Schedule of upcoming incubator and visiting productions

(re)Dressing Miss Havisham by John Minigan
Part of the BPT New Play Incubator
Miranda, an actor with a background in criminology, opens up the “cold case” death of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in order to solve the mystery, interrogate Dickens’ view of women, and discover for herself—an intentionally unmarried and unpartnered forty-something—whether it’s possible to not just avoid death but find true happiness alone. On a journey aided by forensics, research, personal experience, and even a “murder board,” Miranda moves into and out of character as Dickens' "spinster" until a crisis in the case brings unexpected closure.

Director: Peter Sampieri
Producer: Neil McGarry
Cast: Miranda Jonté
Stage Manager: Summer Bates
Performance Dates: May 19–24, 2026

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Black Cat by Dan Hunter
Dr. Clare Eccles, a brilliant neuroscientist and chair of the University Neuroscience Department, struggles to hide her Parkinson’s disease as she gathers the memories of a lifetime. Her protégé, the charismatic Dr. Gideon Wells, claims a groundbreaking discovery: the secret to how the brain forgets. Chai Lin, a sharp-eyed postdoc searching for her long-lost mother, uncovers a dangerous truth: Gideon’s data is a lie. As ambition collides with integrity, Dr. Eccles tries to construct a family, Chai Lin seeks her Chinese birth mother, and Gideon fights for scientific glory.

Director: Steven Bogart
Producer: Hathalee Higgs
Performance dates: June 18-28, 2026

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Morphology by Jillian Blevins
Part of the BPT New Play Incubator
Early 00’s. Nico, a nonverbal Autistic teenager, longs to be understood by his mother Claudia, a former academic who longs most for him to speak. When Claudia’s own mother Arlene intervenes and tries to convince Claudia to place Nico in a group home, their attempts to reach each other grow more desperate, Nico reaches out to one creature he thinks might understand him, and their carefully balanced world starts coming undone. Written in a mix of verse and prose, Morphology explores the power and inadequacy of language, what it means to know one another, and what we can learn from deep sea biology.

Director: Peter Sampieri
Producer: 52 Hertz
Performance Dates: July 23–July 26, 2026

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M: Refractions From An Evil Act by James Wilkinson
Part of the BPT New Play Incubator
Exiled Theatre is proud to present a world premiere play by local playwright, James Wilkinson. A late-night return. A hotel room that feels… wrong. Traveling abroad, a woman’s unease after a night out deepens into something far more insidious. The staff watches too closely. A man appears, disappears, and reappears. Time loops, memory fractures, and the past begins to repeat itself. As identities blur and reality destabilizes, she must escape the hotel before she’s trapped by its history.

Director: Joe Juknievich
Producers: Morganna Becker and Laura Crook Waxdal
Performance Dates: July 31–August 9, 2026