BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CMU Drama - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CMU Drama X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://drama.cmu.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CMU Drama REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260502T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260502T160000 DTSTAMP:20260611T153426 CREATED:20260312T202819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T202820Z UID:10000264-1777730400-1777737600@drama.cmu.edu SUMMARY:Impulse Festival: New Work Slam DESCRIPTION:Event \n Three Stories\n \n \n 06.11.2026\n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Date: \n 06.11.2026\n \n \n Cost: \n Free \n \n \n Time: \n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n\n \n Address: \n \n\n937 Liberty Avenue\n \n \n Pittsburgh\,\n\n Pennsylvania\n\n 15222\n\n United States\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nNEW WORK SLAMin partnership with City Theatre \n\n\n\nJoin the Center for New Work and City Theatre for another special local artist-focused new work slam! Come experience scenes\, songs\, and monologues from some of Pittsburgh’s up and coming playwrights\, and get a special preview of artists & shows being featured in that weekend’s Impulse Festival \n\n\n\nThis spring New Work Slam will take place at Three Stories downtown and is part of the Center for New Work’s Impulse Festival\, a brand new event featuring new plays & musicals in development at Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO alongside new works from CMU’s MFA in Dramatic Writing program. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Interested in being featured at the New Work Slam? \nThe application is now open! Please submit your idea no later than March 31st to be considered. \nQuestions? Email newwork@andrew.cmu.edu \n \n \n\n Submit Your Idea Here\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \nGive Today \n Support the Center for New Work \n \n\n\n\n \n\n InstagramFacebookCity Theatre URL:https://drama.cmu.edu/event/impulse-festival-new-work-slam/ LOCATION:Three Stories\, 937 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, 15222\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://drama.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/New-Work-Slam-Title.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260501T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T153426 CREATED:20260306T163934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T153848Z UID:10000256-1777662000-1777669200@drama.cmu.edu SUMMARY:Impulse Festival: I'll Be Mother DESCRIPTION:Event \n Three Stories\n \n \n 06.11.2026\n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Date: \n 06.11.2026\n \n \n Cost: \n Free \n \n \n Time: \n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n\n \n Address: \n \n\n937 Liberty Avenue\n \n \n Pittsburgh\,\n\n Pennsylvania\n\n 15222\n\n United States\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nI’LL BE MOTHERwritten by Liggera Edmonds-Allendirected by Aurelia Clunie \n\n\n\nA Mother and Daughter agree to a “simple” therapy exercise: they must switch roles and speak as the other. \n\n\n\nI’ll Be Mother will have one presentation at Three Stories downtown. This reading is a part of the Center for New Work’s Impulse Festival\, a brand new event featuring new works from CMU’s MFA in Dramatic Writing program alongside plays & musicals in development at Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO. \n\n\n\nCASTSheridan FungYin Raquino \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Liggera Edmonds-Allen (they/them) is a playwright from Poughkeepsie\, New York. They were a finalist at Theatre Master’s Take Ten competition and at the 2025 Austin Film Festival. Their short film CARNIVAL premiered at The Disability Collective’s ‘No Body Left Behind’ festival. Their original play\, WEDNESDAY’S VOYEUR\, had its world premiere at the United Nation’s ‘Why It Matters’ summit where it received publication. Their work is influenced by poetry\, turtles\, and tiny chirping birdies. \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aurelia Clunie is a first-year MFA director and John Wells Fellow at CMU. New works credits include The American Unicorn (Long Wharf Theatre)\, The Poppy (DePaul University)\, I Choose You\, Baby (InVersion Theatre at The Tank) and Good Meeting (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater); ReImagine: New Plays in TYA Advisory Council founding member; produced six cycles of Hartford Stage’s Write On Young Playwrights’ Competition. \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n Give Today \n Support the Center for New Work \n \n\n\n\n \n\n InstagramFacebookDramatic Writing Program URL:https://drama.cmu.edu/event/impulse-festival-ill-be-mother/ LOCATION:Three Stories\, 937 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, 15222\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://drama.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ImpulseFestival_SODWeb_IBM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260430T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260611T153426 CREATED:20260306T164113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T153946Z UID:10000257-1777575600-1777582800@drama.cmu.edu SUMMARY:Impulse Festival: The Wizard Unworthy DESCRIPTION:Event \n Three Stories\n \n \n 06.11.2026\n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Date: \n 06.11.2026\n \n \n Cost: \n Free \n \n \n Time: \n 3:34pm – 3:34pm\n \n\n \n Address: \n \n\n937 Liberty Avenue\n \n \n Pittsburgh\,\n\n Pennsylvania\n\n 15222\n\n United States\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nTHE WIZARD UNWORTHYwritten by Hannah Honey Sheparddirected by J. Cody Spellman \n\n\n\nThe Wizard Unworthy is a psychedelic horror-fantasy about a drunk and retired wizard\, Garathiander (Garath) who is struck with guilt about his sister’s death. The creation of the Vessel for Garath’s sister goes horribly awry when Garath’s minion\, Zorp\, feeds it human flesh\, resulting in an abomination who is sure to be responsible for their deaths. Garath scrambles to find a means of survival\, including communing with dark powers\, when his estranged nephew Sonny conveniently arrives. As the Vessel grows in power\, will Garath sacrifice Sonny or Zorp to survive? Or will he sacrifice himself? \n\n\n\nThe Wizard Unworthy will have one presentation at Three Stories downtown. This reading is a part of the Center for New Work’s Impulse Festival\, a brand new event featuring new works from CMU’s MFA in Dramatic Writing program alongside plays & musicals in development at Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO. \n\n\n\nCASTMadeline EllinghausMichael McBurneyTruman ColumbusVon Markarian \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hannah Honey Shepard (she/they) is a playwright\, screenwriter\, and RPG narrative designer from Washington State & Texas. She seeks other dimensions\, parallel universes and sorcery – and cares little to write the world we live in. She won $10\,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation with her screenplay Ode to Joplin in the Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition at Carnegie Mellon University (2025). She is currently seeking her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University\, class of 2026. \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n J. Cody Spellman is a theatre and film director from Dayton\, OH. He has served as Artistic Director of Throughline Theatre Company and Director of Production at Quantum Theatre and was an SDC Observer (2019–2021). He holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and is a John Wells MFA Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. | jcodyspellman.com @jcspells. \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n Give Today \n Support the Center for New Work \n \n\n\n\n \n\n InstagramFacebookDramatic Writing Program URL:https://drama.cmu.edu/event/impulse-festival-the-wizard-unworthy/ LOCATION:Three Stories\, 937 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, 15222\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://drama.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ImpulseFestival_SODWeb_TWU.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR