Panndora Productions

Panndora's Box 2022

Sweet Sixteen (And Last) New Works Festival

MOB MOLL by Rachael Powles
HAVE TO BELIEVE WE ARE MAGIC by Sara Guerrero
OLIVE PITS AND OTHER SURVIVORS by Tracy Chutorian Semler
ALL THE OXYTOCIN IN YOUR FINGERTIPS by Cary J. Simowitz
GOLDEN GATE by Lindsey Kirchoff

If Nobody Does Remarkable Things

A new play about what happens when we reach the point of no return

Written by Emma Gibson
Directed by Pam Paulson

Panndora's Box 2021

15th New Works Festival

PINEAPPLE AND OTHER OPTIONS by Jeanmarie Simpson
THE BREAKFAST AT THE BOOKSTORE by Lisa Langford
IF NOBODY DOES REMARKABLE THINGS by Emma Gibson
MAMA, I WISH I WERE SILVER by Amanda L. Andrei
ABIGAIL by Sarah Tufts

Delilah

A Virtual Workshop

Written by Niv Elbaz
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Panndora's Box 2020

14th Virtual New Works Festival

• OF MEN AND CARS by Jim Geoghan
  GIRL PUSHUPS: THE SOLDIER EXPERIENCE by Caitlin Bassett
  IN COMMON by Quinn D. Eli
  DELILAH by Niv Elbaz
  THE PLAY YOU WANT by Bernardo Cubría

Panndora's Box 2019

Lucky 13th Annual New Works Festival

GOD, WAVING by Linda Whitmore
EAST ROCK by Kevin Daly
THE DEATH OF HAYDEN WAVERLY, THE MOST POPULAR PERSON IN THE WORLD by Lauren Wimmer
IN MY BONES by Doc Andersen-Bloomfield
STILL FIGHTING IT by Anna Cain

A Wolf's Mother

Written by Cary J. Simowitz
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Glove Story

Written by Ken Pisani
Directed by Rebecca Taylor

Panndora's Box 2018

12th Annual New Works Festival

• ANNA KARENINA ON THE ACELA EXPRESS by Ben Jolivet
• A WOLF'S MOTHER by Cary J. Simowitz
• GLOVE STORY by Ken Pisani
• SHEARWATER by Victor Wishna
• THIS HAPPENED ONCE OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER by Gina Femia

Jupiter Moon

Written by Bob Valine
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Panndora's Box 2017

11th Annual Festival of New Works

THE DOGS POND by Travis G. Baker
JUPITER MOON by Bob Valine
CADAVER DOGS by Greg Atkins
WITCH CAMP by J. Thalia Cunningham
WILLISTON by Adam Seidel

In Kings & Fools

Written by Kevin Daly
Directed by Derek Long

Panndora's Box 2016

Ten years of new plays! Reason to celebrate with

BURNING CITIES by Simon Fill
IN KINGS & FOOLS by Kevin Daly
FOR SALE by Matthew Fowler
AN HOUR UPON THE STAGE by Richard Manley
TRUE WILL by WIlliam Triplett

Sweet Texas Reckoning

Written by Traci Godfrey
Directed by Pete Taylor

The Other Woman

stories of love, deception and revenge

Written by adapted by Victoria Zackheim
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

Panndora's Box 2015

9th Annual Festival of New Works

"DOMESTIC ANIMALS" by Jennifer Faletto
"WHERE IS EVERYBODY" by Kevin Daly
"THE WEYWARD SISTERS" by L.L. West
"SWEET TEXAS RECKONING" by Traci Godfrey
"SPIRALLING" by Judith Pratt

Medusa Undone

a theatrical retelling of the little known Medusa origin story

Written by Bella Poynton
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Panndora's Box 2014

8th Annual Festival of New Works

"BODACIOUS" by Dan Borengasser
"THE CUTTHROAT GAME" by J.R. Spaulding, Jr.
"SHADOWS" by Karen L. Lewis
"MEDUSA UNDONE" by Bella Poynton
"RIBBON OF LIFE" by Steve Julian

Fragile Things Crack

Written by Ben Jolivet
Directed by Karen Wray

Panndora's Box 2013

7th Annual Festival of New Works

"CRISIS" by Larry Herold
"TRIBUNAL" by Mark Milo Kessler
"FRAGILE THING CRACKS" by Ben Jolivet
"BLUE WHITNEY" by Steven Haworth
"THE NIGHT HERON TREE" by Cecilia Fannon

