The Wagner New Play Festival is an annual festival of new works by MFA playwrights, in collaboration with MFA/PhD directors, actors, designers, stage managers, and dramaturges. This year, for the first time, the WNPF will be presented virtually. The festival will include four audio plays and one animated work, streaming on this website https://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/wagner-new-play-festival/index.html and on iTunes, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uc-san-diego-theatre-and-dance-presents/id1566930944.

Streaming June 7

Farside by Vivian Barnes '21 directed by guest director Joan Sergay

Streaming June 8

Prepared by Keiko Green '22 directed by Jon Reimer/PhD/MFA '21

Streaming June 9

Backwaters by Ankita Raturi '23 directed by Juliana Kleist-Méndez '21

Original music composed by world renowned sitarist, composer and educator Pandit Kartik Seshadri accompanied on flute by Mallika Seshadri

Streaming June 10

Meladi Thive and Her Words of Comfort by Preston Choi '23 directed by Cambria Herrera/MFA1 Director

Streaming June 11

End Days by Keiko Green '22 directed by Emily Moler/MFA2 Director