The Redbud Community Play Reading Series is a free monthly reading series in which community members and theatre professionals share in the joy of reading plays aloud together.
These unrehearsed readings offer opportunities to appreciate plays written by local playwrights and IU alums, and established plays we may not otherwise be exposed to.
This month’s reading is . . .
REGRETFULLY, SO THE BIRDS ARE by Julia Izumi
Julia Izumi’s farcical tragedy about three siblings questions the destructive nature of the American need for identity, while trying to wade through the murky waters of Asian-American-ness.
Julia Izumi (she/her) is a writer and performer who makes plays, musicals and other theatrical nonsense. Her work has been developed and presented at Manhattan Theatre Club, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, The COOP, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Rep, ArtsWest, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, Barn Arts Collective, BMI’s Librettists Workshop, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, Rorschach Theatre and Pork Filled Productions. Honors for her work include O’Neill Finalist and Kilroys List Honorable Mention. She received the inaugural OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award, Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award, NY Society Library’s Emerging Women’s Artist Grant and a Puffin Artists’ Grant. She is a New Dramatists Resident and is under commission from True Love Productions, MTC/Sloan, Playwrights Horizons and Seattle Rep 20×30. MFA: Brown University.
Interested in performing?
Fill out this form and we’ll do our best to incorporate you into future readings!
“[this series] pairs playwrights, actors and audience in a casual group setting that encourages engaging conversations. As a local playwright it can be difficult to find places to share my work within Bloomington. This play reading series has helped to fill that need in the community.”
-Brennen Edwards, local playwright
Performers from the reading of ‘a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone; noun’ by debbie tucker green 
Friends enjoying homemade sancocho at the play reading of ‘Sancocho’ by Christin Eve Cato 
Homemade sancocho for the ‘Sancocho’ reading! 
Performers from the reading of ‘Sancocho’ by Christin Eve Cato 
Performers from the reading of ‘Tragedy: A Tragedy’ 
Performers from the reading of ‘Tragedy: A Tragedy’ 
Audience from the reading of Brennen Edwards’ The Dead Pets Club. 
Performers from the reading of Minotaur by Caridad Svich 
The playwright and actors from Nicole DeSalle’s The Mudlark’s Guide to Find-Worthy Finds
Want to learn more? Email playreading@redbudbooks.org with your questions
This programming is supported by a City of Bloomington Arts Commission Arts Project Grant and a Psi Iota Xi Thrift Shop Grant.
