8:00 p.m.

The Steerman Festival features a selection of student-written new and original short and full-length plays each Spring semester. Our Drama Department has made an extraordinary commitment to new work by creating space for our students to learn the art of playwriting. A vital part of learning to write plays is to see them realized.

Tess Foley-Cox, whose play Hit Me, and Aiden Skelly, whose play Vespers, will be produced in this year’s Festival.

Two plays have been selected for workshops and a public reading (Overtime by Avery Turnbull and Ambrosia by Joe Lippman).

Hit Me by Tess Foley-Cox ’26

When six investment bankers take a work trip to a casino in Reno, the team is left without much to do but gamble. As the night unfolds, the stakes of the games just keep getting higher as the team’s sexual lives begin to intertwine. At the end of the night, who will get lucky?

Vespers by Aiden Skelly ’26

Set in Leningrad during the Soviet-Afghan War, Vespers follows the lives of five disparate individuals brought together by Yuri, a well-meaning yet somewhat incapable young man. When Yuri is sent off to war, the four others must cope with the absence of their friend while also being tormented by a mysterious spiritual force.

Open to the public. Reservations required. Reservations open two weeks prior to the first performance date.