IAMA Under 30 Lab Series

Live on Zoom July 15-18!

23nMe by Gabriela Ortega
Directed by Michelle Bossy
July 15 @ 5pm PT

Camila, a Dominican immigrant aching for her own spotlight, decides to celebrate her ten year anniversary in Los Angeles by staging a one-woman show around her 23andme results. However, an unexpected guest and a deep secret turn this search for laughs into a search for meaning.

Mentor: Tiffany Moon, OPC Literary Manager

I Don't Like You by Rosie Narasaki
Directed by Hannah Wolf
July 16 @ 5pm PT

Two ornery writer friends decide to collaborate on a rom-com script. Things get meta fast. 

Mentor: Jeff Liu, OPC Resident Dramaturge

Angie, Aggie, and Anthony by Jaime Jaget
Directed by Catya McMullen
July 17 @ 2pm PT

Anthony (30s) travels in his van from a Florida senior community to his hometown on Long Island with his batty Grandmother and Great Aunt for a family friend's funeral. Along the way family secrets are revealed. It looks how masculinity is passed from one generation to the next in blue collar worlds and what it takes to escape it. 

Mentor: Sasha Emerson, OPC Associate Artistic Producer

Les Sauvages de le Mer Pacifique by Noa Gardner
Directed by Cherrye J. Davis
July 17 @ 5pm PT

A rapidly evolving world has landed on the shores of this small island and is creeping up to the front door of Georgia Bell and her family, who are now forced to face for the first time the implications of race, assimilation, and the things they will have to do to survive in this new world. 

Mentor: Chris Breyer, OPC Literary Director

#BecklandIsCancelled by Alicia Carroll
Directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed
July 18 @ 5pm PT

An AP US History class wrestles with the increased tension in their town as the school board prepares to overhaul their history curriculum.

Mentor: J Holtham, OPC Resident Dramaturge