
CWP Launchpad Series
January 23,24 & February 1 2026




Fresh Binder Productions was chosen to collaborators for the inaugural CWP Launchpad series, uplifting early-career playwrights produced by The Center at West Park at St. Andrew & St. Paul. We were able to produce staged readings of two full length plays ("clownfishing" and "MOVE-BEND-FALL") as well as two hour long pieces ("Rhyme, Dime, Storytime" and "Company Drain") by trans/gnc playwrights. With CWP's collaboration, we were able to pay our casts and creative teams and present these important stories to sold out crowds!
January 23rd 2026
"clownfishing"
by Bailey Jordan Garcia
Directed by Em Hausmann
"Set in the early days of online anonymity, CLOWNFISHING follows Bryson, a grieving teenager, who slips into his dead best friend’s digital persona to entrap her former bully. This turns into both a freeing and dangerous exploration of identity, gender, sexuality, and grief, while also facing the reality of still having to exist in a body."
CAST
BRYSON - Gabs Ethridge
TREVOR - Jake Blakeslee
DONNA - Jenny Taher
MARGOT - Willow Lautenberg
ADRIANNA - Mozelle
STAGE DIRECTIONS - Jesse Hartley
January 24th 2026
"MOVE-BEND-FALL"
by Ash
Directed by Jackson Bradshaw
"From first dates to fiery finales and the moments in between, friends and lovers (and sometimes their ghosts) weave in and out of the bedroom as they uncover what it means to be queer and in love.
“Move Forward” is a comedy centering around two couples: one on a first date and the other post-breakup. “Bending the Rules” is a non-linear, dance-like, and dramatic tale of an entire relationship. “Falling” is a ghost story about the roles we’ve played in our own tragedies and the songs we sing about them."
CAST
BENNY/REMY/TOMORROW - Leo James Osborn
SASHA/ARDEN/JESS - Noah Hinton
DYLAN/SAL/SAMMY - Emile Sivero
LUC/TREVOR/MAX - Ries Lundstrom
STAGE DIRECTIONS - Judy P.
"Rhyme, Dime, Storytime"
February 1st 2026
by Nay Harris
Directed by Em Hausmann
"Four kids: the Storyteller and unfortunate bystander, the superhero who’d kill in order to save, the baby-eating wolf who loves to gaslight, and the pretend parent who’s a “bad friend” for wanting to save themselves. All they want is to tell a story, but whose story is it? Who gets to tell it and who determines which story is the right one? Crayon drawn skyscrapers, kiddie pools where small ones bound in jump rope float, and Blood-splattered sneakers that still light up with each step. War’s never a game, friendship shouldn’t be a death sentence, babies shouldn’t be eaten, and “the rightstory” is always a matter of personal stakes, reputation, and guilt. A tale, neither tall nor a fable, as told by a Crow (who’s also a hand puppet), who reminds us that wars, like fairytales, never have happy endings.
CW: mentions of war, sounds of explosions and gunfire, gaslighting, drowning, a dead child, destroyed buildings, bits of blood, light up sneakers"
CAST
ONE - Bailey Jordan Garcia
TWO - Sam Rodriguez
THREE - Aidan Curley
FOUR - Jamie Sophia Gibson
"Company Drain"
February 1st 2026
by Roni Ragone
Directed by Belle Flanegan
"Everybody hates their job. And sometimes their job hates them. When Josephina starts her new position, she realizes there may be a bit left unsaid in the office. Company Drain explores what we owe to the person in the cubicle next door."
CAST
MAGGIE - Ivy Di.
JOSEPHINA - Rachel Brudner
LEVI - Riley Miller
STAGE DIRECTIONS - Belle Flanegan









