New Works Festival

Every Fall, White Mouse Productions puts on the New Works Festival; a chance for up-and-coming works by members of the FSU and Tallahassee community to be put on the stage for feedback, development, and entertainment. This year, we are proud to present the 2026 New Works Festival, with a lineup of six staged readings!

SCHEDULE:

Saturday, September 19th

01:00 PM Erotophobia, by Anthony Chirino

After a cross-country move throws their lives into upheaval, siblings Connor and Phoebe find themselves navigating new friendships, complicated desires, family tensions—and a startling transformation neither of them understands. Blending coming-of-age drama with mythic imagery, Erotophobia explores identity, intimacy, boundaries, and the frightening freedom of becoming someone new.

04:00 PM Dead Rats, by Rebecca Hawkes

In a future where humanity has seemingly evolved beyond the need—or ability—to create art, one doctor becomes obsessed with bringing creativity back. When Vera arrives with an extraordinary gift, scientific curiosity quickly gives way to something darker. Dead Rats is a strange, unsettling horror story about creation, obsession, hunger, and what happens when an artist becomes more valuable than the person creating.

07:00 PM ADHD the Musical, by Victoria Griffin

Alice is smart, funny, capable, chronically distracted, and doing her best to keep approximately twelve thoughts from colliding at once. When romance, work, medication, and expectations of “normal” begin competing for space in her already crowded brain, she has to decide what getting better actually means. ADHD: The Musical is a warm, hilarious, deeply human musical about love, identity, and learning to live with your own mind.

Sunday, September 20th

12:30 PM Wasteland, Baby! the Hozier Jukebox Musical, by Jordan Kosanke

In a queer, post-apocalyptic Inferno, Jackie refuses to give up searching for her missing brother—even when everyone around her insists hope is dangerous. Joined by the fiercely pragmatic Francesca and an unlikely collection of fellow travelers, she journeys deeper into a world shaped by sin, faith, love, and loss. Set to the music of Hozier, wasteland, baby! asks what we keep believing in when the world has already ended.

04:00 PM Creatures, by Shannon Wolf

A lost blue hat passes from paw to wing to shell, connecting four groups of animals struggling to survive a changing world. Bears, mice, owls, and newborn sea turtles confront pollution, wildfire, anxiety, displacement, and loss while finding unexpected moments of humor and hope. Creatures is a tender new musical about environmental change as experienced by those who have no say in causing it.

07:00 PM Pope Magnus, the Great, by Liam Neal

Magnus has twelve years to fix the Church, reunite Christianity, prove himself worthy of the papacy—and survive annual visits from the Satan who helped put him there. What could possibly go wrong? Pope Magnus the Great mixes religious parody, irreverent comedy, and institutional satire in a wildly unconventional examination of faith, authority, reform, and the temptation to believe that having good intentions makes absolute power harmless.

Reserve your tickets here!