
BELLINGHAM THEATREWORKS
2025/26 SEASON
Photography by David Cohn
BIGFOOT
November 14-23
by Meghan Endres Brown
A darkly funny high-stakes suspense play about sibling rivalry, quantum physics, and the terrifying power of a good story.
Disgraced physicist Holly has arrived in rural Oregon to fulfill her mother’s dying wish: pick up her Bigfoot conspiracy theorist sister Alyssa and transport her back to San Francisco for one last family Thanksgiving. But combative Alyssa refuses to leave the woods until she sees the Big Guy himself, setting off a sequence of escalating events that unearth a lifetime of simmering resentments… and put the sisters’ lives in jeopardy.
“The screws slowly tighten and our allegiances bounce back and forth as these two sisters battle over one sister's belief in Bigfoot. This is a page-turner. And for me, it brought back memories of the early days of Covid-19 and the struggle of science versus Facebook-fueled conspiracy theories. Highly recommended.”
“What is more unbelievable string theory or bigfoot? Meghan Endres Brown gives us dark comedy about loneliness, family, and connection, then infuses it with quantum physics and cryptozoological conspiracy theories. These are dynamite characters with a shocking turn of events that takes the whole story another level entirely. I imagine production teams having a blast with this script. Are you looking for a tight 3-person play? Don't miss this gem!”
NEW PLAY CAFE 2026
April 24, 25, 26 and May 1, 2, 3
Now accepting scripts! Read through the guidelines below and submit your script here:
Bellingham TheatreWorks
New Play Cafe Script Submissions
Bellingham Theatre Works is seeking scripts for New Play Cafe, a reading series of new plays by pacific northwest playwrights or featuring themes of high interest and connection to the Bellingham/Salish Sea area. Selected plays will receive a directed reading in front of an audience and a feedback session including a panel of local theatremakers. We are seeking full-length and one-act plays for a series of readings over two weekends this spring in Bellingham, WA. Playwrights must be able to attend in-person.
There is no fee to submit.
Playwrights in attendance for their reading will receive
an honorarium of $100 for a full-length, and $40 for a one-act.
Note: Google Forms requires you to sign into a Google account in order to upload documents. If you do not have a Google account and do not wish to make one, you may email your PDF script and answers to the below prompts to NewPlayCafeScripts@gmail.com
Requirements:
Full length plays must have a runtime between 60-120 minutes.
One-act plays must have a runtime between 25-40 minutes.
Keep in mind that page count is not always an accurate predictor of runtime.
Playwrights must be able to attend an in-person reading in Bellingham the weekend of either April 24th-26th or May 1st-3rd.
Submissions for each category (full-length and one-act) will close after 50 scripts are received in their respective category, or on November 30, 2025, whichever comes first.
Playwrights may submit one play in each category, but not more than one of each category. Each play should be submitted separately.
In your submission you will be asked to include answers to the below prompts:
Describe your goals for the script. What do you hope to achieve through a reading of your play? What’s happened with it so far?
Describe your and/or the script’s connection to the area in and around Bellingham, the Salish Sea, the Pacific Northwest.
Confirm your availability to participate in the New Play Cafe on one or more of these dates: April 24, 25, 26, May 1, 2, 3, 2026.
What we are looking for:
Full length plays (60-120 minutes) and one-acts (25-40 minutes) that would benefit from the type of reading we can provide. It’s not too rough, it’s a complete script. Not so polished that there’s not much a reading could do at this point.
Playwright fits the general description of local to Bellingham, the Salish Sea area, the pacific northwest - either they are currently living here, they have compelling local history, connections, recurrences, etc. or the script explores meaningful connections with the area.
Playwright is available for one or more of the dates of the Cafe.
No musicals. Translations or adaptations are okay if the original work is in the public domain or the playwright has documented permission from the rights holder.
What we provide:
A director and actors to read your script in front of an audience after a brief rehearsal period. Actors will be seated or standing with music stands, stage directions read aloud.
A panel of theatre experts who will respond to your play either ‘live’ during the after-reading conversation, or in a written response.
A way for the audience to respond and ask questions, and/or leave written notes and impressions of the play.
An honorarium of $100 for a full length play, $40 for a one-act. If there are multiple authors for a play, the honorarium will be provided to the primary author to divide as they choose.
COMPLETED WORKS FOR THE SEASON…
Welcome to Camp Indigo Woods. (The alumni aren’t thrilled about the name change, but it’s really way more ~ inclusive ~ this way!) The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Crack a cold one, make a s'more, tell a scary story. Figure out what you're going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you've seen the news. Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you're hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.
“The Grown-Ups is part satire, part scary story. [...] Doing theater this intimate is like doing close-up magic.” — New York Times
“The spirit of community pervades the experience until the play’s chilling and beautiful final moments, performed in near-total darkness.” — Broadstreet Review
“The Grown-Ups approaches theater as an act of radical intimacy.” — TimeOut New York
Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre
In Search of a Common Language
June 24-July 20, 2025
Three award winning and thought-provoking plays written by authors who explore how language can both set us apart and bring us together.
The Foreigner by Larry Shue,
Directed by Mark Kuntz
In a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, a tragically shy proofreader for a science fiction magazine tries to hide from life, only to put himself in the middle of a family squabble over money and power. This hilarious comedy earned multiple Obie and Outer Critics Circle awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production.
Mark Kuntz…
Video by Ava Nicholas & Adeline Roesler-Begalke
The Language Archive by Julia Cho,
Directed by Cara Phipps
George is consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of the world. At home, however, despite all the languages he speaks, words fail him in his marriage with his wife. This heartfelt bittersweet comedy won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for new plays.
Cara Phipps…
Video by Ava Nicholas & Adeline Roesler-Begalke
Translations by Brian Friel,
Directed by Kayla Adams
A British soldier falls in love with an Irish peasant girl, with a backdrop of the British Army’s campaign to change the names of native Gaelic locations. This lyric play explores language as the soul of a nation, during a time of complicated social upheaval.
Kayla Adams…
Video by Ava Nicholas & Adeline Roesler-Begalke