Fifth Annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series Has Been Announced

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the Fifth Annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series, a five-night event that includes nightly readings of new works written and directed by emerging artists, as well as curtain speeches by Roundabout Underground artist alumni and post-show receptions. The Roundabout Underground Reading Series will run from February 8-12 at the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. Tickets are free.

The Reading Series will feature new works by Ben Steinfeld, Alexander Gemignani, Jiréh Breon Holder, Sylvia Khoury, Martín Zimmerman, and Jessica Moss. This year will also feature the return of a few Roundabout alumni. Sam Gold, Roundabout’s resident director, will direct Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jiréh Breon Holder, returning to the Underground for the first time since Tigers Be Still. Ben Steinfeld (Into the Woods) and Alexander Gemignani (Assassins) will also return to the Roundabout as playwrights.

Ben Steinfeld and Alexander Gemignani's Diamond Alice will be directed by Ben Steinfeld (February 8), Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jiréh Breon Holder will be directed by Sam Gold (February 9), Against the Hillside by Sylvia Khoury will be directed by Portia Krieger (February 10), Martín Zimmerman's On the Exhale will be directed by Michael Wilson (February 11), and Cam Baby by Jessica Moss will be directed by Margot Bordelon (February 12).

Roundabout Underground showcases new works that will either give a debut production to an emerging writer or director or allow an experienced director to go back to his or her creative roots. Robyn Goodman (artistic consultant to the Roundabout) serves as artistic producer, with associate producers Jill Rafson and Josh Fiedler, for this initiative that continues to be a creative breeding ground for nurturing new talent.