
Actors: Daisy Blake, Nicholas Dunn, Jacob Johnson, Kathryn Mungin, Matthew Sincell, Darryl Stamp, Cassandra Stokes-Wylie
Reader: Mary-Helen Pitman
Stage Manager: Kallie Erickson
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group gets an unsettling surprise.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
AMERIKIN by Chisa Hutchinson
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, September 25 @ 7pm
Director: Adrianne Moore
Actors: Daisy Blake, Nicholas Dunn, Jacob Johnson, Kathryn Mungin, Matthew Sincell, Darryl Stamp, Cassandra Stokes-Wylie
Reader: Mary-Helen Pitman
Stage Manager: Kallie Erickson
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group gets an unsettling surprise.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.