LIMEFEST 2026
Week Two
AUGUST 16th – 23rd
2026 Curators: Meghan Finn & Hanna Yurfest
This play is about you laughing at my jokes, but not wanting to love me. Or maybe about wanting to be someone else. Or maybe it’s about training a dog.
12-year-old trans kid Max and his 7-year-old sister Ellie try to make sense of gender, growing up, and siblinghood through the sacred tools of magic, pretend, and the internet.
Part dark comedy, part psychological fever dream, GOOD MOTHERS (KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON) is an experimental ensemble play about postpartum depression, psychosis, and the fragile agreement we call reality.
You turn thirteen, and your mom leaves. How do you figure out femininity without her? With a self-help book written by an Old Hollywood movie star.
We fight to become someone new, but what if we're destined to repeat the lives we're escaping? BLACKOUT is a familial drama blending Reiki, queerness, Latine identity, generational trauma, and resilience.
This is Where You Live is a comedy about our relationship to time, the rugs that get pulled up from under us, and whether they were all that cozy to begin with.
A comedy about theories, loneliness, anarchism, and just staying on the phone.
"She Is Risen" is a much sexier night at the museum. Adelina Marinello & Lila Marooney’s play resurrects the age-old question: can a good first date fix everything?
When quirky May and rigid Theo share a whirlwind airport meet-cute, a spontaneous leap of faith changes everything. But this sweet, nostalgic 20-minute romance is headed somewhere you won’t expect.
Jason and Nick will do anything to win Annaliese's affection. Buying her a pig is just step one. A dark satire about sitcoms, misogyny, and society’s most controversial animal.
A developmental showing of a new play about storytelling, lying, friendship, and the artistic life. Written by Kallan Dana, directed by Hanna Yurfest, produced by Needy Lover.
WELCOME TO THE GAME OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
Join Maude Lardner Burke as she takes you on her journey of sex, love, the Hollywood Blacklist, and the power of song!
Andie the alien is trying to become a human. The Scientist has a new way to study her. Together, they travel to the Andromeda Galaxy.
This girl just wants to have fun and never think about the economy. Or death. She’s determined to have the most fabulous night, at any cost. Even blood.
When Jane, a wedding photographer, starts running into her exes at weddings, she is confronted with uncomfortable reunions as she navigates her complicated feelings of past relationships and self worth.
Turner Street has the art world at his feet — until his brother shows up, his date turns dangerous, and the shadows close in. One apartment. One night. One living nightmare.
My great-grandfather directed 21 films in 1930s China. Nobody told me. Tonight, I start a conversation with him. Can his remains give me a reason to keep being an artist?
Is revolution achieved by word or by deed, by blood or by creed?
A comedic and cathartic immersive concert-theater experience about an encounter with a will-o-wisp to the Council on Mythical and MAgical Creatures.
It Just Takes Time is a contemporary song cycle that weaves together songs exploring anxiety, loneliness, impatience, and unexpected connection during the COVID19 lockdown. Though the future is unknown, each character learns to lean on their loved ones and appreciate the "little wins."
In 2007, burnt-out vlogger Kelly finds a mysterious diary. Reading it, she meets Ruth, a self-destructive painter from 1959. Kelly must learn from Ruth’s mistakes, or else helplessly echo them.
What does love mean to you? Can you move forward while longing to stay in memories? Sydney's autobiographical journey takes everyone from her dreamlike childhood into truths never quite spoken.
