2022
2021
Concept by Lisa Wagner Erickson
Written by Sean Michael Cummings, Lisa Wagner Erickson, and Rebecca Gorman O’Neill and directed by Veronica Straight-Lingo
A fictitious online university struggling to remain relevant, PhD candidates desperate to secure full-time teaching positions at adjunct wages, and academic-sounding topics make for a fraught (and odd) series of online debates written by Colorado playwrights.
2020
a shiny quest
A reluctant gnome embarks on a life or death quest for the shiniest plastic stone,
An interactive experience written Lisa Wagner Erickson, directed by Veronica Straight-Lingo, visual art by Sara Rockinger, and featuring Bevin Antea, Terry Burnsed, Sean Michael Cummings, Amber Irish, and Veronica Straight-Lingo.
Colorado-made video plays
Concept and WATCHcuration by Lisa Wagner Erickson
Local playwrights and theatre artists Iliana Lucero Barron and Adelina Gonzales, Molly Bibeau and James Brunt, Tami Canaday, Melissa Lucero McCarl, Pamela Nocerino, and Matthew Schultz have each created and produced a short video-play on the theme of “There’s something I want to show you.”
2019
ESCAPE
An afternoon of readings on the theme of “Escape” by a multi-genre mashup of local writers, including Judith Sara Gelt, Lisa Wagner Erickson, Rowena Algeria, John Holley, Laura Bond, Rick D. Bailey, Ellen K. Graham, Gina Wencel, and Jennifer Erickson.
MRS. WHEATLAND PAGEANT
By Lisa Wagner Erickson
Directed by Hart DeRose
Sitcom nostalgia, small town reality and gender norms collide in a comedy about about one woman’s search for certainty in an ever-changing world .
Shorts Before the Show
Each evening of THE MRS. WHEATLAND PAGEANT opened with a Short Before the Show, presenting a 10-minute reading from a new work by a local playwright. A different playwright was featured each night.
WRITES OF SUMMER
A two-night play reading soirée at Theater 29. Featured playwrights included Rebecca Gorman O’Neill, John Ashton, Frank Oteri, Tami Canaday, Jeff Neuman, Colette Mazunik, Sean Michael Cummings. The playwrights were in charge of choosing, casting and directing each play that was featured on stage.