Director
Alejandro Rodriguez
Dramaturg
Ali Tallman
Workshop Assistant
Ariana Zarzosa
2026 Commissioned Playwright
Holiday by Michael Yawney
based on the classic comedy by Philip Barry
What is the point of being rich if money cannot buy you a perfect husband?
Julia meets Johnny on vacation and decides he is the one. He feels the same. But when they get back home, real life gets in the way. Maybe money cannot buy you happiness…but why not give it a shot?
Holiday will be developed over a week-long process which concludes with a developmental reading on Zoom on June 12th, the final day of the residency.
The reading can be watched live on Friday, June 12th at 8:00pm on Zoom. https://go.fiu.edu/81512079039
The reading will then be available to stream on our YouTube page through the summer. https://www.youtube.com/fiutheatre
About The Greenhouse
The Greenhouse is a play-development program at FIU Theatre supporting Florida playwrights. Playwrights are given a one-week intensive residency to workshop/revise their draft. A director, a dramaturg, and actors work with the playwright over Zoom. The week culminates in a streamed public reading of the revised work.
Plays developed at The Greenhouse have moved on to full productions at Geffen Playhouse, Classical Theater of Harlem, Yale School of Drama, and Theatre Lab.
Past Greenhouse Play Selections
2025
The Witches of Astor Mall by Hannah Benitez
2024
Mansfield Prep by Gina Montet
2023
in Sweetwater by Rudi Goblen
2022
While We Wait by Rudi Goblen
The Lion Tamer by Ivan R. Lopez
Super-Her by Sheila Cowley
2021
Just Like Stealing by Doug Gearhart
The Feral Spinster Society by Andie Arthur
Lo Escenciales (The Essentials) by Hannah Benitez
2020
Purple Hearts by Jake Cline
Uneven Sides of a Triangle by Marj O’Neill Butler
The Words of Dead Men by Israel Garcia
2019
Poolside Glow by Luis Roberto Herrera
Overactive Letdown by Gina Montet
Little Boy/Little Man by Rudi Goblen
2018
Rev. Nathaniel’s Daughter by Andie Arthur
Malvolio by Betty Shamieh
Investments in Time and Money by Israel Garcia