Barn Series 2025

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Welcome to LAByrinth’s 26^th annual Barn Series! The renowned free reading series is a festival of new plays, and a critical and exciting step in LAB’s development of new work. Many of LAByrinth’s world premieres have come from the Barn, giving audiences a sneak peek into the artistic process, and a chance to see plays before they’re the next hot ticket.  

This reading series will be performed in-person. 

LAByrinth Theater Company, founded in 1992 as The Latino Actors Base, was created to reflect a world where color is the norm and not the exception. From Our Lady of 121st Street to Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, LAByrinth has produced over 50 world premieres and developed over 250 new plays.

Read more at: www.labtheater.org

2025 Barn Series Schedule

And Now I Wake
By Gary Perez
Directed by Eddie Torres
Tuesday, December 9 and Saturday, December 13 at 7:30PM 

Rafael has been out of prison for four months when he finally convinces his daughter, Marisol, an Assistant District Attorney who prosecutes men exactly like her father, to see him. She agrees to one meeting. Just one. Over the course of ten months, their fragile reunion becomes a relentless reckoning between a man who has never stopped calculating and the daughter who has inherited his ability to see through people. As Rafael tries to prove he’s changed, a figure from his past resurfaces, threatening everything he’s trying to rebuild. Their fragile reconciliation turns into a high-stakes negotiation: how much truth can love survive? How much can you hide before there’s nothing real left between you? A play about inheritance - what we pass down, what we can’t escape, and the moment we finally stop pretending.

Good Neighbors: An American Play
By Dipti Bramhandkar 
Directed by Padraic Lillis
Wednesday, December 10 and Sunday, December 14 at 7:30PM

An Indian couple leaves Manhattan for what they call a “one-year experiment” in upstate New York. But in a place that prides itself on kindness, they discover how civility can hide discomfort. As Aakash begins to echo the voices he once opposed, the distance between safety and violence collapses. Good Neighbors is about the fault lines of belonging in a country that’s always choosing sides.

A Mental Hard Drive
Written and Directed by Joey Palestina 
Thursday, December 11 and Tuesday, December 16 at 7:30PM

Two stagehand technicians monitor a human exhibit for a live studio audience.  

Charcoal on Paper
By Lidia Ramirez 
Directed by Elizabeth Canavan
Friday, December 12 and Wednesday, December 17 at 7:30PM

Joan’s grit and determination have helped her climb out of a dysfunctional family life and reinvent herself as a successful NYC artist. Surrounded by admirers and celebrated at art openings, she’s floating on cloud nine until secrets from her past start to pull her down. She runs from the ghosts but can’t escape. The only way to survive may be to stop running, look them in the eye, and hope to reach the other side.