
Clay & Water 2025
Our Seventh Annual Playwrights’ Retreat and
New Play Reading Series
When: Monday-Thursday, February 24- 27, 2025 (details and schedule for specific plays below)
Where: Rigel Center, 4195 Wilbanks Avenue, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043. PLEASE NOTE: Rigel Center is actually in the Town of Penney Farms, but if you use GPS or mapping apps, it is listed as Green Cove.)
Admission: Free.
Reservations: Required (due to limited seating). Click the red “Reservations” link below. If you have any difficulty with the link, please email reservations@clamourtheatre.org, or call 917-902-7210.
Brand new plays!
Four developmental readings of their works-in-progress! A different play each evening!
Please note: If we have more than 2 events available for reservations at one time, you may not see all of them when you first click the red “Reservations” toggle. Just click in the white space between two events to force the widget to expand and display all available events.
For questions or assistance, please email boxoffice@clamourtheatre.org (and please tell us which play you are asking about or trying to reserve).
ACCESSIBILITY

Rigel Center is wheelchair-accessible.

Play readings include an actor who reads stage directions including descriptions of the setting and important physical action.
THE PLAYS
(Please note: Some of these plays contain adult language and adult situations.)
MONDAY, FEB 24, 7 PM EASTERN – “BONES LIKE DUST” by Gina Femia
Worlds collide when pedologist Richard comes to Jeni’s rural shack to study her dirt. When an unexpected storm traps Richard on her porch, dirt isn’t the only thing that gets dug up. Art, faith, and science all ask: What happens when home disappears?
with Catie Casey and Clayton Riddley
TUESDAY, FEB 25, 7 PM EASTERN – “THE THOMAS HARDY PROJECT” by Becca Blackmore
Two very different high school seniors team up for an advanced placement English project, both hoping it will be the path to valedictorian. But, will it be the path to friendship? And what happens when that friendship is tested?
with Kaelyn Newman, Kaylee Byers, and Kerry Reardon
WEDNESDAY, FEB 26, 7 PM EASTERN – “HARM REDUCTION” by Elizabeth Irwin
When Susan, the unlikeliest of moms becomes the foster parent to 17 year old Kayla, she is befriended by her neighbors, whose son is in Kayla’s class, in a story about support, envy, outrage, kindness and the occasional awkward triumph.
with Rhodie Jackson, Kamajhia, Kate McManus, Kerry Reardon, and Jack Shaughnessy
THURSDAY, FEB 26, 7 PM EASTERN – “CAGE” by Barbara Blatner
What are our relationships with each other and with other species in the shadow of the climate emergency?
After her parents’ difficult divorce, George, 13, badly needs her mother, but Bobby is overwhelmed with single parenthood. When George catches a large rat snake and brings it home as a pet, this incursion into Bobby’s territory forces her to reckon with her daughter, the divorce, and the snake in a new way.
with Debbie Pascoe and Samantha Pascoe
THE PLAYWRIGHTS

BECCA
BLACKMORE

BARBARA
BLATNER

GINA
FEMIA
Gina Femia is an award-winning playwright and performer whose work has been seen/developed at The Goodman Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, New Georges, The Playwrights Center, CTG, Theater of NOTE, Rivendell Theater, Cape Cod Theater Project, Bag&Baggage, Mirrorbox Theater, among others. Selected honors include The Kilroys List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award and the Neukom Award in Playwriting, nominations for Drama League and NYIT. Gina is a former Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and an Alum of EST Youngblood, Page73’s Interstate 73, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, New Georges’ Audrey Residency, the Ingram New Play Lab at Nashville Rep and Parsnip Ship’s Radio Roots Writer’s Group. Gina’s a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Fresh Ground Pepper. As a teacher, Gina has worked with The Playwrights Center, Primary Stages ESPA, among others. Gina’s debut YA novel, ALONDRA was named a Best Book for Teens in 2023 and is a Finalist for a Golden Kite award. Learn more: www.femiagina.com.

ELIZABETH
IRWIN
THE DRAMATURGS

LINDSEY R.
BARR
Lindsey R. Barr (she/her) is a dramaturg, educator, and scholar based in the Washington, DC and Baltimore regions. Her dramaturgy work has been seen at Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Single Carrot Theatre, the Capital Fringe Festival, the National Theatre, and the Goethe Institut, among others. She is currently a professorial lecturer at American University where she teaches courses in theatre and arts management. Lindsey earned her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, and her research focuses on gendered and racialized representations of disability and madness in the American musical. She has published scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and in anthologies including Studies in Musical Theatre, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre, (M)Other Perspectives: Staging the Maternal in 21st Century Performance, and Review.

