Thursday, June 16 at 7:30 pm
Friday, June 17 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 18 at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 19 at 2 pm
Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. THE SEVEN is performed by FUSION Theatre Company at FUSION, inside our beautiful new 708 performance space! 708 1st St NW, Downtown Albuquerque
THE SEVEN New Works Festival
Theatre | June 16-20
FUSION presents THE SEVEN! One evening of theatre featuring seven world-premiere plays, selected from 707 submissions by playwrights from around the world. With submissions from 45 states and ten countries, these short plays were selected by a jury as the best of the best!
Come watch as seven different directors and one fantastic ensemble cast performs all seven plays every performance! This beloved annual event is one of the premiere short works festivals in the country. Don’t miss the return of Albuquerque’s favorite theatre event!
A fun theatre smorgasbord! Something for everyone!
FIND THE SEVEN TICKETS HERE
The Winners of THE SEVEN
Bradford Gromelski Jury Award Winner
We Jump Broom by Mildred Inez Lewis | Inglewood, CA
A Tale of an Unexpected Gathering and Romance Made Absurd in the Telling by Rob Dames | Los Angeles, CA
A Twin Out of Time by Rom Watson | West Hollywood, CA
Box of Teeth by Tori King Rice | Lakeside, CA
Stealing Sleep by Jeffrey Neuman | Denver, CO
Timepiece by E.A. Gray | Santa Fe, NM
Two Centuries Without Theatre by MJ Cox | Boston, MA
Monday, June 20 at 7 pm
Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. THE 2nd SEVEN is performed by FUSION Theatre Company at FUSION, inside our beautiful new 708 performance space! 708 1st St NW, Downtown Albuquerque
THE 2nd SEVEN
Theatre | June 20
Join us on June 20 for THE 2nd SEVEN - a one-night only staged reading of plays that placed eighth through fourteenth in the jury selection! Selected from the same fantastic pool of 707 new works, submitted by playwrights from around the world, these short works will capture your heart.
FIND THE 2nd SEVEN TICKETS HERE!
Winners of THE 2nd SEVEN
Sky, Regarding Cowboy by Derek Davidson | Boone, NC
One. Two. Three. by Isaac Byrne | Holmes, NY
The Letter by Ada Cheng | Chicago, IL
Six Feet by Claudia Barnett | Lascassas, TN
October by Paul Lewis | Bainbridge Island, WA
Love Me, Love My Work by Glenn Alterman | NYC, NY
Safe Walk by Rebecca Kane | Astoria, NY
the company
Actors' Equity Association members: Paul Blott, Jen Grigg, Dennis Gromelski, Nancy Jeris, Jacqueline Reid, David Sinkus, Douglas Stewart, Laurie Thomas, and Victoria Ujczo
Matt Andrade, Zane Barker, Evening Star Barron, Grey Blanco, Breana Connor, Kate Costello, Kane Distler, Matt Heath, Richard Hogle, Lauren Letherer, Dodie Montgomery, Robyn Phillips, Danielle Robertson, Chad Scheer, Wendy Scott, Robb Sisneros, William Sterchi, Kyo Torres-Chen, and Aaron Worley
Mildred Inez Lewis is the 2022 Bradford Gromelski Jury Award winning playwright. Bradford was a past juror of THE SEVEN, a past FUSION main stage director, and a Professor Emeritus/playwright at Iona College in New York. Now deceased, he was the father of company co-founder Dennis Gromelski.
Mildred Inez Lewis was recently selected for A DIFFERENT MYTH, a joint project of the American Myth Center and Different Strokes. She will be expanding JUKED, her adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra. The short version of JUKED will be produced by the Towne Street Theatre at A Noise Within’s Noise Now! She is a finalist for the Wake Forest University/North Carolina Black Repertory Company’s Finding Holy Ground commissions. Her short piece SUITCASES is being produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA in its Early Bird Special. Her full-length comedy THE WOMEN'S ANNEX will premiere at Central Works in Berkeley this fall. Mildred's plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, LazyBee and NextStage Press. She lives in greater Los Angeles and writes for Antaeus, Company of Angels, PlayGround-LA, and Towne Street Theatre.