KAYENTA NEW PLAY LAB: Wound Care

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KAYENTA NEW PLAY LAB Wound Care by Jennie Webb (Los Angeles, CA) Friday, August 21 – 7:30pm Saturday, August 22 – 3:00pm The Lorraine Boccardo Theater Join us for a staged reading of a new play as part of the 2026 Kayenta New Play Lab! Wound Care explores a series of encounters following a woman as she works to acquire reparation funding from the State of California for women like her estranged mother who were victims of forced sterilization programs. Stay for the guided talkback after the show with the playwright, director, and cast. Discuss the play, ask questions, and learn more about the development process. Be part of shaping new theater by providing your own feedback and delving deeper into the creative process. TICKETS About the Playwright: Jennie Webb Jennie Webb is an LA-based playwright and dramaturg (she created the new play development program, Seedlings, at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum which she ran from 2002-2019, and in 2021 co-created the Ignite Project at Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles) with works including “Reach,” “Currency,” “Yard Sale Signs,” “Carry On,” “Smiling Cat Candy Heart,” “Remodeling Plans,” “Unclaimed Assets,” “On Tuesday,” “It’s Not About Race,” “Rebecca on the Bus,” “About What Matters,” “Separate Loads,” “Brand New Script” and “Buying a House” produced in the LA area by Inkwell Theater, Rogue Machine Theatre, EST/LA, Santa Monica Rep, Virginia Avenue Project, Road Theatre, Theatre of NOTE and La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, as well as in Canada, the UK, Europe, India, Iran, Iceland and at universities and colleges across the country. Her plays have been developed by Great Plains Theatre Conferences, The Playwrights’ Center, Moving Arts MADlab, Blank Theatre, Open Fist Theatre Company, Company of Angels, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround Residency, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Little Black Dress INK Festivals, Protest Plays Project, PlagueWrites, Climate Change Theatre Action, Clamour Theatre Company, Rogue…