SUZI
ELNAGGAR
Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian-American performance scholar, freelance dramaturg, and theatre-maker. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow. She is the current VP of Communications at LMDA. In 2023, she founded the Digital Development Project, which is finishing its inaugural Phase 1. She has been the production dramaturg for TACTICS Ottawa ANANSI V. GOD(S); Jubilee Theatre Waco’s Fairview (Texas Premiere); Wild Imaginings’ Jesus and Valium (World Premiere), The Way He Looks at You, Cardboard Castles Hung on Walls (World Premiere); Baylor Theatre’s Wills and Secession, Dancing Lessons, Treasure Island (adapted by Bryony Lavery), and The Laramie Project. For Wild Imaginings, she helped select the plays, as well as curate audience guides and lead talkbacks for the Waco Contemporary Play Series, a grant-funded series of staged readings, including The Great Leap, The Thanksgiving Play, and Topdog/Underdog. She was the festival dramaturg/literary manager for Epiphanies New Works Festival for 2021 and 2022 before her move to Chicago. Most recently, she has been the development and production dramaturg for The Great Sea Serpent, written by Tracy Davis and directed by David Catlin of lookingglass theatre, a new play in development at Northwestern’s Wirtz Theatre, premiering Spring 2024.

FIONA
KYLE
Dramaturg: ASPHODELS (Women’s Voices Festival at Mad Cow Theatre); LEVIATHAN (Clay & Water 2021, Clamour Theatre Company); RANDY’S DANDY COASTER CASTLE, FACULTY PORTRAIT (3B Development Series at IRT Theater); JANE EYRE, CLOUD 9, SEDER (workshop), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE PIANO LESSON, HAVING OUR SAY (co-pro with Long Wharf Theatre), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Hartford Stage); BOMBER’S MOON (Williams Street Repertory); BENEATH THE GAVEL (Bated Breath Theater Company at 59E59); THE LILY’S REVENGE, THE SHAPE SHE MAKES (American Repertory Theater); BOXCUTTER HARMONICA (Minnesota Fringe Festival); BACK (Poetic Theater Productions). Assistant Dramaturg: QUEENS FOR A YEAR, ANASTASIA (Broadway try-out), ROMEO & JULIET, THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN, REAR WINDOW (Hartford Stage). Education: BA Marymount Manhattan College; MA Ohio University; MFA A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University. Employment: Publications Associate at Concord Theatricals.

LINDA
LOMBARDI
Linda Lombardi (dramaturg, Girl on a Hill) is thrilled to return to Clamour Theatre and Clay & Water, having dramaturged Familiar Kill in 2021. An artist and activist based in Washington, DC, Linda explores the intersection of dramaturgy and community engagement, and acts as a bridge between the work and the public. As a dramaturg and director, she is attracted to work that shifts our perspective and broadens our understanding of the world. Linda recently dramaturged the original site-specific play, Three Strangers Sitting Around a Backyard Firepit at Two in the Morning Listening to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. Production dramaturgy credits include Building the Wall (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), All the Way, Disgraced, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Directing credits include Perfect Arrangement (world premiere); Pramkicker (DC premiere); Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Henry V; Domestic Animals; Ajax; and The White Devil. In DC, she has worked with Theatre Lab, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Mosaic Theater Company, Forum Theatre, Longacre Lea, Theater Alliance, and Catholic University of America, among others. She is a member of the artistic council for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, a script reader for Playwrights’ Center, and previously served as literary manager and artistic associate at Arena Stage.

KAE MILNE
TWICHELL
Kae Milne Twichell (they/them) is a dramaturg, researcher, and arts administrator currently based in North Florida. They are in their final semester of the MA Theatre & Performance Research program at Florida State University and hold a degree in Social Work and Theater from the same institution. Kae has presented performance research at the Mid-America Theatre Conference and the American Society for Theatre Research conference often focusing on the relationship between communities and spectatorship. Previous artistic homes include Creede Repertory Theatre and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Recently, Kae’s dramaturgical interests gravitate towards the weird, the wonderful, and the (wonderfully weird) world of queer identity.
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