We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights Sixtus Chetachi Igbokwe, Eli Campbell, Xiaoyan Kang, and a collection of work by the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop! Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA playwrights.

Productions:
UI Students (with ID) - Free, limit 1 ticket per ID
General Admission - $5, cash only

Reading Series:
UI Students (with ID) - Free, limit 1 ticket per ID
General Admission - Free, but you must obtain a ticket

Schedule of Events:

10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Welcome Reception and Guest Panel

Join us for the kick-off of Iowa New Play Festival 2025! The Welcome Reception begins at 10:30 a.m. and the Guest Panel begins at 11 a.m.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm: POP!

By Cianon Jones
Part of Iowa New Play Festival - Reading Series

POP! explores the proximity of humanity and nature through a forest that is very much alive and deliriously in danger.

Please be advised this reading includes mentions/portrayals/inferences to carnage, murder, human cruelty, animal cruelty, blood, death, drug use, destruction, questionable things of the natural and unnatural world.

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Adaku

By Sixtus Chetachi Igbokwe
Directed by Josh Turner
Part of Iowa New Play Festival - Production Series

In 1979 Nigeria, a good man's sudden death in a hunting accident leaves his widow in a mourning chair. Their daughter, Adaku, seeks to bring honor to her community like her great hunter-father, but soon discovers the unwritten rules that govern her destiny as a woman, and even more so, as an Igbo woman.

Tickets
UI Students (with ID) - Free, limit 1 ticket per ID
General Admission - $5, cash only

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm: Adaku

By Sixtus Chetachi Igbokwe
Directed by Josh Turner
Part of Iowa New Play Festival - Production Series

In 1979 Nigeria, a good man's sudden death in a hunting accident leaves his widow in a mourning chair. Their daughter, Adaku, seeks to bring honor to her community like her great hunter-father, but soon discovers the unwritten rules that govern her destiny as a woman, and even more so, as an Igbo woman.

Tickets
UI Students (with ID) - Free, limit 1 ticket per ID
General Admission - $5, cash only