Celebrating Emerging Playwrights

Three days of bold new plays, conversations, and artistic discovery featuring emerging playwrights and innovative theatrical storytelling.

Join us  for the New Horizons Play Reading Festival, a three-day celebration of bold new work and the culmination of The People’s Theatre’s 2026 Playwrights Unit. Since August, playwrights Jaya S. Basu, Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens, and Andrew Aaron Valdez have been developing original plays through workshops, mentorship, and creative collaboration. Now, they’re ready to share their work with you!

Omid’s Handwoven Rugs By Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens
 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM

At Omid’s Handwoven Rugs, a mysterious weaver in the attic can mend even the most challenging holes—perhaps because they are not entirely of this world. Down on the showroom floor, a grieving family struggles with the loss of the patriarch who founded the store while fighting to keep his legacy and the business alive. As old and new grief collide, their different ways of coping threaten to pull the family apart.