Z Space: The Actors’ Reading Collective presents Outside the Box

July 7, 2025, 7pm
at Z Below
The Thin Place
Written by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Emilie Talbot
Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in the thin place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one. Beautiful and deeply creepy all in one.
Cast includes: Michelle Apriña Leavy*, Ron Chapman*, Amy Kossow, Danielle Levin*

July 21, 2025, 7pm
Appropriate
Written by Branden Jacob-Jenkins
Directed by Leontyne Mbele-Mbong
Appropriate follows the dysfunctional Lafayette family as they return to a decaying plantation mansion in Arkansas to battle over their recently deceased father’s inheritance. Soon after the discovery of a relic buried deep in the recess of their family’s past, decades of resentment burst through centuries of historical sin.
Cast includes: Harry Davis*, Isabel Langen*, Catherine Luedtke*, Ash M.B., Luisa Sermol*, Michael Ray Wisely*

July 28, 2025
The Best We Could
Written by Emily Feldman
Directed by Timothy Redmond
In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella’s mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface.
Cast includes: James Carpenter*, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong*, Lisa Morse*, Robert Parsons*, Michelle Talgarow*

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association