A reading August 14, 2024, at Urban Stages NYC, 7:00 p.m. For more info and to RSVP: https://www.urbanstages.org/dynamic-duos
FULL-LENGTH PLAY
A fictional conservative Supreme Court justice whisks away his environmental-radicalist 16-year-old daughter to a camp in the Adirondacks when she is suspended for destroying her school’s air conditioning system with a sledgehammer. As they will be living in the wilderness alone for three months, they submit to the family psychologist’s rules designed to help them get along: He can’t talk about God or banish her to her room. She can’t blame him for everything and has to relinquish her phone. The plan works; the two are starting to enjoy each other’s company, fishing, hunting, searching for an elusive moose, and discussing the Supreme Court docket. But, when the judge reveals his ulterior motive for bringing his daughter to the camp, he is faced with the hardest decision of his life: ideology or family?
- Finalist, First Fifteen Reading @ The Next Act Festival, Capital Rep, Albany NY, 2025
- Honorable Mention, Dynamic Duos readings, Urban Stages NYC, 2024
- Reading, Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ, 2024
Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta 