The Cutting Room

Butterfly Effect

By Gina Femia

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Butterfly Effect

By Gina Femia

Craig and Aaron don't have much going for them besides each other. Their close friendship is a small flame in a darkness filled with dead-end jobs, passionless relationships, unfulfilled dreams, and unspoken desires. The only other thing they truly love is gaming, and the anticipation they hold for Enemy Space II - which is finally coming out! - keeps them going. But when they meet Mari, a tenacious indie game developer with her own unprocessed baggage, the fears they've held at bay begin to close in and manifest in unexpected ways.


Playwright

Gina Femia

Gina Femia is an award-winning playwright and performer whose work has been seen/developed at The Goodman Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, New Georges, The Playwrights Center, CTG, Theater of NOTE, Rivendell Theater, Cape Cod Theater Project, among others. Selected honors include Winner of The Lammy Award for LGBTQ+ Drama, The Kilroys List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the Neukom Award in Playwriting, and The Relentless Award (Semi-finalist & Honorable Mention), as well as nominations for Drama League and NYIT. Gina has received commissions from The Farm Theater (College Collaboration Commission), New Light Theater Project, Boomerang Theater and MCC/Parsnip Ship. Gina is a former Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and an Alum of EST Youngblood, Page73's Interstate 73, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, New Georges' Audrey Residency, the Ingram New Play Lab at Nashville Rep and Parsnip Ship's Radio Roots Writer's Group. Gina’s a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, Tofte Lake Center and Everwood Foundation. As a teacher, Gina has worked with The Playwrights Center, Primary Stages ESPA, among others. Gina's debut YA novel, Alondra was named a Best Book for Teens in 2023 and was a Finalist for a Golden Kite award. Learn more: www.femiagina.com.

New works are near and dear to our hearts and have become an essential component of our identity and programming. To expand our new play development we have begun a new initiative called: The Cutting Room.

  • Building upon the work and commitment of The Loom, Woven Theatre is excited to open The Cutting Room. The Cutting Room is a unique and intensive step in new play development consisting of multiple facets. We understand that new plays often get stuck in cycles of reading after reading, and the returns begin to diminish. The Cutting Room is designed specifically for that limbo state between readings and full production. 

  • The Cutting Room serves a select group of plays that are on the edge of production. Plays are chosen for their merit, development history, and content. It is the goal that after the process the play and playwright will be well-positioned for full production. It is our hope that the playwright will leave with experience involving designers and actors, pre-production work, edits, conceptual designs, and an altogether deeper understanding of their piece. In the end, the playwright would leave with a package of feedback and preliminary designs built around the play. 

  • Once chosen, the playwright will be paired with an experienced director particularly suited for their piece. Together, the director, playwright, and Woven Team will select a skilled cast and production team. 

    Along with serving the play and playwright, Woven hopes to also serve young and early career designers so that they may gain professional experience. These designers would be paired with mentors in their design area to help guide them through the process. During the cycle, the designers will craft conceptual designs that could include set renderings, sound cues and music, costume renders, lighting looks, and other elements the play might require.  

    Over the course of 6-8 weeks, the team of actors, designers, mentors, director, and playwright would meet for production meetings and rehearsals. Each cycle’s schedule will vary, but generally, rehearsals would meet weekly/bi-weekly.

  • At the end of the process, a reading will be presented alongside the work of the whole production team. A permanent page on Woven’s website would be dedicated to this play’s process. The materials created during the cycle would be shared with the playwright and production team so that they may use it as necessary.