Join us for a live-streamed Halloween fest --  a virtual experience inspired by the energy and spirit of the beloved model of 24-hour play festivals!  This experience, spanning 3 weeks from prompt/team assignments to performance, adapts to the virtual age by equipping teams Halloween-themed prompts & virtual theatre inspired parameters. In addition to the performance, audiences will enjoy behind-the-scenes sneak peeks at prompt & team assignments, the rehearsal process, and more via social media and Patreon!
A pre-show costume party and cocktail hour will invite our audience to engage with one another via Zoom.
THE PLAYS

The Creation
Written by Judd Lear Silverman
Directed by Mia Y. Anderson
Five years after the Creature was captured and the villagers torched the Windmill, Victor Frankenstein and his wife remain childless and the town is once again being terrorized. Are there old scores remaining to be settled?

Drunken Vampire in Pain
Written By Eva Meiling Pollitt
Directed by R’Myni Watson
A tortured vampiress in love with her next meal and her disloyal minion, a guy that just wants to live, and a philosophizing knight-in-shining-armor come together in a collision of desires to probe at the nature of evil (and also to be random and silly). 

Killer Band
Written By Molly Kirschner
Directed By Chelsey Smith
A musical group is torn between murdering an amateur mandolin player and recruiting him-- which will increase their popularity more?

A Nightmare on Zoom Street
Written By Kati Frazier
Directed By Rachael Langton
Meeting over Zoom during the pandemic, the support group for Freddy Kreuger Dream sufferers is down to only two surviving members! Adrian and Eric struggle to stay awake as they battle Freddy--and time!-- to survive.

The Legend of the Beast in that Place with the Woods
Written By Orlando Rodriguez
Directed By Eric Parness
Assistant Director: Cara Geser
Dinkley and Norville set out to find the legendary beast that lives in that one place with the woods, but are they ready to do what it takes to get evidence of the creature's existence?

My Lover, the Alien
Written By Michael Hagins
Directed By Becky Saunders
A woman tells her best friend about her new relationship, who just so happens to be...an alien.

Krampus Search 2020
Written By Rebecca Kane
Directed By Anna Hogan
When a camera crew entered the town of Shadowood, Pennsylvania, to speak to residents terrorized by a Christmas monster, all but one of the crew members disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The footage that remained has been compiled together in this documentary play.
 
Featuring: Lluvia Almanza, David Anthony, Kate Atanasio, Jennifer Atkinson, Stephanie D. Barney, Rick Benson, Anel Carmona, Kendra Christel, Elijah Gravely†, Ashleigh Herndon*†, Chris Jumper*†, Maggie Kissinger, Antonio Miniño †, Mateo Moreno†, Sam Neagley, Sean Phillips, Jennifer Iris Rivera, Xavier Rodney†, Mary Sheridan*, Tristan J. Shuler*, Samantha Simone*†, David Stallings, Alex Stene*, Jeanne Torres, Julia Torres, Jonathan Wong Frye*
 
*Courtesy of AEA
†Courtesy of SAG-AFTRA

meet the artists

Rising Sun Performance Company has assembled artists from around the country in this hybrid Festival of new Halloween themed works. Each team selected randomly, our playwrights were given 48 hours to write brand new work creating the work for their director and actors

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