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Monday, November 9, 2026

New Works Play Lab with FSU Asolo Conservatory

When
Friday, December 11, 2026 through December 12
Where
The Ringling 5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243

Three plays still under construction get their public tryouts in the New Works Play Lab, now in its second year, where graduate actors of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory spend a week workshopping and rehearsing new scripts before presenting them as staged readings in the Historic Asolo Theater. This edition's plays are Katherine Vondy's Reliable Narrators, Matthew Greene's Bad Accents and Andrew Michael Reid's Try Again? Each reading is followed by a talk-back with the playwright, Asolo Rep director of new works and dramaturg James Monaghan, and Julia Moriarty of Missouri State University. The brand-new scripts meet an old room: the theater's interior was first assembled in Asolo, Italy, in the late 18th century.

Getting there

5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243

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