"8"

As part of the Byrdcliffe Festival of The Arts Byrdcliffe Theater at Woodstock, New York

Written by Dustin Lance Black
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Catching The Butcher

Written by Adam Seidel
Directed by Chrisanne Blankenship-Billings

Panndora's Box 2012

6th Annual Festival of New Works

"NUREYEV'S EYES" by David Rush
"FIRST, DO NO HARM" by J. Thalia Cunningham
"THE SIN EATER" by Michael Bettencourt
"WEAK TREMBLES" by Hal Corley
"CATCHING THE BUTCHER" by Adam Seidel

Hook-Ups

Written by Alexandra Petri
Directed by Sonja Berggren

From Paris to Zanzibar

A collaboration with Long Beach Opera in preparation for two surrealistic comedic operas.

Panndora's Box 2011

5th Annual Festival of New Works

"HOOK-UPS" by Alexandra Petri
"THE SPORTS PAGE" by Larry Herold
"MOCHA" by Eleanor Burgess
"URBAN LEGEND" by Lucile Lichtblau
"UNPREPARED MUSTARD" by Chris Booz

Home Sweet Home

PANNDORA collaborates with Long Beach Opera in a coincidence for the opera

Directed by Andreas Mitisek

Well

Written by Lisa Kron
Directed by MaryAnne Mosher

Panndora's Box 2010

4th Annual Festival of New Works

"WHITES IN HOT WATER" by Garrett Socol
"THE ENGLISH BRIDE" by Lucile Lichtblau
"MORNING HAS BROKEN" by Alexandra Petri
"THE SPARROW WAR" by Laura Edmondson
"SEA CHANGE" by R.D. Wakeman

W;t

A Pulitzer Prize winning play.

Written by Margaret Edson
Directed by Pete Taylor

In These Great Times

A collaboration with Long Beach Opera and Long Beach Playhouse

Scrooge's Really Really Bad Night

A 2009 "visual radio" version of the classic Christmas tale

Expressing Motherhood

"real stories by real moms", written and performed by Sonja Berggren

Written by Sonja Berggren

Panndora's Box 2009

3rd Annual Festival of New Works

"STAR TURN" by Linda Whitmore
"SUNDAY'S CHILD" by Jennifer Jones
"DENOUEMENT" by Jack Raymond
"THE WALL" by Jonathan Chapman
"THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE" by William Coleman

The Emperor of Atlantis

A short play by Stephen Massicotte in collaboration with Long Beach Opera.

Written by Stephen Massicotte
Directed by Sonja Berggren

Intimate Letters

A one-act play written & directed by Cecilia Fannon in collaboration with Long Beach Opera.

Written by Cecilia Fannon
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

It's A Wonderful Life

A Live Radio Show. Adapted by Panndora Productions.

Written by adapted by Panndora Productions from the film by Frank Capra
Directed by Pete Taylor

Panndora's Box 2008

2nd Annual Festival of New Works

AN UNCOMMON LANGUAGE by Evan Guilford-Blake
THE HIVE by Paula Fell
CAT AND MOUSE by Michael Wolfson
TROG AND CLAY by Michael Vukadinovich

BOO!

Four live radio plays of four spine-tingling Halloween tales with pulse-pounding pace and eerie sound effects!

Written by Cecilia Fannon
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

Panndora's Box 2007

First Annual Festival of New Play Readings. Five new full-length plays selected from submissions from across the country, read and directed by seasoned actors and writers. A weekend devoted to the development and support of new works of drama.

THE EX-HUSBAND PLAY by Barbara Lindsay
LIMBOLAND by Alan Witchey
ORIGAMI by Andrea Sloan Pink
GOOD BREEDING by John Lane
DRINK ME by Mary Fengar Gail

String of Pearls

Written by Michele Lowe
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

Three Tall Women

Written by Edward Albee
Directed by Hal Landon, Jr.

Time is a Gentleman

World Premiere

Written by Cecilia Fannon
Directed by Pete Taylor

Thirteen Hands

American Premiere

Written by Carol Shields
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

Collected Stories

Written by Donald Margulies
Directed by David Gold

I'm Not Rappaport

A Tony award-winning Play

Written by Herb Gardner
Directed by Pete Taylor

Tennessee's Women

Four one-act comedies

Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by David Gold and Pete Taylor

Collected Stories

PANNDORA'S INAUGURAL PRODUCTION!

Written by Donald Margulies
Directed by David Gold