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Black Canyon City
written by Jaclyn Backhaus
directed by Andrew Neisler

new play reading!

Saturday, June 6 @ 4pm
$5

Hunter Wilcox is no scientist, but he spends his nights with tonic bottles and phonographs in the middle of an old mining town, conducting experiments that he hopes will help him solve the mystery of a singular, fateful night. In Black Canyon City, the souls of the dead seek out living ears to tell their stories and living bodies to uncover their best-kept secrets. It’s a place where nothing worthwhile happens ‘til the sun goes down. And down by the fire, things are happening…
about the creator

JACLYN BACKHAUS
Black Canyon City

Jaclyn Backhaus is a 2008 graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She studied with Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and the Experimental Theatre Wing. Writing credits include The Forgetting of Things (The Centrifuge, Naked Angels), Peter (PHTS), Sacrament (Fat Pink Bunny Films), Of Orchids and Onions, Creative Differences (winner of the 2004 Scholastic Gold Award for Dramatic Script). As a performer, credits include: Another Play Entirely (dir. David Herskovits), When Things Stopped (dir. Marleen Pennison), HAIR (dir. Ruben Polendo), Jet of Blood, Richard III, Two Marias. She is the co-founder/director of Fresh Ground Pepper, a monthly new works series produced by The Centrifuge, and she is currently working on her first full-length screenplay.