Placer Rep New Works Showcase Will Feature JM Lahr's INTERVALS

The final New Works Showcase for Placer Repertory Theater season 2024-2025 will feature Sacramento area playwright JM Lahr and her work, Intervals, on March 10, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the Parkview Event Room, Rocklin.

“The story explores the challenges of working while homeless, delves into the emotions felt by people who have this challenge and hopefully is a call for understanding and action,” shared JM Lahr.  

Three characters share their individual stories and perspectives on being one of the working homeless: Eric, a part-time grocery clerk in his twenties, Lanie, an office worker in her thirties and Hayley, a high school student who lives with her family in a homeless shelter.

JM Lahr’s key works include All That Remains, Three Rivers, Intervals, and Real Talk. JM Lahr’s work has been produced and/or developed by The Tesseract Theatre Company, Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble, and MillHill Productions. Awards include: 2018 St. Louis Fringe Festival Fringe-Meister (best production of festival), 1st Place at A Taste of Theatre Festival, and St. Louis Fringe Merit Award. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, The Tesseract Theatre Company and Resurrection Theatre, as well as a board member for Placer Repertory Theater, where her work in development, I Can Read Your Mind, was featured in July 2024. JM Lahr earned a Bachelor of Arts Emphasis Playwrighting from Webster University, St. Louis, MO.

The cast for Intervals includes professional actors Katie Halls and Stacey Winn. Stacey was the solo performer/playwright featured at the November 18 New Works Showcase, who also starred as Lady MacBeth in Placer Rep’s MacBeth a la Ubu and played several key characters in the interactive melodrama The Corsican Brothers or the Fatal Duel, which opened recently and is currently available for booking. Katie Halls returns to Placer Rep after a long tour with a European performing company and recent roles in area shows, including Elle in Legally Blonde at MainStage UCD. She previously performed with Placer Rep in a stage-reading of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four in July 2020 and The Jane Austen Soire, featuring Persuasion in December 2021. One additional actor is soon to be announced, to round out the cast. The New Works Showcase host and facilitator, T.S. Forsyth, will perform narration of the stage directions.

Placer Rep’s New Works Showcase is a show with post-performance audience feedback and a reception with nibbles where patrons may meet and network with the actors, playwright and director. New Works Showcase is a public version of the Placer Rep masterclass “The Writers Workshop,” which provides opportunities for early-career to seasoned playwrights to hone their work with quality actors and directors, facilitated by a professional writer/director with a background in university instruction. “These programs help to fulfill Placer Rep’s mission, and were conceived to promote professional growth opportunities for area writers, directors and actors to flex their creative muscles,” said T.S. Forsyth, Producing Artistic Director for Placer Rep.

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