Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/17/2026
2:00 pm
Location
Boston Court Pasadena
Category(ies)
Boston Court Pasadena presents “The Frankenstein Project” by E.W. Lewis (Photo – Boston Court Pasadena)
Since 2004, Boston Court Pasadena has championed bold, risk-taking new work through its New Play Reading Festival. This year’s festival runs May 14–17, 2026, with plays that span everything from the search for answers and battles with monsters to the complexities of military and civilian life.
Experience adventurous new work at its earliest stage, and be among the first to encounter stories you won’t find anywhere else in Southern California.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
2:00 pm
The Frankenstein Project
by E.M. Lewis
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
In 1816, Mary Shelley grieves the loss of her child and conjures a creature, and his godlike creator, in her masterpiece, Frankenstein. In the present, Mary Lattimore mourns her mother and forms an unlikely bond with a sentient AI robot her father has created and brought home.
The Frankenstein Project explores the monsters we battle, the monsters we create, and the monsters we sometimes become.
About the Playwright
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, lyricist, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a playwriting fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission, the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and an Edgerton Award for Magellanica. Other plays include: Apple Season (National New Play Network rolling world premiere), The Gun Show (more than fifty productions across the country; Edinburgh Fringe), True Story, Dorothy’s Dictionary, and You Can See All the Stars (a play for college students commissioned by the Kennedy Center). Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant (written with composer Evan Meier) premiered at Opera Modesto last year. Lewis recently finished Apple Hunters! (which will have its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theater in April 2026) and Strange Birds (finalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival). Lewis is currently playwright-in-residence at Artists Repertory Theater through the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program, and is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights, Opera America, and the Dramatists Guild. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.
> Buy tickets for any or all three shows online or in person/by phone through the Box Office at (626) 683-6801.
New Play Reading Festival: The Frankenstein Project by E.M. Lewis Sunday, May 17, 2026 2:00 pm Location Boston Court Pasadena 70 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 Box Office: (626) 683-6801 Book online here ($27)
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