09/09/2026
Join us for September's community play reading: Not Now, Sweaty, Mommy's Cyberbullying by local playwright Annalise Cain on September 17th at 7 PM!
“A single mother and daughter share a love of cyberbullying, but know not of the other’s love. The mother hires an out-of-work actor during the pandemic to play the daughter’s estranged father in a theatrical return. The daughter’s cyberbullying target begins to respond.”
Content Disclosures: homophobia, ableism
Hailing from the backroads of Western Massachusetts, Annalise Cain is a playwright, teaching artist and the managing director of Stages Bloomington. She has her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University, and her MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University Bloomington. Her plays include What Screams I Hear Are Mine (National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award 2017, Playhouse on Park Reading Series, The Tribe Theatre Company Reading Series, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist) Hurry Up and Wait (Queens Theatre, Violet Surprise), The Rebound (Red Theatre. Strident Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Festival) A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me (National Society of Arts and Letters Hegarty Award 2021, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist, Indiana University Reading), Dumb Bitch Juice (IU At First Sight Festival, IATI Theatre Cimientos) and Crises of Abundance (IU At First Sight Festival). Her work was published in Applause Theatre, NextStage Press and Cinema Books’ Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2019. She is a teaching artist with Indiana Arts for Learning, and has been a visiting artist through the Williston Northampton School’s Grum Project.
The Redbud Community Play Reading Series is a free monthly reading series in which community members and theatre professionals share in the joy of reading plays aloud together.
These unrehearsed readings offer opportunities to appreciate plays written by local playwrights and IU alums, and established plays we may not otherwise be exposed to.
