Each season Vanity Theatre Company stages new work in a unique new play reading series. Focusing on local talent, the series allows playwrights to present work to an audience at various points in the development process. If you have any questions about our readings, please contact John at info@vanitytheatre.org.

Yuletide, by Erik N. Ebarp	December 14 & 15, 2009 at 7:30pm Tenth Street Theatre 628 N. 10th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 Tickets: $10
Christmas Eve 1912 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Wikström family gathers for the holiday. Little do they know that two independent spirits have their own designs on the family celebration. The events that follow will teach them, spirit and mortal alike, valuable lessons that change their destinies forever.

Future Readings:

Enhanced, by Erik N. Ebarp

February 2010

Instead of making his scheduled testimony before congress for further federal funding of the Human Genome Project, Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson awakens to discover himself tied to a chair in a remote Long Island (NY) cottage attended to by a woman who looks familiar, but who he doesn’t quite recognize (a noted psychiatrist and author). Here, the mystery woman forces a debate on the ethics of advancements in bio-engineering and the future of bio-genetics, specifically, genetic enhancement. Should we? Shouldn’t we? Or is the genie already out of the genetic enhancement bottle?!?… All the issues remain current; all the science is real!

Past Readings:

Giant Days, by Erik N. Ebarp	December 14 & 15, 2009 at 7:30pm Tenth Street Theatre 628 N. 10th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233
What happens to the Staley family and their farm when the global economy comes knocking on their door? Can they change or will the world pass them by? Read the Shepherd Express preview, Shepherd Express review, and Examiner interview with Erik Ebarp.

If you have any questions about our readings, please contact John: info@vanitytheatre.org.