FGCU’s Emerging Playwrights Festival

November 22 & 23, 2024

FGCU Theatre presents staged readings of new works by two individuals with strong ties to our program. Dane Futrell (’21, Philosophy with Theatre minor) received a BA in Philosophy from FGCU, where he also acted frequently and began his playwriting journey. He now attends Arizona State University’s Dramatic Writing MFA program where he writes and develops new theatre relentlessly. Robin O’Connell (senior, English with Theatre minor) is a playwright, dramaturg and performer, who has been involved in numerous FGCU Theatre shows. They are a senior English major at FGCU with minors in theatre and creative writing. The FGCU Emerging Playwrights Festival performances will be presented in TheatreLab in the Arts Complex and are free and open to the public.

Waterlogged
by Robin O’Connell
Friday, November 22, 2024
7:30 p.m.

Dragged from the water and stripped of her sealskin, a fantastical water creature is taken from the sea and into the human world. Magically bound to her captor, she must recover her sealskin and return home to the waves.

Soul Magnet Beneath the Limestone
by Dane Futrell
Saturday, November 23, 2024
7:30 p.m.

This surrealist play studies various forms of alcoholism and addiction through the lens of a storied Prohibition-esque cocktail bar with a dark underside. It received the second place National Student Playwriting Award at the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.