Multiracial MixFest 2025
September 17 – 26, 2025
Atlantic Stage 2
Tickets coming soon!
MixFest is Atlantic’s annual free reading series exploring and celebrating the abundance of diverse stories in the theater! We are delighted to announce the 2025 Multiracial MixFest, a series of readings of new work co-curated by theater artists Cara Hinh and Taylor Reynolds.
Atlantic will present readings of full-length plays by Alex Lin, Daria Miyeko Marinelli, Eliana Pipes, May Treuhaft-Ali, and Sharifa Yazmeen. Additionally, Atlantic has commissioned Banna Desta, Maxine Dillon, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, and Else Went to create short one-acts and present them as an evening of readings. Admission is free!
The Judith Champion Multiracial MixFest is generously underwritten by Judith Champion, who passed away in July of 2022. She was a fierce advocate for theater, and wanted to leave a legacy of support for new voices so that American theater will thrive for generations to come.
Since 2017 Atlantic has presented our annual free reading series, which has included Asian American MixFest in 2017, Middle Eastern MixFest in 2018, Immigrant MixFest in 2019, African Caribbean MixFest in 2021, First Gen MixFest in 2022, (Writ)ual Mix: Traditions of the Diaspora MixFest in 2023, and Caribbean MixFest last year.
Multiracial Mixfest will kick off with a panel discussion featuring the playwrights and directors of this year’s festival! Atlantic has commissioned Banna Desta, Maxine Dillon, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, and Else Went to create short one-acts and present them as an evening of readings.
Saarah’s parents got married in secret when she was nine years old. (It took them a few tries because they kept stopping for Peking duck on their way to City Hall.) Now, as she prepares for her own partner to arrive on a fiancé visa, Saarah tries to recreate their wedding day—except no one can remember quite how it went. A memory play about marriage, immigration, and unreliable witnesses.
A modern day alcoholic father transforms into a Cowboy wandering the Wild West with every drink—but the real world churns on for his wife and daughter who must negotiate between his prairie fantasy and grappling with the impact of his habit on their daily lives.
Aimiko has never taken a road trip with their Mom. Sharon has never seen nor heard of any sort of mother-daughterchild road trip. And so, our brave pioneers take to the road, driving West, 10 miles per hour above the speed limit, with tales of cannibals and crane wives, buzzing over the airwaves, offering avenues of survival, all of which are only moderately helpful when Aimiko’s car radiator suddenly goes dead. This is their story. Kind of. And again. And again.
Visions of another couple who lived within an abandoned attic’s walls intertwine with Chris and Muna’s secrets, until Fayrouz and Yasir find old life reflected in the attic’s new inhabitants. Histories collide, spirits take hold, and the attic forms its own space in time somewhere between what was and what is in this examination of sex, shame, and the cost of being okay.
Follow the McGann family through 100 years of history in the heart of rural Pennsylvania. Spanning two generations, American Steel explores the sacrifice, resilience, and the unyielding grip of the steel mill that has defined the McGann family struggles through the birth, rise, and fall of the American steel industry. A timely exploration of American identity and ambition, and the cost of breaking family traditions to forge a new path.
Multiracial MixFest and all of Atlantic’s new play and musical development activities are made possible by leadership support from the Howard Gilman Foundation and The Tow Foundation, with additional funding from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
Atlantic productions and programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
As we prepare for another season of storytelling and artistry, we hope you will join as an Atlantic Member! Join for our 2025|2026 Season for the best price on tickets to four exciting new productions. Memberships are on sale now below!
by Ethan Coen
directed by Neil Pepe
September 25 – November 9, 2025
Linda Gross Theater
Let’s Love! is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it’s easier to be confused together, so—let’s love!
by Jake Brasch
directed by Shelley Butler
February – March 2026
Linda Gross Theater
Josh’s life is a mess. He’s moved home to Denver to get sober, but after years of drinking, the fog in his brain won’t lift. Struggling with memory loss, confusion, and shame he finds himself strangely in step with his four aging grandparents. The Reservoir is a funny, human play about memory, recovery, and the joys of cross-generational connection.
by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
directed by Miranda Cornell
May – June 2026
Linda Gross Theater
In the summer of 2008, five young girls of color and their white fathers attend a program designed to bond families through handmade activities, camp-like adventures, and a heavy dose of cultural appropriation. But where can these girls turn when the program sparks questions that their fathers are unable – or unwilling – to answer? Inspired by the playwright’s experiences in a father-daughter program of the same name, Indian Princesses is a tender satire that explores the stories we tell, the histories we omit, and the truths that live inside us, waiting to come out.
